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PlayStation Now Hands On: Hey This Thing Actually Works

So PlayStation Now works. Like really. Like what the heck are you sure there isn’t a PlayStation tucked away behind this TV and hidden somehow behind this Vita works. It’s incredible because it doesn’t feel incredible, if that makes any sense. You can play streaming games without any game console, and that’s pretty damn impressive.…

China Finally Suspends Its Ban on Foreign Game Consoles

After 14 years of prohibition, the Chinese government has lifted a ban on the sale of foreign consoles inside the country’s border. This opens the door for Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony to tap in the multi-billion market—though the companies have already admitted it won’t be easy. It’s so far unclear exactly how far the suspension…

From PS1 to PS4, It’s a PlayStation Family Reunion

The PlayStation family has a lot of stylish members — and one very upright, ashen patriarch that started it all. Let’s take a look at how their aesthetics evolved. This fun little video by UnboxTherapy really shows the changes in physical size that occurred over PlayStation’s 18-year run. Remember how mind-blowingly small the PSone was…

Deconstructed Gaming Controllers Reveal Gorgeous Old School Guts

Above, you’re looking at the surgically disassembled guts of an old Jaguar controller, the short-lived console originally released by Atari in 1993. It’s a thing of beauty, and just one of a series that’s equal parts nostalgia and drool. Brandon Allen‘s photos of dissected gamepads are nothing short of breathtaking. A strange obsession with the…

Ask Us Anything About the PS4

We have a PS4! We gave our first impressions here, but we’re still poking and prodding at it as more features become available. So tell us: What do you want to know about Sony’s next generation console? https://gizmodo.com/ps4-review-the-future-is-finally-here-1463432248 Put your questions in the discussion below, and we’ll do our best to answer every single one.…

PS4 Review: The Future Is Finally Here

The next gen is here! Or half of it, anyway. Sony’s PS4 has come in first the haphazard sprint to the new-console finish line. And yeah, it’s pretty awesome. What Is It? It’s the PlayStation Freakin’ 4. The first new Sony console since 2006. A gaming station for gamers who like to game. A beautiful…

Ahead of the PS4’s launch, you can download the official PlayStation apps,for Android and iOS, for use with the console. Almost as good as getting your hands on a PS4, right?

The Real Reason the PS4’s Guts Blow the PS3 Away

The hardware inside the PlayStation 4 is quite obviously more powerful than that of its eight-year-old predecessor. But Sony’s newest console owes more to its success than just specs. As Wired found in an in-depth look at how the PS4 was designed, it has the creator of Marble Madness to thank. Mark Cerny, as Wired…

Classic Controller Ornaments Will 1-Up Your Holiday Spirit

Your Christmas tree says as much about you as it does your love for the holidays. So this year why not skip the traditional ornaments like glass bulbs and shiny stars and go for something that will bring real character to your tree? If you’ve been a gamer for as long as you can remember,…

You don’t need to buy a next-generation PlayStation or Xbox just yet

These holidays there will be new versions of the PlayStation and the Xbox. That’s great news, but the best news are these: You really don’t need to buy them just yet. Or ever, for that matter. That old 1980s Nintendo system is still as fun as day one! Kotaku explains why it may not be…

The PS4 Will Feature Kinect-Like Voice Control

According to Sony, the PlayStation 4 will feature a voice command system which will allow users to control the console by speaking to it—much like the Xbox One’s Kinect-powered system. The feature will be routed through PlayStation Camera’s built-in microphone, and Sony plans to dribble out details of how it might be used soon. The…

How Every Argument About Xbox and PlayStation Ends

It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about the Xbox One versus the PlayStation 4. The 360 versus the PS3. Pitting Xbox Live against PlayStation Plus. Comparing Microsoft and Sony. Even including Windows Phone with the PSP. Whatever. Any argument between Xbox fanboys and PlayStation fanboys eventually reaches the point where they’re both so thankful that…

PS4 Is Coming November 15th to North America

Playstation 4 is coming! Playstation 4 is coming! When? November 15th to North America. How much? The previously announced $400 price tag. Only 87 days to go, baby. Are we excited? Yesssss. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-ps4-is-400-512483428 Today at Sony’s Playstation Gamescom press conference, the company finally spilled the details about when we’d finally get our mitts on the…

Rumor has it that Sony is launching a flash-based PlayStation 3 with just 12GB of storage in North America—potentially priced at around $200 and available from the 18th August.

In Theory, This Is How Xbox One and PS4 Graphics Compare

There’s no doubt that on paper, the way Sony’s designed the PS4 and the AMD components it’s selected offer 50 per cent more power in the GPU department over the Xbox One. But does it really make any difference when you get down to playing a game? That’s the question Eurogamer and Digital Foundry set…

Doing It Wrong: The Xbox One and PS4 Aren’t the Consoles We Need

As E3 closes up shop for the year, we finally have a moment to reflect on a week of gorging ourselves on news about the continuing console war between Microsoft and Sony (and, uh, Nintendo). It’s all very new and exciting news about the next half-decade of gaming, but in a lot of ways, it…

Sony PS4: Everything You Need to Know

After two long hours of tease this past February, followed by a few fleeting glimpses in May, Sony’s finally ready to show us what its next-generation PlayStation console actually, you know, looks like. And it’s… well, it’s a rhombus. A familiar-looking one. https://gizmodo.com/the-playstation-4-is-here-update-sort-of-5985701 “It is a design that is sleek and visually impactful wherever it…

6 Big PS4 Questions (And the Answers We’re Hoping For)

While the nitty gritty details about Xbox One are all out in the open the PS4 is still largely a mystery despite technically bursting on to the scene months ago. Here are just a handful of the unanswered questions surrounding Sony’s next-generation console—and how we hope and think they’ll be answered. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-xbox-everything-you-need-to-know-about-microso-509033619 What does the…

Is This the PS4 or Just Another Crappy Bluetooth Speaker?

Sony’s teasing something over on its Facebook page. It looks like a red, round thing that pops open. It might reveal a PS4 disc tray or, more likely, the hole you plug your MP3 player into in order to get the party started. Or, even less thrillingly, it might be an Easter egg. A joke.…

Ben Heck Ends the Console Wars By Cramming Them All Into One Box

Hacker, modder, and DIYer extraordinaire Ben Heck has seemingly done the impossible with his latest project. For years a fierce battle has raged between proponents of the big three gaming consoles, but to finally bring peace and civility to gaming forums across the land, Heck created an all-in-one console that combines a PS3, an Xbox…