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Microsoft stocks consequently decline

It seems that many investors were left feeling a little cold after the recent Xbox One reveal, causing a shift in company shares shortly after Microsoft's conference had ended. The event had attempted to usher in a new generation of gaming with brand new hardware, a redesigned controller, updated Kinect...

A broad look

Games are by far the most important part of any new console, but the hardware is significant too. While Sony spent a lot of time discussing the internals of the PlayStation 4 at its own unveiling conference earlier in the year, Microsoft was decidedly more muted during its presentation. However, following today’s press conference, the...

Team Deathmatch in a new generation

Activision has released the first trailer for the impending Call of Duty: Ghosts. The sequel – now also confirmed for the PlayStation 4 – will run on a new engine, which has been designed to take advantage of the power of next generation hardware. As previously revealed, the title’s in development at...

Artist's impression

Yesterday’s sneaky PlayStation 4 teaser trailer included some abstract images of Sony’s next generation console – and Reddit user Albino-Zebra has pulled together the pieces in order to produce this convincing impression of the hardware. The image includes all of the components from the teaser

Pick up your jaw

In most cases, an image says more than words ever can. That’s particularly true with these brand new Killzone: Mercenary screenshots. We could type out a mini-dissertation explaining why the PlayStation Vita exclusive is shaping up to be the best looking handheld game ever released, but we don’t really need to. One look at...

Media Molecule unfolds gorgeous new footage

We didn’t think that Media Molecule could possibly produce a more visually appealing game than LittleBigPlanet, but it’s really excelled itself with Tearaway. The portable platformer – which is set to deploy on the PlayStation Vita in October – takes place in a papercraft world, and judging by...

Not much to see yet

Ahead of a big showing at E3 in Los Angeles next month, Sony has steered DriveClub’s official website online. The page doesn’t include much other than an interactive screenshot and a trailer, but that video’s sure worth watching again if you haven’t seen it for a few weeks. The racer’s likely to be a launch trailer...

Open your eyes

Remember last week’s mysterious Japan Studio teaser? Sony’s followed it up with an official announcement, revealing Freedom Wars for the PlayStation Vita. The title – which is due out in 2014 – is described as a multiplayer action game, which means, well, it’s probably going to be a lot like Monster Hunter. There’s an...

Geth a load of this

Sackboy really is the ultimate cross-marketing opportunity, isn’t he? Sony has teamed up with EA to bring some brand new outfits based on the Mass Effect series to LittleBigPlanet – and the results are unsurprisingly adorable. The image above shows Wrex, Garrus, Liara, and, of course, Commander Shepard – the problem is,...

Guess where it pops up?

Sony's no stranger to tasteful digs at its rivals – but its latest batch of banner advertisements are the best timed yet. With the next Xbox reveal right around the corner, the platform holder has opted to ride on the coattails of the system's imminent hype, taking out promotional links on Google

Catching eyes

Arguably the most exciting element of a major hardware launch are the minor details that accompany it: the startup sequence, the user interface, and the boxes. Sony’s yet to confirm exactly what form the PlayStation 4’s cases will adopt, but in traditional fashion, graphic designers around the globe have been making some exciting...

All important mindshare

We’ve been pondering exactly how Sony would attempt to steal some of the attention away from the next Xbox’s announcement for a while now, and it answered that question emphatically earlier today. This afternoon’s teaser trailer was not pa

Full reveal at E3

How do you stop Microsoft from totally dominating the next generation conversation? You release a teaser trailer like the one embedded below mere hours before the next Xbox is set to be revealed. The footage primarily focuses on a blurry, black box, but includes some brief glimpses at the corners of the system and a vent. The...

Team survival

There’s less than a month until The Last of Us stumbles onto store shelves, and while developer Naughty Dog has been quite forthcoming with the game’s single player campaign, it still hasn’t said anything about multiplayer. That’s set to change imminently, but while the developer is keeping a lid on the competitive extra for a...

Branching out

There’s no smoke without fire, and everything that we’ve heard about inFAMOUS: Second Son’s new protagonist Delsin Rowe has supported that point. However, while developer Sucker Punch has led us to believe that the 20-something star will primarily take advantage of smouldering superpowers, according to Game Informer magazine,...

Decided to move on, though

Insomniac Games considered making Resistance 4, but decided to try something new instead. The sequel – which presumably would have deployed on the PlayStation 4 – was a key topic of conversation at the Burbank-based outfit after the completion of Resistance 3, but the developer ultimately decided to head in a...

Va va voom

If this week’s Gran Turismo 6 announcement didn’t shift your gears, then perhaps this extended trailer will do the job. The footage shows off a number of different vehicles racing around various circuits, including the newly added Silverstone. Just in case you think that it’s sacrilegious to view Polyphony Digital’s work in...