Tonight in San Francisco, Sony announced another indie PlayStation 4 game: Zombie's Studios' Blacklight: Retribution. The company also announced that popular parody fighting game Divekick, new puzzle game Metrico, from Digital Dreams, and Primal Carnage Genesis, from Lukewarm Media, are coming to its platforms. These games all come under its Pub Fund,
This news comes on top of further announcements that the company is making things easier for indie developers and big publishers alike. Sony's Adam Boyes, who heads up its publisher and developer relations teams, talks to Gamasutra about that evolution, why having veteran software developer Mark Cerny as the lead architect for its PlayStation 4 hardware is so important, and how the company might try to compete with a Steam Box.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
Don't underestimate the significance of this people. In terms of news, this is HUGE. Sony have basically just opened their doors and said: 'you don't need a tie.' Expect support for the PS4 and Vita to skyrocket in the coming months. I'm guessing that the incredible stream of games we've been seeing for the Vita in the last couple of weeks has something to do with this new policy.
I'm not sure how true it is that these games are all coming under Sony's Pub fund promotion. That's usually reserved for upstart games that appear exclusively on Sony platforms before being ported elsewhere, and I doubt titles like Primal Carnage: Genesis and Blacklight Retribution are being funded in this manner.
haha yes, they got Hotline Miami for PS3 and PSVITA, playing Hotline Miami on the go is going to nice.
Hell Yeah !! Primal Carnage Genesis!!
Blacklight on PS4? Hell yes....I don't play computer games due to spending all day on it but I loved BR when I played it last year.
Awesome news....Sony just got another point in the reasons to get this console column.
At the moment MS has 0 but cna't wait to see what they've got.