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The Last Guardian Gets Permanent Price Cut
You might have noticed that a number of retailers recently dropped the price of The Last Guardian to $40, down from $60. This is not a temporary price cut, but instead a permanent one. A Sony representative confirmed to Polygon that $40 is the new, official price point for the PS4 adventure game that features…
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Rainbow Six Siege Is Free To Play On PS4, Xbox One, And PC Starting Today
Curious about Rainbow Six Siege but not sure if you want to buy it? A free version of the team-based shooter is available from today on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. As announced previously, it comes with all the maps, modes, and characters in the full version. Additionally, the game is marked down 50…
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Sony Comments On PS4 Pro Sales And How They Compare To Slim Model
Sales of the PlayStation 4 Pro are off to a solid start, apparently. Speaking today during Sony’s latest earnings briefing, CFO Kenichiro Yoshida discussed how sales are coming along. Yoshida said sales are meeting or “maybe” exceeding expectations. “PS4 Pro is running as we had expected, as we assumed, but Pro maybe is doing more…
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JJ Abrams Is Producing A Supernatural World War 2 Movie
Star Wars: The Force Awakens director JJ Abrams has signed on to produce a World War II movie–but this won’t be a standard war movie. According to Variety, the movie, Overlord, follows two paratroopers who get stuck behind enemy lines during D-Day after their plane crashes. They were on a mission to take out a…
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Check Out Kong: Skull Island's Striking Apocalypse Now-Inspired Poster
It’s been known for some time that the upcoming Kong: Skull Island is set in the 1970s, during the era of the Vietnam War. The connections have been made even more obvious by the new IMAX poster, which cleverly homages the poster for the classic war movie Apocalypse Now. Check it out, with the original,…
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Sony Profits Down 54% Despite Strong PlayStation Performance
Sony Corporation has revealed its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2016/17, showing a decrease in profit of 54.3 percent year-on-year. That’s despite a strong performance from Sony’s Game & Network Services division, which includes the PlayStation brand. G&NS recorded a 5.2 percent increase in sales to $5.325 billion for the three…
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PS4 Ships 9.7 Million Units In Last Three Months
Sony shipped 9.7 million PlayStation 4 consoles in the three months spanning October 1 to December 31, 2016, according to its latest financial report. This is an improvement over the same period in 2015, when it shipped 8.4 million units. It must be noted these figures represent consoles delivered to retailers and not sold through…
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Nioh Review In Progress
There is no avoiding death in Nioh, even if you’re gifted enough to stay alive. Corpses litter its many moonlit, war-torn locales; it’s a dark vision of Japan during the aftermath of the violent Sengoku period in the early 17th century. It’s a time of upheaval seen through new perspectives in Nioh: by the fluid…
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Nintendo Switch Devkit Menus Accidentally Leaked
A commercial for the Nintendo Switch has been inadvertently posted to YouTube by Nintendo Portugal, which exposed devkit UI menus for all to see. NeoGAF user mocolostrocolos posted screenshots of the now-removed YouTube video. The shots show the Application, Device, and Firmware menus from the Switch’s devkit UI, providing some insight into what devs had…
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Harmonix Speaks Out Against Trump Immigration Ban
Rock Band developer Harmonix has released a statement on Twitter, speaking out against President Trump’s controversial executive order to ban immigration to the US for citizens of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen. Harmonix believes–as a company cofounded by an immigrant from the Middle East– that its best work “flows from a diverse…