I remember when Home was first announced by Phil Harrison and the reveal video showed trophy cabinets where you could see all your earned trophies in 3D and show them off to anyone who could be bothered to visit you're home. At the time it all seemed so exciting!
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But that was a long, long time ago. Since then I...
Amy Hennig says she appreciates the support. I wish her well and hope Sony and Yoshida have the good sense to try and find her a place in one of their other studios.
EDIT: Hennig responds to a protected comment by one of her twitter followers "All made up. I would never say any of that."
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At this stage there just isn't enough information about the reasons for her departure, but IGN's comments and the fact she has left mid-project allude to an issue.
Amy Hennig is a huge talent and Shuhei Yoshida would be prudent to try and keep her in the Sony World Wide Studios family.
Rocksteady: "NextGen Allowed Us To Add The Batmobile."
That's funny. I distinctly remember driving it in Batman: The Movie on my old Amiga. It was an amazing game. :)
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Looking tasty. I'm really pleased this is next-gen only as it means Rocksteady have been designing the game without the limitations of last-gen. I want to see some gameplay innovations and Gotham look the best it ever has in a game. And you get to drive the Batmobile!
Many great looking multiplatform games on PS4 have 1080p and 30fps plus frame rate, including Assassin's Creed IV, Tomb Raider and Call of Duty.
If Thief has a frame rate in the single digits (I haven't played it yet for myself) then it is a indictment of the quality of the programming job that has been done. As other released games clearly demonstrate you can have 1080p with 30fps.
It's a clever move. The Xbone is currently £80 more expensive than a PS4 which has had a substantial impact on UK sales in comparison to the competition. But with this bundle and the included Titanfall download, it effectively becomes the same price as the PlayStation 4 and one game.
There seems to be a lot of interest in Titanfall, but it will also be released on 360 and PC, so I don't think the bundle will have as big an impact like it would if Titanfall was re...
I really want this! Sega should subtitle this game and release it immediately on PSN so that Western gamers can play this without having to wait two years for localised voice acting. It also would negate the risk of printing discs and would give them an idea of the demand for the game.
Also the full page screens on DualShockers look great, you can really see the artwork.
Pot calling kettle black.
After Peter Molyneux asked for Kickstarters money to make the game Godus (including mine) he surprised everyone a few months later by revealing it has some deeply ingrained pay-to-win elements and is riddled with microtransations. In the beta, backers were stunned to see that one upgrade of 1300 gems was listed as $49.99! After an outcry on the Steam forums Molyneux said he will rebalance the game. But the problem was he did a bait and switch on backers and n...
Remember that Spanish fresco? Have a look at how the PS4 and XB One each display it...
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This is it. If there is a game I love I don't mind hunting for trophies/ achievements. But life is way to short to play games you don't enjoy.
I love Yoshida's line "I was proud like a man from Kansai!"
It sound like it's an old cultural idiom from Japan with a good story behind it.
This journalist is fast becoming respected for refusing to dance to the PR jig.
He asks questions that gamers want answered and he reviews bad games honestly without fear of being blackballed. Yet he still gives enough information so people interested in the game can make up their own minds. A review is tightrope of subjective opinion and factual detail and David Jenkins seems to be getting the balance right.
Some people have put in a lot of money into their collection of digital games bought from PSN and Live. The new-gen consoles are not backwards compatible so if you upgrade without retaining your 360/PS3 then you lose access to your games. But if Sony and Microsoft can convert some of their library games so they work on the new systems then they are serving gamers well. I don't expect this to be done for every title but i'm really loving the idea that when I get a PS4 I already have s...
@AndrewLB. You are not wrong in having questions about this issue, however the difference is that in this case these 'gifts' are actually used for writing console & game reviews in the same way a book reviewer for a newspaper requires a copy of the book to review it. It just happens to be the case that many bloggers and journos love what they are reviewing.
Ultimately gaming media get all their games for free for review purposes but not all games get tops scores -...
That engraved PS4 looks crisp. And the look on your face Antwand when holding all those games! A great video.
The full Eurogamer article reveals developers' fears of a locked down platform. So when Tim Sweeney, the founder of Epic Games, praises Sony for taking a more open stance with the PlayStation platform it's significant. It is indicative that major players in the games industry have a positive attitude towards PlayStation and how it can help their business. In the long run this means strong software support and [perhaps] using the PS4 as a lead development platform.
This man, Shuhei Yoshida, knows how to keep positive customer relations.
The word 'don't' got left out of my original post! Here is the amended sentence.
"Of course beautiful graphics don't make a game, nobody is saying that. But we want to know that there are real improvements in the next generation."
Great! Really pleased to hear that there won't be moneyhats involved with The Witcher 3. Make a PS4 and Xbone version of the game, and let gamers get the right edition for their console and lets leave it at that.