Though the industry limelight was firmly trained on the Playstation 4, Sony confirmed at their E3 press conference yesterday evening that God of War 1 and 2 will be ported to the Playstation Vita in HD.
In the overarching transition to the digital gaming age, Sony’s online streaming service Gaikai acts as a crucial stepping stone. And today, Andrew House – the company’s president – announced that the online, cloud-based system will become available during the first segment of 2014.
Initially revealed a full seven years ago at E3 in 2006, Final Fantasy Versus XIII has simmered in the bowels of development hell for aeons. But now, at Sony’s E3 press conference, Square Enix has revealed that the game has been rebranded as Final Fantasy XV and will launch on the Playstation 4.
After all, the Messiah archetype comes parcelled with a rich tapestry of themes ripe for adaption. The saviour complex and other heroic attributes are woven together expertly to create a character that is at once an unparalleled leader and social reject. It’s a social dichotomy. An inner paradox that serves the Messianic figure like a quintessential gene to the field of biology.
Forget motion capture. The creative team at Sucker Punch working on inFamous: Second Son are all about emotion capture. Initally debuted in tandem with the Playstation 4 in February; the third entry in Sony’s exclusive series will surely be a lodestone of the company’s conference at E3. And in order to whet our appetite, the developer unveiled a dev diary which peeks behind the curtain of Digital Domain’s video capture studio.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles is without doubt the largest annual convention on the gaming calendar and this year’s event is poised to be the most significant in over half a decade. Next-gen has arrived. The Xbox One and PS4 are out in the public ether and, following Nintendo’s humble omission, three have become two.
Double Fine have continued their hot streak on crowd-funding website Kickstarter, after their new project Massive Chalice reached its fundraising goal in just five days. Following their trailblazing success with Broken Age – a game which garnered $3.3 million from the public back in March – the developing studio have deservedly captured lightning in a bottle once again and, according to the official Kickstarter page, plan to have Massive Chalice fit for release by September 2014.
Filtering into the media spectrum a little ahead of schedule was information of a release date for Dark Souls 2. The sequel to Namco Bandai and From Software’s delightfully dark role-playing game will be available in March of 2014, an announcement which came via a suitably huge banner advertisement outside the Los Angeles convention centre in the build up to E3. Here's the promo in all of its traffic-stopping glory.
Like two grizzled gunslingers in a Mexican standoff, Microsoft and Sony have been eyeing each other up for the lion’s share of the next console generation in recent weeks. And now, with E3 just around the corner, Sony’s CEO has undercut Microsoft’s entertainment-centric philosophy with the Xbox One by stating that the PS4 will be fundamentally a games machine.
Sony’s Japan Studio has lifted the curtain on a new, atmospheric trailer for their upcoming Playstation exclusive Rain. The game, which is set to hit the PSN this autumn, follows the adventure of a small boy who pursues a sprite-like girl into an alternate dimension – a plotline that echoes the young and dynamic relationship of ICO, itself a SCE Japan Studio game. For a melancholy glimpse of the project, check out the brand new story-centric trailer.
