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If you live in the US and haven’t yet ordered yourself a PlayStation 4, you may well be out of luck. They’re rare, and your best bet at the minute would be buying someone else’s pre-order on Ebay at four times the original cost. Not so in the UK, though. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be any issues at all. UK retailer ShopTo have revealed, via their customer service department, that Sony have advised them to keep selling PS4s,…

The new set of PlayStation 4 OS screens snuck out very quietly via Flickr, so quietly it took a short while for pictures to begin to show up in the press. Now with a little over two days spent picking them apart, the verdict is in: the new operating system is disappointing to some, and a lot of people seem unhappy.

Activision has announced that they are hard at work supporting the Wii U by bringing new titles to the platform this fall. Eric Hirshberg stated:  “As we have said before, we’re committed to doing everything we can to support the Wii U, which is why we’re excited to be bringing some of the most popular entertainment franchises in the world to the platform this year. The Call of Duty franchise continues to be one of the most powerful forces in…

A representative of Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation summer sale will be unveiled very shortly. Next week, in fact, although the sale itself may begin a little later. If you've been suffering from a bit of a withdrawal since the Steam sale ended earlier this week, there's a silver lining. The PlayStation summer sale will no doubt offer some of the best games on the PlayStation platform at a ridiculously good price. Although nothing ever drops as far as it might on PC, there's always one or two things that are worth picking up.

According to GameInformer, the Xbox One will be doing another 180. Previously, games could not access digital distribution without a publisher, but now Microsoft is reversing this policy. Self-publishing will now be available to independent developers on the Xbox One. This is welcome news, as the popularity of independent games has soared in recent years. Microsoft claims the backlash from consumers and developers is what drove them to make this decision. I don’t blame them after getting called out simply…

A feature adaptation of the best selling racing simulator Gran Turismo is rumoured to be in production by Sony Pictures with 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' producers Mike De Luca and Dana Brunetti at the helm.

The Steam Sale may have been the hot topic this past week, but it's not the only place to go for some sweet deals on some great games. The PlayStation Network has its fair share of bargains too. The recent PSN Store update for America may have been a bit lackluster on new content, but the discounts are worth checking out.

We’ve all seen a live action project of Final Fantasy VII somewhere on the internet, but this one is asking for your help to make it the best. Shinra Productions LLC have launched a Kickstarter for their project called Final Fantasy VII: The Web Series. The Kickstarter describes it as “…a fan project dedicated to bringing the characters, events, and excitement seen in the iconic videogame Final Fantasy VII into a live-action web series.” The series’ first season will consist…

Whedon fans have long dreamed of the day when the beloved sci-fi series Firefly would return - but I don't think any of them expected it to happen like this. At Comic-Con this week, SparkPlug games announced Firefly Online, a social MMORPG set to launch on iOS and Android in early 2014.

A Final Fantasy VII speed runner this morning missed out on the world record by only a few minutes. After a few random attacks cost him minutes during his run, he finally died in one of the final boss battles and he was forced to give up. It had taken him only a little over seven and a half hours to get there.