Hasta La Gadget!

Here at Sony’s PlayStation event in New York City, the company announced the PlayStation 4, and a handful of game developers are on site announcing new games as well. Guerrilla Games made an appearance are showing off cutscenes and gameplay from its newest game, Killzone Shadowfall, and frankly, it looks absolutely stunning.

Surprisingly, they’re showing off quite a bit of gameplay — well over a few minutes — and we’re getting a good look at what to expect from the next Killzone. If you thought Killzone on the PS3 looked pretty good, then you’ll be blown away by Shadowfall, which has amazing lighting and 3D effects.

From the footage we’re seeing, the game takes place in the future, so there’s no shortage of futuristic looking buildings and guys wearing cyborg suits. And of course, you have your explosions and blazing guns, a.k.a. you’re typical first-person shooter that we’ve seen before, but with more shiny things and better graphics, of course.

Sadly, no release date was announced, but we could expect it to release before the holiday season, maybe sometime in Q3 2013 or early Q4. If you’re getting a PlayStation 4, we’d recommend getting Killzone Shadowfall if you want to play a shoot-em-up of some kind — this looks to be doozy.

Killzone Shadowfall announced for PS4 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

In a world overrun by bubblegum pop and easy listening, where all hope for head-banging seems lost, there’s only one man that can save us: Captain Metal, the arpeggio-spewing, poser-crushing, Flying V-riding dark lord of Rock. Together with his legion of chicken minions and arsenal of Gibson rockets, Celine Dion doesn’t stand a chance. More »

This week the PlayStation 4 was revealed with no less than Gaikai-powered cloud gaming prepared for a future in which Sony’s aim is “Everything Everywhere.” In this case it means that PlayStation 3 games will be able to be played by any device at any time, streaming over the web rather than being physically run from a disk on the system. PlayStation 3 games, they’ve made sure to say and define several times as separate from PlayStation 4 games, will not run natively on the PlayStation 4, but with Gaikai technology you’ll be able to work with these games via the cloud.

Your PS4 experience is set to be a Shared Experience as outlined in the article we’ve just posted about Remote Play. Players across the world will be able to take over for you when you’re in the middle of a game – but that’s only one part of the puzzle. With Gaikai gaming technology, you’ll be seeing your favorite PlayStation 3 games being able to be played from your smartphone, your tablet, your PS Vita, and your PC.

If you’ve been following Gaikai, you know that they’ve been purchased by Sony (last year) and are now revealing that the work they’ve done is not just made for the PlayStation 4, but for the whole PlayStation universe. You can expect to work with games like Knack with its multi-player action and Hawken – already available in free Beta mode on PC – to be available through Gaikai’s software in the future for all devices. It’s time to stream!

Have a peek at the timeline below to see more information surrounding the PlayStation 4 and the abilities and features it contains throughout the day and into the future. Make sure you’re aware of the details piece-by-piece as Sony stretches this event into tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that as well. This is the big one!

PlayStation 4 cloud services bringing “Everything Everywhere” is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

Sony has just announced their all new PlayStation 4. While we’re still slowly but surely getting all the details a few things are already clear. That being this device will be a gamer-centric platform, have nearly unlimited amounts of social aspects, and of course now their talking about essentially cloud gaming. You’ll now be able to use Remote Play to stream and continue games on the PS Vita.

The PlayStation cloud service does more than just stream games, you’ll also be able to share games with friends. Yup, if you get stuck and can’t figure out a situation just hit that share button on the new controller and invite a friend to help you out. While we’re still waiting for more details on their cloud service one thing is clear – Things are about to get crazy.

Remote Play works on multiple levels. From sharing games with others, to continuing where you left off right on your PlayStation Vita. This means everyone that has that awesome device can stream their game right to the 5-inch display on the go. If the kids take over the living room, or your dad wants to watch Monday Night Football – simply leave the PS4 on and continue right where you left off with the Vita.

Just like NVIDIA’s recently announced Project SHIELD you’ll be able to enjoy beautiful HD games with stunning visuals being powered by the PS4, but streamed to your VITA. We have a feeling we’ll be hearing much more on this, and hopefully Sony will also be integrating Remote Play with their wide array of Xperia Android-powered smartphones. The image above certainly hints to tablet support, although then that would skip over the possibility of selling more Vita units. We’re unsure how many titles will initially be supported, but they claim to eventually offer all PS4 games with Remote Play. Stay tuned for more details as they all come available.

Sony announces Remote Play, brings PS4 titles to the Vita is written by Cory Gunther & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

Sony is eking more out of its Gaikai acquisition than we thought — it’s using the streaming game technology to allow for remote play on the PlayStation Vita, advancing what we saw with the PS3. From a brief demo on stage, the company showed gameplay of the PS4 title Knack on the Vita with little apparent degradation in the visual quality — it’s not leaning on the smaller system’s processing, after all. There was also a hint that remote play might not be exclusive, although there’s nothing specific in this regard. Not every game will support remote play, either, so don’t expect it to be a ubiquitous feature — but it may help justify the Vita as a companion.

Check out our liveblog of Sony’s event to get the latest news as it happens!

Filed under: Gaming, Sony

Comments