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PlayStation Vue Review: Online TV Is Great, But It’s Still Pretty Dumb

Television is experiencing a digital renaissance. Cutting the cord no longer means severing you from live TV. We’re witnessing the birth of true internet television, and Sony’s PlayStation Vue is the service with the most to offer as of today. I’ll be honest: I’ve missed cable. For me, live TV was like a security blanket,…

Powers Is A Flawed But Fascinating Look At Messed-Up Superheroes

This week, Sony released the first three episodes of Powers, the live-action adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming’s comic about police officers who deal with superpowered crime. And while it’s slow getting going, Powers takes some intriguing looks at a world where superheroes brush up against reality. If you’re familiar with the…

Sony Is Giving PSN Users Gifts To Make Up For The Hacking

Over Christmas, the self-styled group of lulz-seeking lowlifes known as the Lizard Squad DDoSed the shit out of PSN and Xbox Live, ruining Christmas for untold numbers of 8-year-olds, and by extension their parents. Law enforcement is slowly but surely bringing them to justice, but now Sony is also trying to make amends to users.…

Important PSA: Update Gadget Gifts Before You Wrap Them

So you pulled out the big guns and you got your son (age 27 or otherwise) a console. You’re justifiably excited about the Christmas morning surprise, but there’s one thing you must absolutely remember to take care of before you wrap that gadget gift: Update the firmware. Trust us. Here’s the deal. If you don’t…

7 Wonderful Gadget Stories to Warm Your Holiday Heart

Technology is a great gift to give for the holidays. It can provide hours, and days, and weeks, of entertainment and even help inspire kids for a lifetime. Last week, I asked about great tech-centric memories during the holidays, and answers included everything from old transistor radios to MacBooks, consoles, and operating systems. These are…

Why Sony Keeps Getting Hacked

By now, it’s no secret that Sony sucks at cybersecurity. The company’s movie business, Sony Pictures Entertainment, was recently hit with what may end up being the biggest corporate hack in history. It’s not the first time Sony has laid claim to that title. And if history is any guide, it likely won’t be the…

Michelle Forbes’s Retro Girl Looks Very Different From the Powers Comic

Of course, it’s always nice to see Michelle Forbes back in action. And we’ve been repeatedly told that that the Powers show is not going to be slavishly devoted to anything from the comics. Some things are similar, but there’s no doubt that the costume above isn’t the same as the one we already know:…

Sony’s PlayStation Vue Wants to Replace Your Cable Box

Sony has announced a new cloud-based TV service, which will offer a large selection of TV channels without a monthly contract and be available across a range of devices. It’s Sony’s play to replace your cable box. Originally spoken about at CES 2014 back in January, PlayStation Vue will roll out as an invite-only beta…

You Can Run PlayStation Games on a Smartwatch For Some Reason

Gadgets have come such a ridiculously long way in the past 15 or so years. Need proof? It’s totally possible to play the flagship console games of yore on a watch now. You know how that guy put Windows 95 on a smartwatch? Well it doesn’t end there. Using ePSXe, a Playstation emulator for Android,…

Go Pre-order Those Optimus and Megatron Classic Console Transformers

Takara Tomy has found the best way to suck the cash from our wallets save for some kind of reverse-ATM tractor beam. First teased earlier in the year, you can finally pre-order the toymaker’s homage to robots and classic gaming consoles with these updated Optimus Prime and Megatron figures that transform into the original Sony…

This Optimus Prime turns into a Playstation 1, and that’s Magnificent

I mean, why be a truck when you could be one of the coolest video game consoles ever? Smart choice, Optimus. This gorgeous mishmash of two Japanese icons is in celebration of both Transformer’s 30th anniversary this year, and Playstation’s 20th, and stands at around 19cm tall when it’s in Robot mode. It does, of…

Sony has announced that it will no longer support PlayStation Mobile on Android. The service will continue to operate, but from Android 4.4.3 and up, Sony won’t guarantee that games will work properly.

A Map That Shows Which States Are Xbox One and Which Are PS4

The XBOX One is beating the PS4 — at least on Facebook, if not in sales numbers. A map published by the Movoto Blog takes a look at the popularity of current-gen consoles in every state in the United States based on the number of Facebook likes. The results are surprising: The XBOX One was…

Project Morpheus Hands-On: The Virtual Future Is Very, Very Bright

When Sony announced its intentions to take Oculus Rift head-on, we were excited. The Rift (rightly) gets all of the attention and praise for its VR prowess, but a little competition would be good for the emerging technology. Today at E3 in Los Angeles we finally got to try Project Morpheus for ourselves. And man,…

I Watched Sony’s E3 Experience From a Movie Theater in Alabama

Last night, Sony simulcast its E3 press conference to dozens of movie theaters across the United States, including the Regal Trussville Stadium 16, a Big Lots-facing megaplex just off of County Highway 10. That’s where I watched it, along with a few dozen PlayStation faithful. Disclaimer: I am not a gamer. I can handle myself…

Playstation Now, the service that will let you stream old Playstation games on your new Playstation (and pretty damn well) will be going into open beta on July 31st. It’ll come to PS4 first, but later PS3, Vita, and select Sony smart TVs (Dual Shock 3 controller required).

An Arcade of Reflection

The composer Bryant O’Hara participates in the Sunday Assembly — a kind of non-religious church, as it were — in Atlanta, Georgia, where some aspects of the secular service involve music. He wanted to think of another means to introduce music into the communal activity, and came upon the idea of a collaborative video game…

PS4 Update: Enhanced Video Editing, Advance Downloads of Games, More

Sony’s PlayStation 4 console gets its first major update since its November launch today, with the release of the 1.70 system software. For those that love compiling brag clips, this one will be just what you’ve been waiting for, as it brings the comprehensive SHAREfactory video editing and sharing suite to Sony’s new console. SHAREfactory…

The Powers TV Series Is Moving To PlayStation

The long-awaited TV adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis’ comic Powers is finally coming to TV… just thanks to a videogame console. Once set for FX, the show has been picked up by Sony, and will be their first original programming on their PlayStation on-demand media service. Deadline says Powers will be an hour-long drama, and…

PlayStation Now—the streaming game service—will, weirdly, require a proprietary DualShock controller to play PS3 games on TVs, phones and tablets.