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News PS5 Has Already Outsold PS Vita, Nintendo Wii U, and SEGA Dreamcast in the UK
And you can't even easily buy one
Just how well is PlayStation 5 doing in the UK? Well, it’s hard to get a read on the next-gen format’s fortunes due to it being perpetually sold out, but a Twitter post from GamesIndustry.biz’s Christopher Dring puts matters into perspective: in right around five months, the system has outsold cult consoles...
News PS Now's New Games Are PS4 Only, Sony Confirms No PS5 Upgrade Path
Losing a little lustre
Update: Sony has confirmed that the latest additions to PlayStation Now, specifically Marvel's Avengers and Borderlands 3, are the PlayStation 4 versions only. There had been lingering hopes that the absence of a PS5 upgrade path could be due to error, but this is intentional according to the organisation. Square Enix has...
News Dreams PS4 Update 2.22 Introduces Audio Import Feature and More
Here's all the patch notes
Dreams is only getting bigger, better, and more feature-rich over time, and today it expands just a little bit more. The latest patch for Media Molecule's creation suite is available to download now, taking the game to version 2.22. The headline addition this time is a fancy new audio import feature. Once you've installed...
News Returnal Gets New PS5 Gameplay Footage in Another Housemarque Dev Diary
The HouseCast returns
Sony's next major PlayStation 5 exclusive is right around the corner. We've known about Returnal since its unveiling last summer, and we're now just a few weeks away from the latest effort from Housemarque. We've seen a fair amount of the sci-fi shooter, but if you're desperate for more, watch the latest HouseCast dev diary,...
News Sony Suggests MLB Made the Decision to Include MLB The Show 21 on Xbox Game Pass
But doesn't have any words for PS5, PS4 owners
As previously speculated, Sony has inferred that MLB is behind the decision to include first-party game MLB The Show 21 on Game Pass at no extra cost – despite the manufacturer
News Making a Game in Dreams? It Could Feature in Upcoming Day of the Devs Presentation
Home grown talent
For those who might not know, Day of the Devs is a yearly event, usually hosted by Double Fine, that showcases games of all shapes and sizes, with an emphasis on independent studios. It's set to make its return alongside Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest in June, and submissions are currently open for developers to put their games...
News E3 2021 Confirmed for June, Sony Nowhere to Be Seen
A fully digital event
E3 2021 will go ahead as an online-only event, organiser the ESA has confirmed. The digital show will stretch across three days, beginning on the 12th June and ending on the 15th June. And, contrary to some recent rumours, E3 2021 won't be locked behind any kind of paywall. The ESA stresses that it'll be free for everyone. The...
News Gran Turismo Championships Gears Up for 2021 Season
Launch control
The FIA Certified Gran Turismo Championships has quietly become a very prestigious eSporting event. Starting off in 2018, drivers have been using Polyphony Digital's PlayStation 4 racing sim Gran Turismo Sport to compete in official tournaments, and the studio has confirmed it'll be returning very soon for the 2021 season. Kazunori...
News PS Now April 2021 Update Includes Marvel's Avengers and Borderlands 3
Squad up
Sony's been doing pretty well lately with the software lined up for PlayStation Plus and PS Now, and April is no different. For the cloud streaming service, there are just three games joining the fray, but they're pretty big ones. Marvel's Avengers, Borderlands 3, and The Long Dark will be streamable and downloadable on PS Now starting...
Reminder Today Is Your Last Chance to Get March 2021's PS Plus Games for PS5, PS4
Final fantasies
Man, March was a good month for PlayStation Plus. Members could download the intriguing PS5 puzzler Maquette, Souls-esque shooter Remnant: From the Ashes, PSVR action game Farpoint, and of course, Final Fantasy VII Remake. In addition, Destruction AllStars has been available free on PS Plus for two months now. However, April is here,...
News Sony Strengthens eSports Drive by Making PS5 Official Console of NBA 2K League
Slam dunk
While it’s gone under the radar in communities like Push Square, Sony is making a strong push into the eSports sector. The company’s YouTube channel is filled with daily livestreams, Gran Turismo Sport has become one of the most successful competitive games in the industry, and the organisation recently acquired the EVO fighting game...
Broken bat
“Putting into a subscription model on day one, for us, just doesn't make any sense,” Sony bigwig Jim Ryan told GamesIndustry.biz prior to the launch of the PlayStation 5, when asked about Xbox Game Pass. “For others in a different situation, it might well make sense, but for us it doesn't. We want to expand and
News Around 2,200 Digital Games on the Chopping Block When Sony Closes PS3, PS Vita, PSP Stores
Rough analysis reveals scale of shutdown
Just how many digital games will be lost when Sony closes the PlayStation 3, PS Vita, and PSP storefronts? According to VGC, we’re looking at some 2,200 titles that will not be available to purchase on PlayStation in any form once the PS3 and PSP servers shutdown on 2nd July and PS Vita servers close on...
Feature 10 Digital-Only PS3 Games You Should Buy Before Sony Shuts the PS Store
Grab these digital exclusives before they get delisted
Well, it’s finally happening. After last year saw the redesigned PlayStation web store drop PS3 and PS Vita games, many saw the writing on the wall. Reports came in last week about Sony closing both PS3 and PS Vita stores, and news was
News Sony Game MLB The Show 21 Will Be Free with Game Pass on Xbox, Full-Price on PS5, PS4
Three and out
We’re not even sure what to say anymore, to be honest. In a year of bad optics for PlayStation, this may be the worst yet: a game developed by Sony, the upcoming MLB The Show 21, will be free at launch for Game Pass subscribers on both Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One – while it’ll be sold full-price for PlayStation 5 and PS4. It’s...
News PS5 Sales Steadily Improve in Japan, As Stock Situation Steadies
Console crosses 500k milestone
Update: Just as a quick update to this article, the new Famitsu sales data for the period spanning 22nd March to 28th March has now been published. PlayStation 5 continued its excellent sales streak, shifting another 62,295 units, putting its life-to-date total at 580,211 units. Once again the Nintendo Switch...
News PS3 Owners Facing Wide-Spread Problems Downloading Games Ahead of PS Store Closure
80029509, 80029721 causing serious issues
Sony is shutting down the PlayStation 3’s storefront on 2nd July, and that’s prompted many to fire up their last-last-gen console in order to make a few purchases before it’s gone forever. While you’ll still be able to download any titles that you’ve picked up in the past, the closure of the PS...
News HBO's The Last of Us TV Show to Start Shooting in July
The start of it
Principal photography for HBO’s television adaptation of The Last of Us will begin in Calgary, Canada this coming July, reports CBC. The news comes courtesy of the Director’s Guild of Canada, with production to begin on 5th July and wrap on 8th June, 2022. That seems like an extraordinarily long span of time to us, but we can’t...
News Puppeteer's Gavin Moore Rounds Out Japan Studio Exodus As Team Disbands
Played like a Puppeteer
And with that, Japan Studio is no more. There’s been a spate of sad stories surrounding PlayStation this year, but perhaps the most disappointing of all is the disbandment of the manufacturer’s oldest first-party studio. The closure has culminated in an exodus of talent, with Gavin Moore being the latest high-profile...
News The Latest Returnal Trailer Is One of Its Best Yet
Break the loop
We're less than one month away from the PlayStation 5 launch of Returnal now, which means the full marketing cycle is really starting to kick into gear. This latest trailer comes courtesy of the PlayStation Japan YouTube channel and it's all about breaking the loop. This is a rogue-lite experience at the very least, after all. We...
News Cyberpunk 2077 Is 'Closer' to PlayStation Store Return, Says CDPR
It's all up to Sony, though
In an unprecedented move, Sony delisted Cyberpunk 2077 from the PlayStation Store back in December of last year. In just a few weeks, we'll have hit four whole months of being unable to buy the game digitally on PS4 (and PS5 via backwards compatibility). However, developer CD Projekt Red now believes that it's getting...
News Many PS Vita Devs Cancel Projects After Sudden PS Store Closure
Others rushing to finish titles in time
Sony’s closing the PS Vita’s storefront on 27th August, despite new games being in development for the platform. The short notice – and poor communication from the platform holder – has resulted in the cancellation of numerous projects over the past 48 hours, while other indie developers are scrambling...
Review Days Gone (PS4) - Open World Comfort Food with a Survival Horror Spin
Decent St. John
Republished on Wednesday 31st March, 2021: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of April 2021's PS Plus lineup. The original text follows. The world comes for you is an incredibly apt slogan for Bend Studio’s apocalyptic sandbox. The latest in a long line of Sony-published story-driven...
News Gravity Rush Character Designer the Latest Departure from Sony's Japan Studio
Kat's outta the bag
Another Japan Studio staff member is leaving the developer for pastures new. Today, Shunsuke Saito announced his departure from the steadily shrinking team. Saito is best known for his work on the Gravity Rush series, serving as character designer and animator on both games and as art director on Gravity Rush 2. He will have...
News PS Store Spring Sale Goes Live with 500 PS5, PS4 Deals
Ghost of Tsushima! The Last of Us! Yakuza!
After taking a quick bit of time off last week, the PlayStation Store is back with another sale. And this one just so happens to be a big one. It's the bumper range of Spring discounts that will see us through until midnight on 28th April 2021, but not all of the games listed below will stick around until...
News Ratchet & Clank Boosted to 60 Frames-Per-Second on PS5 with New Patch
And it's out now
Update: The new Ratchet & Clank patch which boosts the release's performance to 60 frames-per-second on PS5 is available to download now. The update weighs in at 87.17MB, so shouldn't take too long to pull depending on your Internet speed. Will you be checking the title out on Sony's next-gen console? Original Story: Ratchet...
News Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Adds the Advanced Tech Suit on PS5, PS4 for Free
And muscle deformation on next-gen
There’s no stopping Insomniac Games right now it seems. Fresh from announcing a 60 frames-per-second update for its 2016 remake of Ratchet & Clank, it’s also released a free patch for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, which adds the Advanced Tech Suit to both the PlayStation 5 and PS4 versions of the...
Random WipEout PS1 Intro Remake Is a Total Knockout
Elite pass
Sony may be shutting down the PlayStation 3’s storefront – and abandoning decades of legacy content as a consequence – but the love for WipEout lives on, as this remake of the original PS1 game’s intro cinematic evidences: Benjamin Brosdau uploaded the clip onto YouTube earlier this week, and it’s already attrac
News Sony to Continue Investing in Dreams Developer Media Molecule
"Sony is really behind what we’re doing"
When many PlayStation fans lacking a business degree believe that Media Molecule's Dreams should be built into the PS5 user experience to ensure more people get to play around with it and thus generate some profit, it was always going to be the case that the complete opposite has been happening behind the...
News PS Store Spring Sale Delivers Big Discounts This Wednesday
Wallets at the ready
PlayStation Store credit or your debit card on standby? Good, because you'll need it come Wednesday morning. Sony has confirmed the PS Store Spring sale will be returning on 31st March 2021 via email, bringing with it "big savings on a huge range of games, add-ons, and more". The Japanese giant took a week off from delivering...
News Soon, You Won't Be Able to Buy These Awesome PS1 Games
Live in your world, don't play in ours
Once upon a time, in the good old days, Sony was willing to sell you PS1 games that you could play on your PS3, PSP, and – in select cases – PS Vita. It was a glorious, golden era of backwards compatibility, and it even gave life to former executive Kaz Hirai’s legendary Ridge Race meme. These days, the...
News The PS Vita Messaging System Is Also Going Offline
Starting 28th June
Sorry PlayStation Vita fans, this is a bad day for you. As well as taking the handheld's built-in storefront offline, Sony is also pulling support for the device's messaging system. Starting 28th June 2021, PS Vita users "will no longer be able to use the messaging service", an email from the Japanese giant reads. We can't imagine...
Reaction Sony's Storefront Closures Put PS5, PS4 Backwards Compatibility Efforts Back in Focus
It hurts to see PlayStation's history left behind
Alongside long overdue confirmation of the closure of its PlayStation 3, PS Vita, and PSP storefronts today, Sony noted that the changes will allow the organisation to “refocus our resources for PS Store on PS5 and PS4, which will enable us to enhance the customer experience even further”. It’s...
News Sony Confirms PS3, PS Vita, PSP Store Closures, Downloads Will Be Retained
Shifting focus and resources to PS5, PS4
Sony has officially confirmed the closure of its legacy PlayStation 3, PS Vita, and PSP storefronts. As previously reported, PS3 and PSP will be closed on 2nd July, while PS Vita will shut on 27th August. While you will still be able to download all of your previous software and video purchases – including...
News Sony's $1.1 Billion Buyout of Crunchyroll to Face Further Scrutiny
Concerns over company's anime monopoly
Sony’s goal of dominating the anime sector may be delayed or derailed, as reports suggest the US Justice Department has extended its anti-trust review into the Japanese conglomerate’s acquisition of Crunchyroll. The organisation announced plans to
News Sony Locks the Door on Legacy Web-Based PS Store
Another avenue to PS3, PSP, and PS Vita content closed
Sony may have officially re-launched its web-based PlayStation Store last year, but savvy users were still able to access the old one through a legacy hyperlink. Amid rumours that the company is about to outright close its PS3, PS Vita, and PSP storefronts, the platform holder has now locked up...
News PS5 Stock Could Be Affected by Ship Stuck in Suez Canal
Just another complication
If you haven’t been following the news this week – and, with how depressing it’s been of late, we wouldn’t blame you – then you may not know that a ship as long as the Empire State building has got stuck in the Suez Canal in Egypt. This is an important trade route from Asia to Europe, and has caused a backlog of...
News MLB The Show 21 Adds Over 180 Broadcast Videos to Road to the Show
Build a true two-way player, too
MLB The Show 21 will make your Road to the Show career more realistic with the addition of over 180 podcast episodes, spanning your rise from the Minor Leagues all the way to the big time. These dynamic broadcasts – which will utilise full video on PlayStation 5 – will acknowledge feats you achieve in your...
News Feast Your Eyes on New Footage from PS5's Returnal
Eternal Returnal
Returnal is one of those games that you just know is going to feel great – even if some of its other elements are up for debate. As part of the Future Games Show, developer Housemarque popped by to present its upcoming PlayStation 5 exclusive, and there are some new gameplay snippets to enjoy. While the Finnish outfit largely...
News Sony Wins Many BAFTA Awards, But Hades Takes Game of the Year
The Last of Us 2 takes three categories
With the BAFTA Game Awards 2021 all done and dusted, the event marked another successful night for Sony. Many PlayStation 4 exclusives won various categories, the most celebrated of which was The Last of Us: Part II. It was the overall winner in three different brackets, those being Animation, Performer in a...
Feature Why You Should Download These Free Play At Home Games
Nine top-notch PS4 titles up for grabs
Sony’s awesome Play At Home initiative will see the addition of nine free new PlayStation 4 games today – you can find out exactly when the titles will be available in your region through here. These are completely complimentary: you don’t need an existing PS Plus or PS Now
News Ghost of Tsushima Has Sold a Staggering 6.5 Million Copies
For Tsushima!
Rarely do new intellectual properties become sales sensations, but Sony has struck gold with Ghost of Tsushima. The PlayStation 4 exclusive, which launched in July 2020, has now surpassed 6.5 million copies — which is seriously impressive. Almost as impressive is the fact that the open world adventure has been completed by more than...
News Ghost of Tsushima Movie Announced with John Wick Director at the Helm
Be seein' ya, Jin
We're not typically the kind of website that gets excited over movies, but this newly announced project sounds very promising. PlayStation is once again branching out one of its properties to the big screen, as Deadline reports that a Ghost of Tsushima film is happening. The best thing about this, though? Chad Stahelski, the...
News Returnal Goes Gold Ahead of Late April PS5 Release
Prepare for launch
Well, here's at least one PlayStation 5 game we can say for certain we'll be playing this year. Developer Housemarque has announced that PS5 exclusive Returnal has officially gone gold, meaning work on the base game is complete and ready to be shipped. The Finish team shared the news on Twitter, where it also thanked everyone who...
News PS4 Owners Are Worried Their Games Won't Work if a Clock Battery Fails
But a number of factors would need to align
Concerns about PlayStation’s approach to game preservation have been ripe following a report that suggested the manufacturer plans to disable the storefronts on some of its legacy consoles, including PlayStation 3. While we’re still waiting for official confirmation of that – and Sony will need to...
News Here's When You Can Download Nine Free PS4 Games
The exact times you need
Today is the day for Sony's gigantic Play At Home initiative update, adding nine PlayStation 4 games to the roster that can all be downloaded completely free of charge. No PS Plus subscription is needed and you keep the titles forever. However, you may be searching the PS Store right now to find there are still price tags...
Interview Sony San Diego on MLB The Show 21 and Bringing Baseball to More Players in a Pandemic
Plus, adding alien spaceships to Stadium Creator
After a season like no other, in which the LA Dodgers walked away with the World Series, a new baseball campaign beckons to bring a sliver of the ordinary back to extraordinary times. And with Spring Training edging towards its conclusion, Sony’s flagship sports simulation MLB The Show 21 is on...
News PS4 Masterpiece Bloodborne Turns Six Years Old Today
Fear the old blood
Widely considered to be one of the very best PlayStation 4 exclusives, today is the day that Bloodborne turns six. It was one of the titles that truly helped to kickstart the previous generation into gear, arriving in somewhat close proximity to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Batman: Arkham Knight. Everything about the FromSoftware...
Talking Point Would You Buy a PS1, PS2, or PS3 Emulator for PS5?
RetroStation
The topic of game preservation on PlayStation is a pertinent one right now. Whatever its plans for PlayStation 3’s – and, of course, PS Vita and PSP’s – storefront, Sony doesn’t make it as easy as some of its immediate competitors to enjoy its back catalogue of games. While the platform holder will point to blockbuster remakes...
News PlayStation Emulation Patent Raises Hopes of Retro Support
But we've seen it all before
Despite Sony remaining shtum about its plans for the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita’s storefronts, many fans are frustrated by the firm’s perceived lack of respect for its legacy platforms. While we wait for official confirmation on that front, a patent has been dug up by
