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While there have been morsels of PlayStation 4 information doled out since the consoles coming out party, Sony really hasnt had the chance to speak at length about the product since February. At least, not until today. Here in San Francisco, Sony Computer Entertainment America Senior Staff Engineer Chris Norton hosted a Game Developers Conference panel titled Developing for the PS4. While a lot of the speech was heady technical stuff, there were some very interesting reveals. Here they are.

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Sony went into a deep dive on the PlayStation 4 during a session at the 2013 Game Developers Conference today, giving attendees details on the console's user interface, account features and social functionality. Chris Norton, senior staff engineer from the strategy team for developer services and support at Sony Computer Entertainment America, showed off the console's interface and pointed out that it will show information about a game including comments from other players and downloadable content before you boot up a game.

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GE: "Sony is currently hosting a presentation at the Game Developers Conference to cover new aspects about the PlayStation 4."

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X360A: "A Senior Game Designer at Microsoft Game Studios believes that Far Cry 3's narrative is broken. Speaking at the Game Developers Conference in a session titled 'Seven Techniques for Writing a Moral Game', Richard Rouse III said that Far Cry 3's story failed because of the disconnect between its story and its action."

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X360A: "Talking at this years Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Senior Behaviour AI Tech Lead, Richard Dumas, said that Assassins Creed IIIs new dynamic climbing engine wasnt showcased as much as we would have liked in the game."

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Hideo Kojima has arrived in San Francisco, where the Game Developers Conference 2013 is in progress. Tomorrow Kojima, together with a few other Kojima Productions staff members, will be holding a 90 minute presentation on the Fox Engine and Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes. Today he was at the venue where the presentation will be held, for some rehearsals.

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Ben Cousins remarks on current state of industry, saying "big companies are finding it difficult to steer their supertankers."

Former Electronic Arts manager and Battlefield producer Ben Cousins believes the industry is in a state of chaos. Speaking to , the industry veteran, now a manager at DeNA, said the biggest publishers are having difficulty retaining staff amid the boom of mobile platforms.

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Walt Williams says violent games not bad or wrong, just too easy; would like to see more hopeful characters written in the future.

writer Walt Williams believes violent games are, creatively speaking, too easy. Speaking today during a Game Developers Conference panel, Williams lamented the ubiquitous use of killing in many first-person shooters, saying such actions have become not only mundane, but also run-of-the-mill, and at times even used as filler.

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Walt Williams says violent games not bad or wrong, just too easy; would like to see more hopeful characters written in the future.

writer Walt Williams believes violent games are, creatively speaking, too easy. Speaking today during a Game Developers Conference panel, Williams lamented the ubiquitous use of killing in many first-person shooters, saying such actions have become not only mundane, but also run-of-the-mill, and at times even used as filler.