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Tuesday14th Jun 2022
News Dragon's Dogma 10th Anniversary Event Announced for This Week
Dearest Arisen
Dragon's Dogma fans tuned in to the Capcom Showcase hoping for something, anything on the future of the franchise — but we didn't get anything. At least, not yet. Capcom actually announced a '10 Years of Dragon's Dogma' digital event, which will air later this week, on Thursday 16th June. It begins at 3PM PT / 6PM ET / 11PM BST /...
Friday10th Jun 2022
Poll Will You Buy The Last of Us: Part I?
Or is it a remake too far?
The Last of Us: Part I is real, and it's coming to PS5 on the 2nd September. The long-rumoured announcement was meant to be Geoff Keighley's big finale for Summer Game Fest Live, but Sony somehow managed to leak the entire thing through its own PlayStation Direct store just hours before the show. Perhaps that leak...
Thursday2nd Jun 2022
News Japanese PS Plus Premium Lineup Shares First Look at PS3 Games
Ratchet! Resistance! God of War!
PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium are launching in Japan right now, and just like the Asian release, the complete list of games included in the service is being pulled from an official website page rather than a promotional push from
Tuesday24th May 2022
News Sony Confirms Content Can No Longer Be Transferred Between PS3 and PS Vita
Closed connections
For a couple of weeks now, PS Vita owners have complained that it’s no longer possible to transfer games between PS3 and Sony’s handheld system. The error appeared to coincide with a batch of new firmware updates that deployed around 11th May, 2022, which were released to strengthen account security. Unfortunately, that has...
News Dragon's Dogma 10th Anniversary Website Opens, Asks Fans to Join in 'Momentous Celebration'
Capcom, please
Don't do this to us, Capcom. Don't go making a website specifically to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Dragon's Dogma and then act like we haven't spent the last decade asking for a sequel. Don't do it! The website's real, though, and it bears a rather intriguing message. It reads: "Dragon's Dogma, first released in 2012, is...
Sunday22nd May 2022
News Dragon's Dogma Is Ten Years Old Today
Anniversary, Arisen!
Ten years ago today (that's the 22nd May, in case you're reading this in the future), Capcom released Dragon's Dogma on PS3. It was a dark fantasy action RPG that perhaps wouldn't get the praise that it deserved until years later, by which time it had established itself as something of a cult classic. Indeed, its original...
Monday16th May 2022
News You May Already Own Some of the Retro PS Plus Titles
Even if you bought them on PS3 or PSP
What’s this?! Sony in a shockingly consumer friendly move has confirmed that “select” PS1 and PSP titles launching as part of the new PS Plus Premium tier will be available individually, meaning you’ll be able to purchase them from the PS Store even if you don’t want to subscribe. More importantly, if...
Tuesday10th May 2022
News New PS3, PS Vita Firmware Updates Strengthen Account Security
Two-factor authentication required
Sony has improved account security on two of its legacy machines through new firmware updates deployed today. For PlayStation 3, we're looking at update 4.89 while PS Vita is now on version 3.74. Essentially, the two console patches remove the ability to create a PSN account on the systems themselves, now requiring...
Thursday28th Apr 2022
Rumour PS Plus Premium's PS1, PS2, PSP Games Have Started to Leak
Riiiiidge Racer!
Update #2: A further round of PS1 titles have been found on Sony's servers: Worms Armageddon and Worms World Party. That takes the total up to five leaked games thus far, but only PS1 and PSP are represented right now. Update #1: Assets for PS1 title Mr. Driller have now been discovered as well. That means we've got three Namco...
Tuesday26th Apr 2022
News SEGA Delisting Classic Sonic the Hedgehog Games from PS Store
But only PS3 is affected
Much like Rockstar with the GTA Trilogy, SEGA is making the unsurprising move of delisting a bunch of classic Sonic the Hedgehog games from the PS Store – with the PlayStation 3 being the biggest victim. As of 20th May, 2022, it’ll remove the standalone versions of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the H
News Beloved Classics Will Comprise PS Plus Premium Catalogue
Emphasis on beloved
Sony will not be tossing random retro releases on its priciest PS Plus Premium subscription tier! New correspondence from the company confirms that the 340 additional games added to the most expensive membership will comprise a “catalogue of beloved classic games” from the PS1, PS2, and PSP era. These will be available to...
News Ubisoft Shuts Down Online Servers for Dozens of Old Games
Including PS3 and PS4 titles
Ubisoft has announced the termination of online services for nearly a hundred of its older games. The publisher is clearly doing a bit of housekeeping, shutting down online multiplayer servers for software that's, let's be honest, well past its sell-by date. Among the list of 90 games are 40 that appear on PlayStation,...
Friday22nd Apr 2022
Video How Telltale Nailed The Walking Dead's Opening Scene
A quiet start to the apocalypse
Telltale’s The Walking Dead is 10 years old this week (welp!) and we’ve been reminiscing on its fantastic post-apocalyptic story. Within a span of just five episodes, players around the world came to love the wholesome father/daughter relationship between survivors Lee and Clementine. There are a lot of memorable...
Monday11th Apr 2022
News Classic Games Including PS1 Curiously Expiring on PS3, PS Vita
Seems to be a bug
It looks like Sony has yet another bug to plug. Fans returning to the PS1 Classic re-release of Chrono Cross on PS3 and PS Vita this week – presumably propelled by the recent PS4 re-release – have discovered that a PlayStation Network bug is rendering the legendary RPG unplayable. And it’s not an isolated incident: while...
Saturday2nd Apr 2022
News PS3 Emulation Allegedly in Production for PS5
It only does everything
Sony “might be” working on hardware level PlayStation 3 emulation for the PS5, according to talkative Games Beat scribe Jeff Grubb. The industry observer – who’s proven to be well-connected – cited sources who’ve indicated that the platform holder is exploring support for its last-last-gen console, although it...
Wednesday30th Mar 2022
News Sony's Cloud Streamed PS3 Games Are Causing a Storm on Social Media
Emulation argument rumbles
Ever the contrarians, we’re cautiously optimistic about Sony’s revamped PS Plus subscription. Based on what we know so far – which, admittedly, isn’t much – we think the overhaul is welcome and necessary, and we’ve been refreshingly surprised by
News Buying PS Plus Subs on PS3, PS Vita Won't Be an Option When Service Re-Launches in June
Just so you know
While we doubt that there are many people in 2022 using a PS3 or PS Vita as their main PlayStation console, it's still worth pointing out that Sony has updated its policy with regards to the all-but-defunct devices. Following its reveal of the new PS Plus tier system earlier in the week, the company has confirmed that when the...
Tuesday29th Mar 2022
News PS Plus Premium Brings PS1, PS2, PS3, and PSP Games to PS5, PS4
Legacy platforms live again
In case you've somehow missed it, Sony has announced a huge overhaul to PlayStation Plus. It's transitioning to a multi-tiered system, with three subscriptions offering extra value the more you choose to pay. At the top of the pile is PS Plus Premium which, among other things, adds games from legacy PlayStation platforms...
Sunday13th Mar 2022
From original composer Austin Wintory
Journey is an impactful, meaningful game to a lot of people. And it happens to be 10 years old today. A transcendent voyage that speaks to so many disparate corners of the gaming world, even 10 years on, Journey never really left the sphere of discourse in the medium. And one of the most enduring components of...
News Timeless PS3 Title Journey Is 10 Years Old Today
Into the light
Ten years ago today, on the 13th March 2012, a little game called Journey went a long way in changing our perception of 'smaller' video games. At the time, when it originally launched on PlayStation 3, Journey was met with a tidal wave of praise from both critics and players. It was and still is a uniquely fulfilling title — only a...
Wednesday2nd Mar 2022
News Sony Pulling the Plug on PS3 After-Sales Support in Japan
Game over
It’s hardly earth-shattering news, but the PlayStation 3 is old – like, really old. The console launched all the way back in 2006, so it’s perhaps no surprise Sony is pulling the plug on support for the system and its peripherals – in Japan, at least. Writing on its official Twitter account, the organisation “sincerely...
Wednesday16th Feb 2022
News Could PS3, PS Vita Closures Be on the Cards After Wii U, 3DS Announcements?
Sony's got a good excuse now
Sony tried, and failed, to close the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita storefronts last year – after an enormous social media backlash convinced the company to change its mind. PlayStation boss Jim Ryan took to the PS Blog with his tail between his legs, statin
Friday4th Feb 2022
News Demon's Souls' Old Monk Boss Fight Is Hidetaka Miyazaki's Favourite
Calls it an "intriguing boss"
In a new PlayStation Blog post, various developers have been asked what their favourite boss is from games developed by FromSoftware. Chief among them is creator Hidetaka Miyazaki himself, who explains the Old Monk encounter from Demon's Souls is his personal favourite. The boss fight first appeared in the PlayStation 3...
Tuesday1st Feb 2022
Random This Is How PlayStation Consoles Would Look if They Rendered Themselves
Inception
This is brilliantly random: how would each PlayStation console look if it rendered itself? Electronics Hub sought to answer that exact question, and came up with this stunning infographic. Effectively what you’re seeing is each Sony system – from the PS1 all the way through to the PS5 – rendered within the boundaries of its own...
Thursday27th Jan 2022
News Boba Fett Features in New Footage of the Cancelled Star Wars 1313
No good to us dead
Star Wars 1313 is a bit of a sore spot for many a fan of the galaxy far, far away, and understandably so. It looked like a very promising action adventure title from EA, but as we all know, the project was ultimately cancelled. We've had some great Star Wars games in the years since, but we can't help but wonder about what...
Tuesday25th Jan 2022
News PS4 Trophies Bugged Out with PS3 Labels and People Are Jumping to Conclusions Again
It was just a glitch
As the ol’ saying goes: aw sh*t, here we go again! Following a tepid – and totally unrelated – “tease” from PlayStation Japan’s social media account over the weekend, the whole backwards compatibility song-and-dance has once again been restarted by a PS Store bug. Some fans noticed overnight that their PlayStation 4...
Saturday22nd Jan 2022
As easy as 1, 2, 3
Update: Just as we warned, it really wasn't worth getting excited over the PlayStation Japan tease — not unless you're a massive fan of popstar Kenshi Yonezu. The now infamous tweet was indeed teasing a new Japanese PlayStation advert — but it has absolutely nothing to do with backwards compatibility. The numbers 1, 2, and 3...
Monday17th Jan 2022
Poll What's the Best Uncharted Game?
Drake decider
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, which remasters Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy for PlayStation 5 and eventually PC, is now less than two weeks away. Maybe you can't wait to return to the adventures of Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer, or maybe you're planning to experience them for the first time...
Sunday16th Jan 2022
News PS3 Games Spotted on PS5 Store, Fuelling PS Plus Rumours - But It's Nothing New
Here we go again
Ever since Sony's supposed PlayStation Plus overhaul was outed last year, rumours regarding additional backwards compatibility have been rampant — and now we've got another one. As reported by VGC, PS5 users have spotted something unusual on the PlayStation Store: PS3 titles with prices. If you select a PS3 game on the current...
Tuesday23rd Nov 2021
News A Group of Fans Are Reviving PS3's Online Multiplayer with Emulated Servers
Killzone 2! Warhawk! MotorStorm!
The PlayStation 3 had a lot of cracking online games, didn't it? Even from Sony itself, there were plenty of offerings for those looking to get stuck into some multiplayer. Whether it was the vehicular battlefields of Warhawk or the mucky racing of MotorStorm, there were lots of ways to play together. Unfortunately,...
