PlayStation

Meet the PS4’s Blazing AMD Guts

We don’t know squat about what the PS4 will look like since it didn’t make an appearance at Sony’s two-hour long press event last night, but we’ve learned a lot about what it’ll be like when it finally shows up. And now, we know it’s going to have AMD innards. https://gizmodo.com/sony-just-had-a-two-hour-ps4-event-with-no-ps4-5985790 As expected, the PS4…

Sony Just Had a Two Hour PS4 Event With No PS4

After showing us tons of awesome looking games, Sony straight up denied us the console. We have specs, we’ve seen the controller, but we haven’t seen the box. Or triangle, or orb, or whatever this non-existant hardware for the PlayStation 4 might look like. Oh and no price or release date, either. We don’t even…

PlayStation 4 Has 16x More RAM Than PS3 or Xbox 360

The new PlayStation 4 has 8 GB of RAM, which is a huge industry-leading number. But it’s even crazier when you realize that the Playstation 3 only had 512 MB of RAM—256 for the system and 256 for video. The Xbox 360 has the same. https://gizmodo.com/the-playstation-4-is-here-update-sort-of-5985701 The new RAM will enable the new “suspend/resume” functionality…

The PlayStation 4 Is Here (Update: Sort Of)

It’s been seven years since the giant, boxy, expensive, hugely-fun and hyped PS3 first arrived. Seven years is a long time. But the next expensive, gorgeous era of gaming is here: the PlayStation 4. Everything looks better, yes, but it’s definitely more of the same. The PS4, arriving in stores “Holiday 2013,” is still very…

Watch Sony’s PlayStation 4 Announcement Live Right Here

It’s finally time to find out what Sony’s got in store for us. Playstation 4, baby! Watch the embedded stream below to find out what awesome games and features Sony’s gonna unload on us. Get pumped.

WSJ: Yes, Sony Will Announce the PlayStation 4 on February 20th

The WSJ is confirming what we all saw in Sony’s slick video teaser for its upcoming February 20th event: Sony will be announcing the PlayStation 4. Citing the ol’ reliable ‘people familiar with the matter’, the WSJ says that the PS4 will be announced on February 20th and be released later this year. https://gizmodo.com/is-the-playstation-4-arriving-on-february-20th-5980721 The…

Is the PlayStation 4 Arriving on February 20th?

Well here’s something we weren’t expecting. Sony just teased us with a super secret, super mysterious, super probably a new PlayStation (because, what else?) event next month. Let’s start speculating and freaking out about a new console war. We’re finding out as much as we can, bu for now, set your watches for February 20th,…

It’s the end of an era: Sony’s stopping shipping the PS2, the wolrd’s best selling console, in Japan. Sainara! [Famistu]

Sony’s Playstation Mobile store is live with tons of games and one lonely app for Vita and PS-certified Androids. [Sony]

Turn Your Phone Into a PS Vita That Has Games You Want To Play

The PlayStation Vita has not exactly been the runaway success that Sony had hoped it would be. It’s partly due to a lack of compelling games, and partly due to competition from smartphones. And the GameKlip could very well be the last nail in the Vita’s coffin. The most common critique of smartphone gaming is…

The Case For GeoHot

George Hotz—better known as GeoHot—might be the most famous hardware hacker in the world. He unlocked the iPhone so people could use it with any carrier and hacked the PS3 so it would play bootlegged games. Some of GeoHot’s hacks are clearly illegal, but are they wrong? You might recall, Sony didn’t take Hotz’s hack…

Who Wants to Blow Up a Truck This Valentines Day?

Valentines Day is fast approaching and if you’re dateless again this year (*raises hand*), don’t drown your sorrows with a bottle of Jack. Especially not when you can take out your unloved frustrations with an Internet-connected machine gun. Twisted Metal, the classic Playstation game, has been rebooted and will hit stores February 14th for the…

Report: The New President of Sony Is Kaz Hirai, the Boss of Playstation

Nikkei is reporting that Kaz Hirai will finally be promoted to President of Sony (in April). If you remember, Hirai has been the Playstation boss for quite some time and was rumored to be in talks of becoming President as far back as November 2010. Sony sure took its time with this one. https://gizmodo.com/sony-promoting-playstation-boss-to-take-over-from-sir-h-5698913 So…

PlayStation Games Might Know How Stressed You Are Someday

Sony filed a series of patents recently that would add biometric sensors to PlayStation 3 controllers and to a handheld resembling the Playstation Vita. How will gaming change when your console knows how you feel? It’s weird to think that the behavior of your video game avatar could change concurrent with your level of tension…

An Important Message From Sony’s Chief Information Security Officer: “OH GOD, NO, IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN”

Poor old Sony was hammered by both media and its own users earlier this year, after news broke of a large-scale hacking of its PlayStation Network. And now it’s happened again. The latest case involves Sony detecting a mass attempt to sign in to PSN accounts with a job-lot of user names and passwords, which…

Sony Is This Close to Paying $1 Billion for Full Control of Sony Ericsson

Sony sure had itself a day the other day, and rumor has it the tech giant may soon have itself all of the Sony Ericsson joint venture as well. https://gizmodo.com/sony-sure-had-themselves-a-day-5836302 This according to a rumor reported by industry gaming pub Gamasutra, which reports Sony is oh so close to a $1 billion takeover of the…

Playstation Vita Is Finally Up for Pre-Order… in Canada?

Engadget is showing off a new Playstation Vita ready to be pre-ordered at Best Buy, but in the Great White North. The dates indicate a March 2012 release. Meanwhile, the UK can expect the console to drop on October 28. https://gizmodo.com/the-next-psp-is-officially-the-playstation-vita-update-5809242 All this, of course, is to be taken with a grain of salt. After…

Is 4.7-Inches Too Big For a Sony Ericsson 3D Gaming Phone?

Phone sizes keep creeping up, to the point where I worry using a 10.1-inch tablet will soon become the norm. If rumors are correct, Sony Ericsson’s thinking big with their first glasses-free 3D phone—a possible PlayStation phone, perhaps? Word on the street is Sony Ericsson wants a slice of the 3D pie that HTC and…

We Might See Sony’s PlayStation Vita Launch Late October

Sony’s not been forthcoming with dates for the PlayStation Vita launch, but according to a Blockbuster flyer, it could be arriving October 28th—at least, in the UK anyway. [IGN] https://gizmodo.com/the-next-psp-is-officially-the-playstation-vita-update-5809242

All the Most Awesome Nintendo, Xbox and PlayStation News from E3

E3 is happening now: That means games. The Nintendo Wii U is crazy! And good! Microsoft revamped the Xbox with new Live TV, Bing (Bing!) and more. Sony? The NGP became the PlayStation Vita. And there’s a PlayStation TeeVee. Nintendo Wii U Hands On: An Entirely Different Way to See Things https://kotaku.com/nintendo-wii-u-hands-on-an-entirely-different-way-to-s-5809631 It looks like…