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News Spider-Man PS4 Dev Pushes Back Against Fan Criticisms Regarding DLC
Where's the Raimi suit?
For as long as we've known about Marvel's Spider-Man, one of the biggest conversations online was all about which suits would end up in the game. The PS4 exclusive wound up with a pretty large selection of costumes for Spidey to try on, covering outfits from the comics, the movies, and even some all-new creations. However, by...
News Detroit: Become Human Has Sold More Than Two Million Units Worldwide
Quantic Dream's fastest selling game
Detroit: Become Human is comfortably Quantic Dream’s best game to date, and it’s also its fastest selling. Sony has revealed that the title has now surpassed sales in the region of two million units worldwide, which is impressive when you consider it released at the end of May. It took the French studio...
News PSVR Bundles Heavily Discounted in USA Over Critical Christmas Period
The time is now
Sony’s reducing the price of PlayStation VR over the critical Christmas period in the United States, with hardware bundles available as low as $199.99 from 16th December through 26th December. The cheapest option includes a headset, PlayStation Camera, and copies of the excellent platformers Astro Bot Rescue Mission and Moss –...
News PS4 Firmware Update 6.20 Is Here to Improve System Performance
And nothing more
Sony has released the latest firmware update for PS4, bringing it up to system software version 6.20. This mandatory update doesn't seem to bring any new features to the console, instead simply keeping everything ship shape, as per usual. "This system software update improves system performance," our PS4 tells us. Firmware update...
News Approximately 10 Per Cent of the UK's Population Owns a PS4
Sony's not planning a Brexit
There are roughly 66 million people living in the UK, and “well over” six million PlayStation 4 consoles have been sold in the region. This means that if you’re not a pedantic bore and are capable of basic maths, Sony’s sold a system to around 10 per cent of the British population over the past five years. Yes,...
News PS4 Users Are Still Gaming's Biggest W*nkers
Play your way
Hugely popular pornography website Pornhub is back again with another annual breakdown. In an impressively detailed report that covers everything from traffic statistics to, er, well, let's not get too graphic, it's revealed that PlayStation 4 users are still gaming's biggest w*nkers. Well done everyone! We've now covered Pornhub's...
News Sony Brings Festivities to North America with US PlayStation Store Holiday Sale
Hundreds of games on offer
The European PlayStation Store has been enjoying some Christmas offers since the start of December, leaving players in the US wondering where their Santa-sized discounts were. Well, it seems the time has come for those across the pond -- the holiday sale has begun on the North American Store. As you might expect, this is...
News Media Molecule Claims the Dreams Beta Is Still on Track for 2018
We're dreaming of a Dreams beta
Do you think Media Molecule’s built a big clock in Dreams counting down to 2019? The Guildford-based developer has been promising we’ll get our hands on its ambitious creation suite “this year” for about, well, three years – but it seemed certai
News Sony Flaunts PSVR's Enormous Library in Montage Trailer
Over 200 games and experiences
You could be forgiven for not paying attention, but PlayStation VR has an impressive library these days. Sony’s really pushing the hardware, er, hard at the moment – resulting in montage trailers like the one embedded above. This clip heavily promotes some of the headset’s more recent hits, but there’s a huge...
News PS4 Pro Has Been a Good Example of Necessary Evolution, Says Sony
Sony reckons hardware revision has been a hit
There was scepticism prior to the release of the PlayStation 4 Pro, but the mid-gen hardware revision – along with the Xbox One X – has ended up being a success. Sony’s supercharged console hasn’t held back the base model in any way – it’s merely allowed those seeking greater performance to...
News Sony: Our Players Demand Single Player Games
And the platform holder hears you
Sony is one of the best publishers in the industry when it comes to outstanding single player campaigns, a statement which is evidenced by God of War’s impressive Game of the Year win last week. And it doesn’t sound like the platform holder will be changing its strategy any time soon, with European marketing...
Review Just Deal With It! - A Party Game without the Excitement
Bad hand
A theme in our reviews of the recent wave of PlayLink games has been whether a game is necessary. When PlayLink was revealed last year, it felt like something new: That’s You couldn’t have been made without smartphones, while other titles like Hidden Agenda at least attempted something interesting. Fast-forward to this year, though,...
News Shawn Layden on Sony's Silence: See You in the New Year
What's the company cooking?
PlayStation chief Shawn Layden briefly appeared during The Game Awards 2018 last night to open the show alongside Nintendo boss Reggie Fils-Aime and Xbox overlord Phil Spencer – but while the latter two appeared later in the stream to chat about their respective platforms, Layden stayed out of the limelight. This...
The Game Awards 2018 Watch Sony Santa Monica Collect God of War's Game of the Year Award
Oh, boy
God of War won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2018 overnight, and if you missed Sony Santa Monica’s acceptance speech, you can watch it in full above. The winning announcement was preceded by an incredible musical medley, which featured flavours and motifs from the soundtracks of all the nominees. In her acceptance speech, studio...
The Game Awards 2018 Sony Takes Home Four Gongs on the Night
God of War with the big prize
Sony won four awards at The Game Awards 2018 overnight, with God of War taking home three of Geoff Keighley’s prestigious gongs. As reported overnight, Kratos’ comeback secured statues for Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, and Best Action Adventure Game. The platform holder also bagged the Best VR Game award,...
News EU PlayStation Store Christmas Sale Continues with Round Two on PS4
A new set of bargains
Sony's Christmas sale has entered its second phase on the European PS Store, swapping out last week's discounts with a fresh batch. These deals will be available for the next week, so be sure to check out what's on offer. Some highlights this time around are God of War - which just won Game of the Year at The Game Awards - for...
The Game Awards 2018 PlayStation Exclusive Journey Coming to PC
A new Journey
Legendary adventure game Journey is coming to the PC via the newly launched Epic Games Store, per publisher Annapurna Interactive. The iconic thatgamecompany experience is owned by PlayStation, but it seems the platform holder has allowed it to be released elsewhere, which is great for people who haven’t played it yet.
The Game Awards 2018 God of War Wins Game of the Year
Kratos returns to his throne
After winning a slew of awards in a row, it had felt like Red Dead Redemption 2 was going to clean up at The Game Awards 2018 – but God of War swept in to take the top gong from under Rockstar’s nose. Sony Santa Monica’s epic reimagining of one of PlayStation’s most iconic franchises also took home awards for...
News Get Discounts on The Game Awards Nominees in US PlayStation Store Sale
Award winning bargains
We're mere hours away from The Game Awards 2018, and as has become tradition, the US PlayStation Store is playing host to a new sale, celebrating the nominees in this year's show. It's live right now, and features a whole range of reduced prices on lots of the nominated games. Battlefield V is down to $35.99, Call of Duty:...
News There Are References to More Great Games in the PS Classic's Source Code
Crash Bandicoot! PaRappa the Rapper! Gran Turismo!
At this point in time the PlayStation Classic has become a better punching bag than Glass Joe, so it’s no surprise that forum dwellers are frothing at the mouth over a Tweet which claims the micro-console has dozens of other great games on it. The reality is that there are simply references to...
News Sony Publishes Neat First-Party Puff Piece
Visual Arts Services Group listed among developers
Sony’s published a neat video touring its first-party studios in the United States, with the intention presumably to try and recruit talent to its teams. The video includes interviews from key personnel at Sony Santa Monica, Sony Bend, PixelOpus, and others. In the clip, the staffers talk about...
News The Last of Us: Part II Will Not Appear at The Game Awards 2018
Naughty Dog speaks
Expectations are high for The Game Awards 2018, and there’s speculation swirling around virtually every major upcoming release. Sony released a reactions video for The Last of Us: Part II this week, forcing some fans to theorise that the sequel may pop up during Geoff Keighley’s bonanza on Thursday
News It's an Interesting Time to Be Posting The Last of Us: Part II Reaction Trailers
What the Ellie?
The Last of Us: Part II was announced two years ago, and while we’ve seen a handful of trailers now, the game’s still very much shrouded in mystery. This reaction trailer is a curious upload on the PlayStation channel then. It marks the two year anniversary of the Naughty Dog sequel’s reveal, and shows various YouTubers...
News December 2018's PS Plus Games are Available to Download Now
Selection box
Mince pies are in the shops and people are questioning where the year has gone -- it's December, alright. A new month means a new selection of PS Plus games, and 2018's final roster of complimentary titles is available to download right now in Europe. As always, the North American PS Store will follow within the next few hours or so...
News PSN Offline Worldwide as Sony Engineers Investigate
PlayStation Network down in December
PlayStation Network is offline, and Sony engineers are currently wielding fire extinguishers in an attempt to put out the flames. While the issues don’t appear to be affecting absolutely everyone, this sounds like a fairly widespread outage, with a vast majority of players affected. Remember when this used to...
News Social Media Scuttlebutt Says Microsoft Is Sniffing After Sony Studio
Money talks
Microsoft has been snapping up mid-sized studios like corporate acquisitions are going out of fashion, and now the social media rumour mill is aflame with speculation that the team in green is about to snap up a studio that’s worked with PlayStation in the past. This opens the floor to a raft of possibilities, from Supermassive Games...
News Marvel's Spider-Man Is Now the Fastest Selling PS4 Game Ever in the UK
On track to become best selling PS4 exclusive
We all knew Insomniac's latest open world adventure was a hit, but this is pretty crazy. Marvel's Spider-Man has become the fastest selling PS4 game at UK retail. If that wasn't enough, GamesIndustry claims that the superhero blockbuster is gaining on Uncharted 4: A Thief's End to become the best selling...
Guide Where to Buy the PlayStation Classic Mini Console
There's still plenty of them around
Sony announced the PlayStation Classic earlier in the year, a pint-sized PSone console with a bunch of games pre-loaded. The mini machine is available right now, and you can get it from various retailers across the web. But where can you buy the PlayStation Classic? Here's a quick guide on the mini machine and how...
News Sony Thinks of the Children as Senran Kagura Producer Laments Censorship
"It's a difficult problem"
The president of SCEJA has seemingly provided the first official comment on the censorship row that has affected multiple PlayStation games over the past few months. Posted on Japanese website Ebitsu.net – but without official translation or verification just yet – Atsushi Morita purportedly told attendees at a Japan...
Review Battle Arena Toshinden - Significant But Not Special
Not quite a load of old Tosh-inden
"Play History. Make History." The marketing tagline for the 2018 release of the PlayStation Classic highlights an added attribute of the miniature console in the sense that all 20 games included may not actually be classic PSone games, yet even the less worthy inclusions provide gamers with a snapshot of playing...
News US PS Store Flash Sale Hopes to Bust Your Wallet This Weekend
Take all my money
Black Friday 2018 has come and gone, but your financial security is not safe just yet. Sony’s launched a brand new PlayStation Store Flash Sale in North America which has seen a ton of titles discounted. Some of the highlights include Battlefield 1 for $4.99, Burnout Paradise Remastered for $7.99, and Gravity Rush 2 (hello!) for...
News EU PlayStation Store Christmas Sale Begins Today on PS4
New deals each weekend
PS4 owners will know it's Christmas time when Sony starts dropping deals in the weeks ahead, and amazingly, we've reached that time. Instead of its usual 12 Deals of Christmas, where a dozen games get generous discounts every two days, this year sees the introduction of several deals that will be swapped out for new ones each...
News European PSVR Mega Pack Bundle Offers Sony's Headset with Five Top Games
Everything in one box
Sony seems to be really getting behind PlayStation VR ahead of the holiday season. Not only was it aggressively discounted during Black Friday, the platform holder has been introducing brand new bundle packs for the device. Earlier in the week, we saw the new PSVR bundle with
News This Isn't the PS5, Despite What Some Sites Are Claiming
Fake news
There are some PlayStation 5 renders doing the rounds, and some sites want you to believe that they’re Sony’s next-gen console. That’s absolute nonsense, of course, considering the company’s yet to even announce a new system. The mock-ups are pretty neat, though, showcasing a slim, almost external hard drive-esque box. There...
News Sony Europe's New PS4 Commercial Shows What You Can Do
Double life
Sony’s launched a new commercial in Europe which builds on the idea that you can be anyone and do virtually anything when you’re playing on the PlayStation 4. The campaign, which is titled ‘This Could Be You’, shows ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances – all of which are linked to some of the year’s biggest games,...
News Sony Celebrates Five Years of PS4 with Video Full of Player Stats on Exclusive Games
The best place to play
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the PS4 in Europe, and Sony's of course celebrating the milestone. The platform holder has released the above video, which highlights this generation's best PlayStation exclusives, as well as some impressive figures and feats accomplished by fans. For example, 46 million Thunderjaws have...
News Sony Showed Gran Turismo Sport Running in 8K at 120 Frames-Per-Second
A glimpse of PS6?
Sony has potentially teased a glimpse of what a future PlayStation could deliver, by demoing Gran Turismo Sport in an eye-melting 8K at a blistering 120 frames-per-second. At an event in Tokyo focusing on outrageous consumer electronics, the Japanese giant showcased its new Crystal LED Display System with footage of Polyphony...
News Sony Patented a Cartridge and Everyone Went Mental Over It
But it's not for a new handheld
A patent filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment and published this week prompted many to believe that the Japanese giant may be working on a successor to the PlayStation Vita, but despite the documentation depicting a new cartridge-like product, it’s got absolutely nothing to do with a hypothetical handheld –...
News Sony Unveils New PSVR Bundle Featuring Borderlands 2 VR and Beat Saber
Just in time for Christmas
It feels like a lot of people bought into PlayStation VR over the last week or so, thanks to some stellar deals during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The bundles that had been discounted were generally great, offering up some of the platform's best games like Astro Bot Rescue Mission and Superhot VR alongside Sony's...
Hardware Review PS Classic - A Nostalgic Nineties Novelty
Everything you need to know about the PlayStation Classic
On the 24th anniversary of the PlayStation’s release in Japan comes the PlayStation Classic, a micro-console created to cash in on growing nostalgia for Sony’s first ever system. Following in the footsteps of Nintendo’s own NES and SNES miniatures, this plug-and-play PSX comes bundled...
Talking Point What Free December 2018 PlayStation Plus Games Do You Want?
When will December 2018's PS Plus lineup be revealed?
What’s the December 2018 PlayStation Plus lineup? And when exactly will the December 2018 PS Plus lineup be announced? It's the final PS+ lineup of the year, so we're all hopeful that Sony's got a cracker in store to round out what has been a particularly strong year for the subscription...
Cyber Monday 2018 Get This PS4 Bundle with Trio of Exclusives and PS Plus for a Great Price
Everything you need and more
It being Cyber Monday, there are still some fantastic offers floating around, and we've found an interesting PS4 bundle that'd be ideal for newcomers to Sony's system. This console bundle provides you with a 1TB PS4, three months of PlayStation Plus, and three excellent PS4 exclusives -- God of War, Uncharted 4: A...
News European PS Store Slashes More Prices in Cyber Monday Flash Sale
Big titles and indie classics all discounted
If Black Friday's collection of deals wasn't enough, PSN users in Europe will be happy to hear news of a further flash sale that celebrates the lesser-known Cyber Monday. Highlights include Rise of the Tomb Raider for a cool £8.99, Burnout Paradise Remastered at the same price, and XCOM 2 for £9.99...
Review Marvel's Spider-Man: Turf Wars - Another Helping of Spidey Goodness
War never changes
You probably know what to expect from Turf Wars, the second chapter in Marvel's Spider-Man's City That Never Sleeps expansion. As with The Heist, this DLC pack for Insomniac's immensely popular superhero action game sticks with the established formula, providing a good excuse to get back into the swing of things. Yes, it's more of...
News Shawn Layden Hinted That Sony Was Done with E3 a Year Ago
Old video resurfaces
This is an interesting video to watch in hindsight, now that Sony has announced it won’t be attending E3 2019 at all. Kyle Bosman from Easy Allies was the first to bring it up, but it’s since been shared around the web, and it does foreshadow more recent news. The clip is taken from last year’s
News Will Sony Censor Catherine: Full Body? Developer Can't Give a Definitive Answer
No "mysterious lights", at least
If you're big into risque video game content then you may not want to hear this, but Catherine: Full Body developer Atlus -- more specifically its own Studio Zero -- has seemingly shied away from giving a definitive answer on whether or not the upcoming title will be censored under Sony's new sexual content policy...
Black Friday 2018 Amazon UK PS4 Double Packs Bundle Big New Games Together for a Low Price
Twice as nice
Happy Black Friday, everyone -- time to prize open your wallets and splash out on some bargains. There are lots of enticing offers to be found across the Internet today, but tucked away on Amazon UK is a collection of PS4 game double packs that are worth highlighting. Essentially, they consist of two of this season's biggest releases...
Black Friday 2018 PS4 Controllers At Their Lowest Ever Price
Under £30 in the UK
There’s no doubt that PlayStation 4 controllers can be one of the hidden costs of Sony’s console, as you’re pretty much forced to pay through the nose for additional pads or replacements. You’re going to want to take advantage of these heavily discounted DualShock 4s on Black Friday, then, because they’re available...
News PSN Account Banned Over Cultural Mistake Reinstated by Sony
Account reportedly back online
Yesterday saw an interesting story blow up on Reddit, as a Mexican PS4 owner shared how his PSN account had been banned because of a misunderstanding regarding his username. The moniker includes the word "Kike", a racist term for Jewish people, but as the user explained to Sony, it's also a shortened version of his...
Black Friday 2018 Sony's Bundling 2018's Biggest Games with PS4 for Black Friday
Winning strategy
Sony’s slate of PlayStation 4 bundles in the UK speaks to the importance of marketing deals, because the console’s being sold alongside arguably the three biggest games of the holiday season: Red Dead Redemption 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, and FIFA 19. And yes, if you want to throw Marvel’s Spider-Man into the conversation,...
