Articles tagged with 'ps4':
"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" he chortled in his joy.
Remember that Marvel Lego saved game that the PS4 was showing as 'Corrupted Data'? The one my son had sunk hours and hours into? The one I wrote about last week?
read more ⇒Last night, after my son had finished all the other things he had to do, we went downstairs to play some more Lego Marvel on the PS4, to build up some more gold bricks and studs, buy more characters, and, frankly, just to spend some time doing what my son loves (video games).
After we'd been playing for twenty minutes, the game crashed. The PS4 and its early titles are pretty crashy for me, so this wasn't a total surprise. It doesn't happen during every gaming session, but it's not so infrequent that either one of us was really put off.
However, when we loaded Lego Marvel again, we discovered that the loading screen, instead of showing a 55%-ish complete saved game, now showed 'Corrupted Data'.
read more ⇒My son wanted Skylanders: Swap Force for Christmas. Our aging collection of consoles (XBox, PS2, Wii) wasn't a good fit. Only the Wii would play it, and the Wii version of Swap Force has a reputation for being glitchy.
The Wii U has had a rough start, so I didn't seriously consider it. I briefly considered getting a previous-generation console (PS3, XBox 360), which would have given us access to a library of older games and probably allowed us to play many new console games for a year or two. I suspect that might have been the best choice, but the enthusiast in me wanted the PS4, and I was somewhat nervous that we might be in this same position next year with a new game requested for Christmas that can run on PS4 but not on PS3.
So after Santa brought my son a PS4, Skylanders: Swap Force, Knack and a second DualShock 4, I tried hard not to go wild and buy myself a bunch of games. I mostly succeeded.
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