Sony will disable several PlayStation Network features for the European launch of the PS4 on Friday, the company has confirmed, temporarily blocking access to the functionality in the hope of avoiding a crash as gamers rush to use their new consoles. “What’s New”, which is the PSN’s discovery stream showing recent activity on the console […]
Daily Roundup: Lumia 525, FuelBand SE review, Engadget’s 2013 tablet gift guide and more!
Posted in: Today's ChiliYou might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
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The first and thus-far only game to be banned from Twitch from the next-generation console universe has appeared this week: The Playroom. After seeing one whole heck of a lot of non-gaming action appear though the stream with the game’s augmented reality PlayStation 4 Camera setup, the folks at Twitch first gave a fair warning […]
PlayStation 4 owners who attempted to play Battlefield 4 once the console launched were met with a number of crashes that certainly put a damper on the experience, especially when their save files would become corrupted, which would then need to receive an overwrite in order to play the game. The Battlefield 4 experience on the PS4 has been one that has surely tried the patience of many gamers, and today, EA has released a patch for this version of their first-person shooter title. (more…)
Battlefield 4 PS4 Patch Released To Help Decrease Amount Of Crashes original content from Ubergizmo.
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Today the first DLC for the augmented reality game The Playroom built-in to the PlayStation 4 has appeared with the name Toy Maker. This update to The Playroom allows the user to take their smartphone or tablet and create their own toys to toss into their virtual world. With the PlayStation 4 camera, the user’s […]
Microsoft spends close to a hundred dollars more on parts for its Xbox One than Sony does on each PlayStation 4, independent teardown costing suggests, with the mandatory Kinect sensor adding a considerable chunk to the console. The Xbox One comes in at around $471, of which the Kinect accounts for around $75, according to […]
If there’s a single title that seems to have done things especially right with the launch of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, it’s Activision and Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Ghosts. The teams behind the push to both systems are likely sharing a hearty set of high-fives this week as they’ve come up first […]
As early as last week on the 20th of November, users of the PlayStation Network (aka PSN) have seen their passwords reset without prompt. According to Sony support forum admins, this reset was done “purely as a precautionary measure” without specific evidence of any accounts being compromised. Users who find their passwords not working are […]
Killzone: Shadow Fall Review
Posted in: Today's ChiliAs one of the first PlayStation 4 exclusive launch-titles, and the only first-person shooter on that short list, Killzone: Shadow Fall had some high expectations to live up to. What we saw in previous installments of this series was a gritty bit of darkness, all-out war and killing with only the lights of the enemy’s […]