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Update: EA’s Peter Moore has called Videogamer’s report a "fabrication" in a comment on GamesIndustry.biz, shortly after the publisher’s US corportate communications team issued a statement calling the news of Dead Space 4’s cancellation "patently false." Moore called the report "Standard, shoddy website journalism recipe, born out of a desperate …
Read More »Sega announces Sonic endless runner for iOS
As old a video game character Sonic is and as new a genre endless running is, the two couldn’t be more compatible, and Sega has finally decided to explore that potential with a Sonic endless runner. Sonic Dash will feature the iconic Sonic the Hedgehog, and will arrive soon” on …
Read More »Assassin’s Creed 4’s Edward Kenway is Connor’s grandfather
Many may have thought that, as has been the tradition in the Assassin’s Creed series, Assassin’s Creed 4 would take place a few years, if not centuries, after the events of Assassin’s Creed 3. Instead, the new game takes places before it. Edward Kenway, the protagonist in this year’s game, …
Read More »Diablo 3 headed to PS3, PS4
Blizzard’s Chris Metzen made a surprise on-stage appearance at Sony’s PlayStation 4 reveal event. Metzen announced that his company and Sony had entered into a strategic partnership to bring Blizzard games to PlayStation consoles, and the first game to do so will be Diablo 3. Diablo 3 will be available …
Read More »Jonathan Blow’s The Witness to debut on PS4
Jonathan Blow, the creator of the award-winning Braid, has announced that his new game will debut on the PlayStation 4. The Witness is a first-person exploration-puzzle game set in an open-world that isn’t massive in size but is densely populated and packs in a ton of variety. Blow promised that …
Read More »PS4 won’t natively support PS3 games
In amongst a long list of impressive PlayStation Clould features laid out for the PS4 by Gaikai’s David Perry was one little detail that may turn many potential buyers off. While Perry said that cloud services on the PS4 would enable Sony to stream PS3 games to users, he also …
Read More »Sucker Punch announces inFamous: Second Son for PS4
At the PlayStation 4 unveiling earlier today, Sucker Punch revealed the third game from its inFamous franchise. Titled inFamous: Second Son, the new game seems like a series reboot and features a new protagonist – Delsin Rowe, rather than Cole McGrath, who starred in the first two games. Surrounded by …
Read More »Motorstorm developer unveils PS4 racer Driveclub
Motorstorm developer Evolution Studios has unveiled a new IP for the PlayStation 4, titled Driveclub. Driveclub is a social racing game the encourages players to come together to form clubs, drive in groups, and compete with others. While Motorstorm games were off-road and featured unlicensed cars, Driveclub features predominantly road/track …
Read More »Killzone: Shadow Fall announced for PS4
Guerrilla Games took to the stage at Sony’s unveiling of the PlayStation 4 and revealed its new game – Killzone: Shadow Fall. Not repeating the mistake of showcasing its first PS3 game (Killzone 2) via a controversial CG trailer, Guerrilla showed off a stunning live gameplay demo of Shadow Fall …
Read More »Sony unveils PlayStation 4, out holidays 2013
Sony unveiled its next-generation console – PlayStation 4, at the PlayStation Meeting in New York today, and has announced that it will arrive in ‘holiday 2013′. While Sony showed the new Dualshock 4 controller, which resembled the leaked prototype, the company strangely didn’t show what the console would look like …
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