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News Sony Reveals State of Play, a Series of Live Broadcasts Covering PS4 Announcements
It begins
No E3? No problem! We've been wondering for a while what Sony will do this year since it's not at the Los Angeles expo, and here's your answer. As many predicted, the Japanese giant will be hosting a series of live broadcasts, the first of which is only a few days away, on the 25th March. It begins at 14:00 Pacific, so that's 21:00 UK...
News Sony's Spending a Fortune on MLB The Show 19 Commercials This Season
Ballin'
Sony’s released more MLB The Show 19 trailers on its YouTube channel this month than we’ve eaten custard creams. The company’s really pushing this season’s game hard, which makes sense considering it’s a very consistent seller in the United States. In fact, it’s blowing so much marketing budget that it’s released multiple...
News Days Gone Looks Like Another Achievable PS4 Platinum Trophy
Saddle up
Sony has mastered the art of excellent Trophy design in recent years, with Horizon: Zero Dawn, Marvel’s Spider-Man, and God of War all serving up entertaining Platinums. And it looks like the upcoming Days Gone will be no different, with its list of leaked trinkets looking achievable – without being obnoxious like some games. Posted...
Poll Do You Think Google Stadia and Streaming Are the Future of Video Games?
Check that connection
Is streaming the future of video games? Google certainly wants you to think so. Earlier this week, the company revealed its plans for Stadia, a streaming platform that, in theory, allows for the instantaneous streaming of big, AAA, modern video games through any device supported by Google. On paper it's an impressive concept...
Reaction How Will Google's Stadia Affect PlayStation?
Cloud strife
Google announced its ambitious game streaming platform Stadia this week, and it’s a hot point of conversation for the entire industry. But does it represent a paradigm shift in terms of game delivery, and what does it all mean for PlayStation moving forward? Our esteemed editors weigh in. Sammy Barker, Editor: Even a root canal...
News Quantic Dream's Detroit: Become Human Heading to PC
Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls also lined up for Epic Games Store
Humanity has a price, and Epic Games is willing to pay it. Quantic Dream’s trilogy of ex-PlayStation exclusives are coming to the PC, which means that Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human will no longer be tethered solely to Sony’s systems. Controversially, the...
News 10 Years Later, Killzone 2 Is Still a Stunning Visual and Technical Showcase
Sev! Sev! SEV!
Phwoar, remember Killzone 2? The PlayStation 3 exclusive hit with a bang back in February 2009, and it was the first time Guerrilla Games really blew people away with its mastery of Sony's tech. The Dutch developer would go on to craft the gorgeous Horizon: Zero Dawn on PlayStation 4, but let's just take a moment to remember the...
News Sony's Got March Madness as Loads of New Offers Begin on EU PlayStation Store
Discounts galore
The European PS Store is once again hosting some new deals, but as has become the norm, there's a ludicrous number of games going cheap across various sales. The main offer this time is called March Madness, but Sony has also introduced a PlayStation Retro sale, and there are new games going for less than €20. Let's take a quick...
News PlayStation Could Have Fresh Competition in Stadia, Google's New Game Streaming Platform
The power of the cloud
Google just announced Stadia, its new streaming platform for playing video games. In a lot of ways, this could be our first real look at a next-gen console -- except it's not actually a console. The gist of it is that with Stadia, you'll be able to play full games, like Assassin's Creed Odyssey, immediately through the power...
Talking Point PS Now's Delivering Our Streaming Future, So Why Is Sony the Underdog?
Every cloud and all that
PlayStation’s history is pocked with missed opportunities. Sony was first to the casual game boom with PlayStation 2 party games like SingStar and Buzz, but it allowed Nintendo to waltz in with the Wii and take that audience away. It was doing controller-less gaming long before anyone at Xbox had even uttered the words...
News Sony Files Trademark for Long Lost PS4 Exclusive WiLD
Returning from the wilderness?
PlayStation 4 exclusive WiLD was originally announced all the way back in 2014. Since then, we've seen little of Michael Ancel's project, with it briefly resurfacing in 2015, and showing up again in 2017. When it was revealed that Ancel was working on
News Days Gone Details Its Seriously Impressive Photo Mode
So many options
PlayStation 4 exclusives sure love their photo modes, don't they? Next in line for release, Days Gone will naturally have its own screenshot-snapping feature, and it's especially in-depth. Detailed on the PlayStation Blog, it sounds pretty impressive. "From the Characters panel, users can toggle character and bike visibility as well...
News Does This Sony Patent Suggest It's Working on a Wireless PSVR?
Freedom
Virtual reality is pretty amazing in its current form, but there are definitely areas in which it can be improved. PlayStation VR does its best to limit the number of necessary wires, but depending on what you're playing, the physical connection can be anything from a nuisance to an outright danger. Needless to say, the sooner VR can go...
What could it be?
There's plenty we don't know about what goes on within the game industry, but it's pretty obvious to suggest there are plenty of projects being worked on right now we have no idea exists. Colin Moriarty, forging his own path post-Kinda Funny, no doubt has plenty of connections, so he's probably more in the know than most. In a...
News Ginormous NA PS Store Sale Discounts 100s of Games, PS Plus Subscriptions
Buckle up
Money burning a hole in your pocket? How about a North American PlayStation Store sale that’s seen hundreds of games discounted through 26th March. This promotion is so colossal that we’re actually struggling to pick out a handful of highlights, but Castlevania: Requiem ($9.99), Grand Theft Auto V ($14.99), and Horizon: Zero Dawn...
News The PS4 Weekend Flash Sale Returns on EU PlayStation Store
More new offers up for grabs
The EU PS Store's newfound tradition of weekend-long sales continues, as Sony has dug up a handful of new PlayStation 4 discounts. Though only half a dozen games are included, there's a fair amount of variety this time around. Kicking things off is Call of Duty: WWII -- the Gold Edition, which includes the first DLC...
News No Man's Sky Beyond Is the Next Big Update Coming to the Space Exploration Title
Above and beyond
Even before you hop into the game itself, No Man's Sky has been on quite the journey, hasn't it? It's had more ups and downs than a department store elevator, going from overwhelming hype before release to disappointment at launch. Hello Games' ongoing project has been improved immensely since it arrived in 2016, and it seems to be...
News Astro Bot Rescue Mission Director Says Comparisons to Mario are 'Very Flattering'
Nicolas Doucet on the PSVR platformer's development
One of 2018's best games, virtual reality or not, was Astro Bot Rescue Mission, a fresh, innovative PlayStation VR platformer that's an absolute joy to play from start to finish. So well produced is the game, in fact, that it's seen a crazy number of comparisons to Nintendo's platforming icon. When...
News Sony Says There's No Truth in Take Two Acquisition Rumours
Hostile takeover out of the equation
Sony was apparently in advanced board level discussions to acquire Take Two this week, which would grant it ownership of blockbuster franchises such as Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and BioShock. Of course,
News God of War Leads BAFTA Games Awards 2019 Nominations
God of Awards?
The BAFTA Games Awards is about to get into full swing, and it's just released its list of nominees. As has become somewhat of a trend, it's Santa Monica Studio's God of War at the front of the pack with a total of 10 nominations. The Performer category is where the game excels, with four nominations out of six, but it's also in the...
Rumour Sony in Advanced Board Level Discussions to Acquire Take Two
Push square to doubt
There’s eff all happening in the games industry at the minute, so how about a hot rumour to rustle your jimmies this evening. Market Watch is reporting that stock in Take Two interactive is up following speculation that Sony is in “advanced board level discussions to acquire [the publisher] in a mostly cash deal”. This...
News PlayStation Japan Returns with Another Great PS4 Games Lineup Video
Play In Da House
You can always count on PlayStation's Japanese wing to come up with high energy sizzle reels of new and upcoming PS4 games. Another one recently emerged on the PlayStation Japan YouTube channel, and you can see it above. As usual, it's a fast, slick presentation of recent and incoming PS4 games set to music, and it's a fun watch...
News Ex-Uncharted Movie Writer Joe Carnahan Calls Neil Druckmann a 'Jerkoff'
Says he "stole credit" for Naughty Dog series
The history of the Uncharted film is a long, rocky road. The adaptation has been in the works for such a long time, and various people have come and gone from the project. One such person was Joe Carnahan, a Hollywood writer on action flicks like Smokin' Aces and The A-Team. He hopped aboard the...
News PlayStation Now Launches Across Several European Countries Today
The PS Now beta is over
Earlier in the year, Sony announced it would be bringing its streaming service, PS Now, to a handful of additional European countries after a long wait. The platform holder rolled out a beta test for the PlayStation 4's games-on-demand service across seven territories before a full launch. Well, the beta test is over, and...
News The Division 2 Creative Director Reckons Death Stranding Will Be 'Timeless' After Studio Visit
Nothing divisive about this
Julian Gerighty, creative director on The Division 2, has tweeted about his experiences over the course of the game's development. More specifically, Gerighty says that the team received support from loads of other developers, and includes a photo of himself standing alongside Hideo Kojima. Gerighty clearly paid a...
News Days Gone Will Get Post-Launch DLC, But Details Are Underwraps
The world will keep coming for you
While it hasn’t applied to every first-party game, we’ve rather enjoyed Sony’s DLC strategy this generation. Games like Horizon: Zero Dawn and Marvel’s Spider-Man have been expanded with enormous add-on packs, and it sounds like there will be more content coming to Days Gone after its release on 26th April...
News PlayStation Goes Hard on Captain Marvel Advertising
Sony's own infinity stones
If you're making the trip to a local cinema over the weekend for Captain Marvel, you may be in for more of a PlayStation 4-based feast than you were originally expecting. Marvel's first female-lead superhero film features multiple trailers for already released and upcoming PS4 games in the ad roll that plays prior to the...
News Sony Censorship Row Re-erupts with Inexplicable Devil May Cry 5 Edit
The butt of the joke
Uh-oh, the Sony censorship row has re-erupted – and this time it involves a big-name game, rather than a niche Japanese visual novel. Fans have noticed that in Devil May Cry 5 there are additional lens flares in the PlayStation 4 version of the game, ob
News Days Gone Development Is Complete Ahead of April Launch on PS4
Days Gone gold
The next PS4 exclusive from Sony's Worldwide Studios is ready to go. Development has officially wrapped on Days Gone, the open world survival game from Bend Studio, achieving the status known as having gone gold. The team, pictured in the above tweet, has reached this milestone in plenty of time ahead of the game's 26th April...
Hands On Days Gone Has Some of the Flashiest Menus on PS4
User inter-ace
One thing we can be confident of: Days Gone has awesome menus. We haven’t waxed lyrical about a title’s user interface since the hazy days of Persona 5, but Sony Bend’s upcoming open world survival horror does have a pretty nifty pause screen. You can bring it up by pushing the touchpad or by swiping in one of four directions,...
News Guerrilla Games Has Doubled Its Women Workforce in a Year
Aloy's influence
Guerrilla Games has doubled the number of women under its employment since last year’s International Women’s Day, meaning that there are more talented ladies within the Amsterdam studio’s ranks than ever before. Managing Director Hermen Hulst revealed the tidbit on Twitter, alongside a photograph of some of its team members...
News Dreams PS4 Beta Participants Made More Than 35,000 Creations
Media Molecule shares infographic
The creator beta test for Dreams ended just over a month ago, and it was by and large a big success for the ambitious Media Molecule project. Since then, we've had the news that the game will be launching in Early Access soon, so it won't be long before even more people can get to grips with it. The stu
News EU PlayStation Store Flash Sale Brings More Weekend Offers on PS4 Games
A bit of everything
It's Friday, everyone, which means it's time to talk about the latest weekend flash sale on the European PlayStation Store. This time, there's an interesting mix of PS4 titles going cheap, from first person shooters to JRPGs. Destiny 2: Forsaken is a main feature in this sale, with various permutations of the add-on content...
News Sony Spotlights Some of Its Top Talent on International Women's Day
A look behind the curtain at Worldwide Studios
As part of International Women’s Day, Sony has released a pretty cool trailer peeking behind the curtain at several of its first-party teams. The inspirational clip, which naturally focuses on ladies, spotlights employees from a variety of different disciplines, including programmers, artists,...
News PS4's Free International Women's Day Theme Is Ace
Girl power
It’s officially International Women’s Day today, and Sony is celebrating with an awesome PlayStation 4 theme that’s going to give your console a jolt of girl power. Designed by Guerrilla Games concept artist Choro Choi, the theme features several Sony leading ladies, including Aloy (Horizon: Zero Dawn), Chloe (Uncharted: The Lost...
News China Hero Project Announces Seven More Games for PS4
Something for everyone
PlayStation has been making waves in the Chinese market over the past few years, offering support and funds to budding developers in the region, and it looks like the fruits of their efforts are starting to ripen. At an event overnight, the China Hero Project announced a further seven games for PS4, joining the likes of Lost...
News PS4 Firmware Update 6.50 Released, Adds Remote Play for iOS Devices
Download it now
A little while back, you may remember hearing that beta invites were being sent out for PlayStation 4 firmware update 6.50. It was said to include "no major consumer-facing features," which essentially means no PSN username changes. However, PS4 firmware 6.50 is now ready and available for download, and it does add one or two small...
Talking Point Would You Buy a Disc-Less PS4 Console?
Embracing the digital future
Microsoft is believed to be in the advanced stages of releasing a disc-less Xbox One S console, imaginatively named – wait for this one – the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition. While that’s a title straight out of the hallowed halls of a Redmond office if ever we’ve seen one, strong speculation suggests the device...
News BioWare 'Working Closely' with Sony to Fix ANTHEM's Unacceptable PS4 Shutdown Crashes
Crash and burn
This ANTHEM story has blown up over the last few days, and it doesn't show any signs of slowing down. In case you missed the news, ANTHEM currently has an issue on PS4 where the game can suddenly crash, and we're not talking about it just booting you back to the system menu -- we're talking full-on shutdowns that can do permanent...
News Death Stranding Development 'Slightly' Behind Schedule, Says Hideo Kojima
"Many studios lag behind the planned release date"
Legendary game designer Hideo Kojima is notorious for his perfectionism bringing big delays to his games. Many are concerned that PS4 exclusive Death Stranding will fall victim to this as well, but the creator does his best to quell these fears in a new interview with Japanese site J-Wave. We only...
News Lots of New EU PlayStation Store Sales Start Today, Huge Variety of Games Discounted
Spend, spend, spend
Crikey, it seems like half the games on the EU PlayStation Store are in one deal or another right now. Sony's announced several new offers going live today on its digital storefront, and odds are there will be something here you've been waiting to be reduced. Firstly, a sale focusing on EA titles includes Battlefield V, FIFA 19,...
Interview Sony Bend on Open Worlds and Deacon St. John in Days Gone
Plus, could Syphon Filter return?
John Garvin has worked at Sony Bend for an eternity, shipping titles such as Syphon Filter, Resistance Retribution, and Uncharted: Golden Abyss. But with the release of Days Gone this year, the Oregon-based outfit is arguably undertaking its biggest endeavour yet. We caught up with the veteran writer to chat about...
Hands On Can Days Gone Keep Sony's First-Party Streak Alive?
Three hours with Bend's biker horror
Guerrilla Games got a lot of credit when it transitioned from the linear Helghan corridors of Killzone: Shadow Fall to the vast open expanses of Horizon: Zero Dawn, but Sony Bend may be making one of the biggest leaps in gaming history with its all-new apocalyptic intellectual property Days Gone. For the past 15...
News PlayStation Now Update Adds Battlefield 4, Dead Space 3, and Plenty More
Games on demand
Another month, another update for PS Now, Sony's on-demand gaming service. The platform holder has outlined the batch of new games heading to the huge roster already available, and as usual, the lineup is slightly different in Europe and North America. The majority are the same, though. In both regions, PlayStation Now is getting:...
News MLB The Show 19 Will Let You Play a Season in Accelerated Fashion
Can you win the World Series?
The baseball season is long and gruelling and there ain’t no one got time to play through that on the PlayStation 4 – but fortunately Sony San Diego has a solution. MLB The Show 19 will feature a new mode named March to October, which will enable you to play the key moments in your chosen team’s campaign for World...
News God of War Was Almost Called Something Totally Different, Says Creator David Jaffe
Title was luck of the draw
Say what you want about outspoken game designer David Jaffe, but he was one of the key creators behind what is now a series synonymous with PlayStation. God of War was a hit from the very start, with gorgeous visuals, a larger than life story, and blood-soaked gameplay. The latest game in the series, the PS4 exclusive...
Poll Do You Feel Ripped Off by PS Plus' Recent Changes?
Value proposition
PlayStation Plus has been around for almost a decade now, but it blossomed into life on the PlayStation 3. In hindsight, we know that Sony was playing the long game – the excellent Instant Game Collection generated a ton of positive publicity, and it ultimately meant that when mandatory online was introduced on the PlayStation 4,...
News GT Sport's Latest Free Update Adds Five Cars, a New Circuit, and More
Autopolis arrives
Gran Turismo Sport’s all-new v1.34 update is available now, and it’s packing a ton of complimentary content. Headlining this update is five new cars, spanning the Toyota GR Supra RZ ’19 to the Pagani Huayra ’13. The full lineup of additions is listed below: Toyota GR Supra RZ ’19 Pagani Huayra ’13 Mercedes-Benz SLR...
News March 2019's PS Plus Games Available to Download Now on PS4
Witness these
This might be the first month without fresh PlayStation 3 or Vita games included in the PS Plus lineup, but the duo of PS4 titles we're getting in March is undeniably brilliant. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is sure to excite those with fond memories of the revolutionary shooter, while The Witness is a truly exceptional...
News Sounds Like There's a Lot of Cutscenes in Days Gone's Lengthy Campaign
Six hours of them
Bend Studio's fast approaching PS4 exclusive Days Gone is looking fairly promising in its most recent trailers, and we certainly hope it's good. If we're to play this open world survival action game for about 30 hours, it'll need to hold our attention. Apparently, a decent chunk of play time will be taken up with cutscenes,...
