God of War Ascension Multiplayer Beta Open to Everyone
Sony has unlocked the God of War: Ascension multiplayer beta for everyone with a US PSN account. The beta will last until Monday, January 22, 12:00am PST.
Redeem the universal code using the US Store to get into action if you haven’t already:
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Sony also announced a full-fledged God of War: Ascension demo will debut in late February offering a good portion of the game campaign.
Sony PS4 and Microsoft Xbox 720 Rumors Round-up
The rumor mill regarding Sony and Microsoft next-gen consoles will not stop before the grand unveil which is due in June E3 game exhibition or a bit earlier.
A look at what you expect from both consoles, Playstation 4, PS4 (internally referred to as Orbis) and its Microsoft rival XBox 720 (internally referred to as Durango). Both consoles will feature 8-core CPUs clocked at 1.6GHz based on the new “Jaguar†technology by AMD which is currently in development. The new technology is said to offer great power consumption and raw performance.
Orbis will sport a SoC architecture packed with the latest GPU Radeon 7970M running at 850MHz and featuring 20 of AMD’s “Graphics Core Next†compute units. This specs offer up to 1.84 teraflops metric. On the other side, Durango, will probably use Radeon HD 8770 GPU, featuring 1.23 teraflops. This gives PS4 about 50% of raw power advantage.
Orbis is also said to feature 4GB of GDDR5 RAM with 512MB reserved for the operating system. While Durango is rumored to sport a set of 8GB DDR3 RAM of which 3GB reserved for the OS.
Take these speculations with a bunch of salt and expect more information and leaks on the way.
The Phantom Pain could be Metal Gear Solid 5
During 2012 VGA awards, The Phantom Pain has been revealed with a trailer that is made entirely of gameplay footage, featured a character with a hook for an arm who wakes up in a hospital after a crash and suffering from a coma afterward.
Developed by, Moby Dick Studio, which is supposedly based in Sweden and has acquired licenses to develop for Xbox 360 and PS3. The CEO of the studio is Joakim Morgen (kojima OGRE)?
Check out the trailer at the 10:40 mark in the video below:
From the shaky camera, fonts, tilt-shift effect and the character that looks like a skinny Big Boss, if you remember during the unveiling of Metal gears Solids Ground Zeroes one of the taglines read: From FOX, two phantoms were born. Could this be the second phantom in Metal Gear Solid 5?
For more interesting analysis by YongYea check out the video below:
Update:
The trailer is released in full 1080p. Watch it below:
