“Despite short term uncertainties, as we look forward to 2014, we have a very strong pipeline… We expect to launch new Call of Duty and Skylanders titles and our major, new potential franchise with Bungie’s Destiny. We will also continue to develop Call of Duty Online with our partner TenCent for the growing Chinese market.”

A new Sonic title is in the works for PS4, Xbox One and Wii U according to a sign on display at the Jazwares booth during last week’s Nuremberg Toy Fair.

Spotted by Spindash, and re-posted on Sonic Stadium, this would be the fourth Sonic title SEGA has in the works.
Last year, the firm announced it had three exclusive Sonic titles coming to Nintendo platforms – so either this is indeed a fourth title or the deal changed regarding title number three. We’re going with the former.
Sonic: Lost World was released exclusively on Nintendo platforms in 2013 as was Mario & Sonic at Sochi.
The unannounced Nintendo exclusive is slated for release this year, while the PS4, Xbox One and Wii U title mentioned at the fair has a 2015 release date noted

With the release of the PlayStation 4 (and in many countries the Xbox One as well) and several great games to close off the previous generation, 2013 was a great year for gaming. From the looks of it, 2014 won’t be any less impressive. Here are my eight most anticipated titles of this year.

Number 8

Number 7

Number 4

Number 3

Number 2

THE DIVISION

Number 1

Immersion’s all well and good, but: I’d had Garrett balanced on a beam above a shop. Able to hear voices, I searched carefully for guards – but couldn’t see anything except the beam, which filled Garratt’s entire field of view. Dropping down, I was immediately spotted and chopped to bits. I indicated, politely, that I did not consider this an appropriate consequence to my actions.
Cantin did not agree, saying that Eidos Montreal deliberately leads players to locations where they are not supposed to take action – players are supposed to make mistakes and learn from them.
“The first-person view gave you a lot of possibilities. But yes, at some point – you can’t see behind you. You don’t have a rear-view mirror,” he said. “The goal is to explore, and as you explore you’ll come to know the world more, and then you’ll start to understand the universe and the map. But there’s some challenge there.”
Which segues nicely into Thief’s Challenge Mode; maps which you can choose to run again and again under various conditions, submitting your high scores against those of your friends. It’s a perfect idea for the Let’s Play and Speed Run age, and nicely complemented by the PlayStation 4′s easy sharing capabilities, which Square Enix seemed a little besotted by. Experts who have learned the maps thoroughly, Cantin agreed, will get a lot out of Challenge Mode.
“I think there’s a big replay value to the game. It’s a competitive game. You want to beat yourself at some point,” he said.
“I love that people are playing their finest; ‘Oh, I did that map in two minutes.’ ‘Oh, yeah, I did that map in 20 minutes, but I got all the loot.’ It’s all about your objectives, what you want as a thief or as a player.”
Marvellous, yes, but it does lend an element of rote learning; to progression by trial and error rather than organically problem-solving with the tools at hand, which is what I – perhaps unfairly – expected.
Maybe I expected it because Thief does look so very much like Dishonored at first glance, a game I came to love most tenderly. This visual similarity, which dissolves on closer inspection, is kind of appropriate, because Dishonored sprang, through Harvey Smith, from the same Ion Storm and Looking Glass DNA – think Ken Levine and Warren Spector. Thief has been in the works for a long time, and there’s no suggestion that it took cues from Dishonored, but that’s something people are likely to banter about given their relative release dates. Cantin doesn’t seem bothered by this possibility, saying both games stand on their own merits, like scions of the same family.
“When Dishonored was released, we were really well advanced in the project. Both games had Thief as a reference, but our goal was really to stay true to what was a Thief game. We really encouraged the stealth aspect; it’s really our main core mechanic,” he said.
“If you walk in the city, you’ll see it’s the city from previous [Thief] games. It’s a medieval city on the verge of the industrial revolution. A lot of those aspects, on our side, come from Thief. It was our main reference.
“It’s true that when they released the first trailer we were like, ‘Oh my god, it looks like Thief’. We were really well advanced. The story was written and everything.
“And then we saw – phew, it’s not like Thief. Yeah, it has a lot of similarities, but you don’t play it like the same thing.
“It was really cool to see the success of Dishonored. It told us people want stealth games. We were really happy about the success they had because it confirmed for us that we were going in a good direction.”
Thief is not Dishonored. It’s hard for me to be okay with that, because what I really want, all day every day, is more Dishonored. But I ought to be okay with that, because what Thief is is a thing that should exist – an unforgiving stealth simulator that’s a long way from the accessible new-school romp fans have been afraid would turn up.
I didn’t immediately love Thief the way I expected to – the way I feel about Dishonored, and to a lesser extent BioShock Infinite and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, also distant cousins. I don’t know if I’m going to end up just as besotted with Thief as I was with Arkane’s glorious stab-’em-up, once I get over that initial learning hurdle and come to terms with the fact that I’m playing – gosh! – an entirely different game.

Thief will be available on PC, PlayStation 3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One from February 25 in the US, Feb 27 in Australia and Feb 28 in Europe.

EverQuest Next Landmark goes into Alpha starting today with Founder’s Pack purchasers able to access the tester. Those who purchased the pack at either Explorer or Trailblazer level can dive right in, providing their system meets the updated system requirements. RPS and Shacknews both played around in it. You can read each site’s respective thoughts on it through the links. Everquest Next will be released on both PC and PlayStation 4 at some point.

Sony has finalised its acquisition of Japanese manufacturing plant Renesas Electronics, the same site that produces the Wii U’s DRAM chip. While Sony has issued a press release on the matter, Nintendo is yet to discuss it.

We first reported on the rumoured ¥7 billion take-over earlier in the week. Just hit the link for all of the details.
Now, Sony has purchased the plant, located in Tsuruoka, Yamagata prefecture. The site was acquired for ¥7.51 billion, which is around $73 million, and gives Sony ownership of the whole business as of March 31.
The plant was due to be closed to make way for a major restructuring effort, but Sony has vowed to oversee the site and even absorb some of Renesas’ staff into its ranks. Sony will use the location to open its new Yamagata Technology Center, geared primarily towards the production of CMOS smartphone sensors, with a promise to invest a further ¥27.5 billion into bolstering production.
Sony’s official statement reads, “After the Asset Transfer, the system LSIs and others produced at the Tsuruoka Factory will be produced there for Renesas Electronics by SCK (Sony Semiconductor Corporation) on a contract basis for a certain period of time as agreed by Renesas Electronics and Sony.
“After expiration of that period, Renesas Electronics will shift the production of the system LSIs to its Naka Factory or discontinue production, as Renesas Electronics previously announced to its customers.”
We’ll update you if Nintendo steps forward with a statement, as it’s currently unclear where this leaves its DRAM chip production.

Via DualShockers.

PlayStation Plus subscriptions have tripled since PS4 launched, according to Sony’s UK boss Fergal Gara.

The news came out of a PS Vita Slim reveal event in London yesterday. Sony’s new handheld will launch in the UK on February 7, and you’ll find pricing and details through the link.
Gara revealed the latest PS Plus figures during the event, as seen in this photo tweeted by TheSixthAxis.
You’ll find February’s PS Plus freebies through the link.

Granted; you need a PS Plus subscription to play PS4 games online, but the uptake of subs surely means big financial returns for Sony moving forward.
Via DualShockers.

Battlefield 4 received a new patch on PS4 yesterday, and a note from DICE confirms that the update will help prepare the game for the “upcoming” launch of DLC pack Second Assault.

It follows this list of incoming Battlefield 4 gun balancing updates coming from DICE soon.
In a Battlelog post, one DICE developer wrote, “This update is mainly designed to prepare the game for the upcoming release of the expansion pack Battlefield 4 Second Assault. We will announce the release date for this expansion pack later.
As yet, the Second Assault DLC pack has not been dated, but rumours persist that it’s coming late February. Take the above quote as you will.
Here are the PS4 patch notes in full:
Jan 30 PS4 Game Update Notes

DMR Balance Tweaks

• -Increased the damage of all DMRs across all ranges. Specifically, damage has been increased at long ranges to allow three-hit kills against unarmored opponents. Additionally, reduced the penalty to accuracy for sustained DMR fire, allowing more rapid follow up shots in combat. The amount of the damage increase varies from weapon to weapon, according to its intended range, rate of fire, and damage. We will continue to monitor the effectiveness of DMRs in combat, and determine if additional action is needed to make DMRs a viable mid to long range weapon.

Other items

• -Significantly reduced the duration of the black screen when spawning in, and fixed the issue with players getting killed before being in-game
• -Greatly reduced the risk of crosshairs disappearing, which would also result in hit markers disappearing
• -Added a headshot icon on the killcard. This should help identify instances where players are correctly killed by one shot
• -Fixed an issue in Squad Deathmatch where the “Win/Lose” text was overlapping
• -Fixed an issue with players using an exploit for the SOFLAM
• -Fixed an issue with players using an exploit for the MAV
• -Fixed the gameplay code to properly track the FOV (Field of View) changes in the options menu
• -Fixed an issue where chat would break when entering “false” or “true” in the chat window
• -Fixed an out-of-helicopter glitch in Air Superiority where players could spawn on the ground and play as infantry
• -Fixed the misaligned crosshairs on the T90 MBT
• -Added setting to tweak joystick dead zone
• -Various minor crash fixes

Via MP1st.

Obviously, Sony is rather pleased.
“I am thrilled that so many users have been enjoying KILLZONE SHADOW FALL since the launch of PS4,” said Sony Worldwide president Shuhei Yoshida. “This title fully embraces the creativity of the development team at Guerrilla Games based in the Netherlands, and is a great representation of what SCE WWS has to offer.
“SCE will continue to deliver exciting software titles, and is currently developing more than 30 titles including DriveClub, InFamous: Second Son and The Order: 1886, which offer entertainment experiences only possible on PS4.”
SCE will “continuously expand the world of PS4 through the introduction of attractive software titles,” it said.

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition’s assets, textures, character models and other features are identical across the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game, Square Enix insists. It follows video comparisons that suggest there are some discrepancies between both formats.

It follows our Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition review round-up. Hit the link to see what scores it’s been getting.
We also reported that both the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition were developed by two different teams, and not by Crystal Dynamics itself.
Now, following Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition video comparisons from sites like IGN and Gamersyde, Square has passed a statement on to Videogamer to stress that both versions feature the same assets.
“Both Xbox One and PS4 gameplay run at native 1080p,” a company rep wrote. “The assets from one platform to the other are the same as all source assets were shared 1:1 (textures, models, particles, etc.).”
Watch the videos above and judge for yourself. Let us know what you think.

1.Football Manager 2014 (PC Game)
2.FIFA 14 (X360 Game)
3.Call of Duty: Ghosts (X360 Game)
4.The Last of Us (PS3 Game)
5.Call of Duty: Ghosts (PS3 Game)
6.LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Xbox 360)
7.Battlefield 4 (Xbox 360)
8.Batman: Aarkham Origins (PS3)
9.FIFA 14 (PS3)
10.Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag (Xbox 360)

The Previous Release of Uncharted sets a strong mark on the Fans of this release, they follow every new news of Naughty Dogs about the next Release of this series, Well the Naughty Dogs are working on the next instalment Uncharted 4 for Ps4, still from a studio there is no detail news about this project reviled but last night one actor

 "Todd Stashwick tongue told us something on Twitter. Todd StashWick who is nowadays recording, motion scenes of the very new release. Reveals some details of the upcoming Game.Todd Stashwick on TwitterUncharted rehearsal tomorrow. My guess is things will NOT be charted. Again. I repeat, charts will remain un. #uncharted #PS4 #spoiler"