Sony, makers of fine and unavailable Playstation products, announced this morning they are purchasing game studio Bungie for $3.6 billion. It’s a move that would otherwise have been completely unexpected if rival Microsoft hadn’t been loudly throwing its cash around lately.
When the Playstation 2 first hit the market, game hardware companies were finally starting to take serious preventative measures toward piracy of software. After seeing what happened with Sega and its accidental feature of taking any burned CD, Sony made sure the PS2’s architecture was locked tight…at least, so they thought.
Today, ATLUS released an all-new trailer for Persona 5 Royal! The trailer features Morgana and Kasumi highlighting elements of the game. Properly titled, Morgana’s Phantom Theif Crash Course, this trailer reintroduces people to the world of Persona 5.
Today, publisher MY.GAMES is proud to announce that its first-person shooter Warface is now available on the Nintendo Switch! It is a free-to-play first-person shooter that is enjoyed by 80 million players worldwide. In addition, the Nintendo Switch version will host various unique features:
The PSVR port of Throw Anything is now available on the PlayStation Store. This version is getting all of the content updates and fixes that have been made to the Steam VR release – including a more intuitive reward system, rebalanced difficulty, an item shop, a new level (Stage 6), and improved graphics.
Arc System Works America, Inc. has announced the release of Code Shifter, an action/platforming game on PlayStation®4, Nintendo SwitchTM, Xbox One and Steam® (PC) today.
Team17 and independent studio, Playtonic Games, are calling on players to test their 2D platforming skills with the release of the new demo for the critically-acclaimed Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. The free demo, available on Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation Store, Microsoft Store, and Steam, gives a taster of tonics, trials, and tantalising obstacles to traverse, including a chance to complete the lair itself, the first five levels of the game, and a Pageie Challenge, as Yooka and Laylee once again face off against antagonist Capital B!
In 2015 Sony turned their interest toward the growing cord-cutters market by launching Playstation Vue in select trial locations. Like Sling TV before it, Playstation Vue bypasses the expensive cable companies by letting consumers stream their favorite cable channels over Wi-Fi, and features an unlimited DVR that saves recordings for up to one month. Now forget all that because the service is dead.
The highly anticipated remake of Final Fantasy VII has switched development teams and is now being worked on in-house by Square Enix. External studio CyberConnect2
The National Videogame Museum, located in Frisco, Texas, boasts this country’s most complete collection of rare artifacts from the 30-plus year history of video games. Ars Technica was given the grand tour, and what they came back with was spectacular. This may be the best museum I’ve ever seen!
In the 1990’s the company known as Interplay gave us a wide variety of characters on 16-bit and 32-bit consoles. Earthworm Jim, Clay Fighter, The Lost Vikings, and this:
Those who haven’t played Blizzard’s intensely popular shooter yet will have their chance next weekend when the game will be available to download and play for no charge. Starting from September 9 and running to September 12, players can download the game and play it on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.