By Steve Boxer
Inevitably, at some point this Christmas, your family gathering will involve playing group games. But if you’re sick of your eccentric uncle’s bumbling efforts at charades, or fed up with losing to your dad at Trivial Pursuit, fear not: Sony’s PlayStation 4 has a new feature that can revitalise the annual post-turkey shenanigans.
Called PlayLink, it was released last month, with surprisingly little fanfare. But it adds an intriguing trick to the PlayStation 4’s capabilities, which should prove very handy indeed as you catch up with your family this Christmas. In a nutshell, PlayLink allows you to control certain PS4 games (that is, those specifically created for the PlayLink system) with mobile phones, as opposed to DualShock 4 controllers.
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Martin Alltimes, CEO of The Imaginati Studio, which has created a PlayLink game called Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, highlights aspects of PlayLink that attracted him to the system: “Think about how many PlayStations are sitting in people’s homes, but are only played by one person in that house. What’s brilliant about PlayLink is that everyone’s got a mobile phone, so there is no need to buy that £50 …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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