Sony has been doing very well at winning over consumers for their upcoming PS4, especially when they stress the importance of games. They plan on getting as many games as they can out there, and one of those games will be a free-to-play title by Digital Extremes called ‘Warframe’. The Creative Director of Warframe, Steven … Read more
There was a recent story where Digital Foundry reported rumors about the PS4, there will be 4.5 GB of memory for games and 3.5 GB for the operating system. Head of Vblank Entertainment PS4 developer Brian Provinciano declares the recent Digital Foundry rumors as “absolutely false.” “It’s absolutely false,” says the PS4 developer. “Absolutely ridiculous.” He went on … Read more
A PS4 development kit costs around $2500, five times that of the price of the Xbox One, which doubles up as its own development kit. However, rumor has it that Sony isn’t selling these dev kits but handing them out one one year loans for free. One anonymous commenter said,“All the indies I know got … Read more
As per an internal document handed to Digital Foundry by an unanimous source, the PS4 reserves 3.5GB of its 8GB GDDR5 memory for the operating system, leaving around 4.5GB for game code. This, coupled with an additional 1GB of flexible memory, brings up the tally to 5.5GB for code. As revealed in the documents, the 4.5GB, … Read more
It has been confirmed that Sony will be holding a press conference at next month’s Gamescom, the world’s biggest game show. The event is pretty much Europe’s own version of E3, and it is going to take place on Tuesday August 20th in Saatenhaus am Rheinpark in Cologne, Germany. Doors will open 6pm CET, conference will begin … Read more
In an interesting turn of events, Activision Blizzard has arranged to buy back around 429 million shares and some tax attributes for $5.83 billion to effectively split with its parent company, Vivendi. In addition, ASAC II LP, whose members include Chinese games publisher Tencent as well as financial firms, will be securing a further 172 million shares for … Read more
Polygon recently did a investigation of their own, to find out how much it costs for indie developers to create games for the PS4. They spoke with many different indie developer companies and found out that the PS4 dev kit costs $2,500. An Xbox One indie developer says that their kit costed a few hundred … Read more