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October 9th, 2019, 21:08 Posted By: wraggster
It's official. PlayStation 5 is coming. It will be here in just over a year. Sony revealed it just this week to the world's media, with leading game developers celebrating its many advantages.
Well, not quite. It announced PS5 via a blog post and a placed article in Wired, just a few months after it first talked about the new console in a standalone Wired article.
Sony's understated approach to PR in 2019 has been in direct contrast to Microsoft, which has done nothing but talk, talk, talk, talk all year long. Whether it's about new consoles, streaming platforms, subscription services, games... even family settings. Microsoft has been leading the conversation, it has attended all the big shows, and has been sharing its vision in a coherent way. Microsoft has a plan and is happy to tell us all about it.
In a year where you'd expect Sony to be setting out its strategy for widening the gaming audience, it has acted conservatively. It is behaving more like a business worried about protecting its lead rather than extending it.
Sony's PR strategy is perhaps understandable when you consider the criticism it has faced from certain media, particularly around cross-play. There are already commentators proclaiming the return of 'arrogant Sony,' yet the counter to accusations of over-confidence is humility, not avoiding the conversation.
"The industry is looking at Sony to see what's next for the console business. At the moment, Xbox is the one providing all the answers" Of course, the ongoing company restructure at Sony isn't helping. PlayStation's old regional structure made it a complicated beast, but that made it popular in markets its competitors couldn't get near. The centralisation plan was to try and simplify things while maintaining the regional autonomy that has worked so well in the past. As of right now, it's not working.
There is no centralised clarity of vision, and regional teams have become frustrated by US oversight and sign-off procedures. It's perhaps no wonder senior names -- whether that's Shawn Layden or regional leads -- are using this opportunity to move on.
This uncertainty has reached the wider business. At the GamesIndustry.biz Investment Summit this year, one indie developer expressed fears that PlayStation "has stopped caring about indies." There's so much we don't know about what Sony is planning next. What are its third-party priorities? Is VR still a thing for it? Is PlayStation Now as significant to them as Game Pass is for Xbox?
It might be PlayStation doesn't quite have all the answers yet and isn't ready for the media scrutiny. Even so, it's not quite the confident showing you'd expect from the dominant platform holder.
I confess I was a bit reluctant to write this piece initially. None of this is especially new. From the moment Sony backed out of E3, it was clear the company was going into stealth mode ahead of PS5, and we're still over a year away from its launch. And restructures are almost always painful. The time to judge them is not in the middle of the transition, but at the end when the kinks have been worked out. Centralising PlayStation in a globalised games industry had to happen at some point.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...tation-opinion
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October 7th, 2019, 19:22 Posted By: wraggster
PPSSPP v1.9.3 is released. PPSSPP is a fast and portable PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux, written in C++.
PPSSPP v1.9.3 Changelog:
* Flicker fixed in God of War that appeared with newer drivers for Mali GPUs (#12224)
* Improve performance of God of War on Vulkan (#12242), implement built-in GPU profiler (#12262, #12266)
* Vertex range culling fixed on ARM Mali (#12227)
* Started to improve VFPU precision, resulting so far in a fix for the long standing Tekken 6 leg shaking problem (#12217)
* Fixed a VFPU precision snafu on ARM64, fixing disappearing officers in Warriors Orochi (#11299) and some problems in Tomb Raider (#11179).
* Vulkan is the default again on Android versions newer than Pie
* Fix various homebrew store issues
* GPU pause signal handling fixed, fixing some hangs in Bleach and Armored Core games (#12160)
* Audio sample rate conversion handling fixes (#12147)
* Some Vulkan optimizations (pre-rotation (#12216), perf fix in Metal Gear Acid, etc)
* Multiple fixes for the UWP build (#12036, others)
* MP3 playback fixes (#12005)
* Audio in Motorstorm: Arctic Edge fixed by returning errors correctly (#12121)
* Audio glitches in Final Fantasy Tactics fixed (#9956)
* Camera display in Invizimals fixed (#12278, #8521)
* Added hotkeys for texture dump and replace (#11938)
* Added Visual Studio 2019 support. Windows XP is no longer supported (#11995, others)
* Fixes for video capture (#12069)
* Added a separate sound volume for alternative speed (#12124)
* Improved mouse control (Windows only) (#12173, #12176)
* Support for installing texture packs and ISOs from zips (#12175)
* Right analog support for touch controls (only used by patched games and some HD remasters) (#12182)
* Android: Fix OpenSL initialization, possibly helps audio crackle a little. (#12333).
* Fix graphics on Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K
* Fixed strange vehicle behavior in MGS:PW (somehow) (#12342)
* Ported to the Nintendo Switch by m4xw! Builds available on m4xw's Patreon.
http://www.emucr.com/2019/10/ppsspp-v193.html
http://www.ppsspp.org/index.html
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October 7th, 2019, 18:03 Posted By: wraggster
A new PlayStation 4 firmware update is on the horizon. Releasing later this week is firmware 7.00, which will bring two new improvements to the table: remote play enhancements and larger Party groups. PS4 Remote Play will be usable on any Android device running 5.0 and higher, while the preexisting Remote Play App on iOS has gotten an update to allow for users to have onscreen controls displayed at all times. DualShock 4 controllers can officially connect to any mobile device running Android 10 or iOS 13. The Party function on PlayStation 4 will get an increase from a maximum number of 8 players to 16, while also receiving upgrades to both network and audio quality between communications online.
Party Feature Update
For PS4 fans who love to play alongside their friends or other community members, the Party feature has been rebuilt to include new features and services including:
- Maximum number of Party users increased from 8 to 16
- Network connectivity improved
- Audio quality improved
- Accessibility support with Chat Transcription has been added (US Only)
Within the Party feature, you will experience better network connectivity and audio quality. The improved back-end now improves network connectivity and allows users to overcome connectivity issues previously experienced when connecting with other users.
Lastly, the Party App will also offer a new Chat Transcription feature for US users via the PS4 Second Screen App on your smartphone or other mobile devices. The new feature supports US English and converts party voice chat to text, or enables you to enter text that is read aloud to other party members. If using your mobile device to connect to your PS4 during a Party, you will now see a new Party tab has been added where the new functionality is available.
Remote Play
For those who want to stream select PS4 games on mobile devices, Remote Play can now be used on smartphones and tablets running Android 5.0 or higher. Just download the PS4 Remote Play App from the Google Play store to use the feature.
Meanwhile, for iPhone or iPad users, the Remote Play App has been updated so you can now display the controller at all times and lock the screen orientation.
Also, players will be able to use their DualShock 4 wireless controllers via Bluetooth for Remote Play on an Android, iPhone, iPad, and Mac. All you need to do is update to Android 10, iOS 13, iPadOS 13, or macOS Catalina (releasing in October) to use this feature.
As a reminder, a PS4 system with a wired connection via a LAN cable is recommended.
Click to expand...  Source
https://gbatemp.net/threads/playstat...ements.549677/
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October 4th, 2019, 22:56 Posted By: wraggster
As its name suggests, PPSSPP is an emulator for the PlayStation Portable and the go-to emulator at that. This emulator, whose original author is Henrik Rydgård, does not only emulate games pretty accurately with good performance but is also available on a wide variety of platforms including iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, macOS and the Switch among others.
Furthermore, it also boasts an impressive arsenal of features including save state support, a homebrew downloader, translations in tens of languages and the ability to render games at higher resolutions among others.
Now, PPSSPP 1.9 has been released which comes with:
- Various game issues have been fixed including:
- Flickering issues in GoW games that occurred with newer Mali GPU drivers
- The Tekken 6 leg shaking problem
- Disappearing officers in Warriors Orochi and issues in Tomb Raider on ARM64 devices
- Hanging in Bleach and Armoured Core games
- Audio glitches in FF Tactics
- The camera display in Invizimals
- Strange vehicle behaviour in MGS:PW
- Audio in Motorstorm: Arctic Edge
- To grab PPSSPP 1.9, check out this link and select the download for the platform of your choice; for viewing its change log, go here.
http://wololo.net/2019/09/26/emulati...emulation-3ds/
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October 4th, 2019, 22:41 Posted By: wraggster
Welcome to Spooktober! While we wait for new arrivals like The Last of Us II and the start of a new year, PlayStation Plus subscribers will be able to download the October PS+ games included as part of their subscription. This month offers The Last of Us Remastered and MLB The Show '19.
The Last of Us Remastered
Quoted from PlayStation Store:
Abandoned cities reclaimed by nature. A population decimated by a modern plague. Survivors are killing each other for food, weapons whatever they can get their hands on. Joel, a brutal survivor, and Ellie, a brave young teenage girl who is wise beyond her years, must work together if they hope to survive their journey across the US.
The Last of Us: Remastered includes the Abandoned Territories Map Pack, Reclaimed Territories Map Pack, and the critically acclaimed The Last of Us: Left Behind Single Player campaign.
Click to expand... Link to download
MLB The Show '19
Quoted from PlayStation Store:
Game contains In-Game Purchases.
1 player
Network Players 2-8
53GB minimum save size
Online Play (Optional)
Click to expand... (Seriously, that's the description, followed by legalese)
Link to download
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October 4th, 2019, 22:30 Posted By: wraggster
Sony Interactive Entertainment has shown its commitment to game streaming by cutting the price of PlayStation Now in half.
Previously, PlayStation Now cost $19.99 a month in the US, but a new price cut has brought that down to $9.99. Other territories have a slightly less generous reduction; from £12.99 a month down to £8.99 in the UK, for example, and from €14.99 to €9.99 in much of Europe.
The value proposition of PlayStation Now has been further strengthened by the addition of what SIE is calling "marquee games" -- the kind of high-profile blockbusters that have not been a common sight on Sony's on-demand platform before now.
Marquee games will be available for three months at a time. The first wave is God of War, Grand Theft Auto V, inFamous Second Son and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, which will be available until January 2, 2020.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-marquee-games
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October 4th, 2019, 22:26 Posted By: wraggster
PlayStation has moved cross-play support out of beta, according to Sony Interactive Entertainment's Jim Ryan, theoretically making the feature available to all developers.
The change was included in a Wired story on PlayStation Now, which received a steep price-cut earlier this week. The article was based on an interview with SIE CEO Jim Ryan, and mentioned that the PS4 can now support cross-play "on any titles that studios provide the functionality for."
The article went live on the same day that PUBG Corp. confirmed cross-play between Xbox, PC and PlayStation 4.
While Wired's information came straight from the top of Sony, progress on cross-play has yet to be commented upon through the publisher's official channels.
This is characteristic of Sony's stance on cross-play to date. Initially reluctant to lower the walls around the PS4's captive audience, it relented in June 2018 following pressure related to Epic Games' Fortnite.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-now-left-beta
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September 30th, 2019, 17:56 Posted By: wraggster
Sony Interactive Entertainment has started selling its console hardware and first-party games direct to consumers.
The new online store is only available to PlayStation's US customers at present, but it allows PS4 consoles, accessories and games to be purchased directly from the PlayStation.com website.
It is also possible to buy PlayStation VR headsets, accessories and games, and voucher codes for PS Plus subscriptions.
"This site not only provides our fans in the US with the option to purchase these items directly from PlayStation, but is also intended to help gift givers easily find the right product for their friends or family," SIE's Stephen Turvey in a statement.
"Fans will find that prices on the new store align with those found at other retailers."
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...t-to-consumers
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September 23rd, 2019, 20:21 Posted By: wraggster
the PSVita also received an English translation for Date-A-Live Twin Edition: Rio Reincarnation by froid_san who has created numerous English translations for the PSVita. This game, which is a visual novel, was released in Japan in 2015 as a PSVita exclusive and never got translated to English until PC and PS4 ports were released earlier this year. Now, froid_san has made the PSVita version accessible to English-speaking audiences and the English patch he just released includes:
- All text and images have been translated to English
- Vocal-less videos from the PC version have been merged with the video data of the PSVita’s version
As a result, the game is fully playable on the PSVita and the only minor things that didn’t get translated are trophies (PSN wouldn’t take too kindly to unknown trophies being synced), the game’s title on its save data and the digital manual.
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September 23rd, 2019, 20:18 Posted By: wraggster
vitaQuake, by Rinnegatamante, is a port of Quake I for hacked PSVitas and one of the earliest HENkaku-compatible native homebrew being ported a single day after the release of HENkaku on July 30, 2016 as it was originally created for use with the Rejuvenate hack. Ever since then, Rinnegatamante has updated it numerous times with version 2.5 being one of the most significant versions as it brought support for GPU acceleration.
Now, vitaQuake 4.0 has been released with the following features/improvements:
- Improved mod support with support for:
- More DarkPlaces extensions
- Custom crosshairs
- Half Life BSP and BSP2
- Transparent surfaces
- EF_BLUE, EF_RED and EF_NODRAW effects
- External textures in TGA format
- Supersampling anti-aliasing (SSAA) support
- The Options menu has been reordered and Graphics settings have their own menu
- Mods can now be used with shareware Quake files and various limits, such as that for static entities, have been removed or increased
- More QuakeC commands are supported and it’s now possible to specify custom arguments at launch time
- The code received a significant cleanup, float arithmetic operations have been sped up with the use of NEON ARM instructions and the vitaGL library has been updated to the latest commit for better performance
- Other minor improvements and fixes which can be found in the full change log
- http://wololo.net/2019/09/22/psvita-...out-for-the-s/
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September 20th, 2019, 22:19 Posted By: wraggster
During a livestream today, Call of Duty production manager Paul Haile outlined the details of Call of Duty's first foray into full cross-platform play in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
"The industry is hitting a tipping point where we really shouldn't be restricting people from playing with their friends because of platform choices," Haile said during a livestream offering details on the feature.
Modern Warfare will allow players across PS4, Xbox, and PC to play with one another in all game modes, so long as they have a Call of Duty account. This functionality will work both for parties of friends who have invited one another, as well as random match-ups.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...y-in-all-modes
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September 16th, 2019, 20:54 Posted By: wraggster
The PlayStation 4 has now surpassed 30 million sales in the US.
That's according to Niko Partners' analyst Daniel Ahmad, who revealed the milestone via Twitter and noted that this means the US accounts for around 30% of all PS4 sales.
Ahmad added sales figures from other key markets for the PS4, including the 8.3 million units sold it its home region of Japan, 7.2 million in Germany and 6.8 million in the UK.
Sony has not released official sell-through figures since December 2018, when it revealed 91.6 million units had been sold worldwide.
However, recent financial reports show 100 million units have been shipped to stores around the world and Ahmad's tweet suggests the console is close to reaching this figure in sales.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...nalyst-reveals
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September 12th, 2019, 20:17 Posted By: wraggster
According to information from its GitHub page and Discord channel, work on PS4Delta started sometime this August and is currently in very early stages meaning that it won’t let you play or even boot any PS4 games just yet. Contrary to other emulation solutions, PS4Delta is not an emulator in the traditional sense but a compatibility layer similar to WINE in which HLE (High Level Emulation) is achieved rather than LLE (Low Level Emulation) meaning that it doesn’t work by imitating the behaviour of PS4 hardware devices through virtualisation.
However, it works by translating PS4 system calls into native calls for Windows which is possible because the PS4 uses x86-64 architecture which is the same one used by the vast majority of modern PCs. On a different note, it’s important to mention that PS4Delta is completely open-source and written in C++ so anybody with knowledge in emulation can contribute to its development. (GitHub link below)
PS4Delta’s Discord Invite (discussion about what’s going on): https://discordapp.com/invite/yVbPkmc
PS4Delta’s GitHub (source code): https://github.com/Force67/ps4delta
http://wololo.net/2019/09/08/emulati...ss-being-made/
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September 11th, 2019, 21:39 Posted By: wraggster
US retailer GameStop is confident it will still thrive when the next generation of consoles arrives, despite the industry's ongoing shift towards direct digital sales.
During an earnings call following the firm's latest financials, the management was asked how it expected sales to be split between physical and digital during the PlayStation 5 and Project Scarlett console cycle.
While he didn't offer an exact percentage, CEO George Sherman did say he expected a "mix between physical and digital games," according to Seeking Alpha's transcript.
"Our assumption is that [games will] launch in both formats with the new cycle just as they do now," he said. "And our assumption is that we'll have a piece of both businesses.
"Obviously we have a very, very significant share when it comes to physical games. Physical games are still a significant portion of the overall gaming industry today."
He continued, "I think it's fair to say that, historically, we probably had a preference for physical games versus digital games and we've been clear to say both internally and externally that we're going to be agnostic and it has to be the customer's choice, as to which we may sell."
Sherman added that GameStop is working to make the sales process for its own digital products "easier, more streamlined, more embedded."
Meanwhile, CFO Jim Bell emphasised that both Microsoft and Sony have confirmed their next consoles will have physical disc drives and offer backwards compatibility, meaning current gen titles could still generate sales.
The concern about the physical/digital split is understandable. With both Xbox and PlayStation offering direct sales via their respective stores, the need for consumers to use a traditional retail store has diminished.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-digital-sales
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September 6th, 2019, 21:37 Posted By: wraggster
On the PSVita front, we have an update to EDuke32 Vita which is a port of the popular Duke3D engine EDuke32 which comes with various features such as support for rendering at higher resolutions and great mod support. Now, Rinnegatamante has updated the PSVita’s port to version 1.6 which brings along:
- BAT scripts can now be used which let you easily define custom launching parameters
- Support for GRP files in SSI format has been added
- Support for internal MID tracks has been added
- Overwriting savefiles now works
- Minor improvements including improved engine time accuracy, a better cache size detector and minor fixes to prevent memory corruption
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September 6th, 2019, 21:35 Posted By: wraggster
If you’re not in the loop when it comes to PSC hacking, BleemSync is the earliest and most well-known comprehensive hacking solution for the mini-console.
 With BleemSync, you can unleash the power of your PlayStation Classic and turn it into the ultimate cheap emulation machine! (Image Source)
Compared to other hacking solutions like AutoBleem and RetroBoot, its main aim is to provide a feature packed experience that lets you make use of everything that the PlayStation Classic has to offer including the ability to play its built-in games, add your own games, use emulators and network support among others.
Other than a large amount of features, it also receives updates every few months and now, BleemSync 1.2.0 has landed with the following new stuff:
- The built-in version of RetroArch has been updated to version 1.7.8 which was released last week
- This update comes with lots of features such as an AI service that enables text-to-speech and translation among other things. More about the RA update can be read here.
- Folders, which are managed on-console with an application created specifically for that purpose
- Both stock and external games can be put in folders
- Network support has been added which lets you update RetroArch cores/assets, play certain multiplayer games online and more
- There doesn’t seem to be a list containing all supported WiFi/Ethernet adapters but it’s been confirmed that the TP-Link WN725, ASUS AC-53 NANO, Insignia Gigabit Ethernet are supported. Included network modules can be found here.
- An on-console game manager allowing you to edit game entries and remove them without having to use a PC
- Various improvements and fixes such as better serial identification in the Transfer Tool, a better game database and a fix for issues relating to launching multi-disc games with the built-in emulators
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