Could Half-Life: Alyx come to console, especially the PS4 and its PSVR hardware? Probably not anytime soon.

2K Games announced today that work is currently being done on a new BioShock, which will be done studio Cloud Chamber. The new development team happens to be split between the 2K San Francisco and Montreal offices, with Kelley Gilmore from Firaxis games being the big boss of this studio.

It’s that time of the year in the run-up to a new console generation knocking on your door: Speculation! The first such dose of what the PlayStation 5 will look like rumour mill has kicked off, a picture of the official dev kit for said console arriving courtesy of Twitter user Alcoholikaust, showcasing a pair of the heavy duty hardware kits and a sneak peek at the next iteration of the Dual Shock 5 controller.

The team behind Control reckons that they'll be able to pull off better-looking and deeper games on the PS5 when it launches.

A couple of weeks ago, patents for cart-based technology hit the web and while it wasn’t proof that Sony was looking to go the Nintendo route, the technology proposed in that mock-up was fascinating stuff. This week’s latest patent once again points towards Sony making use of an SSD system with which to cut down on game loading screens that traditional SATA-based hard drives are plagued with, but it’s the 12 pin layout that suggests that Sony is going all in on solid state drive technology.

So what will the PlayStation 5 controller look like then? Not too different! According to the controller patent that was published in Japan, the changes are subtle but shiny enough to give you instant technolust: Bigger triggers, shrunken analogue sticks and a USB-C port.

In the paraphrased words of Freddie Mercury, can anyone find meeeeeeee, some fresh ps5 details to loooooove? PlayStation CEO and President Jim Ryan might know a thing or two about what fans can expect from that console when it arrives just in time for the 2020 silly season, with the big cheese spilling a bunch of beans yesterday.

Wherever there’s a new console to be launched, you can bet your toastiest of buns that Ubisoft will be there to spread their specific brand across any hardware that’s fresh out of the box. Next year sees two new consoles arrive to herald in the next generation of gaming: Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s next Xbox which is currently operating under the codename of Project Scarlett.