Enlarge If you’re a potential PlayStation 5 owner who has been unable to find the console on store shelves over the last 18 months, Sony has good news and bad news for you. The good news is that the company now expects to produce 18 million PlayStation 5 units worldwide for the current fiscal year, which […]
Enlarge / Exoprimal is a promising-looking new co-op battler from Capcom, and it’s not just coming to PlayStation consoles. (credit: Capcom) If you didn’t catch Sony’s latest State of Play video presentation, which concluded earlier today on YouTube, consider this a quick guide to the presentation’s best reveals of previously unknown games—along with mostly good […]
Enlarge / In 1997, Gran Turismo was one of the standout hits for the original Playstation. Now, GT7 is ready for Sony’s current consoles. (credit: Sony) Can you believe more than eight years have passed since the last full Gran Turismo game? Actually, who am I kidding—fans of the series have become accustomed to lengthy […]
The faceplate trailer you’ve been waiting for. After decades of purely black consoles, the PS5 stood out upon release for its use of striking, white faceplates. Now, more than a year after release, Sony is announcing a line of replacement faceplates in black and four other colors, alongside matching colored DualSense controllers. The console covers are […]
Enlarge / Decrypting the PS5 kernel doesn’t involve opening the hardware like this, but it still serves as a good visual metaphor for how the system is now being “exposed.” (credit: Sony / YouTube) Hacking group Fail0verflow announced Sunday evening that it has obtained the encryption “root keys” for the PlayStation 5, an important first […]
Enlarge When gaming peripherals company Dbrand started selling its custom black PS5 faceplates in February, its website cheekily suggested that its efforts were “totally legal, ” and it urged anyone who thought otherwise to “go ahead, sue us. ” Now, sure enough, the company has been forced to change the design of its custom plates […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) If you’re still searching for a PS5 and are a Best Buy customer, your ship may have just come in—that is, if you’re willing to spend an extra $200 a year for access. That’s because the big-box electronics retailer is locking stock of in-demand holiday items like Sony’s console behind membership […]
Enlarge (credit: Collage by Aurich Lawson) Sony has a long history of keeping its first-party games behind the walled garden of console exclusivity. So the company’s choice to bring its PS4 hit Horizon Zero Dawn to PC in August 2020 felt like a precedent-changing move away from that barrier to entry. It represented a seismic […]
Enlarge (credit: Play Station) After months of speculation, it’s finally official: Sony is acquiring Demon’s Souls developer Bluepoint Games. News of Bluepoint’s addition to the PlayStation Studios roster shouldn’t surprise many. The Austin-based studio turned heads with 2018’s Shadow of the Colossus remake before tackling its redux of FromSoftware’s Demon’s for the PS5. It has […]
Sam’s Odradek acts as a sensor for BTs. Death Stranding‘s release in 2019 was probably the most anticipated game of Hideo Kojima’s career. The Metal Gear director had arguably become the premiere auteur in video games. He had a reputation for convention-bucking design, meta-humor, and unapologetic cinematic influences. But this project was the first child […]