Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Andrew House, president and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, has revealed Sony’s plans on how the company will use cloud streaming service Gaikai. Sony announced that it will be acquiring Gaikai early this week.
Remember the Final Fantasy VII remake we mentioned a while ago? Well, Square-Enix has released an official trailer for the game (see below) and the website is now live too. The game is listed as “coming soon”, but you can find out more about the game on the Official website.
Ubisoft has released a live action teaser for Assassin’s Creed 3, but it doesn’t really feature any ‘live action’. Instead, you can checkout the action in the Independence trailer that was released the other day to get your action fix. The supposed ‘live action’ trailer is included for your viewing pleasure below.
Sony has announced, in Japan at least, that PS2 titles will be coming in a steady stream as downloadable titles on the PlayStation Store. The service, knows as “Game Archive”, will see new titles being added to the Store at regular intervals, with the first update planned for July 25th.
You can find lots of new content on the North American PS3 Store this week, with a number of new PS3 and PSN games added. New PlayStation Plus content has also been added including three new games in the Instant Game Collection.
Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of the GT series, has confirmed that Polyphony Digital are working on more DLC for Gran Turismo 5. Speaking to the Spanish PlayStation.Blog, said that ‘future improvements’ for the series may include an event editor and they are even thinking of a ‘story mode’.
Activision have announced that Call of Duty: Online, a new title which has been in development for two years, will be released exclusively to Chinese game players. The game is free-to-play and is operated by Tencent, who has a “terrific track record of customer-focused innovation and deep market knowledge” that Activision will leverage as they build games for this market.
PSN Downloads may become transferable in the near future after a European Court ruling. The European Court today confirmed that end-users are legally allowed to sell on second hand digitally downloaded video games. This could mean that Sony will make PSN titles transferable to comply with the ruling.
SCEE has a big sale coming to the PlayStation Store tomorrow, with lots of Call of Duty DLC and Final Fantasy titles on discount, with up to 50% off. A number of other PS3, PSP and PSOne titles are also on offer from tomorrow (full list below). Grab the discounts quick, as some of there are only available for a week.
According to the LinkedIn profile of Attila Vass, who used to be the Director of Research & Development at SCEA, the “Next Generation” PlayStation has been in development for almost two years. Picked up by VideoGamer, the profile claims that they were working on the graphics library and security on “Next Generation” platforms way back in August 2010.
