Dennaton Games’ top-down, no-holds-barred shooter Hotline Miami will become available for both of Sony’s consoles on Tuesday, June 25th for North America – the game will be released in Europe the following day. This news comes hot on the heels of the studio announcing a sequel to the 2D game – Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number – following its continuous and deserved success since its PC debut in late 2012.
After turning more than a few industry heads at the E3 conference in LA last week, Titanfall has established itself as the one to watch for the Xbox community. While Respawn Entertainment’s first-person shooter is also coming to PC in early 2014, this is a game that lit up the Galen theatre with its bombastic action and relentless gameplay last week. However, without a single player campaign, Titanfall will launch as an exclusively multiplayer title – similarly to 2010’s rather feeble MAG – which is a decision that the developers believe ‘made sense.’
Just yesterday evening, Sony issued a new firmware update for the Playstation 3 with the promise of improving system stability. However, after sparking a flurry of feedback from the Playstation community, the company have postponed the scheduled update after users reported that, post-installation, their consoles had been rendered obsolete. Sony took to Twitter to address these issues and we’re still waiting on firm confirmation that Firmware 4.45 is a-okay.
Having first cropped up on crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter in 2012, the Oculus Rift blazed past its initial $250,000 goal ten times over. And now – after wowing gamers left, right and centre at E3 – Oculus VR have secured $16 million in private funding in order to bring their virtual reality gaming headset to the market.
The NPD group, which specialise in tracking the consumer market, issued a statement which revealed that the Nintendo 3DS rose above the competition to claim the number one spot for the month’s hardware sales. The success of the handheld can largely be attributed to a slew of new releases in May – with Donkey Kong Country Returns, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon and Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes bolstering their way into the top-10 chart for physical software.
The high definition remastering of Final Fantasy X and its sequel Final Fantasy X-2 could pave the way for further HD remakes according to series developer Yoshinori Kitase, including the beloved Final Fantasy 12 from the Playstation 2 era. Speaking to RPG Site, the Japanese game director singled out the twelfth iteration in the franchise as a potential source for a future project.
After garnering seemingly unanimous praise when the critical embargo lifted last week, The Last Of Us finally hit retail on Friday, June 14th and smashed a few records along its journey to the No.1 spot. Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic action adventure game claimed number one on the UK gaming chart and was the largest launch for a novel franchise since Rockstar’s L.A. Noire in 2011.
Since it burst onto the scene with its bold, open-world premise back in 2007, Assassin’s Creed has undeniably positioned itself as a cornerstone of the gaming industry. With thirteen different iterations to date across a multitude of individual platforms, it’s a wonder you aren’t able to play it on your refrigerator yet. And yet, it’s a franchise that shows no signs of slowing down, after Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed to Kotaku that three games are in active development.
Following their strong showing at the E3 convention in Los Angeles, Sony Computer Entertainment has increased their net prediction for early sales of the Playstation 4. Early tracking figures has suggested that the company’s console is outpacing its chief competitor, the Xbox One, by a significant margin and, subsequently, has resulted in Sony bumping up their sales forecast. Here’s an extract from the Wall Street Journal:
The news for Playstation 4 is coming thick and fast, and today a promotional video unveiled by Polygon showcased the console’s user interface for the very first time. Though we got a brief demonstration back in February, this clip visualises a lot of the specifications that Sony have been championing in their briefings; including cross-game chat and instantaneous downloads. Check out the footage in full below.
