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E3 is consistently the most exciting time of the year for gamers everywhere and this year should be no different. The event kicks off in just a handful of days, so if you want to tune in to any of the major conferences to catch the announcements live, then look no …

Way back in the late 80s and early 90s, Nintendo and Sony formed an alliance, bringing to life what we now refer to as the ‘PlayStation SNES'. This prototype console was essentially a Super Nintendo with a CD-ROM drive built in, allowing it to play discs and cartridges. The relationship …

It looks like our time with the PlayStation 3 is coming to an end, as this week it was revealed that the console has reached the end of its lifespan, with Sony ceasing production this week. A moment of silence is surely in order as the historic games console gets …

Although a number of experiences on the PlayStationVR platform will simply see your hands or head disappear into nothing if you step outside of the camera's tracking range, that's not how Rise of the Tomb Raider handles it. In its Blood Ties VR expansion, moving Lara to the edge of …

A few weeks ago, it was discovered that Sony was in the process of trying to trademark the term ‘Let's Play', despite the fact that it is a generic term used by the gaming community at large. At first, the US Patent and Trademark Office told Sony that it would …

Sony has made a fairly big change to the way it handles its PlayStation business this week. For years, Sony's first party games and the PlayStation division have come under the name ‘Sony Computer Entertainment' but now, Sony is merging its Computer Entertainment and its Network Entertainment businesses to form …

Fighting off the monstrously large Titans in the world of Attack on Titan is a rather creepy experience. Whether you've read through the manga or watched the anime, those 10 story tall, nude-with-no-genitals monsters are always unnerving. The upcoming game for the , Vita, PS3 and PS4 has certainly captured …

Epic Games has been teasing a new flagship title called Paragon for a while now. We've met some of its stand-out characters over the last few weeks, detailing their strengths and powers, but without the context of what the game was about, it didn't make much sense. Now it does, …

One of the best aspects of Attack on Titan, is that the enemies aren't disgusting in the traditional zombie sense, but they are unbelieveably creepy. It's not clear which side of the uncanny valley they're trying to haul themselves up, but they are there, and that's certainly the case in …

Earlier this year, a super rare prototype of Nintendo and Sony's collaboration console was found in what seemed like perfect condition and photos of it appeared online. Only 200 of these consoles were ever made, most of which were thrown out after the project fell apart. Now for the first …

Shuhei Yoshida, president of worldwide studios at Sony Computer Entertainment, compares PlayStation VR platform to the original PlayStation and claims that in 20 years’ time virtual reality experience will evolve as dramatically as 3D games have evolved since the original PlayStation. “As a developer, I am super-excited about the potential …

When Sony Corp. unveiled its project Morpheus early last year, it was clear that the company was very serious about equipping its PlayStation 4 video game console with a virtual reality head-mounted display. The PlayStation VR device will finally hit the market in 2016 and will be accompanied by a …

Being designed primarily for video games, virtual reality headsets will unlikely become popular overnight after they hit the market in 2016, but several years down the road their installed base will approach that of certain game consoles, according to a study from Juniper Research. Analysts from Juniper Research predict that …

Sony Computer Entertainment’s PlayStation 4 system is the fastest selling game console in history. Sales dynamics of Sony’s PS4 suggests that it does not need a price-cut to remain popular. Nonetheless, the company announced plans to reduce the price of its PlayStation 4 starting from the 1st of October. The …

Constrained amount of internal storage is one of the major limitations of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 video game system, but fortunately the hard drive of PS4 is user upgradeable. Specially for those, who want not only to expand internal storage capacities of their PlayStation 4 consoles, but also to speed …

Sony Corp. on Thursday announced that global shipments of its latest PlayStation 4 video game consoles have surpassed 25 million units. Apparently, sales of PS4 are not only good, by they exceed shipments of all competing products from Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo combined. Sony Computer Entertainment managed to sell whopping …

One advantage PC gaming has over console gaming, is that there are portable versions of those platforms that we can take around with us. They're called laptops and you have to look far and wide to find a console equivalent. They are out there though, like the Xbox and PlayStation …

Advanced Micro Devices recently started to design its third semi-custom accelerated processing unit for an undisclosed customer. Some believe that this third semi-custom system-on-chip will eventually power Nintendo’s next-generation game console code-named “NX”. However, AMD claims that the new SoC “expands the base” of its semi-custom business beyond gaming, which …

Although sales of Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One are strong in the U.S., in Europe the situation is different and sales of the platform are rather low. Microsoft admits that it has issues in Europe and needs to somehow improve sales of its game consoles in the region. “We need to …

This year Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 turns two years old and normally it is time to cut the price of the system in order to increase its sales. But while it is logical for Sony to reduce the price of the console, Sony claims that PS4  is doing so well that …

Kerbal Space Program is a game that has proved decriers of Early Access wrong, by steadily updating its space building management, flight sim, into the finished product it is today. But of course, being only available on PC, it's audience isn't as wide as it perhaps could be. Which is …

Although many people would like to use their PlayStation 3 game discs on their PlayStation 4 game consoles, Sony Computer Entertainment does not have plans to enable backwards compatibility with previous-gen titles. Initially, neither Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One nor Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 were compatible with games designed for previous-generation …

Not offering refunds on software is one of the most anti-consumer practices used in the digital age of gaming. However, it looks like people are beginning to wise up as The BBC is airing an episode of Watchdog tonight, investigating Sony's PlayStation Network store and its lack of digital refund …

Just a few days ago, Bioware surprised us all with new single player content for Dragon Age Inquisition, the DLC known as ‘Jaws of Hakkon’ is now available for the Xbox One and PC but PlayStation and Xbox 360 owners will get their chance to play it in May, it …

PlayStation Music Unlimited is officially dead and has now been taken over by Spotify on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. Over the last six months, Sony has been working with Spotify to build its debut console app. The console app will be available to free Spotify users as well …

Microsoft Corp. does not want to lose this round of game console wars to Sony Corp., which is why it takes bold actions like unbundling Kinect motion sensor from Xbox One or temporarily cutting the system’s price. According to a financial analyst, Microsoft will not be able to return the …

Sony hasn't been in the best financial position recently but the company’s PlayStation division is continuing to help keep the company afloat, generating £3 billion in revenue during the third quarter (holiday season) last year. That made for a pretty big sales boost, generating an extra 16.8 per cent year …

Sony Computer Entertainment said this week that it would release its virtual reality headset called project Morpheus in the first half of 2016, but said nothing about the price. According to Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony's Worldwide Studios, developing an affordable device was not the goal that Sony’s engineers had. …

Sony Computer Entertainment unveiled a new prototype of its code-named project Morpheus virtual reality headset at the Game Developers Conference. The new version of the device should improve user experience by enabling improved picture quality and tracking. In addition, Sony said that it will release its VR gear commercially in …

Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 continues to demonstrate incredible sales dynamics never seen before in the history of video game consoles. At the Game Developers Conference the platform holder revealed that cumulative sales of PS4 systems had surpassed 20 million units worldwide. As of the 1st of March, 2015, sales of …