Here’s a scenario – You spent $150 last year on a pleasant Turtle Beach headset to your PS3. It really works great, and also you fully expect it to work great at the PS4 you pre-ordered. Well, the excellent news is that it probably will. The bad news is that it won’t work at launch.

Game Informer reports today that the PS4 won’t support any PS3 headsets for chat at launch. The functionality would be patched in at a later date for many headsets, but one sort of headset is getting left high and dry.

Here’s where things get a touch tricky. In keeping with a Sony official, the PS4 will add support for official Sony branded PULSE gaming headsets and USB-powered headsets through a patch that may be delivered post launch. Digital optical headsets will deliver in-game audio on day one, but chat capabilities would be added at a later date.

Unfortunately, evidently any and all bluetooth PS3 headsets won’t work at the PS4 because the console won’t have the capacity to recognize them. It makes little sense because the Bluetooth 2.1 within the PS4 is backwards compatible with the PS3′s Bluetooth 2.0 signals. The explanation behind this is often something that only Sony knows.

In short, people who have anything but a bluetooth PS3 headset will be good in terms of the PS4. You’ll just must wait somewhat for Sony so as to add support through a patch. Until then, you’ll just need to post with the bundled earbud headset that ships with every PS4.

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Given the complete difficulties Grand Theft Auto Online has had, it wouldn’t be unfair to imagine that the player base for the sport dwindled quickly. Inside the nearly two weeks because the game’s debut, however, Rockstar has released two large updates for the title that appear to are becoming game working for almost all of players.

Now, to lure players back into the fold developer Rockstar is freely giving $500,000 of in-game cash to each GTA Online player this month. The “special stimulus package,” as Rockstar refers to it, may well be handed out to players as early because the end of next week. Two separate $250,000 deposits will hit player bank accounts by the tip of the month.

Rockstar stated that’s should be waiting to verify it has fixed glitches that were causing players to lose progress and cash before freely giving the cash. The developer stopped wanting calling the giveaway a mea culpa, but did say the development is said to the game’s disastrous launch. From Rockstar’s blog post:

For players who experienced cloud server errors, connection issues, and lost game progress and characters in these first days of GTA Online, we are hoping this GTA$ helps to facilitate a fresh start or makes your continued life in Los Santos and Blaine County extra sweet.

To qualify for the $500,000, players must go surfing, or have previously logged on, to Grand Theft Auto Online during October. Also, yet another update to the game will need to be downloaded before the “stimulus” will be handed out. In additidirectly to implementing the system in which Rockstar will hand out the money, the update is alleged to repair a glitch that could sometimes cause players to lose the cars they’ve purchased.

Grand Theft Auto V launched on Xbox 360 and PS3 last month, and has already made extra money than you’ll ever see in an entire life. Hell, it’s even been awarded with seven Guinness World Records. Despite all this, there’s still no PC version of the sport. That each one might change in 2014 though.

Eurogamer reports that Rockstar’s latest open world crime simulator should be coming to the computer within the first quarter of 2014. The report comes from multiple unnamed industry sources who said that GTA V’s PC release might be rather like GTA IV’s PC release – eight months after the console release. If that’s the case, we’ll see GTA V hit the computer in May. It’s not precisely the first quarter anymore, but it’s still the primary half the year.

A PC version is sweet and all, but what about next-gen versions? GTA V players will inform you that the game’s ambitious scope would had been better served on hardware that’s not eight years old. Well, Rockstar addressed that very subject back in July:

We don’t have anything to share in regards to the possibility of a next-gen or a computer platform release right this moment and we’re completely all for delivering the absolute best experience for the consoles people have promptly.

With the report of a computer version at the way, it makes a next-gen version seem almost plausible. In fact, Rockstar could stand to make some huge cash from repeat purchases by releasing the identical game on next-gen consoles, but with a far better framerate and entire 1080p visuals. This generation proved that folk are willing to double dip on HD remasters of older games, and the identical might just be true next generation.

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This week and last, Frictional Games began teasing a brand new sci-fi game. Two trailers were released, each showing unsettling footage of robots acting strangely. It seemed, in keeping with the teaser site, that Frictional was set to tease the sport for weeks. Today, however, the developer has officially unveiled Soma.

Soma may be another horror game from Frictional, that is best-often called the developer behind the well-liked Amnesia indie horror games. It will likely be coming to PlayStation 4 and PC sometime in 2015.

Players will tackle the role of a standard person trapped in a “nightmarish” sci-fi world. Like previous Frictional games, gamers should use their wits to outlive, instead of shoot everything in sight.

Thomas Grip, the creative director at Frictional, revealed a piece more concerning the game over at Sony’s PlayStation blog. He calls Soma a “proper” sci-fi game wherein the topics of consciousness and free will are explored through unfamiliar beings and settings, in addition to unsettling machines. From the blog post:

The subject that SOMA will discuss is consciousness. Personally, i locate it the foremost profound questions that it’s possible to invite. “How can the sensation of subjective experience arise from a piece of flesh?” Exploring this further takes us to questions together with “Can machines be conscious?” and “Do we have now free will?” It quickly gets very disturbing, and is perfect for a futuristic horror setting. It’s the sort of sci-fi that we wish to make.

The first trailer for the sport shows exactly what Grip is regarding. Technology, brains, blood, death, and unfeeling machines combine to make the sport feel very unsettling:

Though Microsoft’s efforts are currently on promoting its upcoming Xbox One console, the corporate still knows the Xbox 360 has years of life left. This holiday season, Microsoft will continue to take a look at to expand the Xbox 360′s large user base with its annual game bundles.

Three different Xbox 360 “Holiday Value” bundles may be available this year. Each of the packages include a minimum of two games and one month of Xbox Live Gold. The “Xbox 360 250GB Holiday Value Bundle” is if you happen to don’t desire a Kinect. It’s going to retail for $300 and likewise comes with both Halo 4 and Tomb Raider.

The other two bundles each come packaged with a Kinect sensor. The “Xbox 360 4GB Kinect Holiday Value Bundle” comes with Kinect Sports 2 and Kinect Adventures. The “Xbox 360 250GB Kincet Holiday Value Bundle” also comes with Kinect Sports2 and Kinect Adventures, but inclues Forza Horizon in addition. The 4GB Kinect bundle will retail for $300, while the $250 will sell for $400.

In addition to the bundles, U.S. gamers can be getting a unique promotion on top of this. Some U.S. retailers would be offering $50 off each of those bundles from October 13 to January 4. It’s unknown at this point whether the $50 is off the acquisition price or whether it is a mail-in rebate.