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Foreign Languages Kill Your Video Game Bullsh*t Detectors

There’s an image floating around online. It’s rumoured to be a “major specifications” sheet for the PlayStation 4. Personally, I don’t buy it.


May 15, 2012
PlayStation

Maybe The PlayStation Orbis Will Play Used Games After All

Used games: you love them, need them and want to marry them. Publishers and developers blame the second-hand market for lack of innovation, saying the money they don’t see from used games would let them be more creative.


April 5, 2012
PlayStation

Report Claims That These Are The Next PlayStation’s Processing Specs

Following up on news broken by Kotaku on Sony’s next PlayStation, IGN is reporting that the console codenamed Orbis will use two AMD chips for graphics and processing.


March 29, 2012
PlayStation

How A Japanese Death Superstition Could Impact The Next PlayStation

Sony is working on a new PlayStation machine. According to the story Kotaku broke, it’s called Orbis. That could be a codename — it also might be the console’s final name.


In Real Life

There’s (Probably) Still A Future For Used, Rented And Borrowed Games

Oh boy. Once people had got past the news we’d heard about the next PlayStation Orbis’ specs and release date, they got real angry about the fact it’s likely to include some measure of “anti-used games” technology. Just like the next Xbox console.


PlayStation

Sketches Of PlayStation Orbis Features Surface, Then Disappear

The design firm Coque Design may have worked on illustrations for certain features of the next PlayStation, according to pictures a tipster spotted on its website today.


PlayStation

The Next PlayStation Is Called Orbis, Sources Say. Here Are The Details.

While the official reveal of Sony’s next home console could still be months away, if not longer, Kotaku has today learned some important details concerning the PlayStation 3′s successor.


March 1, 2012
PlayStation

PlayStation 4 Ditching The Cell Processor?

The PlayStation 4 will not use Sony’s Cell processor nor any possible successor to the vaunted chipset that was introduced to the world through the PlayStation 3, gaming industry sources tell Kotaku.


February 23, 2012
PlayStation

PlayStation 4 To Feature AMD Graphics?

For the PlayStation 3, when it came to the console’s graphics, Sony partnered with Nvidia. According to a report on Forbes, though, for the PlayStation 4, Sony is partnering with Nvidia’s arch-rival AMD instead.


January 12, 2012
News

There May Not Even Be A PlayStation 4 Or Xbox 720, Says Cloud Gaming Company Gaikai

Brace yourselves, readers! A company whose whole business plan depends on consoles going away says that one of the big platform holders miht be getting out of the hardware business altogether.