Items tagged with PlayStation
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Alan Velasco - Thu, Jun 18, 2026
Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is in a transitional phase. It will eventually return to a strategy of console exclusives meant to strengthen the brand, but in the meantime it is still bringing some games to other platforms. The company’s...
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Chris Harper - Wed, Jun 17, 2026
Sony has filed for a patent on an interesting controller concept, that could add a new level of immersion to console gaming. To be specific, the patent references buttons with adjustable hardness or resistance.
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jun 10, 2026
For a limited time, you can score Sony's DualSense Edge wireless controller for a near all-time low and it will arrive in plenty of time for Father's Day on Sunday, June 21, 2026. The current sale price is also not that far off what it...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Jun 08, 2026
As Xbox celebrates 25 years of gaming, recently installed CEO Asha Sharma is working to reinvigorate the brand, and according to Asha, they're full speed ahead with its next-generation Project Helix console. As part of this effort, the...
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Chris Harper - Tue, May 26, 2026
OmniDrive is custom firmware for select Blu-Ray drives powered by the MediaTek MT1959 chipset that allows for numerous proprietary game disc formats to be read or ripped for backups and emulation. One of the more sought after uses for...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, May 13, 2026
The current crop of consoles are nearing six years old, and both Microsoft and Sony are hard at work at developing their next generation gaming systems. Unfortunately, development is happening during a memory and storage shortage, which...
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Chris Harper - Mon, May 11, 2026
Sony is notifying PS4 players who have Grand Theft Auto VI on their wish-list (or have tons of GTA V playtime) that a new console will be required to play the hotly-anticipated game when it launches on November 19th.
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Alan Velasco - Tue, May 05, 2026
Sony has been dealing with significant legal troubles from PlayStation customers that have filed several suits against the company. The Japanese gaming giant has managed to end one of the suits, however, after having come to a settlement...
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Chris Harper - Thu, Apr 30, 2026
If you're a fan of the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller on PC, you aren't alone. With the help of Steam Input, you can easily utilize the controller's gyro and touchpad functionality to your heart's content, and certain PlayStation...
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Chris Harper - Wed, Apr 29, 2026
It's been an interesting week for PlayStation players, but among conflicting reports of a 30-day DRM policy applied for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, GameStop has stepped into the spotlight thanks to a "Play really has no limits at...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Apr 21, 2026
Sony is the latest company to announce that it will be requiring that users submit themselves to an age check to access certain features available on its PlayStation gaming platform. The move comes as countries across the globe are...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Apr 20, 2026
Shuhei Yoshida had a storied career as part of Sony PlayStation that included leading Sony Worldwide Studios, which is now known as PlayStation Studios. His legendary run at the company came to an end once former CEO Jim Ryan no longer saw...
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Chris Harper - Wed, Apr 01, 2026
Prominent hardware leaker KeplerL2 made some interesting statements on the NeoGAF forums recently, claiming that the PlayStation 6 Portable is not only faster than the Xbox Series S in raster performance, but "massively ahead" in ray...
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Chris Harper - Tue, Mar 31, 2026
Fans of the original PlayStation know that there are substantial differences between the original "PSX" PlayStation and the follow-up "PSOne" revision, beyond just a smaller factor. One fan has taken that knowledge to its extreme by...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Mar 26, 2026
Sony Honda Mobility (SHM) has pulled the plug on its ambitious Afeela electric vehicle project, marking a sudden end to the PlayStation on wheels just months before its scheduled public rollout in California. Don't feel bad just because...
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Chris Harper - Tue, Mar 17, 2026
When Sony's PlayStation 5 Pro shipped with the initial version of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, eventual updates were expected since it was heavily based on AMD FSR 4, which is also still being updated. Now, the first wave of PSSR...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Mar 11, 2026
Sony isn’t just having to deal with the headwinds of higher component costs and an increasingly competitive gaming landscape where a game can get shut down if it isn’t an immediate hit, it’s now also having to contend with a hefty lawsuit...
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Chris Harper - Wed, Mar 04, 2026
Amidst credible speculation that PlayStation may be stepping back from porting its single-player catalog to PC, former Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra has attributed the move to Valve's explosive Steam Machine announcement. With Valve formally...
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Chris Harper - Fri, Feb 27, 2026
Amidst drastic shifts from Xbox and the wider (PC) hardware market, Sony is reportedly considering a pivot away from its more recent strategy of eventually porting its single-player catalog to PC.
As-is, Sony first-party exclusives...
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Chris Harper - Mon, Feb 16, 2026
Another day, another update on the RAM crisis—and now, insider statements made to Bloomberg point toward both a PlayStation 6 delay and a Nintendo Switch 2 price hike, in response to current industry supply/demand conditions. For...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Feb 09, 2026
A new round of hardware leaks suggests that Sony’s next-generation PlayStation 6 and its accompanying handheld will feature a massive surge in memory capacity and speed: think 30GB for the PS5 and 24GB for the handheld..
According to a...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Feb 02, 2026
Console gamers love new tech, but there are ones that we hope never ever make it to production. Case in point: Sony has patented a controller that ditches physical buttons entirely in favor of a giant, customizable touchscreen...
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