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Sony Had The PS5 Preorders Going Nuts, Thousands Of Gamers Left Salty
Source: Sony / PlayStation The holiday is trending to be a huge moneymaker for the tech industry and the now the resellers. A highly anticipated console is now in even higher demand than before. As spotted on Hype Beast the Playstation 5 showed that the hype is very real. Last month the system went on sale for preorders amidst several problems that included bots, crashed servers and more. While thousands of video game enthusiasts did not get the chance to reserve their console the data is showing that the demand was far greater than everyone originally thought. According to the analytics that Sony sold more PS5’s within the first 12 hours than the PS4 did in its first 12 weeks of availability. Yes you read that correctly. “The demand as expressed by the level of pre-order has been ver...
HHW Gaming: GameStop Announces It Will Have More PS5 Preorders Available Online & In-Store
Source: Sony / PlayStation Looks like GameStop might be your saving grace if you’re looking for a PS5 console. If you missed out on securing a PS5 or PS5 Digital Edition last week, GameStop is giving you another chance. The retail chain announced that it will have additional PS5 preorders available online and at select GameStop store locations. In their announcement, they did warn that customers will have to act fast because they will definitely sell out insanely fast. GameStop also confirmed trade-in deals that will help knock down the price of the PS5. $200 – XBOX ONE X, PS4 PRO $175 – NINTENDO SWITCH, PS4 1TB $125 – NINTENDO SWITCH LITE, XBOX ONE S, PS4 500GB $100 – XBOX ONE 500GB This announcement comes on the heels of Sony’s apology to gamers for its chaotic preorder launch that also ...
Sony Reveals PlayStation 5 Launch Date and Price Tag
Sony has officially announced the launch date as well as the pricing of its newest PlayStation consoles – the PlayStation 5 will retail for $499 while the disc-less PS5 Digital Edition is priced at $399. Both consoles are expected to become available on 12 November in the US, Japan, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea, before launching in the rest of the world on 19 November. System Specs and Features As previously revealed, the PlayStation 5 is running on a system similar to a high-end gaming PC. It features an 8 core Zen 2-based AMD CPU running at 3.5ghz. Its GPU is completely customised and based off of AMD’s next-generation RDNA 2 architecture capable of generating 10.28 teraflops. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_1e5.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_1e5.td-a-rec-img img{ mar...
HHW Gaming: More Exclusives Announced For ‘Marvel’s Avengers’ On PlayStation
Source: Square Enix / Crystal Dynamics Xbox, PC, and Stadia gamers were BIG MAD after Sony announced Spider-Man as a Playstation exclusive character for Marvel’s Avengers. Sony just dropped even more news about exclusives coming with the Crystal Dynamic’s title. At this point, its looking PlayStation is indeed the best place to play when it comes to Marvel’s Avengers. In a new post shared today (Aug.4) on PlayStation’s blog, Crystal Dynamics revealed that even more exclusives that PS4 players will get to enjoy before Xbox, Stadia, and PC owners. Today’s post focused on Community Challenges, a feature that will be featured in all versions of the game. The feature will see players trying to accomplish goals to unlock rewards. Crystal Dynamics was very stingy whe...
‘Call of Duty’ Creators Are Implementing More Systems to Curb Racism in Games
Sourced from Polygon. Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward has announced that the company will be issuing more bans for racist usernames, and will begin taking more steps to monitor racist content in-game in the future. The Call of Duty series of games has become infamous for hosting a large number of trolls who use racist insults to harass other players, usually via voice chat. “There is no place for racist content in our game. This is an effort we began with launch and we need to do a better job. We’re issuing thousands of daily bans of racist and hate-oriented names,” Infinity Ward says in a tweet. pic.twitter.com/o2nR4ZNQL0 — Infinity Ward (@InfinityWard) June 3, 2020 /* custom css */ .tdi_3_f84.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_f84.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Infini...
Sony Delays PS5 Reveal Event
Sourced from Wikimedia. Sony has announced that it has decided to postpone the PlayStation 5 reveal event, originally scheduled for 4 June. pic.twitter.com/ZAY8StN0EU — PlayStation (@PlayStation) June 1, 2020 The company has decided to postpone the event and the new generation console’s reveal as rioting and civil unrest continues in the US following the killing of unarmed man George Floyd. A killing that many Americans feel to be direly unjust. In addition, the globe is also still grappling with the society-crippling COVID-19 pandemic. “We have decided to postpone the PlayStation 5 event scheduled for June 4. While we understand gamers worldwide are excited to see PS5 games, we do not feel that right now is a time for celebration and for now, we want to stand back and allow more important...
HHW Gaming: PlayStation Reads The Room Postpones PS5 Reveal Event, Stands In Solidarity With Black Protestors
Source: Sony / PlayStation 5 There are much bigger issues in the world going on right now, and PlayStation has recognized that. Out of respect for the civil unrest going on throughout the country as Black Americans have taken to the streets to demand justice for George Floyd and others, Sony has decided this week would not be a good time for its PS5 reveal event. PlayStation announced today on its official Twitter account the decision stating: “While we understand gamers worldwide are excited to see PS5 games, we do not feel that right now is a time for celebration, and for now, we want to stand back and allow more important voices to be heard.” No future date has been revealed. Four hours before that announcement, PlayStation stood in solidarity with the protesters by denouncing systemic ...
Artists are Ingeniously Using the PS4 Game “Dreams” to Create Full Songs
In February, developers Media Molecule launched their most ambitious creation platform to date, Dreams. Following the success of last decade’s LittleBigPlanet, the developers have harnessed this generation’s technology to produce a game creation platform that allows players to create much more than side-scrollers. With the tools embedded in Dreams, players are able to develop games of nearly every genre out there. So far, we’ve seen first-person shooters, horror adventures, racing games, action RPGs, and everything in-between. In addition to being able to make playable games, Dreams includes incredibly intuitive music production tools that let users compose entire songs in-game. Levi Niha, a popular YouTube creator known for making videos where he composes musi...
