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EA labels president Frank Gibeau has told to Bloomberg TV that the next Xbox and PlayStation would launch in about a year’s time. We’re into the sixth or seventh year now of this generation of hardware and so it’s a mature market,” said Gibaeu. The new hardware is going to …
Read More »Team Bondi’s Whore of the Orient is a PS4/Xbox 720 title
Team Bondi has confimed that Whore of the Orient will be a next-generation IP. The official blurb reads as follows: Shanghai, 1936. Whore of the Orient. Paris of the East. The most corrupt and decadent city on the planet, where anything can be had or done for the right price. …
Read More »UPDATED: EA’s Gibeau has "seen" PS4 and Xbox 720
PS4 and Xbox 720 do not exist. Got that? Just because the president of EA Labels Frank Gibeau says he’s seen them, that doesn’t mean they’re real. "I’ve seen both of them", he told a Gamescom audience, as reported by GameSpot. "Ten years ago we used to measure our market …
Read More »INTERVIEW: On the Grid
It has been five years since Codemasters’ acclaimed racer hit the tracks. MCV speaks to the team to discuss the game’s legacy, new tech and why Grid 2 has taken so long to arrive What sort of research did you undertake with Grid 2? Edd Newby-Robson, Senior Brand Manager: We’ve …
Read More »Report: Mafia 3 in development for next-gen consoles, launching 2013
Mafia 3 is happening, and according to a report the title is being developed for next-gen consoles. An alleged 2K source spilled the news to Eurogamer.cz, adding that the game was originally set for Xbox 360 and PS3 but was pushed back to next generation hardware. The game is targeted …
Read More »Gran Turismo 6 hinted for PS4
Fans of Sony’s acclaimed racing series Gran Turismo may have to wait until the next console for a fresh outing. Series designer Kazunori Yamauchi that developer Polyphony Digital is already hard at work on GT6 and has been since GT5 was finally released in 2010. "We’re always aiming for the …
Read More »Tekken X Street Fighter still planned for current gen consoles
The developers behind Tekken X Street Fighter have said the game is still coming to current generation consoles. The Namco and Capcom collaboration was first announced in 2010, but there has been no word on when it will be released. However, this silence doesn’t mean it has been pushed back …
Read More »Sony: ‘We need retail for next generation’
The success of PS4, Xbox 720 and Wii U rests on retail, says Sony. UK boss Fergal Gara says the High Street is suffering a ‘readjustment’ following the steep games market decline since 2008. Over the last 12 months alone, the number of UK specialists has dropped by 300 (see …
Read More »PS4, Xbox 720 "will fail if they let retail dictate game pricing"
Both the PS4 and Xbox 720 will fail if they do not reject physical media in favour of digital distribution, the co-founder of Codemasters has boldly claimed. In what amounts to a scathing attack on games retail, David Darling stated: Sony and Microsoft cannot let the retailers dictate game prices …
Read More »PS4 production almost two years down the line
The CV of SCEA’s former R&D director Attila Vass has suggested that work began on the next generation PlayStation” in August 2010. Videogamer.com dug up the LinkedIn profile of Vass, who was employed by Sony America until April of this year. "In 1998 I started as the first engineer in …
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