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Uncharted 4's Animation Is 'Close To Film Now' Says Artist
The game obviously has the new PlayStation 4 hardware to work off of and the developer is making sure to utilize it Speaking to CG Master Academy (Transcribed by Gamespur), Naughty Dog's lead character artist Frank Tzeng talked about that realism in the animation. Game quality is really close to film right now, look at the stuff[...]
Jonathan Blow Says The Witness Is 10 Times Longer Than Braid
Creator of Braid Jonathan Blow's new game was shown during the PlayStation 4's announcement and most people assumed it would come, if not at launch, soon afterwards. We are now over 14 months after launch and we've still not got it That's fine, mind you I want to play the game Blow wants to create[...]
PlayStation 4
The latest generation of consoles have been selling like hotcakes with the current numbers of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One outperforming their predecessors every step of the way For the first time in the console cycle, the Xbox One is topping the PlayStation 4, but Sony are doing just fine on their front. According to[...]
New BloodBorne Trailers Accompanies Announcement Of European Bundle
I'm pretty sure it's going to be pretty special. The PlayStation blog put up this trailer today, showing off the game's Chalice Dungeons The areas are explained by Producer Masaaki Yamagiwa to be procedurally  generated portions of the game that will change up every time a player attempts them This is smart in a game from[...]
Transistor And More Are Free On PlayStation Plus In February
I reported two days ago that Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is coming to Xbox Live for free in February and, conversely, we now know what what PlayStation Plus are offering subscribers starting February 3rd. PlayStation Blog revealed that SuperGiant Game's Transistor will be available on PlayStation 4 to players with a subscription to the service[...]
Brian Michael Bendis Talks Secret Wars On Late Night With Seth Meyers
We knew Brian Michael Bendis was going to be on Late Night with Seth Meyers to talk about the upcoming Powers series on the Playstation Network… but he also spent some time talking with the host about Marvel's big announcement yesterday, Secret Wars. [youtube]http://youtu.be/v68S1duV66M[/youtube] We knew Brian Michael Bendis was going to be on Late Night[...]
Destiny Is The Most Downloaded Title On PlayStation 4
While it would no doubt be hard to correlate all the digital purchases across platforms to paint a complete picture, we have been given a new bit of data that differs from NPDs number. The PlayStation Blog has released a list of the most downloaded titles on the PlayStation Store In this instance, Destiny came out[...]
18 Year Old Man Involved In Christmas Xbox And PlayStation Attacks Arrested
The big story over Christmas was the DDoS attack on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live by the Lizard Squad that rendered the companies' online services useless At best, this meant that players couldn't play online with new gifts and at worst, it meant they couldn't get their consoles to work at all as they were[...]
Destiny Was The PlayStation 4 Player's Game Of The Year
There are many loud detractors online about the game with many comment sections overflowing with negativity towards the game, but it seems that that might just be a loud minority. At least where PlayStation is concerned, it appears a lot of people really love Bungie's sort of MMO In a publicly voted for award, Destiny won[...]
Japan's Games Console Market Is At Its Lowest For 24 Years
For better understanding, check out this graph: Both major handheld consoles, the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita, were the highest sellers, with home consoles left floundering. Nintendo sold 3,153,045 Nintendo 3DS's The PlayStation Vita sold 1,147,936 consoles PlayStation 4 sold 925,570 consoles Wii U sold 604,856 consoles PlayStation 3 sold 450,034 consoles The poor Xbox One had close to no presence at[...]
Battle Lines Are Sketched – The 2015 Console War
Since then all the developers have done their utmost to sell their products to a burgeoning set of players seeking out the "next gen" feeling to freshen their gaming experience and for all the suggestions that the war has already been won, hands down, by Sony's PlayStation 4 (PS4) the fact of the matter is[...]
You Can Finally Get A Subscription For PlayStation Now
PlayStation Now is a step towards the future in the games industry The service allows users to stream games from Sony's own servers directly onto their PlayStation 4 This includes a lot of PlayStation 3 classics like Uncharted and The Last of Us In theory, very soon you will be able to stream directly onto[...]
PlayStation 4
Before that, the PlayStation 4 reigned unchallenged for nearly 12 months as the console has been hot property since it's release in November 2013 There were concerns the console market was dying before both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One hit store shelves, but that has proven ludicrously false as it's become the quickest selling[...]
Bendis Shares Powers #1 Variant Cover From TV Series
The cover features Sharlto Copley and Susan Heyward as homicide detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim from the upcoming Playstation Network live-action adaptation of the series.   Brian Michael Bendis shared the variant cover for his and Michael Avon Oeming's relaunching Powers #1 on his tumblr page The cover features Sharlto Copley and Susan Heyward as homicide detectives[...]
Xbox Live
The assault came from hacker group Lizard Squad across the holidays rendering a lot of new PlayStation 4s and Xbox Ones useless This was partially resolved when MegaUpload creator Kim Dotcom stepped in and offered the group several premium lifetime subscriptions to his new privacy service Mega There was some confusion as to whether the[...]
Man Finds Rocks Inside PlayStation 4 Box
PlayStation Network wasn't the only rocky thing this holiday season That is a god-awful pun and you'll see why in a minute. This Christmas, Denver man Igor Baksht bought a PlayStation 4 for his niece and instead of finding a console in the correctly labelled box, he found two packages of rocks instead 7News Denver report that[...]
Xbox Live And PSN Experience Severe DDoS Attacks; Kim Dotcom Saves Day To Play Destiny
As we've seen in the last few weeks with the Sony hacks, the ramifications of online meddling can be catastrophic both financially and politically. The gaming industry was attacked by a group of e-scrooges though as the 'colourfully' named Lizard Squad hit both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on Christmas and Boxing Day with DDoS attacks[...]
The Interview Is Available To Stream Now – And Weirdly On Xbox Video
This is a Sony film and it's being streamed on Microsoft's Xbox Video, but not on the PlayStation Network Sony Pictures have expressed an interest in bringing exclusive content to the PlayStation 4, but in this case they have instead given streaming rights to their direct competitors The only reason I can think of is because[...]
The SML Podcast – Playing Games And Melodicas While Discussing Babies?
He's just here. We kick off the show with the news that I finally got Surge and Crispy M&M's, Pappy went to the PlayStation Experience, and norg has a melodica, which keep us very entertained through the 40ish minutes we have with him The reason he had to leave is because HE HAD A BABY THAT[...]
Action Figure Showdown: Which Video Game Toy Series Is Right For You?
So being that I'm a gigantic child I thought I'd look at the three different brands of, "Toys-To-Life" figures and help you figure out which one may fit your tastes. The genre in general owes credit to Activision of all companies.  The series was originally launched in 2011, and heavily featured former Insomniac/Sony mascot, Spyro The Dragon. [...]
God Of War Is Coming, Just Don't Expect It Soon
By Patrick Dane I honestly thought that the last game shown at the PlayStation Experience's Keynote on Saturday would be a God of War game The timing felt right to announce the PlayStation mainstay, but alas, it wasn't to be. That doesn't mean that we won't see the franchise though at some point At a PlayStation Experience[...]
Thoughts On The Powers Panel And Trailer, And Questions For The Cast
But by early 2012, the network discussed re-shooting and retooling the series; and new scripts were ordered, leaving some with the assumption that the series was now stuck in "network limbo." So it's easy to see why Bendis was so excited as he made his way onto the stage to kick-off the Powers: Bringing The Graphic[...]
A History of Vileness: The Problem With Licensed Video Games
Additionally, sections of the game had been completely revamped in the retail release with gameplay being nothing like the original (more impressive) footage. Both of these complaints pale in comparison to the fact that Colonial Marines was a broken, buggy, glitch filled game.  YouTube videos went up in droves with players capturing enemies and NPC's (Non playable characters) alike being stuck in[...]