As it has been the trend since the global pandemic hit, more people are staying indoors, and more people are buying videogame software and hardware, driving video game sales revenues to $6.6 billion. The number is the highest sum of revenue that has been achieved since 2010. All three major Console Hardware companies have…
Category: PlayStation
The Last of Us: Part II’s Actors, and Staff Receive Death Threats *Spoilers*
As the fastest selling PS4 Exclusive, The Last of Us: Part II has encountered well deserved commercial success. As with most things that gain incredible prominence and acclaim, the game also has gained its share of detractors, and ‘haters’ across social media. In a strange case of nerdish outrage (or maybe not so strange), the…
Sony and Epic Partner Up After the Former Invests $250 Million In Fortnite’s Creator
It had been an interesting development when a few months ago Epic decided to unveil their Unreal Engine 5 running on PlayStation 5 hardware. The Xbox Series X is a more powerful machine, and Epic’s Tech did not necessarily have to be showcased on a home console, as the Engine will also run on PC…
Next Gen Games Will Match Movie “Photo Realistic” Results in Terms of Graphics
We might finally have reached the point in history in which computer rendering technology blurs the line to deliver graphics that resemble ‘reality’, as Epic Games’ Chief Technology Officer, Kim Liberi mentioned in a statement with UK’s PlayStation Official Magazine. “For many years, the movie industry has been experimenting with Unreal Engine for previsualization…
NBA 2K21 Will Cost $69.99 on Next Gen Possibly Setting a Precedent
Video Game prices might increase from a standard $59.99 price point to a $69.99 price tag during the next generation as “NBA 2k21” will cost $70 for the PS5, and the Xbox Series X as opposed to the standard $60 price tag that will accompany the game for the current consoles. Visual Concepts President Greg…
The Last of Us: Part II Beats PS4 Record by Selling 4 Million in 3 Days
Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II lived up to its hype as the most anticipated PS4 exclusive ever, by becoming the fastest selling exclusive title in the system. TLoU2 beats out the former title holder Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VIIR, which sold 3.5 million units in three days. The numbers shouldn’t be surprising….
Former Rockstar Dev Explains GTA VI’s Absence is due to GTA V
When Grand Theft Auto V was announced during the PS5’s game reveal it was a surprising thing to many who were left wondering if we had ever seen a Remaster of a Remaster before. At the same time, Rockstar’s move to bring its popular (some would say “Too” popular) game to, yet another generation of…
Series X vs PS5: An Unresolved Question of Pricing
The PS5’s games unveil last Thursday added to the growing of hype of the next generation machines. We have now seen games running on both machines, and the expectations for each console will only grow as Sony and Microsoft continue to showcase their games and plans for their respective launches. The one thing that remains…
The PS5, First Party Titles, and Microsoft’s Reminder
Sony, which had been awfully silent in the months leading up to yesterday’s reveal finally unleashed both its console’s final retail design and quite a few first party heavy hitters. Learning from Microsoft’s mistake, many of Sony’s games had some actual gameplay footage. The Console While its innards had been widely discussed for months before…
The Last of Us Part II: Violent, Dark and Cynical About Mankind
An in depth piece by GQ magazine chronicling (Director) Neil Druckmann’s struggles during the most anticipated PlayStation 4 game’s last two years of development, reveals incredible details about how Naughty Dog went above and beyond the call of duty to create a story, and characters ahead of anything seen in a video game before. Druckmann…