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The PlayStation 4 will be introduced globally in 2013, retailer Gamestop’s executive vice president of strategy business and brand development Michael Hogan has said, allaying fears that the console would arrive in India, along with Europe, in next year. We know that Sony will introduce the PlayStation 4 globally in …
Read More »Radeon HD 7990 powered the Battlefield 4 demo – will PS4 be able to match it?
PC tech giant AMD has revealed that it was the upcoming Radeon HD 7990 that powered EA’s technically impressive Battlefield 4 demo at GDC. Until now AMD has rarely spoken about the HD 7990 specifically. As expected, the card is basically two high-end HD 7970s spliced together on a single …
Read More »Cerny: We didn’t want PS4 to be a puzzle that programmers had to solve
The ever-closer relationship between Sony and developers has been at the heart of the PS4’s design since the project’s early days in 2008. PS4’s lead designer Mark Cerny told Gamasutra that after canvassing devs in private, it quickly be came clear that his main priority was to build a machine …
Read More »GDC 13: Sony reveals new PS4 details
More on hardware, architecture, peripherals and dev tools emerges
Read More »Raymond: Next-gen innovation not driven by teraflops
Indies creating the most exciting new concepts on less powerful platforms, says Ubisoft Toronto boss
Read More »Is ‘free’ the future of console games?
It seems inevitable that free-to-play will play a big part in the next generation of consoles. Last year Xbox launched Happy Wars, its first freemium game. And that game now boasts a player base of over 2m. PS4 allows for free-to-play titles and even Nintendo is eyeing micro-transactions for Wii …
Read More »Blacklight dev: Sony ‘going hard’ to win console war with PS4
Sony is pulling out all the stops with the PS4, says Zombie Studios boss Jared Gerritzen. Speaking to Destructoid, Gerritzen said the console giant had been very, very proactive” in pushing its relationships with developers, with Sony trying to bring as many devs on board for PS4 development as possible. …
Read More »Ubisoft: "Innovation is not necessarily driven by teraflops alone"
Ubisoft exec Jade Raymond says that the games industry doesn’t necessarily need new consoles to create new ideas. Raymond, one of the minds behind the Assassin’s Creed series, hails the indie development scene for creating some of the market’s most exciting new concepts on less powerful platforms. Speaking about the …
Read More »GDC 13: 25 indies sign up for PS4, Vita and Mobile
Sony promises to provide 'great indie game experiences' on PS4
Read More »GDC 13: Sony in it to win it with PS4, says Zombie dev
Jared Gerritzen heaps praise on console giant for supportive role in PS4 development
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