Speaking on company earnings call on the 13th of this month, the CEO of Take-Two, Strauss Zelnick, reported that the studio currently has “groundbreaking new intellectual property” in the pipeline for next-generation consoles. The studio responsible for the ubiquitous Grand Theft Auto will look to supplement its considerable catalog of highly successful current-gen properties, which [...]
Sony CFO Masaru Kato expects the PS4 to be a much more profitable console than the PS3, at least at launch according to recent statements at a earnings call this past week. ”Unlike PS3, we are not planning a major loss to be incurred with the launch of PS4,” said Kato. The PS3, because of its [...]
Game Informer has announced that the magazine’s June edition is focused solely on bringing Playstation 4 coverage, starting with a 10 page feature on Sucker Punch’s highly anticipated game Infamous: Second Son – the good news does not stop there. The 30-page Playstation 4 cover story will also include new information and screens from titles [...]
Sony’s President of Worldwide Studios for Sony Computer Entertainment Shuhei Yoshida recently spoke to Japanese publication 4Gamer (via Push Square) about how Sony is making sure PS4 gamers consider the PS4 version of multiplatform games to be the best. Allegedly, back in the day, the PlayStation 3 suffered a fair bit when it came to [...]
When Mark Cerny (PS4′s lead system architect) revealed the PS4′s DualShock 4 controller back in February, there was one thing that confused me the most about the new controller: the curious blue light bar at the controllers top. As it turns out, the new controller itself has had quite a journey to become the one [...]
Community Developer for Ubisoft, Nik Schmidt posted up on Playstation’s Official Blog yesterday the first episode of Sony’s “Conversations with Creators,” an ongoing series that focuses on some of the worlds most prestigious game studios as they talk about their experience with PS4 game development. In this episode, Sony zeros in on Watch Dogs, Ubisofts [...]
Bigwig publisher Ubisoft’s next-gen title Watch Dogs is said to hit the shelves in November; November 19th for the US and November 22nd for the UK. At least, those are the dates for the game launching on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U and PC – according to Develop. As for a PlayStation 4 version: [...]
Quantic Dream’s co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere spoke with GameSpot recently at the Tribeca Film Festival over the weekend past. Fondaumiere said that the studio is seeing a “big difference” with the PlayStation 4 over the PlayStation 3 during tests for its currently in-development PS4 game. “We are already seeing in the first PS4 tests that [...]
A special edition of Ubisoft’s upcoming techno-thriller Watch Dogs has been spotted in a Dutch advertisement for the game, touting an additional single-player mission for those willing to presumably dig a little deeper into their wallets. The mission, which appears to occur around a series of street races, gives players access to fount of free [...]
Shuhei Yoshida (Sony’s President of Worldwide Studios for Sony Computer Entertainment) has revealed to EDGE Online that the “Share” feature of the PlayStation 4′s DualShock 4 controller was pitched to Sony by Sony Santa Monica’s creative director Nathan Gary. Yoshida recalled that Gary pithed the Share button after months of discussion about what social features [...]
For those who don’t know, Watch_Dogs is an open-world action-adventure game currently in development by Ubisoft Montreal. The game’s main selling point appears to be the ability to hack into the surroundings: to either gain control of – or to destroy – particular objects, such as raising traffic stops or exploding electrical boxes (as seen in the [...]
A listing from electronics retailer Newegg has raised some questions about the next Gran Turismo from game studio Polyphony. Based on the listing, Gran Turismo 6 will be released for the PS3. The listing mentions nothing about Gran Turismo 6 appearing on Sony’s next generation system the PS4, which is due to be released during this year’s [...]
According to a report that was made by Edge-Online on April 16, DICE does not have any plans to implement support for motion controls with their upcoming installment to the popular Battlefield franchise, Battlefield 4. Speaking with DICE executive producer Patrick Bach, it is stated that DICE believes that motion control is a “gimmick” and [...]
In a recent interview with Edge, Sony Executive Michael Denny discussed the strategy behind the Playstation 4, claiming that Sony is “looking at making a next-gen console for gamers and made by gamers.”. This comes off the heels of Shuhei Yoshida telling Edge essentially the same exact thing last week. Sony wants to make it very [...]
Whenever next generation hardware is announced, the questions surrounding them boil down to: How much better will it be than my current console? Considering the how long this current console generation has dragged on this question seems especially important for many gamers that feel they’ve waited far too long for an upgrade. Now that the [...]