Wednesday Gaming News – 04/09/13

September 4, 2013

  • We had a tidbit of news yesterday about how the Xbox One would support up to eight controllers at once. Sony boss Shuhei Yoshida has come out swinging with a Twitter statement about how many controllers the PlayStation 4 would support and the answer is… four.
  • According to Eurogamer and CVG, the company were to announce the headset at gamescom last month, but had to postpone. There’s a good chance that the headset will be announced at Tokyo Game Show instead.
  • Excellent news for Timesplitters fans. Timesplitters Rewind, the joint project between fans of the game and former Free Radical employees, is now being developed for PlayStation 4.
  • Fancy a job as a senior environment artist and don’t mind moving to America for it? Firaxis Games, studio behind the Civilization and XCOM series, are hiring.
  • Shin Dynasty Warriors Gundam is in development for PlayStation 3 and Vita, reports Siliconera. The game is to be released in December this year and will feature an original story as well as campaigns from Mobile Suit Gundam Seed and Mobile Suit Gundam UC to follow.
  • Here’s a trailer for the upcoming Harmonix-developed rhythm game, Fantasia: Music Evolved: