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After months of speculation, Sony has finally announced the PlayStation 5 Pro, and boy are gamers suffering from sticker shock. Sony threw a lot of technobabble at today’s unveiling, promising 67% more compute units than the base PS5, and 28% faster memory. They claim the console features 45% faster rendering than the base system. No…
Move over Mario, there’s a new mascot in town. Astro Bot released on PS5 this week to near universal praise. And it’s not hard to see why. It’s chock full of the kind of whimsical fun you don’t really see from non-Nintendo publishers. Which puts Sony at a critical crossroads regarding the future of PlayStation…
Sony announced today that live service Concord will be shut down only a week after release. The company also announced they will be offering full refunds to anyone who purchased it on PSN or Steam. “While many qualities of the experience resonated with players, we also recognize that other aspects of the game and our…
It’s a terrible day to be a blob. First your homeworld is destroyed, then you flee to some disgusting backwards planet, where a local scientist has captured you and your friends to run experiments on. How rude. The only solution is to escape, save your fellow blobs, then extract a little revenge by absorbing the…
Half of PS4 owners have not upgraded to the PlayStation 5. Games journalists are perplexed by this, as they are about a great many things. Why aren’t people getting excited to consume next product? Well, as cited by IGN, Mat Piscatella, Executive Director at Circana, noted the most popular games right now are all available…
Powerful demons are wreaking havoc across Tokyo! Who better to protect the populace than… the local theatre troop? Problem is they’re just as bad at fighting as they are at acting. Now it’s up to Seijuro Kamiyama to whip them into shape, somehow. Through the power of love, and some big mechs, maybe they can…
Sony is going to be releasing a PS5 Pro at some point this year, according to fresh rumours. Speaking to CNBC, Kantan Games CEO Serkan Toto said that “There seems to be a broad consensus in the game industry that Sony is indeed preparing a launch of a PS5 Pro in the second half of…
Sony has officially unveiled a dedicated remote play handheld. Dubbed the PlayStation Portal, the device will allow players to connect to their PlayStation 5 over WiFi, and stream games locally stored on the console. It features a 1080p display, supports all features from the DualSense 5 controller, and will be capable of streaming at up…
It’s been nearly a decade since Sony “unofficially” dropped first party support for the Vita. Since then, a lot has changed in the handheld market. The Nintendo Switch has soared to become the third best selling video game system of all time. Meanwhile, Valve has released their first ever premium portable to rave reviews. So…
A top level PlayStation executive has been fired after it was alleged they solicited a minor. Senior Vice President at PlayStation Network, George Cacioppo, was caught by online vigilante group “People vs Preds” attempting to meet a 15-year-old boy for sex. The organization, which runs Chris Hansen style stings against child predators, posed as a…