Shit. Mercenary was amazing... I would totally play it again on a bigger monitor with a controller in hand. Dangit, I already own a Vita and a PS4. Plus I am planning on buying an Xperia Z3 tablet. Not about to buy a PS TV too, but it just got tempting for the first time :S

Haha, totally.

QUOTE | "You must be able to continue to play as long as you want, whenever you want, for as long as you want without paying." - COO Kristian Segerstrale of Super Evil Megacorp, talking about how free-to-play games should work, and how they are doing just that with their tablet MOBA Vainglory.

I might have bought one back then too. But since there is now an excellent driver for the Dualshock 4, that even allows me to use it to control everything on my PC without ever even touching a mouse, I'm good! I can only hope that some day we can customize the button prompts in games to match our controller of coice,…

Or is the whole situation really not a problem at all? Is it just one more meaningless issue for a core group of enthusiast players to complain about?

Chris Wright mentioned the paralysis of choice that comes with multiple different editions of the same game, but EB Games claims there is no such issue. It claims that clear in-store marketing and well-informed staff ensure that consumers are always aware of what's available to them.

For those of you interested in the phone's non-PlayStation features, Gizmodo's got a lovely run-down of the Xperia Z3's technical prowess. What we're concerned about is that Remote Play functionality. Is it enough of a draw to get you to consider switching to a Sony phone come November?

That's another reason for my reticence to buy the new model, but I tend to actually like more subtle colours, so I might like it. I would definitely go look at one on display before I decide. I really value the idea of a lighter Vita though, so the screen isn't necessarily the most important spec for me... so long as…

A more simple option for fixing the Vita's ergonomics is the PDP Trigger Grips (I don't know why it's plural). There's no battery boost with the PDP, but the fact that it's on sale for $6 today is what inspired this article.

Thanks the Maker it's just a concept. A more useful interface might be a screen telling the user to take off the goggles and watch your stuff on TV.

I agree that this is the wrong set of bonuses to get upset over, but I suspect Stephen (and I can say the same of myself) has been getting more and more annoyed with these pre-order 'choices' and this is just the one over which he 'popped'. I've done that before. You get upset over something and when you pop, it seems…

Reply to self: Holy crap that mode looks like ridiculous fun!

Truth be told, I'd sort of been steering clear of this one after its first footage looked a bit bland and uninspired, but this is the kind of rampant silliness I can totally get behind. The video comes to us courtesy of Rock Paper Shotgun, who also captured some of the (still in early access alpha) game's more…

Those Speakers: I love front-facing speakers on tablets. Some folks see those lines of dots and feel they ruin the aesthetic or take up too much space, but not me. After years of cupping my hand about the bottom of my iPad so I could actually hear anything, those little rows of dots are more than welcome on the front…

Interaction during loading. Watching your ship for what seems like forever is egregious, having us at least be able to make it rotate or spin or something with the analogue sticks would be a nice, patience-enabling touch.

Titanfall has been out for a little while now, and it's settled into a normal rhythm for an online shooter. There are some new maps, some new modes, and a lot of people who have gotten very good at it. But the question remains: How many people who were playing in March are still playing now?

QUOTE | "It will start to tail off because the people who play the games will recognize when they're about to be nickled and dimed, and stop playing them." - MMO pioneer Richard Bartle, arguing that free-to-play games have a "half-life" and will soon start to fail.

You just made me realize how similar F2P is to arcade gaming of when I was a kid. The kids who had unlimited quarters loved the arcade, those with only a few to spend would really want to play, but only got a bite size of the game. So you wouldn't want to play a game you'd only be happy about if you saw the end at the…

Did the latest update not fix that? I haven't used Shadowplay since, but the update notes mentioned that it would play nicer with Premiere now...

Lol, same here... Strange :P