Sony gave PlayStation fans a peek at the next generation of its PlayStation VR controllers on Thursday, promising “stronger immersion with adaptive triggers, haptic feedback, [and] finger-touch detection” for the PlayStation 5 virtual reality system. Hideaki Nishino, senior VP of platform planning and management at Sony Interactive Entertainment, described the next-gen PSVR controller as orb-shaped […]
Sony is giving away Horizon Zero Dawn and 9 other PS4 games
Horizon Zero Dawn, plus another nine indie games, will be free to everyone with a PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5, beginning next month, as Sony expands its efforts to support folks keeping safe and socially distant in the final stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition will be available free between April […]
Sony Is Giving Away 10 Free PlayStation Games For Play At Home 2021
Back in February, Sony confirmed the return of the PlayStation Play at Home program that allows for fans of Team Blue to enjoy even more free games. This initiative was a huge help in 2020 with much of the world under isolation orders due to COVID-19, and Sony is looking to continue that same love […]
Sony Announce New PlayStation VR MMO Zenith
Sony has just announced a brand new, Zelda-like MMO for VR, dubbed Zenith, coming at some point in 2021. While it features sword combat and your usual fantasy tropes, it is set in a futuristic city of which the game is named after. There are a lot of features prevalent in Zenith, one particularly stands […]
Sony Patent Seeks To Replace Controllers With Bananas
“System and method for generating user inputs for a video game” reads US Patent Application number 20210031110, submitted by Sony Interactive Entertainment on August 1, 2019, and approved on July 15, 2020. The patent basically seeks to replace the standard game controller with common household objects. Technically it could be anything, but the patent has […]
Sony closing down Japan Studio is the beginning of the end for PlayStation
A reader is upset at the news that Sony is downsizing Japan Studio and worries that they’ve thrown away one of their key advantages against Xbox. I generally view myself as a Nintendo fan first and foremost. Not in an angry, internet fanboy kind of way but I tend to like the majority of their […]
Sony Appears To Be Shutting Down The Studio Behind Ape Escape And Knack
According to VGC, Sony is reportedly shutting down original game development at Japan Studio, the company’s oldest first-party developer. The studio, which has produced Ape Escape, Gravity Rush and Knack, has laid off most of its developers after their annual contracts lapsed. Japan Studio will maintain its localization and business staff, while the ASOBI Team, […]
PlayStation gutting Sony Japan Studio following mass exodus of staff
Sony’s famous Japan Studio will soon cease to exist in anything like its current state, as the company’s focus away from its home territory continues. What was once Sony’s most important internal studio has been all but shut down, with the company admitting that it is ‘re-organising’ the 27-year-old Japan Studio. There had already been […]
Sony Offers New Look At Solar Ash For PS5
Solar Ash is a game about movement through a dangerous world filled to the brim with exploration opportunities. Players will be tasked with trying to save the planet and during the most recent State of Play, Sony showed off more about the game, including enemy encounters, traversal movements, and so much more. From massive sentinels with […]
Watch Today’s Sony State Of Play Here
Sony is hosting a State of Play later today. Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch the stream, including its start time. Sony revealed earlier this week that it will be holding a State of Play. The presentation will focus exclusively on games and not hardware. That means nothing more will be revealed […]