The Same People Worked On The Xbox One And PlayStation Commercials

The guys at Bluraren’t the only studio making top-shelf commercials for the video game business. The team at visual effects outfit The Mill have worked on loads of them as well, including some of this year’s best and most prominent. The video below is the studio’s showreel for the year, and while it contains footage…

Class Acts

PS4 Sizzle Reel Teases What’s Coming Next

The PlayStation 4 is officially on sale. Next-gen is now current-gen. Here’s a three-minute sizzle reel, shown off on SpikeTV tonight, that teases what’s coming in the near future for the newest video game console out there.

Metal Gear Solid V‘s PlayStation-Exclusive Mission Stars Classic Snake

The fifth Metal Gear Solid is getting a “Deja Vu” mission, and it’ll have the totally next-gen graphics of classic Snake, as you can see above. Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is out this spring for current- and next-gen systems.

Sony Teases The Last Guardian In Excruciating Fashion

When Spike’s Geoff Keighley asked Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida and Adam Boyes about the enigmatic Last Guardian, I didn’t expect much of a response. And of course… we didn’t get much of a response. Enjoy.

The first buzzworthy game on the Ouya, the four-player competitive archery-combat game Towerfall, will be coming to the PS4 with some 50 new levels. It’ll be called Towerfall Ascension. More details here

Destiny Beta Coming First To PS3/PS4

Tonight at Sony’s PS4 event in New York, Bungie announced that PlayStation owners will get to play the beta of their multiplatform online shooter Destiny first. The game will be out in 2014 and is also coming to Xbox One and Xbox 360.

Infamous: Second Son Is Coming In March 2014

At Sony’s PS4 press event, Sucker Punch unveiled this new trailer for their open-world superhero game Infamous: Second Son, and announced that it’ll be out on March 21, 2014. In other news, I am psyched for this game.

The Last of Us Story DLC Is A Prequel Featuring Ellie

Today at Sony’s PS4 event Naughty Dog revealed Left Behind, the first story-based DLC for The Last of Us. The teaser trailer showed Ellie along with Riley Abel, her friend from back during her school days in the Quarantine Zone. Those who have read the Dark Horse comic run of The Last of Us: American…

How To Use The PS4’s New Features

The PS4 has added some features, and they aren’t all so obvious. You might want to know how to turn off that speaker in your controller when it starts making noise during a game. You might want to find out how rare is that trophy you just got. Let’s take a look. First up is…

NPR Unboxing The PS4 Is As Hilarious As It Sounds

“Knack looks a little… too benign.” If you’re going to watch a PS4 unboxing video, make it National Public Radio’s PS4 unboxing video.

Say Hello To My Little Friend: well this glitched out scene out of Scarface captured by Main Man Mayne doesn’t quite go down the same way it does in the movie…but that’s okay, because that’s exactly what makes this clip so silly.

Good News About Our Once-Broken PS4…

Our malfunctioning PS4, the one I mentioned in our review of Sony’s new console, has been fixed. It turns out that the fix was an easy one. We can now give you a clear run-through of what went wrong and what to look out for in what, at this point, seems like a fluke. Note:…

PS4 Truckin’: here’s a scene from the PS4 launch party, where apparently Infamous: Second Son is being played on the side of a truck. I wonder what’s in the truck? I bet it’s a bunch of Xbox Ones. (ViaBilly Harper)

The simplest things about a new console can catch your eye—or, in this case, hide from it. The PS4, as you’ll see in this video, has the most inconspicuous power button we’ve ever seen on a console. Bonus: the disc drive in action!