You’d be forgiven for looking at this stuff and thinking it was for a major project, something like Halo 5, or Destiny, or Titanfall. Nope. It’s for a game being made by four people. That game is Strike Vector, and holy shit, how have I never seen this before? It’s a multiplayer air combat game,…
Stephen’s at the annual Wedbush E3 party, and on display is an Xbox One, Kinect and controller, just sitting there, out in the open. As though someone could just walk by and… …oh. Hi. Well-guarded Xbox One at Michael Pachter’s party. https://t.co/hk39jp0Fjt — Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) June 12, 2013
Remember how the Ouya development team were going to be showing their stuff in a parking lot opposite E3? Yeah, looks like that’s caused some problems. The console’s developers have been sparring with E3’s organisers, the ESA, and earlier today that sparring blew over into something you’d expect from a bad 80s sitcom. According to…
Sony’s PlayStation Camera, a peripheral for the upcoming PS4, has been curiously under-played at E3. Probably because it’s an add-on, whose absence from the main PS4 kit has helped Sony’s console undercut the Xbox One by $100. The camera hasn’t been entirely forgotten, though; this clip above shows some of the AR and multiplayer tricks…
The natural assumption to make when confronted with Microsoft’s used game restrictions is to blame video game publishers. They’re the ones who went to war with GameStop over used game resales, they’re the ones who instituted online passes, they’re the ones who stand to benefit from anything that can make people buy games new (where…
Capybara Games and composer Jim Guthrie, two of the three parties behind mobile adventure Sword & Sworcery, have this week unveiled Below, a desolate, moody adventure game for the Xbox One. It looks like a roguelike. A very beautiful roguelike. Weird that it’s on the Xbox One (it’s even being published by Microsoft), given their…
The Xbox One will only allow the sale of used games if the publisher of a specific game allows it. What do publishers, less than six months out from the console’s launch, think of this? Well, one of the biggest in the world, Ubisoft, has no idea. Or at least isn’t publicly talking. Speaking with…
When the Xbox 360 and PS3 launched, the world was just making the transition to high definition TV sets. There were growing pains, and the feeling that it’d be years until enough people owned one that they would become mandatory. Guess that time is now. While the Wii U – and let’s be real, it’s…
The video above was shown yesterday during Sony’s E3 conference. It is of a game that, until now, we’d thought was about a young woman growing up with weird powers, working her way through a story featuring lots of rain, and emotions Then this turns up. And I was half-expecting Hideo Kojima to pop up…
The old Kinect was notorious for needing a fairly large space in which to play, so the camera could accurately capture your movements. I mean, I live in a house, and my living room setup wasn’t big enough. The new Kinect, packing a wide-angle lens, is supposed to alleviate that problem, but it’s not like…
Is there any way around Microsoft’s mandatory 24-hour “check in” on the Xbox One? Nope. Well, there is one. It just doesn’t involve buying an Xbox One. Speaking with Destructoid, Microsoft’s Phil Spencer was asked what someone with no internet access would do if they wanted to buy an Xbox One. “I mean the analogy,…
During its E3 conference, Sony talked business and showed games. Leaving some of the more mundane – but no less important – stuff to come out after. Stuff like this video, which shows the system’s user interface. We can see how the PS4 swaps between programs (like a phone), how the share button works, how…
The PS4’s lack of online requirements or used games DRM has been cause for celebration for many, but for me, as someone who lives in neither the US or Japan, one thing was even more important. Whether the PS4 was, like its predecessor, region-free. According to SCE boss Shuhei Yoshida, it is. Yes
The show hasn’t even technically begun yet – the doors to the LA Convention Centre don’t open until later today – but June 10 is a day gamers are going to remember for a very, very long time. And for all the right reasons. This time last year, I was as down on the show…
If there’s been a single constant throughout the life of the PlayStation brand, it’s been Sony’s insistence on using…different means of advertising its consoles. Sometimes it’s a dismal failure, sometimes it’s a critical success, but at least it’s always interesting. A tradition this new clip continues. It’s a bit corny, yeah, but I like the…
I’m not sure why this wasn’t part of the company’s presentation yesterday. Maybe they left it out because it simply matched Microsoft, instead of under-cutting it. But hey, the PS4 has a 500GB hard drive. UPDATE – Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida has confirmed that, like the PS3, the PS4’s HDD will be upgradeable. The tidbit was…
Usually, verdicts of “winners” and “losers” coming out of E3 press conferences are little more than armchair pondering. One person’s view of some competing events that don’t really matter. But today, boy, it’s hard seeing Sony’s press conference as anything but a punch in the face to Microsoft’s Xbox One ambitions. The second half of…
Sony has just announced the cost of the PlayStation 4 when it goes on sale later this year. It’ll be $399. That’s $100 less than Microsoft’s Xbox One (Note: the Xbox One comes with a Kinect, while it’s unclear if Sony’s $399 console includes the PS4 camera). In Europe, it’ll be €399 and £349.
It’s not all champagne and high fives coming out of Sony’s E3 press conference today. A “screw you, Microsoft” video the PlayStation team put together has some fine print underneath, which reads: PS4 multiplayer online access requires PSN account & PS Plus subscription. Now, this is far from terrible news. PlayStation Plus gives you access…
Avalanche Studios, the developers of the Just Cause series, are making a Mad Max game. We don’t know much about it, since only a short clip and logo was shown, but if you remember a few months back some blurry teaser images were shown which suggest the game is basically a post-apocalyptic Just Cause. With…
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