Good morning. It’s Thorsday. All electric and stuff. There is maintenance planned for the PlayStation Network starting from 2pm GMT today (Thursday 7 November) until 1am GMT on Friday 8 November in Europe. In the US, the maintenance is scheduled to take place on Thursday between 8am and 3pm Pacific Time. [More on PlayStation Forum] Sony has announced that the PS3…
Good morning. Is it? It will be after you’ve filled it with some brain food known as the Gaming News Wrap. Title update 1.05 for GTA Online is now live and “addresses some residual issues where occasionally people’s vehicles or vehicle modifications were disappearing due to a cloud save failure” as well as other fixes. The GTA$ Stimulus is now…
Good morning. Let’s be kind and fill your Monday with gaming goodness. Microsoft has clarified (and attempted to calm continued concerns) over the Kinect surveillance. The Xbox One cannot transmit facial images and the player’s ’emotions’ are destroyed once the game session ends. While the Kinect sensor “identifies users by measuring the arrangement and length of certain facial features and calculating that…
Sony has forecasted that it will ship 5 million Playstation 4 units by the end of its 2013 fiscal year which ends in March 31, 2014. During an investment call as transcribed by Seeking Alpha, Masaru Kato, Sony’s chief financial officer outlined two main factors that determined the forecasted figures, namely judging by pre-order figures and also due to to…
Good morning. If you’re reading this, you survived Halloween – another annual training session for the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Call of Duty Ghosts requires an install of 3GB for the singleplayer campaign on Xbox 360. Multiplayer will not require an install other than if you get the Free Fall pre-order map which weighs in at 250MB. [More on One of…
Good morning. It’s the Halloween edition of your favourite daily dose of gaming news. It’s surprisingly fright free however. The 35 perks, and the new perk system for Call of Duty Ghosts has been revealed. Each perk is assigned a point value of between 1-5 and players have a total of 8-12 points to spend on perks depending on their loadout.…
Good morning. It’s great to be alive isn’t it? Remember that it’s only that way because we didn’t kick off the zombie apocalypse yet. Be grateful… The PS4 has a day one firmware update that adds key features. The feature are so key in fact that it almost seems not doing the 300MB download will leave you with a genuinely…
Good morning and welcome to the weekend. Almost. The DualShock 4 controller has dropped pressure sensitive face buttons for digital buttons. The pressure sensitive analogue buttons were found on the DualShock 3 and allowed game designers to assign multiple functions to a button depending on the pressure applied by the player. These were rarely used by designers. [More on VentureBeat] The…
Good morning. Let’s not fill this with mindless chit-chat and get to it shall we? The PlayStation 4 Party Chat will support up to eight users at once. Let the online parties begin. Sony has confirmed that real names will be usable from launch with the PS4. You will be able to identify yourself either with your real name or PSN…
Good morning. Yes, it’s the most important day of the week in the zombie calendar… Chewsday. No, we told you that will never get old. Killzone Shadow Fall has gone gold, ensuring the PS4 exclusive shooter will launch alongside Sony’s new console. Guerrilla Games’ Steven Ter Heide has said via the PlayStation Blog that the game “should last well over ten…