Gaming News of The Week

This week had enough gaming news to keep me excited for the rest of the year.  Today, we get to cover a little bit of Playstation, Final Fantasy XIV and Guild Wars 2 news!

Playstation 4 Launching This Holiday Season

The Playstation 4 was announced earlier this week.  It is set to be released in the later part of the year during the holiday season.  It is said to have 8gb of system memory and houses a highly enhanced PC GPU and a custom chip that has 8 cores.  For full specs, take a look here.

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Benchmark Test Available

Square Enix has released a Benchmark test for potential players to use to see if their computers make the cut to play their re-release of their second MMO of the Final Fantasy franchise.  The benchmark will run through a series of scenes full of particle effects to test the effectiveness of your machine and give you a score in the end to see how it runs.  They stress on their page that this is NOT the game and you can not play the game using this benchmark so don't expect much from this other than just another way to see how your computer performs.  If you would like to try the benchmark your self, you canf ind it on the official Final Fantasy XIV website.

Guild Wars 2 Trailer for Guild Missions Revealed

Arenanet released a trailer for Guild Missions today.  Not really much can be said about this except that it looks promising and seems to exceed what I was hoping for when I was asking for content for guilds to do as a group and I am excited to give this a shot.  Richie Procopio at Gamebreaker TV did a great article about it here.

And now to cut this a little short because it is time to get to work but if there are any other games or news you would like me to cover next week, feel free to leave a comment and let me know!  I am always willing to look into new things.  See you guys next week!