Enlarge / Sony’s latest PS4 system update fixes a problem with the internal battery which would have eventually caused all consoles to be bricked. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) PlayStation owners looking to preserve their PS4 libraries well into the future can breathe a sigh of relief, as the system’s latest firmware update reportedly […]
Enlarge / Almost every LittleBigPlanet release just lost its online hub. (credit: Sony) After a year marked by targeted hacks and unexplained downtime, the online service for four of Sony’s LittleBigPlanet games—and arguably the heart of their “play.create.share” mantra—is no more. Announced in a tweet on its official Twitter account, online services across LittleBigPlanet Vita […]
The store has received a stay of execution on the PS3 and Vita… (credit: Playstation) Just three weeks ago, Sony announced its plans to shut down the digital stores for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Vita, effective this summer. Today, Sony partially reversed course, with Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan writing […]
Enlarge / These consoles could eventually be large paperweights if Sony doesn’t fix a problem looming in their firmware. Unless something changes, an issue lurking in older PlayStations’ internal timing systems threatens to eventually make every PS4 game and all downloaded PS3 games unplayable on current hardware. Right now, it’s not a matter of if […]
This is probably our last chance to ever reuse this image. If you’ve been waiting to purchase and download a game on your PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, or PlayStation Portable, you’d better do so soon. Sony has announced that new PlayStation Store game purchases on those consoles will be discontinued on the following dates: PlayStation […]