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This is a brave new world for games retail. Gamers have become accustomed to paying more for digital titles, despite the fact that logic should dictate that a digital product – which is free of material, logistics and distribution costs – should retail for less. But that may no longer …
Read More »PS4 update will allow DualShock 4 lightbar dimming
An upcoming update to PS4 will allow users to lower the light emitted from their DualShock 4 controllers. GameTrailers journalist Geoff Keighley had claimed on Twitter that users would be able to shut off the light completely, but he was corrected by Sony Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida who clarified that …
Read More »MonoGame free for PS4 developers
GDC 2014: Beta to start in three to four weeks
Read More »Oculus: We welcome Sony’s Project Morpheus
Rival headset will drive interest in virtual reality, claims co-founder Nate Mitchell
Read More »Sony developing original programming for PSN – report
Sony Pictures Television is reportedly developing original programming for PSN, a service that will debut with an adaptation of police procedural comic series Powers. The Wall Street Journal reports the the ten-episode adaptation is being developed exclusively for PSN in the US. The comic centers around a pair of homicide …
Read More »PS4 camera boasts 15% attach rate, nears 1m sales
Sony has to date sold around 900,000 PlayStation Cameras designed for use with PS4. As GameSpot reports, with global PS4 sales standing at around 6m units that equates to an attach rate of 15 per cent. However, the number would have been higher – possibly far higher – were the …
Read More »Sony opens up host of indie tools for PlayStation development
Four popular development tools have been opened up for those hoping to develop indie titles for PS4, PS3 and Vita. Develop reports that GameMaker: Studio and MonoGame will both be updated to include tools needed for exporting titles to PS4 for licensed Sony Computer Entertainment developers. In addition, developers are …
Read More »Unity for PS4 early access arrives next month
GDC 2014: Fully integrated solutions now also available for PS3 and Vita
Read More »PS4 updates bringing new video sharing options, HDCP off, Twitch archiving, upped resolution
Sony has detailed some significant new functionality being added to its Share button. An update coming soon” to PS4 will, as stated on the PlayStation blog, add the following: A rich video editor with a simple tool to personalise your video clips The ability to export to and save the …
Read More »God of War III creative director exits Sony Santa Monica
Stig Asmussen departs after 11 years at the studio
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