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So Many Different Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes Bundles in Japan!

When Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes goes on sale next spring, Japanese gamers will have a bundle of different bundles to choose from. First, they can get the retail version, which is 2,980 yen (around US$30) and available for the PS4, the PS3, and the Xbox 360. They can also get a slightly cheaper…

NFL Player Buys PlayStation 4s For A Bunch Of Midnight Campers

Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant just did something pretty awesome. In attendance at a Dallas Best Buy store for a PS4 midnight launch, the NFL star walked up and bought five consoles for those waiting in line. So, you know, if you too live in an area with an NFL team, keep your eyes peeled.…

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.

Meet The First Guy To Buy A PlayStation 4

Congrats to this guy, Mr. Joey Chiu, for being the first person in line to buy a PlayStation 4 at Sony’s New York PS4 event. He says he’s gonna play either Resogun or Knack first, after which he will presumably be going to Disneyland. Watch the happy fella get his console: Not bad. And if…

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.

Watch The Big PS4 Launch Event Live, Right Here [UPDATE: It’s Over]

Why wait until E3 for a press conference full of gaming news? Sony’s promising big announcements for tonight’s big PS4 All Access show, and we’ve got it streaming for you live, right here. Sony’s promising news on Metal Gear Solid V, Destiny, and The Last of Us DLC, plus whatever big surprises they’ve got up…

How To Record, Livestream And Share Screenshots On PS4

The PS4 has a bunch of new features, but one of the coolest is the ability to automatically record gameplay video, take screenshots, and broadcast to Twitch or Ustream straight from your console. Take a look at this video for a look at all the features of the PS4’s share button. One note about using…

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:…

The PS4 And Xbox One, Side-By-Side

Picture this as a very intimate cage-fight, or an even more intimate snuggle between colleagues. Up to you. German site PCGames has gotten hold of both an Xbox One and a PS4, and doing what the internet wants them to do, put them next to each other. And on top of each other. There’s a…

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!

PS4 Remote Play, Put To The Test

The PlayStation 4’s Remote Play functionality might be one of the system’s coolest features, at least in theory: the idea of being able to switch between the big screen and the Vita for just about any game is undeniably appealing to a ton of people—especially the ones who share their televisions with loved ones or…

​Dude Shoots PS4 With A High-Powered Rifle

What happens when you put a high-powered rifle round through a PlayStation 4? Pretty much what you’d expect. I figured the gun-toting madmen at Rated RR would take on the PlayStation 4, but maybe not quite so soon—the thing isn’t even out yet! But hey, if you’ve got a console and you’ve got a huge…

Yes, The PS4 Can Stand Vertically–Without Help

You keep asking, so we’re going to answer. The PS4, like the fat PS3 and Xbox 360 before it can stand without a stand. Worried that it’s too skinny? Don’t be. Check the video above. You’ll also see how Sony’s optional $15 adds a little more stability. Disclosure: I’m the kind of daredevil who currently…

How To Download The PS4 Day-One Patch Right Now

Before everyone across the country hops online to download the day-one patch for Sony’s next-gen console releasing tomorrow, you might as well prepare in advance. You can get the PS4’s 1.5 system right now, put it on a USB drive and have it ready to install immediately when your console arrives, no waiting to download…

Thank you, Sony!

We love when we can use the same wires from one gaming generation to the next. Sony wasn’t the first to do this. Let’s hope they’re not the last. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @stephentotilo.