The truth of the matter is that this decision benefits no one. It hurts players who just want to party up with friends, it hurts developers who want to utilize cross-play that now have to deal with issues like the recent Fortnite account lockouts from the Switch launch, and it hurts Sony by making the PS4 a less appealing choice for gamers that are considering their options for multiplatform games.
Today, at the Gamelab conference in Barcelona, Hennig revealed to Eurogamer's Rob Purchese that she had actually parted ways with EA as of January this year and was in the process of starting up her new, independent studio - but had not yet had the chance to announce the change or set the record straight.
"I just found out about Lewdlab's +18 lewd visual novel "Dreams of Desire". Well, the game lets you live out your fetishes and sexual fantasies. So here's my take on the matter." - Robin Ek, TGG.
The Last of Us Part 2 was revealed at E3 2018 with a proper gameplay footage this time. The long anticipated game has been in pre-production phase since development on the original ended however it was initially just a small team, as revealed by The Last of Uss lead level designer, Emilia Schatz in an interview with JeuxActu.
According to Emilia Schatz, the production on The Last of Us sequel started once they were done with the work on the original game. However, Uncharted 4 was also in active development so the small team that was working on The Last of Us sequel was taken back to Uncharted 4. This repeated again with The Lost Legacy but once they were done with it, all hands were on deck for The Last of Us Part 2. Schatz joined Naughty Dog in 2010 and has worked on Uncharted 3, The Last of Us, Uncharted 4 and now The Last of Us Part 2.
Regarding Ellie as the only playable character, Schatz said that it might change in the future but they are not ready to share anything ab...
From Eurogamer: "At the Gamelab conference in Spain today, Shawn Layden, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America and chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios, and PS4 system architect Mark Cerny delivered a presentation about the legacy of PlayStation. At the end of the talk, Eurogamer reporter Robert Purchese put the cross-play issue to Layden."
Posted by James Hallahan PlayStation Plus:
"July is almost here and summer is in full swing, so lets take a look at the July lineup for PS Plus members.
But before we begin, did you watch the E3 showcase? If you happened to miss the news, PS Plus members can get Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 right now as part of your membership. This bonus title is in celebration of the upcoming release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Its available from now until July 11."
Deep Silver's Huw Beynon said that the Xbox One X allows the developers of Metro Exodus to do things that may not be possible elsewhere on other hardware. He's also highly confident that the game will look better on the Xbox One X.
Spider-Man Preview E3 2018 - Spider-Man is one of the most hyped games for 2018 and was playable at E3. Does it live up to the hype? Read our preview to find out!
Hardcore Gamer: If you came away from this latest trailer with your appetite fulfilled and your excitement evermore greater, well good for you and I sincerely, genuinely, hope that the final product matches (maybe even succeeds) your now-lofty expectations. For me however, I can only come away from E3 with something of a damp and rather deflated state of mind. Not just because it looks like this game is years away from releasing if the brief and monotonous offer of gameplay was any indication but because it seems like Kojima may be going the way of a particular number of AAA developers/studios whose artistic vision and self-gratifying longing for a given message, narrative or agenda, overtakes the logical and reasonable need for unhinged substance.
There's a lack of video assets or capture, but John has seen a 50-minute Cyberpunk 2077 demo... so what makes it different, special and dare you say it, next-gen? DF have a lot of info to pass on, so they put together this videocast to share as much as we can.
Does PC, PS4 and Xbox One crossplay support? No! This is confirmed by the Game Director of Bethesda Game Studios, Todd Howard, in the GameStar interview. The designer legend has also identified a culprit: Sony ! The PlayStation group was "not as helpful as everyone would like it." Bethesda said she wanted the first multiplayer offshoot in the Fallout series with the number 76 crossplay, because cross-platform gaming is "a big trend in the games industry," as Todd Howard explains in an interview.
In recent months, chatter about Google joining the gaming industry has gotten louder. At the Game Developers Conference in March of this year, Google representatives met with several big video game companies to gauge interest in its streaming platform, which is code-named Yeti, sources said. Now sources say that Google took meetings at E3 a few weeks ago with the company not only looking to woo game developers to the Yeti service, but to buy development studios entirely.