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Masahiro Sakurai has outlined has admiration for Sony’s PS4. I don’t care for faction wars like Nintendo versus Sony,” the Smash Bros director told Famitsu, as translated by Gematsu. PlayStation 4 is good-looking, the DualShock 4 is light and using it feels good, Remote Play can reliably handle even action …
Read More »The Last Guardian still "absolutely in the mix"
Sony Studios’ Scott Rohde has given the strongest hint yet that The Last Guardian very much lives on. We’re not going to announce what platform it’s coming on, who’s working on it or who’s involved,” he told IGN. But that is still a title that’s absolutely in the mix at …
Read More »Sony to reveal VR headset at GDC – report
Sony will reveals its rumoured VR gaming headset at GDC next week and prototypes have already been sent out to developers, a new report claims. Edge cites an alleged third-party developer with a prototype of the device already in hand. The source claims Sony’s hardware is far superior” to the …
Read More »Free Peace Walker for digital Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes pre-orders
Konami has offered an extra incentive for PS3 owners to pre-order the digital version of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. As detailed on the PlayStation Blog, European consumers who pre-order the game on PSN will receive a free digital copy of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD. Note the …
Read More »PlayStation game sales rose in 2013, but Xbox was still king
PlayStation was the only console brand to increase its video games sales last year. According to ERA based on GfK Chart-Track data, the number of PS4, PS3, PS2, Vita, PSP games sold last year was 11.4m, an increase of 1.8 per cent over 2012. These games combined generated 372m, a …
Read More »PlayStation Home is getting Trophies
PS3’s virtual world app PlayStation Home is to shortly be updated with Trophy support. The often-forgotten social network will on Wednesday (March 12th) be patched to version v1.86, according to PlayStation Europe community manager Chris Owen, allowing users to earn Trophies for an unspecified array of activities. The Trophies will …
Read More »What now for PlayStation Vita?
PlayStation UK MD Fergal Gara tells MCV why the platform holder will never give up on its portable console, and where it goes next… Many of the exciting games announced for Vita are indie projects. Do you think the console is lacking a big triple-A product this year? Well, there …
Read More »Gran Turismo 6 adds multi-monitor support
Never one afraid of pushing technological boundaries, developer Polyphony Digital has added multi-monitor support to Gran Turismo 6. The support comes as part of the game’s 1.05 patch and can be implemented in the display options menu. Other additions include alterations to the menus, extra filtering options in the car …
Read More »PS4’s Driveclub goes ‘back to the drawing board’
Racing title may not release this year
Read More »Driveclub is "going back to the drawing board"
The wait for Driveclub could be a longer one than we’d expected. Speaking to IGN, Sony Worldwide Studios America’s PlayStation software product development head Scott Rohde said: What I will say is that it all comes back to that fundamental principle, and that’s that we want to build great games …
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