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Comments from a source described as a chief technical officer (CTO) working in the industry” have suggested that current PS4s may not offer the best experience for those looking to get a PlayStation VR. IBTimes reports that a feature in the latest issue of Edge quotes the insider as saying: …
Read More »PS4 is the only console to grow UK sales so far in 2016
Sony’s PlayStation 4 is the only console in the UK to sell more so far this year than it had in 2015. That’s according to hardware figures seen by MCV, which indicate that PS4 sales year-to-date are 6.7 per cent up year-on-year to 207,907 units. Overall, console sales in the …
Read More »Has No Man’s Sky been delayed?
Much-hyped space exploration outing No Man’s Sky has been pushed back by as much as two months, rumours suggest. Kotaku reports that the game will miss its June 21st release date, and that a new date has not yet been put in place. The slip could be as much as …
Read More »Sony reckons it can sell 20m PS4s this financial year
PS4 exceeded even Sony’s own expectations last year, but the platform holder has predicted that the machine will do even better next year. 17.7m PS4s were sold in Sony’s last financial year, ahead of the 17.5m it had forecast. Now the company has said that PS4 will shift a further …
Read More »Week one sales of Uncharted 4 reach 2.7m worldwide
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End looks on track to be a fitting commercial send off for the series. Sony has said that combined physical Blu-ray and digital sell-through of the game worldwide since its launch last week has hit 2.7m units. The game is the fastest selling first party PS4 …
Read More »Uncharted 4 is really accessible thanks to intervention from disabled gamer
Uncharted 4 has been hailed by the press and topped the charts, but its achievements run deeper than its Metacritic score. The PS4 shooter stands proud as one of the most accessible triple-A games ever made. This, as revealed in the video below, is thanks to a meeting between Josh …
Read More »Gran Turismo Sport gets release date; beta scrapped
There will be a Gran Turismo game on PS4 this year. Polyphony Digital CEO Kazunori Yamauchi has said that Gran Turismo Sport will be released on November 18th, promising plenty of innovations. The last time we saw the series was Gran Turismo 6, which hit PS3 after the release of …
Read More »Kojima Productions’ debut title to use third-party engine
‘I actually think it's better to make games using internal tools,’ says founder Hideo Kojima, but explains that external tools will allow him to release first title faster
Read More »There’s a petition to remove Washington Post’s Uncharted 4 score from Metacritic
Change.org has been home to many a noble venture, but perhaps this is the most heroic of all. Washington Post’s review of PS4 action title Uncharted 4, which was titled This four-part series should have ended after Part One”, was not very positive. It ended: A Thief’s End is less …
Read More »Nick Burcombe says he would ‘love’ to develop another Wipeout – if Sony will let him
'I know I can put a team together for it,' says co-creator of sci-fi racing franchise. 'I’d be looking at a proper undertaking on this and really reinvent the whole thing'
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