Sometimes in life you need to make a choice between treating your partner to something special or playing some games on your PlayStation. It’s a tough choice or at least it used to be, until some genius came up with the frankly insane idea of turning the PlayStation controller into a jacket. The jacket helps you give massages while you play you play your favourite games. The idea is really very simple. As your long suffering partner sighs when you whip out the PlayStation again you delight them by putting a soft and flexible vest type...
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Doesn’t time fly when it comes to the world of games consoles? It seems like only yesterday that the original PlayStation came out and now there is talk of the 4th generation model appearing soon. In fact, it was way back in the mid 1990s when we first saw this classic console . It was at a recent event in New York that Sony announced to the world that the PlayStation 4 would be coming in the holiday season this year, with many analysts taking this to mean a pre Christmas launch. A Tough Market The console’s predecessor, which was...
The end of an era always brings a tear to the eye and it is the turn of the PlayStation 2 to make us turn a little misty eyed now. It seems that Sony has now completely ended the production in Japan of this top-selling gaming console. It isn’t clear when production will stop for other markets across the globe but the fear is that this will happen very soon. Over 150 PS2 machines have been purchased by gamers over the world since they first came out. To remember the history of this games console properly we need to go back to the year...
Japanese electronics giant Sony has confirmed rumors of a slimmer PlayStation 3 with the announcement of a new model at this year’s Tokyo Game Show. The new PlayStation 3 model is now 20 percent lighter and 25 percent slimmer than the previous model. The new ultra-slim PlayStation 3 comes in two different models: 250 GB and 500 GB, which will allow users to store more games and media files to the console. “In order to maintain the superior gaming experiences that you expect from us here at PlayStation, we are always looking...
Activision’s Call of Duty release this year is expected to be Black Ops 2, which is developed by Treyarch, and while it is not yet announced, rumors keep on surfacing online. Some new details were spotted in the Activision forum and they match the ones in the Black Ops blog, where the game’s release date and new multiplayer modes were revealed. The post revealed that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will be launched on November 6, 2012 and will feature a new Escort multiplayer mode. The post was deleted by Activision shortly. “This...
A video game retail company says that next-generation gaming consoles will not have an anti-rental system that will lock out games if the console detects that the game was not purchased as new. According to rumors, the next Xbox will be having this anti-used game technology on board, but according to Gamestop, this is very unlikely. If a console uses an anti-used games technology, this means that if one player purchases a game, he won’t be able to sell it to Gamestop or he will be unable let a friend borrow it since the game will...
We’ve been hearing rumors about next-generation Xbox and PlayStation consoles are currently under development. Well, both Microsoft and Sony have denied these claims, but some players in the gaming industry are saying otherwise. Game development company Crytek has revealed that the biggest names in gaming have been staying in London trying out Microsoft’s newest Xbox offering. Microsoft, who has been very sneaky, used the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona to cover up this Xbox 720 (codenamed Durango) summit. “Enjoying...
Yesterday, the upcoming Assassin’s Creed poster has been leaked by an employee from Best Buy, showing that the new game will be set during the American Revolution. Ever since Assassin’s Creed 2 was released, gamers have been speculating about where the third installment of the game will take place. Some said that it can be during the Russian Revolution or another game about the game’s main character, Ezio Auditore. Now, a Best Buy employee has leaked a poster showing the new game’s main character with an American...
Game publisher Electronic Arts will release its upcoming basketball game NBA Live 13 later this year, after failing to release NBA Elite 2011 less than two years ago. This new game will bring back the classic “Live” branding that it used before it was changed to “Elite.” It was confirmed by Electronic Arts that NBA Live 13 will be launched in autumn, after setbacks made by its Elite title that led to its cancellation. The move made 2K Sports’ NBA 2K11 the only basketball simulator in the market for the year. Earlier...
When Call of Duty: Black Ops was first released, it took the gaming world by storm, shattering all kinds of sales records (to be broken by last year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3). So it will not be surprising to see Activision to develop another Black Ops game for future release. Now, rumors point to a 2012 launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Gameblog.fr, a French gaming website that revealed that the second Black Ops game is under development, said that Activision has retaliated by pulling out all advertising and cancelling...