News Gaming Update : Street Fighter V Will Come With 16 Characters Out Of The Box And Additional DLC Characters

Since the EVO fighting championship is currently on, the hype for the latest Street Fighter is at a record high. Even though fans are going to have to be patient for a little while longer before they get a chance to play Street Fighter V, the developers of the game Capcom released certain details about their latest instalment in the franchise at EVO.

This game is going to launch with sixteen playable characters that is only three characters less than the previous Street Fight IV which came with nineteen characters. You shouldn’t worry too much about this though since Capcom has worked very hard on getting rid of the “clone” characters and have tried to give every character a unique feel which is quite evident from the overhaul Ken has received.

Capcom is going to continue adding characters to the game through the DLC (downloadable content) which can be purchased in-game or even earned while you play. This is wonderful since players who do not want to spend days on the game can still purchase characters and make them usable right away while people who do not want to spend the extra money can rough it out and earn the characters.

Capcom is also going to be getting rid of those stupid re-releases like Ultra & Super which were released by the previous instalment. With Street Fighter V, players are only going to need the original release with every other update coming for free.

Street Fighter V is going to release next year during spring on the PS 4 and the PC. There is also an exclusive PS 4 Beta which is in the making and should be online by the 23rd of July.

Posted by Unknown Sunday, July 19, 2015

News Sony PlayStation : Sony - We Fully Believe in Free-To-Play

The controversial business model wasn't originally part of Sony's plan, but now it's big business--and growing.

Today during a 2015 Game Developers Conference presentation, Sony's Sarah Thompson spoke about the rise of free-to-play gaming on PlayStation 4. In short, she said Sony has seen impressive growth in this area, so much so that the model could be a key component of the company's digital business going forward.

"We're really looking at this as a significant part of our digital business," she said about free-to-play. "I think that it's going to be a really a big chunk of our revenues in the next few years; 3-5 years. And it's already growing at amazing rates that are really quite surprising."

Thompson, whose official title is senior account executive for PlayStation's free-to-play business, went on to explain that Sony had no idea the free-to-play model would even exist just 15 years ago. Times have changed, and free-to-play has emerged as a key strategy for Sony.

"So we think that's great news. I think that it is really stabilizing the business. And I think it's future-proofing us. I think that it's really taking us into where we need to be as a company," she said. "As a company, we do fully believe in free-to-play."

Of course, Sony's investment in free-to-play doesn't mean the company will abandon traditional games anytime soon. The company has a number of marquee PlayStation games due this year alone, including Bloodborne and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, among others.

Also sitting on the panel today was Laura Naviaux, who holds the title of senior vice president of sales and marketing for H1Z1 and EverQuest developer Daybreak Game Company, formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment. Naviaux said she foresees a bright future for free-to-play on consoles, and not just on PlayStation systems, but everywhere.

"It's sort of just the first layer of the onion," she said, referencing that free-to-play on consoles is really just getting started. "Every indication is that there is a tremendous amount of opportunity for growth with free-to-play on consoles."

Splitting off from Sony means Daybreak can now support multiplatform development in ways it couldn't before. The company has said it is interested in bringing games to Xbox, though no specific Daybreak games have been announced for Microsoft's console.

Free-to-play often inspires debate and controversy, but Naviaux said players of games such as DC Universe Online and PlanetSide 2 have embraced the new monetization methods Daybreak has rolled out, especially on the PS4. This may come down to Daybreak's consumer-friendly approach to microtransactions, highlighted in a November Eurogamer interview.

In that interview, PlanetSide 2 creative director Matt Higby (who has since left the company) revealed that the developer purposefully went out of its way to prioritize making the game "fair and equitable" even if that meant missing out on a revenue spike.

"In a lot of cases, with the way we have designed our business model, we are leaving money on the table," he said at the time. "We're doing it for a reason. We're doing it because the trade-off in making sure we have a fair and equitable game will lead to more people playing and enjoying it, than if we were selling items we thought might be more powerful--even if that is a good, incremental and temporary revenue boost."

Posted by Unknown Wednesday, March 04, 2015

News Gaming Product Update : PS4 Will Continue To Outsell The Xbox One Through 2018

Microsoft has made massive changes to its console strategy over the last two years. The Xbox One is cheaper, less restrictive, and more feature-rich than it once was. But in spite of these strides in the right direction, the PS4 still remains dominant. And if a recent analyst report is to be believed, Microsoft’s console is doomed to play second fiddle to the PS4 well into 2018.

Recently, Strategy Analytics released a report on the sales trends of the current console generation. By the end of 2018, this analyst predicts that Sony will have sold 80 million PS4s. On the other hand, Microsoft will have sold just 57 million Xbox Ones. Neither number is anything to sneeze at, but that estimation puts Sony way out in front.

More than anything, this report just adds credence to the idea that the PS4 is Sony’s return to the glory days of the PS2. Perhaps the sales gap won’t be quite as steep as it was two generations ago, but the Xbox team must be upset that they’ve burned so much good will with early mistakes. Hot off the Xbox 360, this was Microsoft’s generation to lose, and lose it did.

What about the Wii U? Well, it looks like Nintendo’s platform will be hovering between 15 and 20 million if this report is to be believed. Even with last year’s top-notch first-party showing, hardware sales were weak. The Legend of Zelda is supposed to ship sometime in 2015, but even that won’t be able to pull the Wii U out of the gutter. I’m certainly not saying that it will sink Nintendo, but the Wii U continues to reek of failure.

Meanwhile, PS4 exclusives have been few and far between. Even worse, Sony’s The Order: 1886 has received shockingly harsh review scores. At this point, Bloodborne and Uncharted 4 are pretty much the only major exclusives on the horizon. The PS4’s hardware is superior, and Sony’s messaging has been more consistent, but the severe lack of compelling titles could hurt the PS4 in the long run.

So, can Microsoft change its fate? It’s definitely in the realm of possibilities. Redmond has been surprisingly proactive with massive shifts in strategy, and the Xbox One even managed to outsell the PS4 for a number of months in 2014. At this point, what these consoles need more than anything is content. And since Microsoft has Halo, Gears of War, and Tomb Raider on lockdown, the future looks bright for Xbox One owners even if the sales gap never shrinks.

Posted by Unknown Saturday, February 21, 2015

News PC Games Update : Marine Grenadier Loot Coming to 'Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare' This Weekend

Through its official Twitter account, Sledgehammer Games announced that gamers playing Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare will be able to earn an entirely new set of gear beginning this weekend.

Sledgehammer Games initially made the announcement through a poster that featured the hashtags #AWGearDrops, #OneShotMoshPit and #2XPGunGame.

The video game developer then sent out a tweet containing an image of a preview of the gear drops coming to the game over the weekend.

The new gear set is the Marine Grenadier set, and it will be available for gamers to earn just in time for the weekend's double experience points bonus. 

The new character loot will begin on Feb, 13 as part of AWGearDrops. The game's new gear will be included into the Supply Drop rotations, and gamers logging into the game over the weekend will be earning parts of the gear set.

The weekend will also be featuring two new modes, namely One Shot Mosh Pit and Gun Game. All these things happening all at once makes it very attractive for gamers to dive into Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare over the weekend.

The Gun Game mode was first seen by gamers in a previous iteration of the franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops. The game mode pits six players in a free-for-all duel that does not give the players a choice on their load-out. In addition, all players start the game with only their pistols.

Every time a player kills another player, his weapon will change to another among the 20 listed weapons for the game. The winner is the first player to kill using each of the 20 weapons in the game.

Before Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was released, the developers said that the mode will be included in the title. However, it seems that there was not enough time to complete the Gun Game mode, but it will finally be released this weekend.

Activision said that it has made $11 billion from its Call of Duty franchise since the first version of the shooting game was launched in 2003, showing the value of the video game series to the company.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has received rave reviews and has been one of the best releases of the franchise. Several new gameplay aspects were introduced into the latest version of the game, including the exo-suits and futuristic weapons.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has versions available for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC.

Posted by Unknown Sunday, February 15, 2015

Gaming News Update : Game Of The Month January 2015

If you're a pessimist, you might look at months like January as bone dry when it comes to video game releases. An optimist, however, sees such a month as a chance to pay close attention to games that might have otherwise flown under the radar. And as it happens, January of 2015 had a great many smaller gems worthy of your time and your love. One of them, the beautiful and imaginative Lost Constellation, even allows you to pay what you want, so there's no reason not to engage in its delights. The words "beautiful" and "imaginative" also describe Gravity Ghost, a short puzzle game with an aesthetic sensibility so unique that it's hard to escape its pull once you set eyes on it. Now is the time to catch up on what you're missing, for it's at the fringes that you find games that are truly special.


January also brought us excellent strategy games in the forms of Grey Goo and Blackguards 2. Grey Goo in particular is a return to form for the prototypical RTS formula, harking back to a time when base-building and combat stood on equal footing. With StarCraft II dominating that landscape, and with beloved franchises like Command & Conquer apparently left to slowly die, Grey Goo's traditional gameplay feels remarkably fresh in 2015. Then there is Blackguards 2, rising from the Might & Magic tradition, and making it fun to be a bad guy in a world full of nasty possibilities. If the PC is your gaming home, then January made it perfectly comfortable to remain there.

It was a multiplatform game that most inspired the GameSpot staff, however: Dying Light. Given its flaws, you wouldn't expect it to gain such favored status, but it's hard to ignore the power of good parkour. This is a game in which you're generally best off avoiding the crowds of zombies that fill the streets, and gives you the tools to take to the rooftops and leap above the undead. Dying Light's fun factor is off the charts, coming to a head when day turns to night, and the threat keeps you racing through the streets as well as above them. This is when tensions rise, your heart thumps loudly, and you alternately hide and sprint, knowing that peril is always only a few steps away. We therefore name Dying Light as GameSpot's Game of the Month for January, 2015, due to its uncanny ability to make running for your life so enjoyable.

Posted by Unknown Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Report : PS4 Promises 'New Styles Of Play' More motion Control And Social?

It's less than two several weeks now until Sony models raises the layer on the PS4, and we're anticipating even more amazing improvements than the next-generation console's specifications. A Sony models executive guarantees the system will start up "new designs of play" that will change the game playing scenery. 

The un-named formal informed Nikkei that the next system will be more of a enjoyment "nerve centre" than past PlayStations, with a concentrate on linking to cell phones - something that Ms is also seeking with its Intelligent Cup performance.

Share and discuss alike :

So what would this involve? Rather than seeking genuine handling energy, Sony models could help you to discuss your game playing uses with buddies with the use of a devoted key.

"One of the most interesting speculation around the next PlayStation is the prospective addition of a 'share' key that will create it easy to catch video clip and pictures from game play and deliver them to buddies and public networking," says Nathan Ditum, manager of PlayStation Accessibility.

"Rather than a raw energy hands competition or a unique control method this would be a particularly smart leap ahead because it reveals what's important to players - one look at Stumbleupon, Facebook or myspace or YouTube will show you that they're already discussing the one-off encounters that activities provide, and this will accomplish that and bring it to a broader viewers."

Patently absurd :

Recent Sony models patents sign at a force towards more motion-sensor game playing too. The company lately trademarked a DualShock operator that divides in two to dual as a PlayStation Shift magic wand. And another certain indicates that the Shift indicator could obtain some ultrasound place research abilities, significance far higher precision for full-body movement realizing in activities.

The picture for the latter certain reveals a man performing a motorcycle punch while having two Shift magical wands, with a indicator secured to his rearfoot. Just cautious to advance the desk out of the way.

Throw in cellular connection for some second-screen activity, and the next Console will have some significant capturing up to do. Even if it does convert on when you just say so.

Posted by Unknown Friday, February 08, 2013

Sony Lists Free Fames For PlayStation Plus Subscribers For January

Sony models has declared the record of activities that will be totally able to members of its PlayStation Plus service for the 30 days of Jan. The headlining activity now around will be BioShock 2, the follow up to the seriously recommended and commonly recognized success scary FPS BioShock.

Developed by the skilled groups at 2K Marin and Electronic Extreme conditions, this first person present shooter requires you returning to the marine dystopia of Rapture. You will step into the shoes of the unique ‘Big Daddy’ in a fantastic experience that see you monitoring down the wicked power accountable for grabbing ladies for the Ocean shoreline. This would be a good a chance to check out Rapture with BioShock Unlimited just over the skyline. BioShock will be totally exempt from Jan 2.

Another activity that will be totally able to PS Plus members on the same day as BioShock 2 will be Parents of Center World. Parents is a multi-player online battle field (MOBA) that has been exclusively designed with a operator in mind, as most MOBAs are performed on the PC with the laptop key pad and rabbit installation. 

The third activity will be the newest activity in the Deadly Kombat sequence, simply named Deadly Kombat. This is the experience that introduced the sequence returning up to its legs after a sequence of seriously panned activities. The activity goes returning to its 2D battling origins and has fast-paced battle and a lot of assault and gore. It will be available from Jan 2.

On the portable side, entrepreneurs of the PlayStation Vita will get their arms on Jet Set Stereo on Jan 16. In the experience, you be a part of up with an up-and-coming road group in the innovative town of Tokyo-to—the GGs—as you battle for the right of self-expression. Moving through populated city surroundings on magnetically-driven inline skates, you take management of group innovator Defeat and his increasing posse of performers as they grab pitch from regional gangs by protecting the town with graffiti.

The next inclusion to the record of activities for Vita is The Pinball Video arcade on Jan 23. This is a vintage score-chasing activity that claws the visible and aural visible of enjoying an real pinball device.

Sony has also declared which activities are on their way out next 30 days. This record contains Batman: Arkham City, Bulletstorm and Citizen Evil 5 Silver Version on Jan 2, Deadly Kombat for Vita gamers on Jan 16 and Knytt Subterranean on Jan 23.

The headlining activity for Dec was Batman: Arkham City. Other activities were Limbo, Big Sky Infinity and Knytt Subterranean for the PlayStation 3, and Big Sky Infinity, Deadly Kombat and Knytt Subterranean for the PlayStation Vita. The activities eliminated in Dec were Crysis 2, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, and Dual Monster Fluorescent for the PlayStation 3, and Chronovolt and Stories From Space: Mutant Blobs Strike for the PlayStation Vita.

Posted by Unknown Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Sony Releases Wonderbook: Book Of Spells For PlayStation Move On November 13

J K Rowling, the writer of John Knitter, has joined up with Sony models to carry a new John Knitter activity for the PlayStation 3. The PS3 activity, named Wonderbook: Guide of Means, brings together studying with enhanced truth game playing. Guide of Means is the first launch for the Wonderbook side-line, and is the first product from the partnership of Sony models and Rowling’s Pottermore. Guide of Means functions new composing from Rowling. The experience allows you to throw spells with your PlayStation Shift movement operator, which becomes your miracle magic wand.

Wonderbook will carry a million experiences in one actual physical book with a new sequence of journeys. Wonderbook will carry unique material to the PlayStation 3 by using enhanced truth technological innovation through the PlayStation Eye photographic camera. Wonderbook: Guide of Means expenses Rs 2,799 and needs the PlayStation Shift. The experience will be available on Nov 16.

Sony had lately declared more material for the PlayStation Shift through DLC for last season's Website 2. The DLC is centred on the use of the movement management operator for the PlayStation 3 – the PlayStation Shift. The DLC was launched on Wednesday and expenses $9.99 (roughly Rs 530) and PlayStation Plus members are able to buy the DLC at a 30 % lower price. Sony models has launched a movie trailer for the Website in Motion DLC.

The movie trailer reveals some new inclusions in the game play of Website 2, such as the capability to management the range at which you keep things, changing the geometry of things by extending and squashing them, and the capability to maintain and move a portal around. The new stages have been developed particularly with the Shift operator in mind.

Back in Aug, Device had launched an upgrade for the activity that included co-operative game play to stages developed with the Everlasting Examining Effort. This would allow gamers to make and discuss stages that can be performed co-op. To market the new co-op function in the Everlasting Examining Effort, Device has given everyone who already operates a duplicate of Website 2 a lower price voucher that would get them another duplicate of the activity at 75 % off. Another significant function included to the activity in the upgrade is 'Quick Play', which makes never-ending, instantly produced playlists of the premier charts in a wide range of classification.  All these up-dates are free.

Portal 2 is a activity title in the first person viewpoint that is, amazingly, not an activity activity. The experience concentrates on questions turning around science and a gun that allows you capture sites you can complete through. The first activity was launched in 2007 in The Lemon Box as an extra activity and was only around three hours lengthy if you did not know what to do. The first activity was a crucial hit because of the limited game play, great pacing and amusing dialogue. The follow up took it up a level by being a absolutely presented eight time lengthy activity. Though not as well obtained as the first one, Website 2 still got enough popularity to be mentioned as one of the best activities of 2011.

Posted by Unknown Thursday, November 08, 2012