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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Shuhei Yoshida told Edge in a recent interview that he wants the Playstation 4 to offer a broad range of experiences and not just big budget FPS’s and action games. This explains why Sony chose Knack to be the first revealed title over bigger names such as Infamous: Second Son and Killzone: Shadow Fall. Mark [...]
Guerrilla Games’ Technical Director Michiel Van Der Leeuw told EDGE recently that Sony’s PlayStation 4 has “been so carefully designed that developers won’t find a performance bottleneck,” and that since the PS4 is said to have off-the-shelf PC hardware inside it, it doesn’t make any less of gaming console. “The fact that the best pieces [...]
Sony’s decision to cut out backward compatibility for the PlayStation 4 was apparently not an easy one. True, Dave Perry (founder of the cloud gaming platform Gaikai) suggested during the PS4′ s reveal back in February that it’s Gaikai’s goal to include the full spectrum of the PlayStation line-up of titles (as detailed in the [...]
It appears Sony is not looking to wait around. The company is scheduling yet another event to take place within the coming weeks in which they plan to further reveal the PS4. Little is known about the system itself, though Sony has unveiled a few specs as well as several games during their, “Future of Playstation,” event [...]
Sony’s Mark Cerny (PlayStation 4′s lead system architect) spoke to Japanese press (translated courtesy of NeoGAF) recently, regarding 4K resolutions in gaming. Sony have confirmed that the PlayStation 4 will support 4K video playback and downloads, but, according to Cerny, 4K gaming isn’t quite feasible yet. Essentially, 4K resolution is twice the resolution of FullHD [...]
Micheal Hogan, an executive Vice-President of strategy business and brand development at GameStop (a US-based bigwig video game retailer), has said – during a quarterly conference call with financial analysts – that GameStop expects the PlayStation 4 to hit the shelves worldwide later this year, but are doubtful that Sony will be able to meet [...]
