Sony announced a rebranded PlayStation Plus subscription service on Tuesday morning, which merges its two existing monthly offerings into a single three-tiered option that’s implicitly meant to be competitive with… Read More
This year’s Game Awards took place Thursday as a socially-distant event, with hosts Geoff Keighley and Sydnee Goodman presiding over an evening of announcements, teasers, trailers, and occasionally, even the… Read More
Several games from the Pacific Northwest’s development community are among the major nominees at the 2020 Game Awards, an annual livestreamed ceremony that celebrates the highest achievements in the video… Read More
They can’t step on real grass, swing for real fences or hear the cheers of real fans, but Seattle Mariners players are still getting in some baseball, albeit virtually, during… Read More
Bellevue, Wash.-based studio Sucker Punch announced today that its open-world samurai action game Ghost of Tsushima will be released June 26. Ghost has been in the works for most of… Read More
Despite a spate of rumors, Sony conspicuously had no new information about the PlayStation 5 on Monday evening at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The company released some… Read More
Six of the top 10 best-selling games on Amazon in August were Nintendo Switch titles, according to a new report, an indication that the popularity of the smash hit console… Read More
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The best moments in Days Gone are also its most intense. The game’s not-zombies, “Freakers,” aren’t much of a threat at all if you can fight them one at a… Read More
Sony lifted the hood on its next PlayStation console in a Wired story today featuring an interview with Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PlayStation 4. To summarize briefly,… Read More
Every month PlayStation and Xbox offer updates to their subscription services, PlayStation Plus, Xbox Live Gold, and Xbox Game Pass. Here’s what’s on the docket for January 2019. Free games… Read More
LOS ANGELES ― If you’d told me last week that one of the big moments of this year’s E3 would involve a lesbian kissing scene, I wouldn’t necessarily have believed… Read More
The Fullbright Company, a Portland-based independent studio, was founded by several veterans of Irrational Games who worked on the “Minerva’s Den” DLC for Bioshock 2. Fullbright tends to make well-written,… Read More
Sony says it sold 5.9 million PlayStation 4 game consoles during the holiday shopping season, bringing the total installed base for the company’s latest console to 73.6 million worldwide since… Read More
What’s the key to the gaming crown, pushing more pixels or enabling unique experiences? With Sunday’s unveiling of the Xbox One X, Microsoft is placing its bet on intense graphics.… Read More
More than three years after debuting, Microsoft’s Xbox One console still continues to rack up the sales. The Redmond company had its biggest month ever for Xbox One sales in… Read More
Sony has sold 53.4 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide in a little more than three years. Sony CEO Kaz Hirai said at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Wednesday the… Read More
Nintendo has released the first trailer for its new console, and now we know its name, Nintendo Switch. The trailer confirms reports over the summer that the the console will be… Read More
Sony on Wednesday announced a pair of new models of the PlayStation 4; one that is slimmed down and another that is more powerful and designed for 4K and HDR TVs. The slimmer,… Read More
While this year’s announced attendance was up at the E3 game convention, the number of exhibitors was significantly smaller, and many parts of the show floor felt almost quiet. Disney Interactive and… Read More
It is clear that Sony has run away with the “win” in the current video game console generation in terms of raw console sales numbers, but as it turns out,… Read More
Playstation 4 topped the Xbox One for U.S. console sales in February, as Sony ousted rival Microsoft for the ninth time in 10 months. The NPD Group reported its monthly console video game sales data today… Read More
Consoles sales are slowing after a record-breaking holiday season, down 15 percent year-over-year to $157 million in January, according to the latest data from the NPD Group. The Playstation 4 continued to outsell the Xbox One… Read More
Sony is gearing up for the holiday season with a price cut to the PlayStation 4, the first across-the-board price cut since its 2013 launch. It’s now $50 cheaper, at $349.99… Read More
Sony topped Microsoft again for U.S. current-generation hardware sales in August as its PlayStation 4 trumped the Xbox One for the fourth consecutive month. The company has outsold Microsoft for… Read More
Sony is rolling out an update to the PlayStation 4, with an option for a 1TB model. The improved console will use 8 percent less power and be 10 percent… Read More
This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo saw some announcements that gamers have been waiting for. And I mean waiting, in some cases for years. All across the board, we saw confirmations… Read More
The Last Guardian, a Kickstarter for Shenmue III and a remake of the epic Final Fantasy VII were all announced at Sony’s E3 Playstation event today. The Last Guardian, the third… Read More
Sony scores another big milestone for the PlayStation 4. Since the PlayStation 4 went on sale less than two years ago, Sony has sold 20.2 million units, making the game console the company’s… Read More
Point, Xbox One. Microsoft announced today that for the second straight month, the Xbox One outsold Sony’s PlayStation 4 in the U.S. for December. The Redmond company also sold more Xbox One games during… Read More