Cloud gaming service OnLive has confirmed that it will launch in the UK this autumn.
The service launched in the US last year, and next week will see its library of games swell to a hundred with the addition of Red Faction: Armageddon. More than 40 publishers offer their games on the service, the latest being Disney Interactive.
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment's worldwide studios, has told Edge that he does not see the firm's upcoming handheld, codenamed Next Generation Portable (NGP), as competing with smartphones or 3DS. Instead, he draws parallels with Apple's iPad.
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios, is a veteran of the company he joined in 1986. He was also one of the people behind the PlayStation project that began in 1993 with later roles in thirdparty licensing and the initiation of SCE’s internal product development team. At a slick London hands-on event we sat down with Yoshida to find out what NGP brings to handheld gaming, and why portable isn’t always preferable.
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios, is a veteran of the company he joined in 1986. He was also one of the people behind the PlayStation project that began in 1993 with later roles in thirdparty licensing and the initiation of SCE’s internal product development team. At a slick London hands-on event we sat down with Yoshida to find out what NGP brings to handheld gaming, and why portable isn’t always preferable.
When we started discussing the look of Chime Super Deluxe the team were all of one mind: the original was too simple. “Too flat! Too plain! Too chunky!”, we cried. It was not refined or delicate or 'high-def' enough for what it should have been. Unanimously there was a desire to see a sharper take on things.
The British Academy Of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is to launch its videogames branch in the United States, with the formation of a committee based in Los Angeles, and an interview with The Sims creator Will Wright on Sunday night.
This review was originally published in issue 224 of Edge back in February. Delays to the game's release followed by the PSN outtage mean that the build we played differs from the one which became available on PSN today.
Indie Fund, the group put together by several prominent independent developers to give other indies an alternative to traditional publisher funding, has announced that it is backing Dan Pinchbeck's Dear Esther.
Nintendo has confirmed that the 3DS download store, eShop, will launch in Europe on June 7.
Users will be able to access the store through 3DS after installing a firmware update. Heading the launch day lineup is a 3D remake of NES classic Excitebike, which will be a free download until July 7.
With its multiplayer beta open to preorder customers for the last year, Mode7's game of tactics and shooting has grown a formidable reputation as a top-down, turn-based Counter-Strike. It's well deserved. Even now arriving at release with a substantial singleplayer campaign, it's easy to recommend on the basis of its multiplayer alone, in which players hatch plans for each turn separately but simultaneously, before witnessing how their intentions crash together and resolve.
Middleware firm Trinigy has released the NGP version of its Vision Game Engine, which it claims is the first engine to be made available for Sony's PSP successor.
The engine, which is also available for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and Windows, offers NGP developers the same range of tools available for other platforms, plus specific features to take advantage of the platform's unique capabilities. Trinigy promises an optimised character skinning system and renderer, support for multi-touch and dual analogue sticks, and improved multi-threading.
Sony has at last restored full functionality to its online service, PlayStation Network, with the return of the PlayStation Store.
The download store had been unavailable since April 20, when Sony took PSN offline after noticing an external intrusion on its servers. While certain elements of PSN, including online multiplayer, were restored on May 15, Sony kept the store offline while it tightened up its security systems. Now, six weeks later, that process has been completed.
In an official blog post, Microsoft has outlined its plans for a more entertainment-focused Xbox strategy this year. While promising to reveal more at E3 next week, corporate communications vice president Frank Shaw claimed that 40 per cent of all Xbox activity is spent on non-gaming activities. One such activity is video consumption, with each Xbox seeing an average of 30 hours of video consumption per month according to Shaw.
Lodsys, the patent firm which has been threatening app developers with lawsuits over alleged patent violations, appears unconvinced by Apple's intervention last week: rather than back down, it has begun legal proceedings against seven developers.
In a series of recent blog posts, Lodsys admits bringing forward its planned litigation "in response to Apple's threats, in order to preserve its legal options."
