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News Sony: PS4 Needs More Content to Truly Take Off in Japan
Device won't be dead forever
While the PlayStation 4 has ripped up the sales record books in Western regions since its release last November, the system’s struggling a little in its native Japan. Sony originally said that it intended to delay the console’s launch in its home nation in order to secure a better lineup
News Sony's Considering a Steam-Style Early Access Program, Says Adam Boyes
Let the games begin
It seems that Steam's famous Summer Sales may not be the only thing Sony's thinking about borrowing from the digital download service. In a recent interview, SCEA big-wig Adam Boyes suggested that the firm may be adopting an early access program. If implemented, it would allow studios to release unfinished games for purchase as a...
News Popular PlayStation Network Classics Cost Just $0.99 in US This Weekend
Cost cutter
Are you in the market for a new video game? Worry not North American readers, as Sony has launched a brand new flash sale on the PlayStation Store, plunging the price of a slew of digital downloads down to just $0.99. Highlights include Dyad, Oddworld: Much’s Oddysee HD, and Papo & Yo, as well as the excellent
News Watch Sony Giants Mark Cerny and Andrew House Talk 20 Years of PlayStation
Play on
Best kick back and grab a snack before settling into this fascinating conversation with game development legend Mark Cerny and PlayStation boss Andrew House, because it lasts a whole hour. The duo cover just about everything, from their own careers to the consoles we all know and love. It certainly makes for an interesting watch, especially...
News You'll Be Able to Cool Off with This Fashionable Frozen PS4
Well chill
Sony's custom Glacier White PlayStation 4 may be ice cold, but Japan's latest hardware option is Frozen. This special shell sports Anna and Elsa artwork from the popular Disney movie, as well as lots of pretty snowflakes. Much like the Yakuza and Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes units from launch, this is not a completely unique console...
News Killzone: Mercenary Developer Recruiting for High Profile PS4 Projects
Sir Dan, rise from your grave
Guerrilla Cambridge, the studio behind PlayStation Vita exclusive Killzone: Mercenary, is currently searching for an audio programmer to provide support on “forthcoming projects in a high profile, multi-million selling franchise”. The studio is thought to be switching its attention to the PlayStation 4, with
News European Developers Favour PlayStation 4 Ahead of Any Other Console
Stop us if you've heard this one before
A study conducted by GDC Europe is the second in less than a week to find that the PlayStation 4 is currently the console of choice for most developers around the continent. In a poll quizzing about 400 studios about their platform preferences, 18 per cent of respondents said that they are currently making...
News Want a Glacier White PS4? The Destiny Bundle Won't Be Your Only Option
Standalone unit coming later this year in Europe
Sony seems to really understand the importance of hardware bundles at the moment, announcing a variety of packages for big third-party and first-party games. While many of these boast custom box art and little more, though, the firm is going the extra mile with Destiny, as it’s set to sell...
News Let's Be Honest, Heavenly Sword: The Movie Looks Hellishly Bad
Kai sera, sera
Hairy heroine Nariko’s real-life alter ego Anna Torv may be present and correct, but that doesn’t look like it’s going to save Blockade Entertainment’s cinematic Heavenly Sword adaptation from plunging to the pits of Hades. The curious flick seems to have been in production for an eternity, and now it finally has a 2nd...
News Sony's Current Crop of Consoles Have Sold Over 100 Million Units
That's the PS4, PS3, and Vita combined
Sony’s current flock of flagship formats are selling pretty strongly, if a new promotional video released by the platform holder is any indication. In the corporate clip – which focuses on the firm’s line of licensed peripherals and accessories – the company claims that combined sales of the PlayStation...
News Why Was the PS4 Announced Before the Xbox One?
Sony wanted to take a leadership position
Those of you with strong memories may recall Sony overlord Kaz Hirai insinuating in a newspaper interview that it would allow Microsoft to announce its next-gen console first – only to tease its PlayStation Meeting press conference a few d
News Microsoft's Messaging Mishaps Prompted PS4 Boss to Re-Write E3 Script
The rest is history
Remember when Jack Tretton laid the figurative smackdown during Sony’s E3 press conference a couple of years ago? That wasn’t originally planned. Despite speculation at the time, Sony never intended to mirror Microsoft’s abhorrent Xbox One digital-rights management policies – but seeing
News Uncharted Collection a 'Good Candidate' for PS4, but Sony Won't 'Flood the Market' with Remakes
Firm won't Sully reputation
While the PlayStation 4 may be garnering a bit of a reputation for re-releases, The Last of Us Remastered is the only real port currently in Sony's portfolio. Granted, the likes of Escape Plan and Sound Shapes did accompany the console at launch, but these seemed more like late additions to the platform holder’s...
News Sony: PS4's Christmas Lineup Compares 'Very, Very Well' to Xbox One
Greatness awaits
As with the PlayStation 3 before it, there’s an accelerating sentiment around the web that the PlayStation 4 lacks games. Despite new releases deploying on a weekly basis, many armchair analysts have opted to criticise the console’s first year – primarily its lack of first-party content. Many argue that Microsoft – with...
Rumour Hot Shots Golf Has a Great Shot at Rolling onto PS4
Fore the players
While we’d give our racquet arm for another Hot Shots Tennis, it seems that Japanese outfit Clap Hanz may be working on a new golf game – presumably for the PlayStation 4. The studio has been silent since putting Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational onto the PlayStation 3 and Vita, but now it's recruiting – and
News Bloodborne Will Be One of the Playable Titles at GamesCom Next Month
PS4 exclusive netting public playtime
Did you think that you’d need to wait an age for your next glimpse at From Software’s impending PlayStation 4 exclusive Bloodborne? With the release still seemingly on track for an early 2015 release, the Japanese studio has revealed that the spiritual successor to Demon’s Souls will be on display at...
Cats and dogs
Judging by the frankly phenomenal progress that DriveClub has made over the past year or so, we reckon that more games would benefit from a meaty delay. In the slipstream of today’s hardware bundle announcement, developer Evolution Studios has released the first footage of its PlayStation 4 exclusive
News PS4 Racer DriveClub Reaches the Starting Grid with a Hardware Bundle in Tow
Fashionably late
A year later than planned, DriveClub is finally gearing up for the race of its life – and Sony’s planning to commemorate the occasion with a PlayStation 4 hardware bundle. Much like The Last of Us Remastered and, well, virtually every other next-gen title on the market, SCEE will be bundling the release with a bunch of consoles...
Rumour Is Teen Horror Until Dawn About to Strip Down on PS4?
Sony revives PlayStation Move fear fest
Horror games may be dime a dozen right now, but Supermassive Games’ ex-PlayStation 3 exclusive Until Dawn never sounded like your average scare-‘em-up. Taking inspiration from teen movies, the title promised a somewhat frisky affair, where you’d need to use the PlayStation Move controller to remove...
News This Swiss Store Thinks That Beyond: Two Souls Is Coming to PS4
Turning the Page
We thought that Sony’s E3 2014 press conference last month would be chock-a-block with next-gen re-releases of PlayStation 3 titles, but only Grand Theft Auto V and The Last of Us Remastered put in appearances. That doesn’t mean that the manufacturer’s not working on up ports of some of its most popular titles, though, and...
Feature The Strange and Sometimes Sordid World of PS4's Playroom
How Sony’s toy box became a streaming success
The Playroom wasn’t made for you. Fresh from the relative success of EyePet, ex-London Studio suit Nicholas Douchet was head hunted by Sony’s top dogs in Tokyo in order to extract the potential of its fledgling PlayStation 4 format and the DualShock 4. The augmented reality obsessed executive...
News Don't Panic, Sony Hasn't Forgotten About Its VR Headset Project Morpheus
The device has seen "significant investment"
Apart from a few demos behind closed doors, Sony's virtual reality headset Project Morpheus was notably absent from the Japanese giant's E3 presence this year. If the nifty piece of tech's no-show has you worried that the firm has completely forgotten about it, you've no need to fear. In a recent...
News The Helghast Hammer Down the Price of Killzone: Shadow Fall in the US
Cut price combat
If you’re desperately searching for a new PlayStation 4 title to tide you over until The Last of Us Remastered later in the month, then a heavily discounted Killzone: Shadow Fall may be right up your alley. The title received mixed reviews when it released last year, but we’re big fans of the sci-fi outing’s online component,...
Review Resogun: Heroes (PlayStation 4)
Holding out for a hero
It’s a statement that’s rapidly approaching cliché territory, but Housemarque’s cylindrical shooter Resogun is still the PlayStation 4’s best game. That’s not a slight against the software library that Sony’s next-gen system has amassed over the past six months or so – although we’re sure that many would like...
News Blimey, Only Four in Ten PlayStation Games Actually Make Money
Whelp
Many of us play video games, but very few of us can fully appreciate just how harsh the business surrounding our hobby can be. As it turns out, releasing a piece of interactive entertainment is an incredibly risky gambit, and in a recent interview, Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida revealed just how dicey the industry can get. "We...
News PS4 Port The Last of Us Remastered Is Agonisingly Close to Completion
Endure and survive
PlayStation 4 port The Last of Us Remastered has sort of crept up on us like Joel and Ellie in a Firefly stronghold. The game – which was announced earlier in the year after numerous leaks – is due out at the end of the month, and judging by a Tweet posted by lead programmer Jason Gregory, it’s very nearly complete. “Grea
News Celebrate American Independence the Right Way with This Wacky Resogun Update
Forget Battlefield
You may have seen the article that we just posted about an Independence Day Easter egg that was recently added to Battlefield 4. Not to be outdone by the mega-franchise, Resogun developer Housemarque has released a small, but still humorous, patch for its popular shooter. As you can see in the video below, the update morphs the...
News Sony's Not Worried About PS4's Software Lineup This Fall
Cool as a cucumber
The word on the street is that the PlayStation 4 has no games – and a spate of delays into 2015 haven’t exactly helped the console’s case. With the likes of The Order: 1886, Batman: Arkham Knight, and The Witcher III: Wild Hunt not due out until early next year, alarm bells have been ri
News PlayStation Vita's Freedom Wars Attracts Criticism Due to Fierce Difficulty
Pure punishment
Punishing titles such as Dark Souls are extremely popular these days, but it seems that PlayStation Vita exclusive Freedom Wars has taken things a little too far. Despite being the biggest release on Sony’s portable platform for quite some time in Japan, early adopters are currently up in arms over the Monster Hunter-esque...
News Developers Declare That PlayStation 4 Is the Best Console Right Now
The best place to play and work
We know that Sony supposedly loves developers, but is that affection reciprocated? It turns out that it is, as a slew of studios have voted the PlayStation 4 as the best console currently on the market – beating the Xbox One, Wii U, 3DS, and even the firm’s own PlayStation Vita. The system finished fifth in...
Feature What the Heck Is a PocketStation?
Lifting the lid on Japan's best PlayStation accessory
Back in the mists of time, when Tamagotchi was still a thing and we were all wondering if SEGA’s Dreamcast was really going to turn things around for the ailing hardware company, Sony took the Sonic the Hedgehog maker's new Visual Memory Unit concept – a portable memory card with a built-in...
News Shuhei Yoshida Doesn't Understand People Who Don't Like Indie Games
Neither do we
If the last two E3s are anything to go by, Sony's continued efforts to court indie developers are paying off. What's more, the Japanese giant seems pretty chuffed with this outcome, as Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida stated in a recent interview. "Almost every week you see an indie game coming out digitally on PS4. Some of...
News Flaunt Your Format Allegiance with Fresh PlayStation Threads
Console warrior's uniform
Gaming clothes can be awfully geeky, but British tailor Insert Coin has made it its mission to produce a selection of trendy threads based upon our favourite pastime – all of which, you could actually wear on a night out. And as part of its ongoing partnership with PlayStation, the clothing line has added a couple of new...
News Sorry, Freedom Wars Will Not Receive a Retail Release in Europe
Wait, what?
What’s worse than being sentenced to a lifetime in the slammer when your crime is merely being born? Well, being forced to buy the next PlayStation Vita blockbuster Freedom Wars from the PlayStation Store, of course. Sony has quietly announced on the PlayStation Blog that Japan Studio’s latest Monster Hunter-esque adventure will
News Just About Every Japanese Game You Can Think of Has Been Discounted in This Massive EU PSN Sale
Gifts from the East
Fancy nabbing some great Japanese games for your PlayStation 3 or Vita? Kicking off today in Europe, the PlayStation Store is discounting a frankly ridiculous amount of Eastern titles. The bountiful sale will last two weeks, so there's thankfully plenty of time to pick and choose your favourites. From almost every Final Fantasy...
Talking Point Should More Games Emulate PS4 Exclusive inFAMOUS: Second Son's Photo Mode?
Say cheese
You could never accuse Seattle-based first-party studio Sucker Punch of not listening to its fans. Many berated the first entry in its superhero series inFAMOUS for the obnoxious personality of supporting star Zeke, and so it spent the entirety of the PlayStation 3 title’s sequel trying to redeem the character – a measure which...
Weirdness Mike Tyson Wants You to Own the Most Garish PS4 Yet
Suits you, sir
There are plenty of custom PlayStation 4 consoles doing the rounds, but this Bruce Lee themed unit is arguably the gaudiest to date. Part of a promotion for the recently released EA Sports UFC, the bright orange unit comes with a matching DualShock 4 and a copy of the game. It also includes the aforementioned martial artist’s...
News Sony: There Are 'Many, Many' First-Party PS Vita Games in Production
Panic over
The message coming out of E3 2014 last month was that Sony’s slowly moving on from the PlayStation Vita, but Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has clarified that that’s not the case at all. As part of an interview with Game Reactor, the affable executive put to bed reports that it was abandoning the handheld – and also came...
News Sony Apologises for Powers E3 2014 Press Conference Error
Owning up
As we outlined in a recent article, E3 press conferences are becoming increasingly odd. While we still very much refer to them as ‘media briefings’, the live streamed nature of these events mean that we’re becoming increasingly less tolerant of, well, anything that’s not game footage. As a consequence, Sony has been berated over...
News Freedom Wars' English Story Trailer Will Leave You With a Raised Eyebrow
Living is a crime
If you didn't quite find yourself captivated by last week's 12 minutes of Japanese Freedom Wars gameplay, perhaps this three minute English trailer will do the trick. Thanks to the magic of subtitles, you can finally wrap your head around the handheld title's seemingly bonkers plot. Focusing on the release's cast of colourful...
News Sony Spends More on US TV Ads for the PS4 Than Microsoft Does for the Xbox One
Apparently it's working
The PlayStation 4 is selling like hotcakes – this much we know. However, a much more interesting discussion can be had around how the console has managed to maintain this market dominance. Some argue that the PS4's lower price point has been instrumental in its success, while others point to
News Not Bought a PS4 Yet? This The Last of Us Remastered Bundle May Tempt You
Ellie of an entry point
While many have been swift to criticise the PlayStation 4’s first full year on the market, we reckon that Sony’s done an admirable job of beating the content drought and keeping a steady stream of software on store shelves. Only last month it collaborated closely with Ubisoft for the release of Watch Dogs, and it still...
News Greatness Awaits in Sony's New Budget PS3 Software Bundles
Hong Kong won't have to wait long
With the PlayStation 4 now readily available in most parts of the world, the PlayStation 3 is rapidly becoming a cheaper option for cash conscious gamers. Enter these brilliant new software bundles, which are set to release in Hong Kong next week. For starters, the ‘Artistic Pack’ includes classics such as ICO,...
News PS4's First Gran Turismo Game Will Be Stuck at the Start Line for a Little While Yet
Off the mark
This editor’s gaming news engine has been stationary for a few days now, so what better way to remove the rust than with a cheeky post about Gran Turismo 7? It would appear that the industry’s still very much in first gear following the excitement of E3 2014 earlier in the month, but speaking with Eurogamer.net at the Goodwood...
News PS4 Exclusive The Order: 1886 Features Nerve-Rackingly Realistic Werewolves
At the end of our lycnathrope
You may recall a particularly gruesome trailer for The Order: 1886 from this year's E3. The gory clip debuted during Sony's super slick press conference, and showed off the title's reimagining of 1800s London, complete with historically accurate werewolf infestation. Luckily for us, the Japanese giant has recently...
News Does This New Project Morpheus Trailer Sell You On Sony's Virtual Reality Headset?
It's incredible, apparently
Sony's virtual reality headset Project Morpheus may be a nifty piece of tech, but its value is incredibly hard to demonstrate. After all, there's nothing particularly exciting about watching someone with a clunky set of goggles strapped to their face wildly waving their arms about. It's the sort of thing that
News July's PS Plus Update Slashes with Strider and Teases with TowerFall Ascension on PS4
Dead Space 3, Vessel, and LEGO Batman 2 bring up the rear
Hold onto your hats, because July's PlayStation Plus update has been officially announced. As rumours suggested, Capcom's slick slash-'em-up Strider and intense indie TowerFall Ascension make up the upcoming month's PlayStation 4 offering. Elsewhere, the ageing PS3 gets scary with the...
News Watch 12 Minutes of Freedom Wars Gameplay and Decide If It's a Sentence Worth Enduring
On the painted desert
Japanese publication 4Gamer.net has managed to grab 12 minutes of gameplay from upcoming Vita title Freedom Wars. The action RPG releases in just a few short hours in its native Japan, so don't be too surprised if you see plenty more videos hitting the internet within the next couple of days. If you're still struggling to get...
News inFAMOUS' Standalone DLC Store Page Sheds Some Light on its PS4 Release Date
Shine on forever
If you've been eagerly waiting on an ETA for inFAMOUS: Second Son's first big slice of downloadable content, you're in luck, as the PlayStation Store's slapped a release date on the cleverly named inFAMOUS: First Light's pre-order page. The add-on, which puts you in the shoes of spunky conduit Fetch, will supposedly be available...
News The PS4 Dev Team Were 'Dancing in The Aisles' After The Xbox One's Price Reveal
So were we
A lot has been said about the performance of the two major players at last year's E3. Regardless of your view, it's no secret that Sony's super system has been going gangbusters when it comes to numbers. And while it certainly wasn't the most crucial element, the PlayStation 4's significantly cheaper price tag can certainly take a lot of...
