Sony Interactive Entertainment is softening its language when it comes to cross-platform multiplayer. While the publisher has spent the last few years defending its choice to prohibit people on PlayStation from playing with their friends on Xbox or Nintendo systems, PlayStation boss Shawn Layden now claims that his team is looking into it. In response ...]
PREVIEW: I've been excited about Bend Studio's Days Gone since I first saw it at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2016. But the game has its skeptics (including some members of the GamesBeat staff) who think it is a generic zombie game. They don't care that it's set in the Oregon woods or that you can ride around a ...]
The PlayStation 4 was the top-selling console hardware platform in May in the United States, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. But the story is still that console hardware and software sales are thriving across all of the big three. Sony Interactive Entertainment, Microsoft, and Nintendo all broke their own records for this generation ...]
OPINION: As I enjoyed some braised chicken and a Golden Road brown ale at the PlayStation media briefing after party prior to the Electronic Entertainment Expo on Monday night, I realized I was in the middle of Sony's victory lap. PlayStation boss Shawn Layden was walking among the crowd to meet-and-greet media influencers, and he never ...]
When the bizarre (but entertaining) PlayStation media briefing ended the night before the opening of the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles, Sony Interactive Entertainment ushered us out into a Spider-Man-themed after party. After spending time on games like Ghosts of Tsushima, Death Stranding, and The Last of Us Part II, the publisher ...]
In between trailers, Sony's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) event featured little animated scenes with adorable creatures playing musical instruments. These were all created by Media Molecule's Dreams, which is more than just a game - it can be work as a game engine, too. Dreams has an impressive create mode, which enables players to make their ...]
Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding showed up at Sony's PlayStation media briefing prior to the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show again, and it was just the best, dumbest, and weirdest stuff you can imagine ... and then it got even dumber and better. I don't know what I saw, and so I honestly don't even know ...]
Remedy and publisher 505 Games showed off Control at the PlayStation media briefing in Los Angeles today. As part of the event, which leads into the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Sony revealed a trailer that shows a woman working through a bizarre labyrinth where she can control gravity and float through the air. Here's the ...]
In a press event in a sound stage converted into a giant church for 3,000 journalists and other onlookers, Sony unveiled more details about Naughty Dog's next big game, The Last of Us Part II, at the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) today in Los Angeles. The trailer of gameplay showed Ellie, older than in ...]
Been wanting to play more God of War, but have you finished the main story? Looks like you've got something waiting for you, we learned at Sony's event tonight at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Shawn Layden, the president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America and chairman of SIE Worldwide Studios, said that the ...]
REVIEW: I can't overstate Street Fighter's impact on the gaming industry: Capcom's series of 1-on-1 fighters defined an entire genre, redefined competitive gaming, and led multiple companies to create some of their most famous franchises. We measured two entire generations of consoles in part by their ability to faithfully reproduce various Street Fighter games. As a ...]
Updated at 5:07 p.m. Pacific time on May 25: PSN is back up and running. You may have trouble getting into Fortnite and other games on your PlayStation 4 because PlayStation Network is down as Memorial Day Weekend begins in the United States. Gamers on social media are complaining about connectivity errors on the PSN ...]
Sony's PlayStation 4 continues to outsell the competition in a healthy console market, according to industry-tracking data firm The NPD Group. As a platform, which includes PS4, PS4 Slim, and PS4 Pro, the Sony family of consoles generated more revenue than any other system last month. But God of War also ensured that PlayStation 4 ...]
PlayStation 4 is getting another Elite-like controller from Scuf Gaming. The peripheral maker announced the new Vantage controller in both a wireless model for $200 and a wired version for $170. As with other Scuf gamepads, Vantage owners can customize and add onto their controller to make it specific to their needs and play styles. ...]
Sony Interactive Entertainment president and chief executive officer John Tsuyoshi Kodera noted in an investor relations call today that the PlayStation 4 is entering the final phase of its life cycle, via Japanese gaming news site Siliconera. So, what does that mean? We've reached out to Sony for comment and will update this story if we ...]
The creators of Days Gone have heard the criticism that there are too many zombie games out there, including some from Sony's Naughty Dog studio that are among the finest games with the walking dead ever made. Nobody wants to create just one more zombie apocalypse game, even if it features a different setting from the usual ...]
PREVIEW: In a world of unlimited ammo, Sony's Days Gone would be an easy game. You could strap on a Gatling gun and just mow down 500 or so zombies, or "freakers," as they come running at you in the Oregon wilderness. But even though the freakers are plentiful and fast, Days Gone doesn't give you a horde ...]
At the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles next month, Sony has announced that its PlayStation event will focus on Death Stranding, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man, and The Last of Us Part II. Some fans have already taken this as a sign that the PlayStation 5 is coming, because Sony Worldwide Studios would have ...]
With one of the games industry's best catalogs of memorable IPs, Japanese developer Konami picked the cult classic Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner - Mars to bring into VR and 4K. Today, the futuristic mech game officially received a U.S. release date of September 4, as well as a list of VR-specific enhancements that ...]
FEATURE: Eidos Montreal, the studio making this fall’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider, casts its own striking umbra on the gaming world. Founded in 2007, it opened with an enormous staff and a highly specific goal. With 350 employees in tow, the Eidos Montreal mission was to create dense, story-driven, single-player role-playing games in the then-defunct ...]
A moment of calm. The wind is doing the work, blowing my rickety vehicle along a flat stretch. With no need to be inside, repeating the frenetic cycle of feeding the engine, full-body-pushing the enormous button to send it roaring to life and venting steam to prevent it exploding from its own heat, I'm standing on the roof watching the world go by. It's quiet. When I drop back down into the guts of the car, something's on fire. So it goes in Far: Lone Sails. The game follows exactly one trip, and takes place almost entirely within its vehicle. It's not the reliable car that we use in our day-to-day lives, and it's not the obliging horse that we so often use to get around in video games. It's the complete opposite of fast travel. There are no objectives or quests where you're going or where you're coming from.