When will Splinter Cell be revived? According to UbiBoss Yves Guillemot, it's a more a matter of when rather than if.

For so many years, Sony has been leading that charge with PlayStation brand. We’re looking at the twilight of their fourth console, a machine that has helped not only make gaming more mainstream, but also more legitimate in the eyes of a public that once considered these devices to be nothing more than murder simulator boxes. So what does the future hold in store for PlayStation and gaming in general?

There’s no sugar-coating one indisputable fact in the gaming industry: EA’s handling of the franchise, has been nothing more than a colossal f***-up of note. Five years into the contract, and the sole provider of Star Wars games on current console and PC platforms has managed to churn out…two games. Now granted, making video games isn’t easy. But if we had our way, we'd be swimming in dream games already.

In the latest Bungie blog, Destiny franchise director Luke Smith penned a letter on the game and it’s “bright future”. “In the short-term, we're continuing to build the content we’ve promised for the Annual Pass,” Smith wrote.

Speaking to LevelUp, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said he didn’t think consoles as you know them are going away any time soon. Instead, they’ll supplement what we already have, giving players choice.

What does the next generation hold in store for gamers? If current trends are to be believed, it’s a future where streaming games plays a large role. Microsoft and Sony are looking to move away from traditional physical media for games, instead offering their best titles as cloud-based products. That’s an idea which can’t be supported without some of the biggest players in the game joining in on that act, and it sounds like EA is keen to head to the cloud as well with whatever console hardware is on the way.

Rumour suggests that Microsoft isn’t just working on one next gen console, but two. The first will be the traditional console, packed with the hardware capable of running games, while the other will apparently be more of a set-top box that’ll run games from the cloud. During the investor’s call over their recently posted financial, Activision believes that cloud-based video gaming will be a boon for the industry. They don’t, however, believe the industry is ready for it just yet.

Times change, and while Harley Davidson’s softails and big hogs are still something to gawk at, they’re just not scratching a certain itch for riders. The company wants to change all of that soon however, with several new motorcycles that range from endurance-ready behemoths to eco-friendly electric engine-driven transportation.