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The 26-Year-Old Mystery Behind A Cult-Classic SRPG’s Gradius Sword Has Finally Been Solved
26.9.2025
Vandal Hearts 2 had a reference to Konami's shoot 'em up no one knew how to unlock until now
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PS5 Is Sony’s Most ‘Successful’ Console Generation Ever And It’s Not Even Close
26.9.2025
PlayStation keeps making more money as it keeps raising prices
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A Spider-Man Video Game Cutscene Believed To Be Lost Forever Was Just Found 24 Years Later By A Digital Hoarder
26.9.2025
The cutscene featuring Thor is no longer lost media thanks to a single Instagram user who never deletes anything
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Dragon Quest VII Remake Looks Like The Perfect Way To Revive A Classic
15.9.2025
The PS1 game is moving past the popular HD-2D aesthetic
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The Top 20 Best-Selling Games Ever On PlayStation In The U.S. Is A Very Sad List
9.9.2025
The PS1 turns 30 years old and it's secretly a victory lap for Call of Duty
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The Impossible-To-Find 30th Anniversary PS5 Controller Is Coming Back For A Limited Time
14.7.2025
Sony celebrated the 30th anniversary of PlayStation with PS1-style special edition consoles and accessories that looked great and almost nobody could get. Everything sold out almost immediately, leaving some fans wondering why the company was depriving itself of the opportunity to sell stuff to...
After Years Of Waiting, Suikoden Finally Gets The HD Glow-Up It Deserves
5.3.2025
Almost every major Japanese publisher had to have a big RPG franchise in the PS1 era. Square Soft had Final Fantasy. Enix had Dragon Quest. Capcom had Breath of Fire. Bandai Namco had Tales. And so, Konami made Suikoden. Its innovation was trading a set party of heroes for a cast of 108 total...
Former PlayStation Boss Played Company's First Game On Scrapped Nintendo Console
4.2.2025
Shuhei Yoshida, the former president of Sony Interactive Studios, was there from day one of the PlayStation. And in a new interview, the former exec shared a story of how, on his first day at PlayStation, he got the chance to play the company’s first game on the infamous Nintendo PlayStation...
The PS1's Iconic Boot-Up Is Now Waiting For You On Your PS5
2.12.2024
This morning, PS5 owners booted up their consoles and (assuming they had auto-updates turned on) were greeted with a surprise: The original and iconic PlayStation 1 console boot-up logos and music. It’s all part of Sony’s ongoing 30 years of PlayStation celebration. And there’s more beyond the...
30th Anniversary PS5 Pre-Orders Sold Out Fast And In The Most Frustrating Way Possible
26.9.2024
Everyone saw this coming but it was still disappointing to see. Fans were salivating over the 30th Anniversary PlayStation 5 collection, a one-two punch of nostalgia and neat aesthetics, when it was revealed earlier this month. Today many of them stared blankly at PlayStation Direct pre-order...
How to Create a PS1-Inspired Jitter Shader with React-Three-Fiber
3.9.2024
Learn how to create a custom jitter shader in React-Three-Fiber, inspired by the visual style of PS1-era games, to add a retro aesthetic to 3D models
Eiyuden Chronicle Is A Rough But Beautiful Love Letter To Suikoden
22.4.2024
The late Suikoden creator Yoshitaka Murayama got the crew back together for one last job in 2020: a crowdfunding campaign for a spiritual successor to the beloved Japanese RPG series raised $4.5 million, the third most of any gaming Kickstarter ever. Four years later, the team at Rabbit and Bear...
PS1 Handheld Is A Retro Gamer’s Dream Come True
15.4.2024
Whoever said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks is apparently a liar, as a Florida-based modder has taught Sony’s first PlayStation console how to do something rather unexpected. Specifically, the tinkerer turned the homebound system into a handheld console using a bunch of hot glue and magnetic...
Even F1 Legend Lewis Hamilton Can’t Beat Driver’s Opening Level
12.4.2024
Famous and incredibly successful F1 driver Lewis Hamilton has one of the best careers in racing history, with records for the most career wins, most pole positions, most podium finishes, most career points, and most laps led. But even this skilled racer can’t beat the opening tutorial level...
New Xmas-Themed Horror Game Is 'Too Crazy' For Xbox Or Switch, But Not PS5
7.11.2023
Christmas Massacre, an upcoming low-poly horror game, was initially planned to launch on Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation later this month. However, a few weeks before launch, the developer behind the spooky game revealed that Xbox and Nintendo won’t let the game release on their respective platforms...
Star Ocean 2 Gets The Definitive Remake Every Classic PS1 RPG Deserves
1.11.2023
We’ve seen Square Enix port a lot of beloved RPGs from the original PlayStation to modern platforms in recent years. Some have been fine. A few have been disappointing. None of them seemed quite worthy of the source material they were working with…until Star Ocean The Second Story R. The Final...
Max Payne + Creepy PS1 Vibes = One Of The Best Shooters Of 2023
26.9.2023
A single good memory can often be enough to convince (or trick) us into ignoring pain, suffering, fear, and sadness. And when that single, solitary good memory is connected to someone you love, it’s almost impossible to rip yourself away from that pocket of happiness and face reality. It’s even...
You Can Play A Dead Space Demake For Free
11.4.2023
Dead Space originally came out in 2008. It was re-released to great fanfare earlier this year, its visuals updated for modern hardware. You might think that’s more than enough Dead Space for now, thank you very much, but we don’t always have to go so HD with these remakes. Sometimes we can...
March’s PS Plus Update Is Big, Adding Games Like Ghostwire, Uncharted, and Street Fighter V
15.3.2023
Another month, another chance for Sony to convince you to keep your PlayStation Plus Extra or Premium subscription (or to sign up). And this month the lineup is solid enough that I’ll likely stick around. Over a dozen games are being added, including three classics and a few big triple-A games like...
HSBC Acquires Silicon Valley Bank UK for £1 to Safeguard Customers and Taxpayers – What's Going On?
13.3.2023
Global banking giant HSBC has acquired the UK subsidiary of now-collapsed lender Silicon Valley Bank for £1 ($1.21) after all-night talks between the government, regulators, and other prospective buyers.
The deal excludes the assets and liabilities of SVB UK's parent company.
As of March 10,...