What say ye Sony? Oh, that’s a no then. Sony’s Kaz Hirai puts the kibosh on a Playstation 4 announcement at this year’s E3.

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Wow, is that really F1 2011 running on an Ultrabook? No. But Intel would like you to play along please.

Let me start this piece by saying that I like Intel. That’s it, I just thought it was important to make that clear before you read on.

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Lets keep this short because over the next few months, if you’re interested, you’re going to be reading a lot of rumours about the next Xbox and the Playstation 4.

Yesterday, MCV reported that the next Playstation and the successor to the Xbox 360 will be shown at E3 2012. Now, it’s important to realise that shown doesn’t mean revealed and announced, rather that their existence will be confirmed. MCV apparently have it on good authority that the show in LA will tease to consoles’ existence at the same time (not literally) as Nintendo confirms details of its upcoming Wii U. Read more…

My brain tells me that this is fake and not actually the coolness that is quantum levitation. The idea is pretty epic nonetheless.

What started life as a gaming peripheral has been subject to some incredible “hacks” since it’s release. With Microsoft set to release the first commercial iteration of the Kinect SDK, the possibilities are quite literally limitless. Here’s just a few of the things in the hypothetical pipeline. Needless to say, some of these ideas shouldn’t be too difficult for third party commercial operators to implement when they get their sweaty palms on the SDK.

It looks like EA’s new player collision engine could use a little more work. EA claims that it “processes decisions continuously in real-time at every point of contact on a player’s body.” I would certainly watch more football if this reflected reality.

Hadoken!

Too much Guitar Hero.

Carlsberg don’t make video game Easter Eggs, it’s a good job EA and Crytek do.

Demonstrating the ability of Kinect to track facial expressions, whilst this recent demo of Microsoft’s upcoming Avatar Kinect may not in itself be awe inspiring, it is rather impressive and more importantly, indicative of the device’s potential.