Category Archives: PS4

PlayStation France boss Philippe Cardone has said the company will likely be “last” in announcing its next-gen plans.

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A Develop source has claimed Wii U has twice the processing and graphical power of Xbox 360, but it still contains less than some studios expected.

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Sony’s kicked off a January sale for the PlayStation Store, with some big discounts in play for the first week. Dead Space 2, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit and Dante’s Inferno are all down to £20, with Burnout Paradise set at £15. All the games include all their respective DLC. Also included in the deal is Crysis for £9.99, Burnout Crash for £5.99 and NBA Jam: On Fire Edition for £7.99. There’s more offers, including DLC bundles and packs for Shift 2, Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age II on the EU PS Blog.

Sony Computer Entertainment chairman Kazuo Hirai has flatly denied whispers of an imminent PlayStation 4 reveal at E3 in June.

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Sony Computer Entertainment president Andrew House has said the firm isn’t “contemplating” discussion on “anything to do with future console iterations at this point,” reiterating that Sony is committed to supporting PS3 for its entire lifecycle.

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Sony and Microsoft are set to spoil Wii U’s coming out party at E3 by unveiling PlayStation 4 and the next Xbox in Los Angeles in June, MCV is reporting this morning.

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Uncharted developer Naughty Dog isn’t champing at the bit for a new generation of hardware, finding the shift from one machine to another something of a nightmare.

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Sony has updated its PS Plus offerings for the month of December, and the magic starts tomorrow, with Tomb Raider: Underworld for free. The full list for both the US and Europe is below the break.

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“I think we would consider it undesirable to be significantly later than the competition [with PS4], [but] there’s still a lot of unfinished business on PS3. If you look at PlayStation 2, now in excess of 150 million units installed globally, a huge majority of that was done at price points of £120 or lower. [With PS3] we’ve only just hit £199 in the UK, so clearly there’s a considerable untapped part of the market there.” – PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan to Eurogamer.

EA has confirmed there are some “issues” with the downloadable version of Battlefield 3 on PS3, which is preventing players from signing into the game’s Battlelog service. Currently a patch is in the works, with a release date to be announced, according to Sony Europe’s community manager.

EA has said its worldwide customer service department is available any time of day to “provide an immediate solution to any Battlefield 3 players on PSN” who experience any difficulties logging into Battlelog.

The digital version of the game released on PSN in the region October 26.

Batman, RAGE, BF3, Uncharted – the holiday season’s in full swing. Oh, and let’s not forget Skylander’s Spyro… I mean, uh, Skyrim. Er, yeah. Look, a distraction: what last week’s biggest news means.

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Sony will get the jump on Microsoft and release PlayStation 4 before the next Xbox in 2014, according to one US analyst.

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Develop’s rumoured today that Microsoft’s planning an E3 unveil and launch of the next Xbox in 2013, and that first-party Sony studios have started “preliminary” work on PlayStation 4 titles.

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The Haunted: Hell’s Reach, the winner of 2010′s Make Something Unreal contest, will be published by THQ. The Haunted is a third-person action survival horror title which focuses on multiplayer, as you try to liberate “cursed places and survive the assault from the minions of hell.” It has several multiplayer modes such as coop-survival, demons vs. humans and demonizer. There are four playable characters, over 20 enemies, 30 stages, eight different locales, six secret weapons, and four game modes. You can watch the trailer released for it last year here, and check out new screens over on Eurogamer. The Haunted: Hell’s Reach launches October 25 on Steam, and on PSN and XBL in 2012. Get more information and assets on the official website.

Bloodrayne: Betrayal has been delayed into October, according to the game’s developer. Scheduled for release this month with a delay of a week’s time already, the game will now land on October 5 on XBL. No reason for the delay was provided to D’toid, and since the delay is on XBL only, this will not affect the game’s PLAY incentive announced just yesterday. Earlier reports stated the game was also delayed on PSN, but we sent a mail and asked, and were told it was not the case. [pic]

Did you hear? The Weekly Wrap gave birth! The miracle that is nature blighted this very column with a litter of little ones. But what happened is only half the story: here’s what it means.

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Epic boss Mark Rein has said the company isn’t in a “huge hurry” for the next hardware cycle from Sony and Microsoft.

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EA boss John Riccitiello has said the games industry’s hardware cycle has been broken, ending the long reign of consoles.

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Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has said that the move from PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 to PlayStation 4 and the next-gen Xbox is happening a lot sooner than expected.

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Gamestop executives have reportedly shared their thoughts on hardware, including next-gen consoles, the PS Vita, and Kinect.

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