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  • Beyond: Two Souls Release Date Revealed

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    Photo courtesy hooscity.se

    Today Sony has announced that [amazon_link id=”B0050SX7BQ” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Beyond: Two Souls[/amazon_link] will release on October 8th for the Playstation 3. The game is developed by Quantic Dream, the makers of Heavy Rain and Indigo Prophecy. It stars Ellen Page in the role of Jodie who is quite more than she appears to be.

    Quantic Dream had Page fully act out her role with the use of their motion capture technology which gives the characters unprecedented realism in their performances.

    It was also announced that Willem Dafoe is a part of the cast as well. Green Goblin is portraying Nathan Dawkins, a paranormal scientist who works for the government and is fascinated by Jodie.

  • PSN Gamers Choice Award Games 50% Off

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    Another day, another great Playstation Network sale.

    Yesterday we told you about the Spend $50, Get $10 sale and now Sony is making sure you have a great reason to spend that $50 with their Gamers Choice Awards Sale. Playstation 3, Vita and PSP games that were voted on and won are discounted by 30% for PSN users and 50% for PS Plus subscribers. So if you have not picked up certain games that won many other awards (cough Journey cough) then now is the best time to do so.

    Seriously if you don’t download the entire The Walking Dead game for less than 10 bucks, you may have problems.

    Here is the rundown of what Sony is discounting:

    -Assassin’s Creed 3- $49.99 (PSN) $39.99 (PS+)

    -The Walking Dead Ep. 1-5 $13.99 (PSN) $9.79 (PS+)

    -Gravity Rush (Vita)- $24.99 (PSN) $17.49 (PS+)

    -Unchained Blades (PSP)- $20.99 (PSN) $14.69 (PS+)

    -Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas- $7.49 (PSN) $5.99 (PS+)

    -Velocity- $3.49 (PSN) $2.44 (PS+)

    -Ghost Recon: Future Soldier- $23.99 (PSN) $21.59 (PS+)

    -Journey- $10.49 (PSN) $7.34 (PS+)

    -Counter Strike: Global Offensive- $10.49 (PSN) $7.34 (PS+)

     

  • EA’s CTO Says PS4 Is An ‘Experience That Is Unprecedented’.

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    Photo courtesy kotaku.com

    During a recent media and technology conference, EA’s chief technical officer,Rajat Taneja, had many glowing things to say about Sony’s recently announced behemoth Playstation 4.

    “We are excited about Sony’s news and the launch of the next-gen of consoles. At EA, we have never been as prepared or more ready for the start of a new console.”

    Taneja went on to say that there were really no more limits with development that they have experienced in the past.

    “We no longer have to constrain our games or ration computer graphics, memory or bandwidth. We can let the games really flourish in 1080p, 60 frames a second” on PS4, presenting “a level of gameplay experience that is unprecedented.”

    He also talked of EA’s enthusiasm about the next generation of gaming with the PS4, “We are excited about Sony’s news and the launch of the next-gen of consoles. At EA, we have never been as prepared or more ready for the start of a new console.”

  • Playstation Network Offers Another Deal

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    Sony continues to pour on the deals when it comes to the Playstation Network. Until April 1st for every $50 you spend online in the Playstation Store you will get $10 back in your PSN wallet. You can use the reserve of digital download games to make up the money if you wish or buy new backgrounds, movies, etc. Any way to spend $50 will get you a free $10.

    For those super deal seekers you can double up on deals. Sony has another deal until March 4th that will get you a free three months of Playstation Plus when you purchase a full year. So conceivably you can buy a year of PS Plus for $49.99 and reserve a game or buy a cheap avatar and get fifteen months of PS Plus and ten bucks back in your PSN wallet.

    And if you got a free $10 bucks last week from Sony in your account (raises hand) the deal turns out even better.

     

  • Will The New Xbox Be Revealed In April?

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    Photo courtesy allthingsd.com

    There are rumors swirling that Microsoft will wait until April to unveil their next version of Xbox in a big event much like with the Xbox 360. This will put the announcement after this year’s GDC which takes place the last week of March.

    If Microsoft is set on doing this it can only strengthen Sony’s chance to make the PS4 shine especially if they now have PAX East and GDC to put more Playstation in the eyes and ears of fans. I thought Microsoft should strike while the iron was hot on the new console talk and announced in mid-March right before GDC and take a little of Sony’s thunder away.

    Waiting until April makes me think that this was the set date all along for Microsoft and that Sony’s announcement this past Wednesday might have caught them off guard. Sony had a great first showing and everyone is now thinking that all the pressure is on Microsoft to match up to Sony’s announcement.

  • Here Are The PS4 Titles We Know Of So Far

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    Photo courtesy japantimes.co.jp

    We are only one day removed from Sony’s announcement of the Playstation 4 and still months away from E3 and already the console has a modest, but very good lineup of games. Ubisoft, Sucker Punch, Guerrilla and even Square showed their future titles and it was enough to get this gamer excited for this fall when the PS4 comes home. Here are the games we know of so far:

    Killzone: Shadow Fall (Guerrilla)

    Infamous: Second Son (Sucker Punch)

    Watch Dogs (Ubisoft)

    Knack (Studio Japan)

    Diablo 3 (Blizzard)

    Drive Club (Evolution)

    Final Fantasy (Square)

    Destiny (Bungie)

    The Witness (Thekla)

    Deep Down (Capcom)

    The Witcher 3 (CD Projekt RED)

    Sony also said that a plethora of studios are already pledging support for the PS4. Instead of listing them all check out a screenshot of last night’s event and see that every major player is going to be involved with developing for the next Playstation.

    Photo courtesy Kotaku
    Photo courtesy Kotaku

  • Check Out The Unique Looking Knack For PS4

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    Photo courtesy blog.us.playstation.com

    After Mark Cerny was finished describing all of the Playstation 4’s internal working last night he was able to show off an exclusive game he has been working on exclusively for the PS4. The game has a very Pixar animation look and focuses on a creation known as Knack, who was created to help humans in their fight against the invading goblins.

    The look and small bit of gameplay have a very Ratchet or Jak to it and it looks like it could be a lot of quirky fun.

  • Killzone: Shadow Fall Revealed

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    Photo courtesy pocket-lint.com

    As with the PS3 announcement Guerrilla Games was there in full force with a new Killzone game, the difference being this time I think everyone believed that this footage was real in-game stuff. The look of the game started out much brighter than other Killzone’s and that was a great way to show off what the PS4 is capable of doing. You begin to wonder is a new console can still wow you considering how good games look and then you watch the demo shown last night and realize that they still can.

    After a beautiful flyover of a much brighter scene than we are used to seeing in Killzone games, an explosion goes off and cloaked Helghast soldiers begin their attack. The gunplay run smooth like Killzone 2 and 3. The demo ends with our hero hopping a ride on a hanging rope from a dropship that shows off just what Sony’s behemoth can show off. I like it…..a lot. I want it….now.

    Check out the demo below.

    http://youtu.be/fL2kXenfz1Q

    Damn.

  • Meet The Dualshock 4

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    Photo courtesy edge-online.com

    While we may not have seen the Playstation 4 in the flesh (or plastic) last night, one thing that we did get a good look at was the redesigned Dualshock 4 controller. It is really beautiful and looks much more refined than the leaked pictures of the dev unit version from last week. It has an integrated touch pad on the front of the controller, much like the back pad of the Vita. The start and select buttons are a thing of the past with the options and share buttons replacing them. The new share button is a major change in that the last ten minutes of any game you are playing will always be saved into the Playstation 4’s memory and at any time you can hit the share button and pick out any part of that saved gameplay and upload it instantly to Facebook or UStream.

    Photo courtesy gamesradar.com
    Photo courtesy gamesradar.com

    The shape of the Dualshock 4 has been altered also. It is thicker and is more contoured which makes it more in line with an Xbox 360 controller (for me, that’s a great thing). The D-pad has been tweaked as well and you can see the analogs have been given an indentation around them for better grip. There is an LED light at the top of the controller which will identify different players I am assuming by different colors. It is noticeably more pretty than the standard red lights on the old Dualshocks.

    Photo courtesy kotaku.com
    Photo courtesy kotaku.com

    The Dualshock 4 will be more hefty than its predecessor going from 6.77 ounces to 7.4 ounces which,again, I love because I have always enjoyed the weight of an Xbox 360 controller over the feather light feel of a Dualshock.

    All in all I have to say that Sony knocked it out of the park with the Dualshock 4. Its more curved, contoured approach and sleek styling with the touchpad and LED light makes this a gorgeous looking controller.

  • Playstation 4 Is A Beast Under The Hood

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    Photo courtesy techradar.com

    For those of you that followed us during our live tweet of Sony’s Playstation 4 announcement we thank you greatly and now that the system is officially real we can begin getting into the guts of the matter.

    Sony went into greater detail about the interior workings of the Playstation 4, more than I thought they would and under the hood it is a very, very impressive piece of hardware. So much so that I may have to change my price prediction and match up with the $429 and $529, two-sku rumors flying about.

    What Sony announced is swimming around their new monster console:

    -AMD 8-core 64-bit X86 Jaguar (not Atari) CPU

    -Radeon GPU with 1.84 TFLOPS of processing for graphics, etc.

    -6X Blu-Ray drive and 8X DVD drive

    -8GB unified GDDR5 RAM

    -802.11 Wi-Fi

    -USB 3.0

    -Bluetooth 4.1

    -HDMI, optical out and analog AV

    Sony was very forthcoming in saying that they wanted this console to be developer friendly. It is widely known that a lot of developers had problems working with the Cell processor in the PS3 so Sony has done them a great service by making the Playstation 4 more PC-like.