Sony announced Thursday that it will acquire Firewalk Studios from Bellevue, Wash.-based ProbablyMonsters. Financial terms were not disclosed. Firewalk is one of three teams built under ProbablyMonsters’ umbrella, and was… Read More
After the production delays and supply disruptions of the last few years, 2023 is where the games industry is set to really start picking up speed. The Pacific Northwest is… Read More
Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based development studio behind the Destiny franchise of video games, has officially been acquired by PlayStation makers Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE). Under the terms of the $3.6… Read More
Sony Interactive Entertainment’s acquisition of Destiny maker Bungie for $3.6 billion is the linchpin of a larger plan to bet PlayStation’s future on live service games, shifting more than half… Read More
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
Next week, Sony reportedly intends to announce a service to compete with Microsoft’s Game Pass, which has the potential to move the “console wars” into a new, subscription-based era. As… Read More
Bungie, the Bellevue, Wash.-based game developer that originally developed the platform-defining Halo franchise for Microsoft’s Xbox, has agreed to be acquired by Sony, maker of the competing PlayStation consoles, for… Read More
New Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has confirmed that the best-selling video game series Call of Duty will continue to be available on the PlayStation platform, two days after Microsoft… Read More
Last year’s viral hit Among Us is planned to debut on PlayStation 4 & 5 later this year. Announced during Sony’s “State of Play” news conference Thursday, the PS4/5 rev… Read More
Energy consumption by the new Xbox gaming console could cost new owners of the Microsoft device more than $500 million on their electricity bills over the next five years, according… Read More
Microsoft is expanding its Xbox refund policy specifically to accommodate consumers looking to return digital copies of the recently-released action RPG Cyberpunk 2077, which has been plagued by bugs and… Read More
Even in a month that saw record-breaking worldwide launches for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, the Nintendo Switch was the best-selling video game console in November. That’s the… Read More
Sony has been conspicuously quiet for much of 2019. It’s teased a handful of major first-party video game releases – The Last of Us Part 2, Hideo Kojima’s hallucinatory action… Read More
E3, the biggest gaming convention in the U.S., started with a bang this week. Geared Up co-host Andru Edwards is down in Los Angeles for the show and on this… Read More
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Streaming music service Spotify is coming to the Xbox One more than two years after it debuted on rival PlayStation consoles. In June, a Spotify app came to the Windows… Read More
Polyarc made its debut on one of gaming’s biggest stages. At Sony’s press conference from the big E3 video game show in Los Angeles on Monday, Seattle-based Polyarc lifted the hood… Read More
Nintendo will launch a paid, online gaming service for the popular Switch hybrid console next year. Right now, Switch players have access to online gaming at no cost, but that… Read More
As part of its quarterly earnings report last week, Microsoft said Xbox Live monthly active users reached 47 million — up 21 percent from the same quarter last year. “Our highly engaged Xbox Live… Read More
The first look at Nintendo’s new hybrid Switch console generated plenty of buzz, but one report suggests disappointing sales could mean game over for the Japanese gaming giant’s console business. A… Read More
Virtual reality has officially arrived, if the convention floor at PAX West is any indication. VR experiences are seemingly around every corner at the gaming extravaganza, which began today in Seattle. Game… Read More
For the first time since this past October, Microsoft’s Xbox One outpaced Sony’s Playstation 4 for U.S. console sales in July, breaking Sony’s eight-month win streak. “We’re honored that Xbox… Read More
Cord-cutting football fans have a new way to watch NFL Network and NFL RedZone. The league today announced a deal with Sony to stream content from NFL Network and RedZone… Read More
Sony has confirmed that the rumors are true. According to The Financial Times, a new, beefier PlayStation 4 is on the way. No release date was given, and Sony also said… Read More
Sony announced today that sales of its PlayStation 4 have eclipsed 40 million, a new milestone for the top-selling console. “We are truly grateful for the enormous support from our… Read More
Sony’s virtual reality headset may be coming to the VR party a little late, but it’s going to be a lot more approachable than the competition from Oculus and HTC, thanks to… Read More
U.S. sales of the Xbox One and Playstation 4 hit record-highs last month. The NPD Group reported its monthly console sales data today and noted that December marked the best month… Read More
Microsoft is making a major change to the way it reports results for its Xbox business — ending its longstanding practice of reporting Xbox unit sales each quarter, and instead providing… Read More
Sony topped Microsoft again for U.S. current-generation hardware sales in September as its PlayStation 4 trumped the Xbox One for the fifth consecutive month. The company has outsold Microsoft for U.S. console… Read More
Apple is finally getting serious about video games in the living room. Today, at a special event, Apple unveiled an all-new Apple TV that comes with a much bigger emphasis on gaming,… Read More