Welcome to another instalment in our weekly news digest where the team at PSU Towers picks our favourite slices of gaming gossip from the past seven days. See below for the week’s highlights.
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Yoshida: Sony needs to ensure players ‘consider the PS4 version to be the best’ for multiplatform games
With many games and franchises going platform agnostic nowadays, the PlayStation 4 not only needs to support third-party developers but convince gamers to choose the console for multiplatform games.
EA acquires rights to develop & publish Star Wars games
After the closing of LucasArts, the future of Star Wars games was up in the air. Today, Electronic Art acquired exclusive rights from The Walt Disney Company to develop and publish games set in that galaxy far, far away.
Spammers with bad grammar target PS3 users
Spammers are targeting PS3 users by encouraging them to share pointless messages with people on their friend’s list.
Report: PS4 to experience shipping issues
According to a Digitimes source, Sony will fail to meet its projected shipment of 12-16 million PlayStation 4 consoles in 2013.
Bethesda and MachineGames team up for Wolfenstein: The New Order
Celebrated franchise Wolfenstein is returning to the scene later this year in a new title developed by Bethesda Softworks and MachineGames.
PS4 was never going to be an online-only platform, says Sony
Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Worldwide Studios, has confirmed that the console maker never considered going down the online-only path for PlayStation 4.
Gran Turismo 15th anniversary event confirmed, GT6 reveal to follow?
Today Polyphony Digital announced a Gran Turismo event to take place on May 15 at Silverstone, U.K., in celebration of the series’ 15th anniversary.
God of War dev staffing up for new project
The developer behind the God of War franchise is busy staffing up for a new project, according to a new job listing.
Sony’s FY13 results highlight declining sales as it prepares for PS4
Sony Corporation has unveiled its results for FY13, revealing a decline in sales for PlayStation 3 and the continued struggling performance of PlayStation Vita.
Resident Evil: Revelations HD to match sales of Lost Planet 3, says Capcom
Capcom has forecast global sales of 1.3 million units for upcoming horror sequels Resident Evil: Revelations and Lost Planet 3.
PS4 worries at Activision: ‘There are still many unknown factors’ about the next generation
Right now, the upcoming next-generation of gaming consoles are being looked upon as a much-needed boost for the industry.
"Greatness Awaits" is PS4’s official marketing slogan
Sony will be amping up their marketing for the PlayStation 4 in the coming months leading up to its release.
‘AMAZING big title’ teased for PS Vita
Earlier this evening, we posted some PSU community predictions for Sony’s E3 2013 press conference.
Former Sony boss Ken Kutaragi joins Marvelous AQL
Sony Computer Entertainment’s former chairman and CEO, Ken Kutaragi, has been appointed external company director for Marvelous AQL, reports Nikkei.
PS4 Assassin’s Creed IV will ‘look so much better’ than current-gen versions
Ubisoft has said that the PlayStation 4 version of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag will ‘look so much better’ than its current-generation counterpart.
Cliff Bleszinski praises Sony for ‘really embracing’ indie movement, calls out Microsoft ‘nightmare’
The name Cliffy B doesn’t exactly conjure reverent images for PlayStation diehards. After all, the guy is responsible for creating one of Microsoft’s biggest franchises–Gears of War–and was an influential figurehead at Epic Games, a studio whose Unreal Engine 3 was notoriously lackluster during PS3’s early years.
Could Resistance come back? Insomniac CEO Ted Price answers
The Resistance franchise and PlayStation history are intrinsically linked. Resistance: Fall of Man was a PlayStation 3 launch title, the console’s first multiplayer hit, and drew favorable comparisons to legendary shooters like Half-Life 2.