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Will work with all games

While Sony does have a tendency to build incredible features that don't get the use that they deserve, it won’t be repeating that mistake with the PlayStation 4. Speaking during a GDC panel yesterday, senior staff engineer Chris Norton confirmed that the platform holder’s impending next generation console will...

It's pretty obvious, really

One of the PlayStation 4 controller’s coolest features is the light sensor on the top of device. Similarly to the PlayStation Move, this is used to track the unit for improved motion detection – but it also has a secondary application. Much like Sony’s aforementioned motion wand, the LED strip is capable of...

Little wonders

Sony has spent the past couple of months really pushing the PlayStation Vita as a haven for cult games. In the last few days alone, we’ve seen Limbo, The Walking Dead, and Divekick added to the platform’s release schedule, while Thomas Was Alone,

Perfect if you're Mr. Popular

Soon you won’t need to play ‘Eeeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe’ to decide who should occupy the last spot on your PlayStation Network friends list. During a panel at GDC earlier today, Sony’s senior staff engineer Chris Norton confirmed that the PlayStation 4 will increase the number of contacts that you can store. While...

Sony's system is sailing away

Strong sales for One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 boosted the PlayStation Vita back up the Japanese hardware charts this week. While the system was still handily outsold by the Nintendo 3DS, the portable’s tally surged from 36,028 units to 41,073 units. The aforementioned Namco Bandai brawler sold 60,315 units on the...

Sony drops controversial patch for killer chapter

Your expensive DualShock 3 is saved. Sony has announced that it has deployed a brand new patch for God of War: Ascension, which will tone down the title’s agonisingly tough ‘Trial of Archimedes’ difficulty spike. Writing on the

Company cites smaller studios as a big focus

You may not have dwelled on the idea too much, but PlayStation has become a bit of a haven for indie developers over the past couple of months. In just a few short weeks, the publisher has announced a slew of cult titles for the PlayStation 3 and Vita, including Hotline Miami, Thomas Was Alone, and...

Next generation platform pushed back into the spotlight

Sony’s decision to announce the PlayStation 4 early is looking smarter all of the time. While its competitors prompt ire from parts of the media and the development community for locking their next generation endeavours behind closed doors, the PlayStation manufacturer is currently...

Platformer pulling strings later this year

Sony is set to yank Studio Japan’s fascinating two-dimensional platformer Puppeteer onto the PlayStation 3 on 10th September. Art director Gavin Moore confirmed the date during a presentation at GDC overnight, where he also revealed that the title will be available as both a retail release and a digital...

Journey through the water

If you’ve ever found yourself at ease aimlessly wandering through a torrential downpour, soggy clothes tugging heavily against your skin, then chances are you’re going to find yourself entranced by this brand new footage of Japan Studio’s intriguing Rain. As detailed in previous posts, the title sees you play as a boy...

Time to put those muscles in motion

Sony’s stab at the exercise game fad Move Fitness is heading to North America this week. The title – which originally launched in Europe way back in 2011 – sees you using the PlayStation Move motion controller to pant your way through a series of rigorous work out routines. The game was developed by the same...

Put those superpowers on hold

Sucker Punch is supposedly planning to cough up inFAMOUS: Second Son in time for the PlayStation 4’s launch later this year. While the Bellevue-based studio failed to cite a timeline during its dramatic portion of last month’s PlayStation Meeting press conference, a couple of

Analyst goes hard on the handheld market

Outspoken industry analyst Michael Pachter doesn’t believe that Sony has much of a chance of making money on the PlayStation Vita. Speaking on the latest episode of the Pach-Attack, the Wedbush Securities employee described the system as a “joke”, explaining that while it’s a capable device, very...

Thinking beyond the current generation

Quantic Dream sure knows how to get our attention. The Parisian developer famous for its work on Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain rewarded our extended patience with a brief glimpse behind the curtain at PlayStation 3 swansong Beyond: Two Souls this week, revealing enough narrative tidbits to leave our taste buds...

Sony flipping the switch on the functionality in May

The browser-based PlayStation Webstore is a great option for purchasing PlayStation Network content if you’re not near your PlayStation 3. Sadly, any items that you do acquire have to be manually downloaded via the system’s download list, which almost defeats the purpose of the feature in...

Guerrilla Games is piling on the polish

Killzone: Shadow Fall’s single player campaign has been playable from start to finish for a “couple of months”, game director Steven ter Heide has revealed. Writing on Twitter earlier this morning, the Guerrilla Games employee stated that he was taking advantage of the quiet time in the office to play...

Sackboy flexes his cross-marketing muscle

In order to celebrate the impending release of BioShock Infinite, platform holder Sony is launching a custom collection of LittleBigPlanet costumes based on the characters from the game. Outfits include heroine Elizabeth, protagonist Booker DeWitt, and weird mechanical flying thing, Songbird. The add-on...

PlayStation 2 platformers heading to Sony's portable

It looks like Sony’s second best double act – the first being Ratchet & Clank, obviously – are hopping onto the PlayStation Vita, as the North American ratings board the ESRB has filed a registration for the Jak & Daxter Collection on the handheld. The compilation – which launched...

More than 100 games due out this year

It may be going through a bit of a dry spell, but Sony’s director of product planning and platform software innovation (phew) Don Mesa has insisted that there’s plenty of interesting software on the horizon for the PlayStation Vita. In an extensive interview with IGN, the executive said that there are more...