Adventures in Screenshots: Sony’s PS4 Reveal Event

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Feb 242013
 

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The PS4 is a thing, now! Sony has pulled the trigger on their new console, officially ushering in the next generation of video games. What a wild ride last Wednesday night was, huh? There was a lot to keep track of between all the buzzwords and slides and trailers and blazers.

Fortunately, I spent the night frantically hitting the screenshot hotkey. Hit the jump and we’ll spend these next few moments together reliving the magic and spectacle of that evening through awkward freeze-frames and knee-jerk reactions! After you, I insist.

(Obvious warning: this is going to be pretty image heavy.)

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24 Minutes of ‘BEYOND’ Reveals QTE’s & Ghosty Gameplay

 Posted by at 11:04 PM  e3 2012  10 Responses »
Jun 062012
 

Quantic Dream’s Beyond reveal at Sony’s conference received an admirable round of applause, both before and after their announcement that Ellen Page had been hired and ping-pong-balled for a mo-capped, digital performance as the game’s lead character, but the video that followed left a lot of folks scratching their heads about what, exactly, this game would play like.

WELL, a new, extensive gameplay video now reveals that the core mechanic asks you to swap between the perspectives of mysterious fugitive Jodie and her floating ghost friend, Ivan, who is tethered to her by a sparkly umbilical cord. Ivan can float freely, interacting with nearby objects and possessing anyone with a golden aura, while Jodie, uh… runs and gets shot at a lot.

Hit the jump for the full gameplay video, as well as some inital thoughts!

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All the PS3/Vita Games Sony Didn’t Show

 Posted by at 9:02 AM  e3 2012  6 Responses »
Jun 052012
 

I wouldn’t call Sony’s show the worst outing of the day– not after a tease of Nathan Drake and Big Daddy in Playstation All-Stars, naval combat in Assassin’s Creed 3, and some holy-shit-incredible gameplay from The Last of Us. Despite those things and more, however, it still felt kind of… empty. Especially in the area of Vita exclusives and a more robust peek at upcoming PS3 games. Sony’s Youtube page has a playlist of all their E3 trailers, and it’s kind of amazing what was ignored in favor of, I don’t know, a prolonged tech demo of AR-coded “books” branded around a franchise with drastically overestimated drawing power. (I was watching with two rabid Harry potter fanatics, and even they started rolling their eyes almost immediately.)

Hit the jump to see which trailers Sony left in the lurch this year, all of which were far better candidates for stage/screen time over the embarrassment that was Wonderbooks.

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Sibley Put: They reached their goal, everyone gets a raise.

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Jul 232011
 

I laughed my ass off when I saw this. For those of you who aren’t in the know, let me explain: Activision Blizzard are the same people who ran Guitar Hero into the ground, had their entire Call of Duty staff leave because they refused to pay them what they were due after making the most profitable video game of all time, and is run by the Devil, currently known on this plane of existence as Bobby Kotick, a man famous for saying “I’d like to take the fun out of making video games”. To name a few. Continue reading »