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Pourquoi est-ce que Sony a peur du cloud gaming ?
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · 2 days ago - 14:30
Contrairement à Microsoft et son monopole en matière de jeux dans le cloud, le constructeur japonais montre quelques réserves.
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Sony chief warns technical problems persist for cloud gaming
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 3 days ago - 13:15
Enlarge / Sony chief Kenichiro Yoshida. (credit: Tokuyuki Matsubuchi via FT)
Sony’s chief executive has warned that cloud gaming is still technically “very tricky,” playing down the risk to the console maker of the industry quickly converting to a technology on which its rival Microsoft has bet heavily.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Kenichiro Yoshida said the PlayStation creator would still study “various options” in the future for streaming games over the Internet itself, adding it could utilize GT Sophy, its artificial intelligence agent, to enhance cloud gaming.
“I think cloud itself is an amazing business model, but when it comes to games, the technical difficulties are high,” said Yoshida, citing latency—the fast response times demanded by gamers—as the biggest issue. “So there will be challenges to cloud gaming, but we want to take on those challenges.”
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Diablo 4 review – a hell of a good time?
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 13:00
PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, PC; Blizzard Entertainment
Behind the screams and stunningly-costumed demons, this is escapist junk food for gamers – which may be exactly what you’re after
Diablo 4 wants you to know that it’s very serious indeed. From its gripping introduction, evoking Blizzard’s Warcraft 3-era heyday of best-in-class cinematics, to the richly macabre backdrops that host its continuous loop of demon-slaying ultraviolence, this is a game with a mission statement: please don’t make fun of us for being too cartoonish, like you did with Diablo 3 .
It’s done well, for the most part. The writing harkens back to Diablo’s original two outings; a gothic, low fantasy miasma of hopelessness and intrigue. Most impressively, this version of Diablo’s world feels, well, like a world again; a place with history and tension, rather than a collection of maps strung together to facilitate dungeon delving.
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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is coming to PC—and it will be a technical showstopper
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 31 May - 21:17
This game is all about tracing the rays, so to speak. It looks fantastic. [credit: Sony ]
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will be the next PlayStation Studios game to make its way to PC, Sony announced in a blog post on Tuesday. The game, which debuted in 2021, will launch on the new platform on July 26.
Although Sony has been in the habit of releasing its big PlayStation exclusives on PC long after their console debuts for a bit now, there are a couple of things that make this announcement particularly interesting.
First, this is the first Ratchet & Clank game to be released on PC—that's after 16 home and handheld console releases since the first game was released on PlayStation 2 more than 20 years ago.
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En juin, l’abonnement PlayStation Plus vous offre NBA 2K23
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 31 May - 16:37
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Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart arrive enfin sur PC : catastrophe en approche ?
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Wednesday, 31 May - 10:00
Perçu comme l'un des titres les plus ambitieux de la PS5, le portage de Ratchet & Clank s'annonce comme un exercice difficile.
Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart arrive enfin sur PC : catastrophe en approche ?
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Tout ce que Sony doit faire pour réussir sa PlayStation 5 portable (projet Q)
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Saturday, 27 May - 08:43
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N’attendez pas trop le prochain jeu The Last of Us : il est repoussé
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Saturday, 27 May - 07:33
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Alan Wake 2 and the death of disc-based video games
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 25 May - 17:12 · 1 minute
Enlarge / Releasing Alan Wake 2 on pre-shredded discs would probably just add insult to injury, right? (credit: Getty Images)
Anyone who pays attention to the game industry knows that the segment of players buying games on physical discs has been becoming less and less important as physical releases themselves become more and more niche . Still, even in recent years, you could usually count on big-budget console games from major studios to receive at least a perfunctory disc release to fill up the dwindling GameStop shelves .
So it was a bit of a surprise that yesterday's release date announcement for Alan Wake 2 came alongside news that developer Remedy Entertainment and publisher Epic Games currently have "no plans to release Alan Wake 2 on disc," as they put it in a new FAQ . When you look a little deeper, though, what might be more surprising is that there haven't been more major console publishers willing to give up on discs completely.
The Alan Wake 2 FAQ does note, correctly, that "it is not uncommon to release modern games as digital-only." In fact, measured on a per-title basis, the vast majority of console games are now not available on disc at all. Still, such disc-free releases are still relatively rare when it comes to the kinds of major games that dominate the console charts.
