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Sony Pulls Ad Featuring Upside-Down PS5
8.7.2021
Sony posted an ad on Twitter this morning showing a dad capping off his day by playing some God of War. Typical fare, as far as these things go, except that the video also featured an upside-down PlayStation 5. Gasp! After fans pointed this out, the tweet got deleted with no explanation for...
PS4s and Xbox Ones Are Now Just As Hard To Find As Next-Gen Consoles
8.7.2021
Supply issues and Covid-19 complications have made the recent console generation transition a rocky one, with ongoing shortages making it nearly impossible to reliably procure a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S. But current gen consoles aren’t the only ones playing hard-to-get. Outside...
This Week's PlayStation Event Won't Include God Of War Or Horizon
6.7.2021
During last month’s E3/Summer Game Fest announcement bonanza, Sony was one of the many conspicuously absent companies. However, if you were expecting big, E3-style announcements out of the PlayStation maker’s July showcase, prepare to be disappointed.Read more
Rumor: PS Vita Store Will Release No New Games After July 20
5.7.2021
We know the PS Vita will no longer have its store taken offline this month, but what no one thought to ask was: Will new games continue to be added? If the claims of Vita developer Spooky Squid Games prove to be true, theirs—Russian Subway Dogs—is to be one the last come July 20.Read more
All The Major Games Only Coming Out On Next-Gen Consoles
2.7.2021
Despite last year’s splashy release of next-gen consoles, it’s clear the gaming landscape is still in a transitional phase between console generations. Just look at blockbusters like Far Cry 6, Rainbow Six Extraction, Battlefield 2042, and Tales of Arise, which are planned for release on PS4, Xbox...
Hell Yes! Doom Eternal Is Getting A Horde Mode
2.7.2021
If you, like every other person who played Doom Eternal, thought, “Man, this game could really use a horde mode,” have I got some news for you. The first-person shooter will in fact receive a mode in which you do nothing but pulverize waves of increasingly challenging demons, developer Id Software...
Wait, The PS1 Logo Was A 3D Model?
2.7.2021
The PlayStation logo seen as part of the PS1's boot sequence never moves. And so I have spent the last 25 years simply assuming it was never meant to.Read more
Sony Will Keep Selling PSP Games After All
2.7.2021
This past April, Sony backed down from closing the PS3 and Vita digital storefronts amid a public outcry from fans and retro enthusiasts. Instead, Sony announced it would only move forward with its plan to end the sale of digital PSP games. Or so everyone thought. According to a notice recently...
The Transition To PS5 And Xbox Series X/S, Six Months Later
1.7.2021
Last November, following years of speculation and hype, Microsoft released its next-gen consoles, the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. Two days later, Sony followed up with a next-gen console of its own, the irresistibly memeable PlayStation 5. Both machines promised cutting-edge graphics...
Ghost Of Tsushima Director’s Cut Coming August 20
1.7.2021
Sucker Punch’s epic action-adventure game Ghost of Tsushima gets even more epic on August 20 with the release of the Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut. It’s an enhanced release featuring an entirely new island to explore and PlayStation 5 specific enhancements like haptic feedback and Japanese...
GameStop Takes Advantage Of PS5 Scarcity With Scummy Promo
1.7.2021
Eight months after release, it’s still extremely hard to get hold of a PS5. New stock sells out almost as quickly as it gets advertised, and the scarcity has led to some weird hijinks as companies try to capitalize on the hype. The latest one? Letting paid subscribers cut in line to order...
PlayStation Is Hard To Work With, Devs Say
1.7.2021
After yesterday’s industry-wide discussion of the cost of being visible on Sony’s PlayStation Store, Kotaku has heard from multiple independent developers and publishers expressing similar frustrations and fury.Read more
Here Are The July 2021 PlayStation Plus Games
30.6.2021
July’s PlayStation Plus lineup has some big hits, including Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and A Plague Tale: Innocence. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus membership.Read more
Sony Charging Devs At Least $25,000 For PlayStation Store Visibility
30.6.2021
In a furious tirade on Twitter, independent games publisher Iain Garner of Neon Doctrine has unleashed his frustrations with trying to publish games on a major games console—one he says that isn’t made by Microsoft. During the spleen-venting, he suggests that getting prominent promotion for a game...
Doom Eternal’s Next-Gen Upgrade Screws PS5 Players
29.6.2021
Doom Eternal’s next-gen upgrades are out today for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, bringing de rigueur enhancements to last year’s well-received first-person shooter. The upgrade is free, but it also more or less tells PlayStation players to go to hell. To wit: There’s no way to carry your campaign save...
Sony Acquires Housemarque, Developer of PS5 Title Returnal
29.6.2021
Today, Sony announced that Housemarque had officially become an in-house studio.Read more
Dev: Cyberpunk 2077 Now Actually Ready Six Months After Release
28.6.2021
CD Projekt CEO Adam Kiciński declared that Cyberpunk 2077 had finally reached a “satisfying” level of performance and stability at a WSE Innovation Day conference on June 23. All it took was six months of updates after the game was released. Read more
Let's Take A Look At A PlayStation Game Pitch
28.6.2021
Some members of the Sly modding community recently got hold of a bunch of documents from the original pitch for Sly 4, giving us a rare glimpse behind the scenes at how developers are able to get approval/money from big companies like Sony to make their games. Read more
The Nintendo Switch Gets A Train Controller In Japan
25.6.2021
Train simulators are cool. They’re cool for a number of reasons, including trains are excellent. But, perhaps most importantly, those sims don’t only allow players the chance to conduct them, but also buy rad controllers.Read more
Ubisoft's Avatar Game Will Actually Flex Your PS5 And Xbox Series X
25.6.2021
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is making use of the new PS5 and Xbox Series X/S hardware to create a more lush, organic-feeling world that you can quickly fly around in, its developers said in a new interview today. Even if the quests still turn out to still be familiar Ubisoft fare, the open world...