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The PlayStation PocketStation Makes For An Excellent Backpack

Remember the PocketStation? Released in Japan for the original PlayStation, it was a Memory Card peripheral outfitted with LCD screen and the ability to run software. Turns out the PocketStation’s shape works very well in backpack-form. Twitter user Yoshito created this PocketStation backpack. It’s not working or playable, of course, but does feature the white…

The Internet Reacts To The PS5 Console With Inevitable Memes

Yesterday, Sony revealed what the PlayStation 5 console looks like. Some might like it; others do not. The hardware has spawned the inevitable comparisons and memes. The PlayStation 5 does look similar to other non-gaming hardware, which Kotaku previously noted. Or that it looks like famous characters. Or architecture. Real or not. A Japanese train. Plus…

The Hits And Misses Of The PS5 Reveal Event

What were Sony’s big hits and misses in today’s PlayStation 5 reveal event? Ethan Gach and I pick the biggest reveals and point out what we’re still waiting to hear about in this video discussion. Check out the rest of Kotaku’s PlayStation 5 coverage to see what else happened in today’s big reveal.

What We Still Don’t Know About PlayStation 5 And Xbox Series X

Today saw Sony officially unveil the PlayStation 5. Microsoft revealed the Xbox Series X last December. And while we already have quite enough to argue about between design choices and technical specs, there are still a few important things we don’t know about this upcoming pair of game consoles. The biggest mystery surrounding the PlayStation…

Everything Sony Announced In Today’s PS5 Event

The sequel to Horizon: Zero Dawn, the eighth Resident Evil, a new Spider-Man starring Miles Morales, and a bold design for the PlayStation 5 were all on tap for Sony’s big not-E3 reveal event Thursday afternoon. Here are all the announcements. PlayStation 5 will be available in disc-based and all-digital editions when it launches this…

Demon’s Souls Is Being Remade On PS5

Demon’s Souls is getting what looks like a full remake by Bluepoint Games on PS5. The game was introduced by Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida as something “something very near and dear to me.” It’s apparently being rebuilt “from the ground up” and getting a new “Fractured Mode.” Sony also confirmed players will have the option of…

LittleBigPlanet‘s Sackboy Now Has A PS5 Platformer

PS5 is getting a new LittleBigPlanet spin-off called Sackboy: A Big Adventure. The game is being developed by Sumo Digital and looks like it will feature the Sony mascot hopping around colorful 3D environments in either single-player or with a coop partner. There are changing perspectives and lots of arcadey setpieces. Here’s the trailer: Sony didn’t…

Spider-Man‘s New PS5 Game Stars Miles Morales (Update: It’s An Expansion)

Miles Morales is finally getting his own Spider-Man game, Sony revealed during its PS5 event today. It’s called Spider-Man Miles Morales and is headed to PS5 sometime this holiday season. Developed by Insomniac, the game looks like it will pick up after the events of 2018’s Spider-Man with Morales taking over web-crawling and super-villain fighting…

Gran Turismo 7 Races To PS5

Sony’s superior racing simulation series is coming to the PlayStation 5 as Gran Turismo 7, and this time around it’s got an extensive campaign mode. Hundreds of races between hundreds of different vehicles with ultra-realistic tuning are all well and good, but a campaign mode? Might be exactly what this arcade racing fan needs to…

Grand Theft Auto V Is Coming To PS5

The Sony presentation today began with a brief GTA V trailer. At this rate, GTA V could become the new Skyrim in terms of anticlimactic port announcements, so that’s something to look forward to. The trailer’s YouTube description includes some information about Grand Theft Auto V’s PS5 port, including a “second half of 2021″ release…

Watch The PS5 Reveal Event Right Here

It’s time for Sony to show us what to expect when the PlayStation 5 arrives later this year. Expect games, dates, and possibly prices. And who knows, we might even get a look at the actual hardware this time around. Let’s watch! We’re watching the English version of the stream on YouTube. If you do…

Sony Fined $2.4 Million Over Australian Game Refunds

Sony Europe (of which the company’s Australian branch is a subsidiary) has been fined AUD$3.5 million (USD$2.4 million) after it was found to have presented “false and misleading representations” to local customers who were trying to refund PlayStation game purchases. As Gizmodo Australia report, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) took Sony to court…

Sony Will Now Reveal The PlayStation 5 On June 11

Sony today has announced that June 11 is when they will have their big PlayStation 5 reveal event. Specifically on June 11 at 9:00 BST (4 PM ET). That’s when Sony will finally reveal more details and show some games coming to the PS5 when the new console releases later this year. The first indication…

Sony Fined $2.4 Million By Australian Court For Misleading PlayStation Players About Game Refunds

Australia’s Federal Court announced today that it’s ordering Sony to pay $3.5 million in fines (approximately $2,445,00 in U.S. dollars) for breaking the country’s consumer law by misleading people about video game refunds. “Between October 2017 and May 2019, Sony Europe’s Terms of Service implied that users did not have consumer guarantee rights regarding the…

Sony Delays PlayStation 5 Showcase

Sony will postpone its PlayStation 5 event, originally scheduled for this Thursday, June 4, so that “more important voices can be heard.” “While we understand gamers worldwide are excited to see PS5 games, we do not feel that right now is the time for celebration and for now, we want to stand back and allow…

June’s second PlayStation Plus game is Star Wars Battlefront II, Sony announced today. June’s other game, Call of Duty: WWII, was announced earlier this week

The number of PS Now subscribers doubled to over 2 million in the last six months, Sony announced yesterday. Sony has been pushing the service by offering better games, free trials, and discounted subscription rates. Meanwhile, Microsoft announced last month that Game Pass now has over 10 million subscribers.

Fans Think The PlayStation 5 Controller Looks Like Totoro, Rei From Evangelion And More

Quick! When you look at the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller, what do you see? Maybe you just see a slick new piece of hardware. But maybe you see other things, like Totoro, a Stormtrooper, a spaceship, and more. Since the controller was revealed this week, fans have been comparing it to all sorts of things.…

Next-Gen Consoles Reignite An Old Argument Over Controller Batteries

Without electrical juice controllers are just paperweights, and Sony and Microsoft continue to take dramatically different approaches to solving that problem. Yesterday Sony revealed its PlayStation 5 controller: the DualSense. It’s chunkier than the current-gen DualShock 4 and comes loaded with a number of new features, including haptic feedback and a built-in microphone. People wasted…

John Wick Hex And Some Other Indie Games Are Headed To PS4

The boogie man himself is finally headed to PS4 along with a small but diverse collection of other indie games over the next several days and months. Earlier today, Sony published a series of surprise posts over on the European PlayStation blog, revealing news about five games headed to the PlayStation 4. It’s an odd…