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You can buy yourself an arcade machine with 1200 games for PS1 for your birthday, but without L2 and R2 buttons

Nostalgia sells better than anything new, and the pricier it gets, the less buyers seem to care about details. Sometimes those details get ignored entirely. Take, for example, dropping $1,200 on a PlayStation arcade machine...
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Players are unhappy that Marvel's Wolverine is a movie – the game plays scenes for you

Calling out "the game plays itself" is one of the oldest and easiest tricks in game criticism. Cut a twenty second clip of a flashy finisher where the camera swoops around the hero while the...
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After PlayStation's claims that games don't belong to buyers, disappointed fans compiled a list of 34 examples where Sony said otherwise

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...
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Sony agreed to pay almost $8 million to gamers as part of a lawsuit over PS Store monopoly

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...
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According to Sony's lawyers, any reasonable buyer understands that digital PlayStation games are not owned by them

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....
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Sony reminded players that they do not own digital games

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...
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Players spend as much time in Roblox as in PlayStation, Steam, and Fortnite combined

Analyst Matthew Ball's new report revealed the true scale of the Roblox phenomenon – the platform has reached engagement levels that rival the biggest names in gaming. According to the report, by the end of...