COMPUTING & GAMES from The Verge - Gaming Posts for 04/27/2018

Excerpts: PlayStation 4 sales may have peaked The PlayStation 4 has been a huge success for Sony, but it looks like things are slowing down — at least in terms of hardware sales. The company just announced that it sold 19 million consoles in the 2017 fiscal year after selling 20 million in 2016, and its forecast for the current year ending in March 2019 is 16 million. For comparison, Nintendo expects to sell 20 million Switch consoles in the same period. In total, Sony has sold more than 76 million PS4s, meaning it should overtake the PS3's lifetime figure this year. This isn't necessarily bad news for Sony, because the company is making more money and expects that to continue. The PlayStation business brought in 17.8 percent more revenue year on year, leading to an operating profit... Continue reading… Read on » Nintendo is releasing a new mobile RPG this summer Nintendo is partnering with mobile games company Cygames on a new action RPG for phones. The game, Dragalia Lost, will be released in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau this summer, with subsequent launches to follow in North America and Europe. Nintendo says it will "jointly operate" the title with Cygames, "bringing to life the shared vision of a new gaming experience with worldwide appeal." Cygames is best known for Granblue Fantasy, one of the most popular mobile games in Japan. Like many other Japanese mobile RPGs, it uses a "gacha" system for randomly unlocking new characters through in-game currency bought with real money, a controversial mechanic that Western games have emulated in the form of "loot boxes." (Nintendo already... Continue reading… Read on » Your Alexa device can now help you escape a xenomorph Today is Alien Day — a day 20th Century Fox uses to promote all things Alien. (The date falls on April 26th because of the name of the moon in the first film: LV-426.) One of the things Fox has rolled out this year is a neat Alexa skill called "Offworld Colony Simulator," a game in which you have to escape from a colony without getting eaten by a xenomorph. The skill is available today: go to your Echo or Alexa-enabled device and say "Alexa, open Alien Simulator," and it'll start it up for you. The game is set up as a Weyland-Yutani Corporation beta test for an AI in charge of a colony's security software. It's a simple, turn-based affair where you start off in a base, while Alexa provides you with some information about your... Continue reading… Read on »

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