We made a conscious decision to rethink the live-phase. Instead of thinking of it as ‘games as a service’ we redefined it as ‘games as a relationship’.

Blatant self-promotion this one. Roast me if you will 🙂

Recently Ubisoft Australia gave me the amazing opportunity to interview Massive Entertainment managing director, David Polfeldt.

Developers of The Division franchise, Polfeldt talks about how the studio changed its entire development strategy after the release of the original and how their new relationship with gamers goes towards shaping the content they produce.

It was a fascinating chat and a great opportunity that I’m quite proud of.

Source: The End Of “Endgame” And Gaming As A Relationship

If The Division was a McDonalds Big Mac, the Dark Zone would be its Special Sauce. The hybrid Player versus Environment versus Player (PvEvP) mode was the original’s crowning “jewel” and for those that dared enter, offered a world of intense high risk action and reward. The same rings true of its sequel, however, as I found out, it does so in a far more fair and enjoyable manner than ever before.

Yours truly, sent on a mission to check out The Division 2’s Dark Zone ahead of its release this upcoming March.

You can read my full preview over at Press Start and check out the three modes of gameplay I was given hands on with in the video above.

Source: We Played The Division 2’s Dark Zone And It’s Still Damn Intense

Sony Interactive Entertainment […] won’t be hosting its annual press conference or showing up at all during next year’s massive E3 expo.

I can’t imagine an E3 without Sony. I’d say this is the beginning of the end for the gigantic gaming trade show but that already started when EA decided to take a major dump on them & open up their own thing next door.

Sony have also cancelled their “PlayStation Experience” event after four years and while this has absolutely nothing to do with their mammoth PS4 sales figures I wouldn’t be surprised if they were to announce another event in the months to come.

E3 is still on next year though and Nintendo, Xbox, Bethesda and others have confirmed they will be there. The question is, for how much longer?

Source: PlayStation Skipping E3 For First Time – Variety

In celebration of one year of Destiny on Battle.net we want to gift you a copy of Destiny 2. Claim now before the offer expires on November 18, 2018.

That’s a pretty sweet deal. All you have to do is log into your Battle.net account and click the “Claim” button before November 18th and it will forever be there for you to play.

Even if you think Destiny isn’t your jam its definitely worth checking out, especially at that price!

Source: Blizzard Gifts

Numerous PS4 owners on Reddit and across social media are warning of a message containing a string of characters that can reportedly cause Sony’s console to seize up and crash

Like the iPhone iMessage bug not long ago this latest occurrence of “messaging gone wild” sees users PS4s crash and in some cases brick due to the console freaking out over its contents.

Suggestions from the community, as Sony haven’t really said much about it yet, are to enable private messaging only – so only your friends can message you and deleting any messages received via the PSN companion app and not touching messages on your PlayStation.

Source: PlayStation 4 reportedly crashing due to malicious message – The Verge