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Can F2P be as successful on consoles as it has on smartphones? There’s every chance, Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley has argued. The exec told Gamasutra that the PS4 version of free-to-play MMO DC Universe Online has been monetising amazingly well” and is making between 3-3.5 times as much …
Read More »PornHub breaks down usage from console owners
Pornhub has released a detailed 2014 report on the habits of its visitors, including a chart detailing which game consoles brought in the most traffic for the adult entertainment website. The unquestionably thorough Game Politics reports on the adult entertainment site’s research, which takes a look at dozens of different …
Read More »US PlayStation Now streaming subscription prices revealed
A one-month subscription to Sony’s PS3 game streaming service will cost PS4 owners $19.99, it has been revealed. The US PlayStation Blog has said that access to the service will cost either $19.99 a month or $44.99 for three months (averaging out at around $15 per month). For the money …
Read More »Destiny approaching 13m players
Bungie has released a slew of statistics for Destiny, revealing that nearly 13m people have played the online FPS. As of the studio’s post earlier today, the game boasts 12,869,066 players across Playstation and Xbox console platforms that have created 22,932,276 guardians and logged 872,404,449 hours collectively. Destiny’s Crota’s End …
Read More »The Last Guardian ‘making progress under completely new conditions’
Meaningful development of The Last Guardian appears to be occurring, according to its creator Fumito Ueda. Kotaku reports that Ueda, who left Sony in 2011 but continues to work on the game, told Dengeki that "talks with Sony Computer Entertainment on The Last Guardian have been ironed out, and we’re …
Read More »Shovel Knight PlayStation release to include God of War’s Kratos
Shovel Knight is heading to PlayStation platforms, and Kratos is apparently crashing the party. The Kickstarter success was on display at Sony’s PlayStation Experience event over the weekend, with a new trailer confirming the game will release on PS3, PS4 and PS Vita. The trailer also teases an appearance of …
Read More »SingStar Frozen confirmed by Sony
File this one under ‘definition of the perfect Christmas game’. European age ratings body PEGI has revealed a listing for a Frozen-themed release in Sony’s SingStar series. Going simply under the name SingStar Frozen, little more is known of the game, although it has been rated for PS3. A PS4 …
Read More »PlayStation Home ‘was a massive success that everyone thinks was a failure’
Sony’s virtual world PlayStation Home is wrongly regarded as a flop, one of its key developers has said. Despite its 38m downloads, with 19m active users and 3m monthly users at its peak, the service has already started to wind down and will be terminated at the end of March. …
Read More »Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin confirmed for PS4, Xbox One
Dark Souls II is heading to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles next year, publisher Bandai Namco has announced. The re-release of From Software’s challenging action-RPG sequel will launch on Sony and Microsoft’s latest hardware in April 2015. The title will carry new in-game events, item descriptions and additional NPCs …
Read More »Game of Thrones Steam pre-order page confirms December release
The first episode of Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series will indeed launch next month, according to the game’s pre-order page on Steam. The new listing of the game’s PC and Mac versions on the distributor reveals specs, along with a December launch window for the first of the …
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