EA chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen, predicts we shouldn’t see price drop for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 this year before the holiday season. GameSpot report that Jorgensen told the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, & Technology conference that Microsoft and Sony will most likely drop prices in an effort to “expand the marketplace for old-generation software,” but it’s likely…
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. Gaming news. In bite-sized chunks. Nomnomnom. The new ‘Obliteration’ mode for Battlefield 4 is being rolled out for beta users on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. In fact, it might be available already. New details about The Order 1886 have surfaced thanks to an upcoming article in the next issue of Game Informer magazine. The details have been…
In an interview with Polygon, Playstayion 4 lead architect Mark Cerny elaborated on what he has said before, in that the Playstation 4’s true potential will be seen in the future. This time, Cerny revealed that the developers will realize the console’s graphical potential in three to four years. “It’s a supercharged PC architecture, so you can use it as…
It would be an easy assumption to make that games will only look better in the Playstation 4’s future. You need only compare some of the earlier Playstation 3 titles to more current ones to see how far developers have come with developing for the console. The footage we’ve already seen with Playstation 4 titles show a pretty decisive jump…
The Playstation Blog has announced the PlayStation Plus line-up for September. PlayStation 3 games include Assassin’s Creed III and the Jak and Daxter Trilogy… Leaving PS Plus this month: 28th August: Need for Speed Most Wanted 28th August: ICO and Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection 28th August: Demon’s Souls 28th August: LEGO Lord of the Rings 28th August: When…
The new PlayStation 3 update version 4.46 has started rolling out to address the notorious bug that affected some console owners who installed version the previous version. If you installed last week’s update and therefore cannot load the Xross Media Bar, Sony has outlined a three step process for updating to version 4.46. Sony’s support site [via Polygon] explains that…
**UPDATE** As it stands now, it appears that Sony has pulled update 4.45, as Playstation.com shows update 4.41 as the latest available firmware update. **ORIGINAL STORY** The latest firmware update for the PlayStation 3 – which allows users to turn trophy notifications off, as well as improving general performance in unspecified ways – appears to have left some users with unusable…
Sony seem assured that the PlayStation 4 will be a more profitable from launch, unlike the PlayStation 3 was. It was well documented that Sony ran at a loss with the PS3 console at launch, and have been rectifying this with newer models ever since. “Unlike PS3, we are not planning a major loss to be incurred with the launch…
Another weekend has gone zipping by. We only stopped to smell the braaaaaiiiiiinnnnssss and now it’s Monday again. Oh well, another week of exciting gaming news is then in store for all. Sony is working on how to solve long download times for 4K resolution movies on the PS4. According to an article on The Verge the size of super-hi-def movies could…