The free-to-play MMOs DC Universe Online and PlanetSide 2 will not require a PlayStation Plus subscription to play when they hit the PS4 later this year, publisher Sony Online Entertainment confirmed with Polygon during E3 last week. Sony announced during E3 that a PlayStation Plus membership is required for online multiplayer in PS4 games, leading some to question whether free-to-play games would be exempt from the platform's subscription requirements. "As far as free-to-play games are concerned, it's a publisher's decision whether they put it ...

The $500 price tag for the Xbox One elicited audible gasps during Microsoft's E3 press conference. Speaking to Bloomberg, Xbox head Don Mattrick defended the hefty price, saying that Microsoft is "over-delivering on value" with the Xbox One. "It's a lower number than some of the analysts had forecasted," Mattrick said. "We're over-delivering value against other choices, I think, consumers can get. Any modern product these days, you look at it [and] $499 isn't a ridiculous price point. We're delivering thousands of dollars of value to people, so I think that ...

The next generation of Xbox gaming headsets is black - blacker than a cloudy night in Hades. In less dramatic news, it also looks quite a lot like the current generation of Xbox gaming headsets. Catch the first shots of the peripheral below, along with shots of the official play and charge kit for the Xbox One controller. The headset supports wideband digital audio and comes with a unidirectional microphone. Swank. Cheers, Gamespot. Note: - Xbox Support say the headset is NOT bundled with the console ...

Despite being "an important IP to EA," there is no new Dead Space game in development; instead, Visceral Games is working on something else right now. "Is that team working on a Dead Space game today? No they're not," EA executive vice president Patrick Soderlund told Eurogamer at E3 last week. "They're working on something else very exciting. You have to think of it from that perspective. Is it better to put them on the fourth version of a game they've done three previous versions of before? Or is it better to put them on something ...

What kind of man would slice into a pristine new videogame console and gloat over its innards, doubtless rubbing his hands gleefully like a latter-day Jack the Ripper? The kind of man who works at iFixit, apparently. The site has just published new, ultra-up-close shots of the redesigned Xbox 360, announced at Microsoft's E3 conference. I've republished the ones that show the console intact below. For obscene, gory snaps of the machine's internal components, hit the jump. You monster. A few takeaways: the new Xbox 360 is compatible with Xbox 360 Slim 4GB ...

When players look back on the platformers of yore, it's easy to forget one important thing about them: They're tough. Modern platformers allow infinite retries and plentiful checkpoints, but old-school platformers, like Disney's Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, required precise jumps over one-hit enemies and sent you back to the beginning of a level, or even the game itself, when all your lives were lost. Sega has preserved that difficulty in the remastered version of the game, as seen on the floor of E3 2013 last week. Sega Studios Australia has teamed ...

Will Xbox One's cloud computing support render future console purchases needless? Will cloud computing triple or quadruple the console's built-in processing power? These are questions we'd love to know the answer to. The console's online features are among its least tangible, most promising assets. One man's already convinced, however - the inimitable Peter Molyneux, who wants developers to craft entire new genres of games exclusively for the cloud. "To me, the cloud is more than just more computing power," he told GamesIndustry.biz. "That's typically ...

Picture the scene – after a generation of high prices and selling at a loss, you’ve invested years into R&D, billions into games, tech, marketing and production into creating a solid product at $399. But your fiercest competitor, who has historically been cheaper, is set to reveal their hardware’s price, and the console is running on weaker specs. And then imagine finding out your console is $100 cheaper. That’s how Sony felt, and it made them ecstatic. Sony’s Scott Rohde, head of Sony Worldwide Studios Software Product Development said: As soon ...

State of Decay's first patch was released last week, but an application error meant that potentially game-breaking bugs went unfixed. Any players who didn't encounter problems have their "good luck" to thank for it, apparently, rather than developer Undead Labs. Executive producer Jeff Strain has added a post to the State of Decay forums, addressing the problem: "Hi fellow survivors. Here's the deal: Almost as soon as the update went live on Friday night, we started seeing reports the infestation bug ("Too many infestations!", even if the infestations ...