Sometimes a few seconds of behind-the-scenes footage is all it takes for fans to build a whole theory about an upcoming game. Sometimes it even stretches to the fate of an iconic weapon, all because...

44 years ago, on October 1, 1982, Sony put the world's first consumer CD player on sale. The CDP-101 kicked off the era of digital audio on compact discs, and shoppers in Japan could pick...

Buying a console at the tail end of a generation used to be a near-guaranteed win. Wait for the hardware to get cheaper and the game library to fill out, then grab everything for the...

The global RAM shortage keeps hitting game console production, and Sony has had to take an unusual step. In Japan, PlayStation launched a lottery system for buying the PS5 Pro, open only to gamers with...

Andy Nguyen, the PS5 Linux forerunner, has announced he's dropping his entire port of Linux for PlayStation 5. The reason isn't technical difficulties – it's the behavior of newcomers generating code with large language models....

Photos of the overnight line from October 26, 2000, and the subsequent PS2 launch have brought back memories of the good old days. The pictures show a group of people outside a store with folding...

Sony is facing a class action lawsuit claiming that PlayStation Store language misleads users about what they're actually buying. The company insists digital games are licensed rather than sold, even though the PlayStation Store interface...

Sony has agreed to pay out nearly $8 million to PlayStation customers as part of a settlement regarding digital game prices on the PlayStation Store. The settlement became possible after the court denied Sony motion...

Sony has landed in the middle of a legal fight where the company's own lawyers argue that PlayStation customers who buy digital games never actually own them, and that no reasonable person should think otherwise....

Physical game releases usually get mourned as a casualty of laziness, Sony, and digital sales – buyers got lazy, greedy Japanese companies want every penny they can squeeze out, and boxes vanished from shelves on...

A short clip filmed by a CRT gaming enthusiast starts out as a regular race down a coastal track. Then the yellow car and the surrounding environment start breaking apart into polygons, textures slide off...

PlayStation account holders received an unexpected email containing the full text of the platform's user agreements, spelling out that purchased digital games remain a license rather than something you actually own. The mailing landed right...

Sony launched a new ad campaign called "It Happens On PS5," and the minute-long spot found room for the most anticipated game of the next few years. There's no new Grand Theft Auto VI footage...

A trailer and a four-minute clip from Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse have made their way around social media. The footage was originally shown at CinemaCon back in April, so someone sat on it for months...

Sometimes architecture beats industrial design to the punch by a decade or more. The clearest example shows up when a glass and concrete office tower ends up mirroring the silhouette of a gaming console that...

A day after watching "Spider-Man: Brand New Day," one viewer posted a detailed breakdown explaining why his initial rating didn't hold up. He originally gave the film seven out of ten, but dropped it to...

Sony is preparing to end disc production in 2028, so physical media is gradually fading into history. A recent report shows that even buying a disc doesn't guarantee you can launch a game without downloading...

During a recent earnings call, Sony executives acknowledged that the PlayStation 6 release window remains undecided. The culprit is an ongoing memory shortage that has driven component prices high enough to push the console's total...

The picture of next-gen consoles is slowly coming together. According to prominent hardware insider KeplerL2, both PlayStation 6 and Xbox Helix are targeting the same launch window – holiday 2027. He wrote on NeoGAF that...

Following a Bloomberg report that Sony plans to stop releasing first-party PS5 games on PC, analytics firm Newzoo put together a breakdown of the situation. According to their findings, the issue lies not in a...