The PS4 launches on November 15, and excitement is at an all time high as gamers are counting down the times until the subsequent-generation officially starts. Sony have been playing into that excitement with the discharge of diverse videos for the PS4 hardware and its launch games. Now Sony can have outdone itself with today’s release of 4 videos.

In the four videos released today, Sony hypes up various aspects of the PS4 hardware and software, including the Dualshock 4, remote play at the PS Vita and a good selection of games from first and third party studios.

The first promo is all concerning the Dualshock 4 and what it brings to gaming at the PS4:

The second promo features developers talking about what the PS4 enables them to do on games just like the Elder Scrolls Online, Destiny and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.

The third promo is your typical sizzle reel featuring the entire games coming to the PS4 at or near launch:

The final promo is exclusively in regards to the remote play feature on PS Vita with a purpose to play PS4 games at the handheld over your local WiFi connection:

If you continue to need to indulge yourself in everything PS4, take a look at our previous coverage on Sony’s latest home console.

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With not up to two weeks until the launch of the PlayStation 4 in North America, Ubisoft today announced that an Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag PlayStation 4 bundle may be offered in Europe. The bundle shall be available on November 29, the day the PlayStation 4 launches inside the UK.

The new bundle may be seen as a semi-apology by Ubisoft for the delay of Watch Dogs. Watch Dogs was to be a launch title for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but was recently delayed until sometime in spring 2014. That game was among the first to be bundled with the PlayStation 4 Amazon, and gamers who had ordered the bundle were left confused within the wake of the delay announcement after they were told to pick out an additional bundle to maintain their console pr-order.

In addition to the bundle, Ubisoft this week released a brand new multiplayer trailer for Black Flag. Though the sport was released for current-generation consoles last week, Ubisoft is maintaining its marketing push for the sport going into the launch of a higher-generation consoles.

The new trailer previews all the multiplayer modes available within the game, in addition to different abilities that players can assign to their characters. There’s even a bit of near the tip concerning the new “Game Lab,” which lets players create their very own rules for multiplayer matches:

The PS4 is simply just a few days away now, and one in every of its most pointed out features is remote play. It’s going to make it easier to use a PS Vita system and play any PS4 game at the handheld. That feature will becoming in an afternoon one update at the PS4, and Sony should be introducing it to the Vita through an upcoming system update.

Sony announced today that PS Vita system update 3.00 will soon hit the system. The update brings with it the aforementioned PS4 remote play capabilities, but Sony isn’t leaving it at just that. Since it is a major update to a brand new version number, Sony can also be introducing various new features that experience nothing to do with the PS4.

Starting with the hot parental controls, Sony says that it’s going to now have its own application at the start screen. From there, parents can manage how long kids can play at the system, what games and videos they may play and restrict their use of certain features, just like the Internet browser and placement data.

Using the PS Vita’s admittedly terrible camera, now you can also take panorama shots with it. Once the photo is saved within the system, you may go searching in it using the system’s built-in motion sensor.

The Friends application have been updated to incorporate four tabs new tabs – Find Player on PSN, Friends, Friend Requests and Players Blocked.

Another app seeing a transformation is the gang Messages application. It would now be simply titled Messages, and it’ll allow players not to only receive messages from PS Vita and PS3 players, but PS4 players and smartphones with the PlayStation App besides.

The Party app gets a brand new icon, and make allowance for voice/text chat between PS Vita and PS4 players.

The email app have been improved to permit users to sync contacts saved on your account in Gmail and Yahoo Mail. To sync contacts, you want only do the subsequent – “select Contact List > Options > [CardDAV Settings] > [Add CardDAV Account], after which follow the screens.”

Another new features which is absolute to delight Vita owners is they can now transfer data between the PS3 and Vita through Wi-Fi. Previously, you needed to connect via USB. it’s noted that the Vita and PS3 ought to be at the same network, and that PS3 should have system version 4.50 or later.

Finally, it will be last update you should download manually. With version 3.00, now you can set the Vita to download system updates automatically.

If it’s worthwhile to see the complete above in action, take a look at the video tour below:

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It’s no secret that i like Mark Cerny – the PS4 system architect and game design director on Knack. He has a voice that may soothe giants, and his knowledge of games and the way they’re made is vast. Every interview with the man is a delight, and Sony has delivered once more with a brand new video of Cerny answering questions from fans.

As you may expect, a majority of the questions are about the PS4 hardware or Knack. He reiterates that the PS4 was designed to be powerful, but easy to develop for. He also shared that the developers who offered the foremost criticisms in regards to the PS3 were the foremost helpful when building the PS4.

As for Knack, he says that the sport was designed to be just like the platformers that defined the PSone and PS2, like Crash Bandicoot or Ratchet & Clank. Coincidentally, Cerny worked on both games so he has the experience essential to recreate that have at the PS4.

Despite lots of the questions being hardware focused, he did answer some general questions. He revealed that his favorite genre is the JRPG, but he’s also testing some indie games at the PSN. He also shared that he’s about three hours into The Last Folks. I’m sure many people hope he’ll share his thoughts at the ending once he finishes it.

Mark Cerny’s brainchild – Knack – will launch alongside the PS4 on November 15.

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EA today announced that its newest racing game, Need for Speed Rivals, can be a PlayStation 4 launch title in North America.

The game was originally expected to launch on November 22 – the launch day for the Xbox One. The brand new release date announcement was revamped on the PlayStation blog, where EA stated that developer Ghost Games “has been pushing themselves to join PlayStation’s big launch day.”

The current-generation version of Rivals for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC will still hit store shelves and Origin on November 19.

EA also emphasized that Need for Speed Rivals will make the most of several of the PlayStation 4′s next-gen features. Players would be ready to share footage using the DuakShock 4′s Share button and the sport will work at the PS Vita through PlayStation 4 Remote Play on day one. For sure, here’s assuming that players have downloaded the massive day-one software update for the PlayStation 4, which enables these and lots of of the opposite features touted for the console.

Need for Speed Rivals is ready to supply players with each of the racing and car chases that the series is thought for, with some visual updates for next-generation consoles. The sport will even feature a silly story about cops being the enemy, though it’s unlikely to be quite as silly because the planned Need for Speed movie.

Publisher EA today announced that the quilt of the approaching EA Sports UFC game will feature UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones.

“It’s a gigantic honor to be selected as one of several fighters to seem at the cover of EA Sports UFC,” said Jones. “I am an incredible fan of EA Sports and appearing on a canopy is a type of stuff you dream about as a child. I’ll definitely be following the canopy vote to work out which fighter the fans decide to join me because the face of the sport.”

Jones will share the duvet with one more UFC fighter, to be determined by a voting tournament that starts today. The tournament includes 16 popular UFC fighters along with Georges St-Pierre and Ronda Rousey. The outlet round of voting ends on November 10, with another round opening the following day. The tournament can have rounds each week in November, culminating with the general round on November 25.

In addition to the quilt announcement, EA today also released a brand new trailer for this year’s UFC. Unfortunately, the trailer doesn’t actually contain much footage of the sport. Very few behind-the-scenes glimpses of game art may be seen in-between footage of classic UFC matches:

The live-action trailer is among the most overused “genres” of game trailers. Since Microsoft started the fad with Halo 3, every AAA blockbuster seems to get some variety of live-action trailer that permits you to know the stakes couldn’t be any higher and the action couldn’t be any bolder.

Keeping in keeping with this unspoken tradition, Sony has just released its live-action ad for Killzone: Shadow Fall. In it, we’re treated to a scene ripped straight out of any generic sci-fi action film, just minus the joys. Instead, it’s all bleakness, death and disaster as you notice males and females being gunned down within the streets as soldiers recite their oath to guard the innocent and weak. The trailer concludes with our hero surrounded by bodies because it asks the player – “What will you sacrifice for peace?”

Like the live-action God of War: Ascension trailer before it, the production values are incredibly high. Sony really knows how you can nail the live-action game trailer. The sole complaint you’re able to levy against it really is that it doesn’t really do a stellar job of marketing you a game. Instead, it kind of feels kind of like a music video for a undeniable overused song by Drowning Pool.

Despite that, Killzone: Shadow Fall remains one of the crucial anticipated PS4 launch titles. It should officially be available on November 15 alongside the PS4, but many shops are already selling copies. i used to be capable of pick up a replica over the weekend and my local game shop still had many left.

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Call of Duty fans are actually just hours faraway from the discharge of this year’s iteration of the well-liked shooter franchise. Call of Duty: Ghosts is about to introduce fans to objects like military dogs, space combat, and feminine multiplayer soldiers. Gamers however, will likely jump right into the game’s multiplayer tonight and start unlocking the game’s weapons and equipment.

With the Ghosts launch so close, Activision today provided a reminder of just how popular Call of Duty multiplayer really is. a brand new infographic released by the publisher claims that gamers play a combined 1900 years of the sport day by day – a figure this is prone to increase within the coming weeks as fans jump into the recent game.

The infographic also has other mind-boggling stats similar to the 1.9 quadrillion (1,900,000,000,000,000) player respawns which have taken place in additional than 18 billion multiplayer matches because the release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2007.

Call of Duty: Ghosts shall be out for current-gen consoles, next-gen consoles (including Wii U), and PC tonight in the dead of night. Gamers who buy the sport for PlayStation 4 or Xbox One must wait a couple of weeks to play their copy, unless they reap the benefits of Activision’s next-gen $10 upgrade offer.

It’s almost Christmas time again and for gamers that implies going to great lengths to get their hands on among the new must-have, next-gen online game consoles. On Nov. 15 Microsoft will release the Xbox One while Sony will release PlayStation 4 on Nov. 22 – one week before Black Friday.

Did you pre-order? If the reply to that query isn’t any, then good luck attempting to search out such a consoles before the year goes out. Your best bet now could be to attend inside the really long line at your neighborhood Gamestop for the small chance that you could walk away lucky. But when you’re a genuine gamer you possibly knew that already.

Xbox One: Invitation

 Playstation 4: Greatness Awaits

Gamestop, Amazon, Best Buy, Target and Walmart have all closed their reservations.  It seems as if every Fall for the past several years there’s a frenzy for a higher Xbox or PlayStation.

For those of you which are still hoping to get a Xbox One or PlayStation 4 – you ain’t gonna get one cheap. The Xbox One is priced at $499, and the PlayStation 4 goes for $399. The retail cost of those two items could be a bit hefty but these aren’t just games they’re entertainment centers.

The Xbox One comes with advanced voice and motion control and switches easily from game to TV or a film. To be able to profit from premium features, like access to apps, downloadable games and online messaging, users of the Xbox One might want to pay extra for the Xbox Live service.

Sony claims that PlayStation 4 has better graphics than Xbox One, however the graphics quality for both consoles are so incredibly realistic that subtle differences would be undetectable for many gamers. The PlayStation 4 does, however,  come with Ustream – a feature which will allow PlayStation 4 users to upload and share game clips to the web. Unlike the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 doesn’t have a pay-wall and its lower cost tag also needs to make it a beautiful alternative for hardcore gamers trying to get a better price.

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Call of Duty has done it again, at the very least on the subject of causing controversy. Unlike previous great CoD controversies, one among which involved the player participating in a terrorist attack, this one involves exactly what resolution Xbox One players will see when their console launches.

This year’s next-generation outing from Microsoft have been stricken by news of an atrocious used game policy (which was reversed), and the creepy knowledge that the device could watch its purchasers on a regular basis with its always-on internet connection, webcam, and Kinect technology.

PlayStation/Xbox rivalry is easily-documented, and get in touch with of Duty: Ghosts producer Mark Rubin certainly didn’t help things when he dropped this bombshell via Twitter:

Hey, been at the road last couple weeks so haven’t had a raffle to update, but desired to confirm that for (cont) http://t.co/du9QZJNkLm

— Mark Rubin (@IWMarkRubin) October 30, 2013

“[For] Xbox One we’re 1080p upscaled from 720p. And, we’re native 1080p on PS4. We optimized each console to hit 60 FPS and the sport looks great on both,” the tweet continued.

Erik Kain at Forbes writes that this difference shouldn’t be a dealbreaker, especially for console gamers, most of whom probably don’t care in regards to the strength in their hardware. In other words, “you don’t buy a PS4 as it has higher resolution if you’re a large Halo fan,” he wrote. “You don’t buy an Xbox One as it comes with a Kinect if you’re a large Uncharted fan.”

Kain takes note of a section on CinemaBlend by author William Usher, who clearly believes the gaming media is doing Microsoft a favor by downplaying the Xbox One’s technological inferiority. But unlike Usher, Kain acknowledges that console players probably won’t angrily charge onto internet forums and voice their disapproval.

The endless debate over PC graphics cards shouldn’t even extend to consoles, Kain contends, because an infinite majority of console players don’t overclock, tinker, and upgrade their gaming rig within the same way a computer gamer does. “You just plug and play, end of story,” he writes. “You don’t equip your PS4 with water-cooling.”

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