 | $250 gamepad-equipped tablet launching this spring Feb 7th 2013, 15:00 7" Android-powered Wikipad tablet coming to "leading retailers" later this year; delay due to "flaw" discovered in pilot production run. 
The gamepad-equipped, Android-powered Wikipad tablet will launch this spring, developers announced today. The 7" version will be available at "leading retailers" later this year at $250, while the 10" version is still in development, but not the company's focus at present. The Wikipad was originally targeted to launch at GameStop on Halloween, but was later pushed back. Explaining the delay, the company said it discovered a "flaw" during the pilot production run. This mistake was not one of the design team or its manufacturing partners, the company said. "We needed the additional time to improve the controller based on those discoveries," the company said. "During the delay, and after carefully listening to people who voiced their opinions regarding our initial price point, we decided to alter our product roadmap and make the 7" tablet at $249." The Wikipad tablet features an attachable dual-analog controller and a 7" IPS screen. The device comes with 16GB of memory with a micro SD slot to support an additional 32GB of storage. The Wikipad table boasts a NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor and is "optimized for cloud-gaming." The Wikipad will support games downloadable through PlayStation Mobile, Nvidia's Tegra Zone, Google Play, OnLive, and other forthcoming platforms. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | Game collection asking for $550,000 Feb 7th 2013, 14:47 eBay listing for 30-year trove of 6,850 games, 330 consoles, 220 controllers, and 185 accessories seeking more than half a million. 
eBay user "videogames.museum" is unloading a trove of 6,850 games, 330 consoles, 220 controllers, and 185 accesories, with bidding starting at $550,000. The collection has no offers thus far. The eBay user explained that the collection is the result of more than 30 years of collecting games. "I just have too much things and the space to store them is finished long ago." The user, who lives in Milan, Italy, spent more than eight hours a day for the past two months simply taking pictures and cataloging the inventory. The listing includes various collector's items, including the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles pearl white GameCube, the Metal Gear limited edition PSP, the Hitachi Gamenavi Sega Saturn, and both the Bio Hazard Dreamcast systems in red and blue. A full list of items included with the collection is available here. Last year, a French game collector's eBay listing for more than 7,000 titles across 22 systems sold for over $1.3 million. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | Sony slashes PS Vita sales expectations by 3 million units Feb 7th 2013, 14:43 Revised sales expectations come as the PlayStation owner posts a 15 per cent drop in year-on-year revenue in its Q3 FY2012 results. 
The games division at Sony has slashed its sales expectations for the PS Vita by a whopping three million units after reporting a 15 per cent drop in year-on-year revenue for the company's third quarter of FY 2012 of ¥268.5 billion ($2.86bn/£1.82bn), with the first-party publisher blaming poor hardware and software sales for the result. Sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2 consoles, which are lumped together in the company's reports, were down to 6.8 million from 7.4 million this time last year. Software sales for Sony's home consoles was 61.7 million units, down from 2011's 68.7 million units. The PSP and the PS Vita, sales of which are also combined in Sony's reports, saw an increase to 2.7 million units sold as opposed to last year's 2.4 million. It's worth remembering, mind, that the PS Vita was only briefly available in Japan before last year's report was calculated. 2.7 million units was not enough to stop Sony from cutting three million off its forecast for PS Vita sales, with the company predicting 10 million units to be sold before the end of Sony's financial year in March. Sony saw the "slow penetration" of the PS Vita as an ongoing issue, and promised to support the handheld device with more software. Software sales for Sony's handheld consoles dropped from 11.4 million units in Q4 last year to 8.9 million this year. Looking ahead, Sony is holding an event on February 20 where it is expected the publisher will unveil the PlayStation 4 to the public. The event will be livestreamed from in New York at 18:00 EST/15:00 PST/23:00 GMT, and GameSpot will be in attendance. Overall the Sony Corporation posted a 6.9% year-on-year increase in revenue, to ¥1.95 trillion, and stemmed the massive ¥159 billion loss in net revenue this time last year to a far healthier ¥10.8 billion. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | LittleBigPlanet 3 on the way? Feb 7th 2013, 13:54 British studio Sumo Digital has supposedly been at work on third entry in series for "well over a year." 
A third LittleBigPlanet game is in the works, according to a new report at VG247. The site has been informed that British studio Sumo Digital (Dead Space Ignition, Nike+ Kinect Training) has been at work on the third entry in the series for "well over a year." Platforms for LittleBigPlanet 3 are unknown and a Sony representative was not immediately available to comment. Sumo Digital has worked on the LittleBigPlanet franchise before. The studio created LittleBigPlanet 2's cross-controller patch, which allows gamers to use a PlayStation Vita to control the main game on PlayStation 3. If LittleBigPlanet 3 is indeed real, it would be the sixth entry in the series. The franchise was born in 2008 on PS3, with a PSP entry landing in 2009. LittleBigPlanet 2 came to PS3 in 2011, while LittleBigPlanet Vita and LittleBigPlanet Karting both launched last year. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | BioWare: Calling next entry Mass Effect 4 is a disservice Feb 7th 2013, 13:26 Studio rep says next game in series may not be set after or before Mass Effect 3, or even feature any of the same characters. BioWare wants to make clear that the next entry in the Mass Effect series should not be known as Mass Effect 4. Writing on the BioWare forums (via Eurogamer), community developer Chris Priestly explained that the only confirmed detail about the new game is that it will not feature Commander Shepard. "To call the next game Mass Effect 4 or ME4 is doing it a disservice and seems to cause a lot of confusion here," Priestly said. "We have already said that the Commander Shepard trilogy is over and that the next game will not feature him/her. I see people saying 'well, they'll have to pick a canon ending.' No, because the game does not have to come after. Or before. Or off to the side. Or with characters you know. Or yaddayaddayadda. Wherever, whenever, whoever, etc will all be revealed years down the road when we actually start talking about it." Priestly added that a much more accurate way of thinking about the next Mass Effect game is "what happens next set in the Mass Effect universe." The developer said he expects fans to speculate as to content, character, and story, but nothing official will be announced for some time. The next Mass Effect game was officially confirmed in November. It will run on the Frostbite game engine--the technology that powers DICE's Battlefield games, among others--and is said to be "very respectful" of the franchise's core pillars, though BioWare is pursuing new directions with regards to story and gameplay. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | Neverwinter beta weekend dates announced Feb 7th 2013, 09:25 Online session to run on weekends during February and March; founder's pack buyers will get access on February 8. 
MMO players can soon start their adventures in the Forgotten Realms universe via the closed beta version of upcoming RPG Neverwinter. According to a news post on the Neverwinter site, developer Cryptic Studios and publisher Perfect World will be hosting Neverwinter beta weekend sessions starting on February 8 to February 10. This will be followed by another session from March 8 to March 10 and a third one on March 22 to March 24. Players can register here to get a chance to partake in the closed beta sessions. Those who purchased the Hero of the North founder's pack will get guaranteed access on the first session that starts on February 8. For more information, check out GameSpot's coverage on the title. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | Sony Online Entertainment to host 2013 community fan event Feb 7th 2013, 09:20 SOE Live will be at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas this August, featuring new information on the next EverQuest. 
Fans of Free Realms, PlanetSide 2, and other Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) titles will be pleased to learn that the company will be hosting a major community event this year. Billed as SOE Live, the event is a community gathering where gamers and developers of SOE-branded titles meet. Activities include developer panel discussions and game-themed live events. The event will be held from August 1 to August 4 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nevada in the US. Games that are on the SOE lineup include DC Universe Online, PlanetSide 2, Free Realms, and the EverQuest series. In addition, SOE stated that it will reveal the next entry in the EverQuest franchise during the event. SOE Live has been going on since 2004, with the majority of the annual event taking place in Las Vegas. Previously, it was known as SOE Fan Faire. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | Guild Wars 2 Flame & Frost content out end of February Feb 7th 2013, 09:13 Next content update to feature new PvP map and guild missions. 
Gamers looking to expand their time with GameSpot's PC and RPG game of 2012 can look forward to more content soon. According to NCSoft's official page for the game, developer ArenaNet will be releasing the second wave of downloadable content titled Flame & Frost: The Gathering Storm. The update features a new PvP map called the Spirit Watch, new guild missions, a new selectable achievement system, and a new PvP mode where two teams of equal average rating pit against each other in a quick match. Players can expect to check it out on February 26. For more information on Guild Wars 2, check out the recent video below. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
| | PlayStation 4 to cost $400+ and feature cloud streaming – Report Feb 7th 2013, 05:21 Japanese newspaper claims next PlayStation console will cost in excess of 40,000 yen ($428) when it launches in US and Japan this year; PS4 to include biometric controller and cloud streaming. With two weeks left until a Sony event that is being widely tipped as the official announcement of a new PlayStation console, more rumours have today emerged on the estimated launch window and price of the company–s next home device. Citing Japanese-language newspaper Asahi Shimbun, The Verge reported that the PlayStation 4 will release in the US and Japan during 2013, and will cost more than 40,000 yen ($428). The estimated price is a third cheaper than the PlayStation 3's 2006 launch, which debuted at around 60,000 yen in Japan, $599 in North America, £425 in the UK, and $999 in Australia. No specific information was provided on the launch availability for the PS4 in Europe or Australia, leading to speculation that the silence regarding the device in the latter markets may indicate a later 2014 release. Other details in the paper's report lend further credibility to earlier rumours that the next PlayStation's controller will include biometric support in the form of a rear touchpad (like that found on the PlayStation Vita), and will be a similar size to the current DualShock 3. A second report by The Nikkei Business Daily said that the PS4 will include integration of Gaikai's cloud streaming service. Sony acquired the firm for $380 million in mid 2012. GameSpot contacted Sony for clarification on the two reports, but the company declined, saying that it does not comment on rumour or speculation. For more information on the future of the PlayStation, check out GameSpot's previous coverage. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at GameSpot
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