Category: Console Gaming

The PS Vita’s First Death

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Ewan Spence

I think it’s been a good run for the PS Vita, and it’s ability to offer third-party titles and act as a remote station for the PS4 means it still have a lot of utility (and a great back catalogue), but Sony’s SVP Massyasu Ito confirms that there are no first-party titles in production for the portable console. Ito told the Japanese gaming website 4Gamer (translated by DualShockers) that “first-party studios have no titles in development for PS Vita,” confirming what many have suspected and feared for a while now. According to the senior vice president, Sony Computer Entertainment’s game

Shut up, it’s not a ZX Spectrum

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Ewan Spence

Lots of easy headlines from the tabloids for a crowd funding project that runs a ZX Spectrum emulator inside a joypad that looks a bit like a ZX spectrum if you removed all the keys, the programming language, the I/O ports, the edge connector, and Fantasy World Dizzt. It’s not a ZX Spectrum. It’s a console. And you can say ‘Bah Humbug’ all you like.

The six billion pound franchise that’s made in Scotland

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Ewan Spence

In case you missed it, Brian Baglow has the reminder, over on Scottish Games: While itâ€™s too early to provide reliable sales figures, industry analysts are forecasting sales of 20-25,000,000 units in the first twelve months and generate a billion dollars in sales in the first month. With such positive reviews and the reception thus far, this figure does not seem unreasonable. As of December 2012, GTA IV alone had sold over 25,000,000 copies. …Globally, the series has sold 125,000,000 copies to date, generating around $6,000,000,000. Â The games have received almost all of the awards it is possible for them

Pippin, Apple’s games console that didn’t

Posted on June 11, 2013June 11, 2013 by Ewan Spence

Adam Volk: Today, the Pippin is a curious footnote in Appleâ€™s corporate history, a device long since laid to rest alongside the TurboGrafx-16 and the Sega Dreamcast; dug up and enjoyed almost exclusively by a few masochistic hardware modders and eBay traders. And yet, Apple is now a leader in the video game industry, with players choosing from countless titles on the iPhone and iPad…Â Appleâ€™s rise to the top as a gaming giant, however, has hardly been quick or easy. In fact, the companyâ€™s first big foray into video games was a complete disaster.

The Xbox One in the Sky

Posted on June 7, 2013June 7, 2013 by Ewan Spence

Or Sky TV more precisely. Sources familiar with company plans have informed games industry magazine MCV that the box could include a Sky satellite tuner or act as a video recorder in the future, but we’ll also follow suit and suspect only the latter is more probable. The subscription from Sky could well be centred around an Xbox One and pre-installed Now TV or Sky Go application. Couple this with SmartGlass support and you’ve got a winner. Microsoft want to own the living room. So why not replicate the subsidy model used in mobile to gain an advantage over the