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.

According to Epic, "Erebus" was in fact code for the Switch version of Fortnite and not a next-generation console.

A new PlayStation coming later this year? Don't bet on it.

According to a paywalled article, the PlayStation 5 will use AMD’s Navi architecture as the base for the next system. coup-led with a Zen CPU - and it could be out this year.

Where’s the PlayStation 5, or are we in for another repeat of the PlayStation 3 era that lasted a good couple of years longer than the regular hardware refresh cycle? Maybe not, because it sounds like the PlayStation 5 rumours are going to start picking up steam soon. That’s according to the sometimes accurate, sometimes not scoops of industry insider Marcus Sellers, who claims that developers are currently playing around with dev kits of the PlayStation 5 console.

The PlayStation 4 is still solid, the PlayStation 4 Pro is solid…er. A PlayStation 5 won’t be seen for a while, right? NOPE! Because according to at least one reliable insider who managed to predict Sony Hardware with uncanny accuracy, a PlayStation 5 is coming sooner than you’d expect, the actual date will shock you like my attempts at clickbait. Psst, 2018.

It’s not too hard to imagine that a successor Sony console will be on the way soon, a PlayStation 5 which will feature games with graphics crisper than a PlayStation 3 era CGI scene. But if the last console cycle taught us anything, it’s that developers are more than happy to spend several years on one platform.

According to a job listing, Sony's hard at work doing R&D on the PlayStation 5.