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Everything Sony Showed At E3 2017

Sony just wrapped their E3 2017 press conference, where Insomniac’s Spider-Man almost managed to distract from the fact that they didn’t announce Bloodborne 2 Not a ton of new stuff for Sony, but they did keep with the current trend of showing games that are coming within the next year or so. Let’s break it…

David Cage’s next ~emotional~ sci-fi game, Detroit, showed us us the battle between androids and humans tonight. Tensions are high: androids do not want to be simply property.

We’re Liveblogging Sony’s E3 Press Conference [UPDATE: It’s Over]

Our second press conference and liveblog of the day: Sony. I’m back with Features Editor Chris Kohler to see what’s in store for us. Excited to learn some more about Uncharted: Lost Legacy, and of course, Knack 2

Watch Sony’s E3 2017 Press Conference Live, Right Here [UPDATE: Over]

From Uncharted to Spider-Man, there should be lots of games tonight at the PlayStation E3 2017 conference, which starts at 9pm PT. Expect Detroit, Days Gone, and hopefully some cool surprises. Maybe they’ll even mention the word “Vita”—we can’t wait. UPDATE: And we’re done. Here’s all the news

The Crew 2 Now Has Our Attention, Because They’ve Added Airplanes

Cars? The Crew 1 had them. Trucks? Motorcycles? Been there. But The Crew 2, shown off for the first time at Ubisoft’s E3 press conference has added planes and boats. Watch a trailer… Watch gameplay… Just like the first game, The Crew 2 is set in an open-world version of the U.S., though now Ubi…

New Dragon Ball Z Fighting Game Coming In 2018

Dragon Ball Fighter Z, a 2D DBZ fighting game, is due out in 2018 from Arc Systems and Bandai Namco. It was shown at Microsoft’s E3 press conference, but is also coming to PlayStation and PC. Here’s the trailer. Those cel-shaded visuals look incredible

Sony Finally Killed Off The PS3 In Japan 

In Japan, currently there is only one model of PlayStation 3: the charcoal black 500GB version. Make that, was. This article was originally published on March 17, 2017. It has since been updated. March 23 Update – 4:32am: Sony Japan tells Kotaku, “PS3 shipment in Japan is ending ‘soon’ but the production of PS3 itself…

Persona 5 Gets A Small Change To Avoid Further Controversy In South Korea

When PlayStation Korea uploaded the Persona 5 title sequence for the game’s upcoming release in the country, fans noticed something: Ryuji Sakamoto’s shoes. As Record China reports, fans were upset that his shoes depicted a Rising Sun Flag motif. Obviously, due to historical associations Korean people have with that flag, there will certainly be greater…

PlayStation Store Now Has Curation From Big Developers

As we’ve discussed, Steam’s implementation of third-party curation has been a bit of a mess. So it’ll be interesting to see how Sony fares now that they’re trying something similar. Launching today, The Creators is an attempt by Sony to get curation on the PlayStation store, only instead of turning to “influencers”, they’ve asked people…

Division Developers Finally Fix Notorious ‘Coward’s Corner’

Players in Ubisoft’s third-person shooter The Division will no longer be able to camp near a certain spawn point and easily shoot down other players. That’s thanks to a new patch that removes the so-called “Coward’s Corner” just over a year after the camping spot began pissing people off. “Significant level design changes have been…

El Shaddai Creator Announces New RPG For PS4 And PS Vita

Sawaki Takeyasu, the director and artist behind El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, is working on a new title called The Lost Child Released in 2011, El Shaddai featured Lucifel who carries a cell phone with God on the speed dial. According to Famitsu, The Lost Child follows in the footsteps of this previous title,…

Farpoint Gets Virtual Reality First-Person Shooters Right

What makes a good virtual reality first-person shooter? Give me a analog stick to move my feet and a giant plastic PlayStation Aim gun to steer me by. The hordes of alien spiders are optional. Seriously, stop it with the spiders, Farpoint. I only recently acquired PlayStation VR, so Impulse Gear’s Farpoint is my first…

PlayStation Player Finally Wins A FIFA Regional

In Madrid today, some of Europe’s best virtual footballers gathered to determine who would move on to Berlin for FIFA 17 championship and for once, a PlayStation player pulled out the win. The bracket of each regional is divided by platform, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Once a champion for each has been determined, they…

You can now dress Kat from Gravity Rush 2 up like 2B from Nier: Automata. Visor and no-visor variants of 2B’s fashionable outfit are available as a free download from the PlayStation Store. Unfortunately, no corresponding outfit to make Raven look like 9S.

Horizon Zero Dawn Patch Will Make Photo Mode Even Better

Horizon Zero Dawn already has one of the most robust photo modes out there, but a patch landing next week is going to expand on its functionality even more. According to the PlayStation blog, Horizon’s patch 1.20 will add more poses, facial expressions, and filters, among other things, to photo mode. Here are the rest…

PlayStation’s Golden Week Sale Is Full Of Ridiculous Deals

If you have ever wanted to play the best video game of all time for only two dollars, this is your lucky week, because Suikoden II is on sale as part of an excellent set of PlayStation discounts that also includes Final Fantasy XV for $36 and Persona 4 Golden for $9 (all with PlayStation…

Sony is making money again! According to AP, Sony netted US$250 million in profit between January and March, thanks in part to PS4 game sales. Sony’s report states that PlayStation division sales were up 6.3% year-on-year.

People Are Trying To Find The Truth About A Creepy ‘Unfinished’ Playstation Game

Over the last few weeks, a YouTube channel has been uploading a Let’s Play of a game called Petscop. On the surface, Petscop appears to be a peppy animal collecting game that was never officially released. Hiding underneath that, though, is a dark and fucked up game that references real-life child killings. Nobody can tell…

This Might Be The Biggest PlayStation 4 Controller In The World 

No, you are not looking at a tiny human! This playable, jumbo-sized DualShock 4 is at the Sony Interactive Entertainment building in Tokyo. The face buttons and the D-pad work as do the shoulder buttons. The thumbsticks can move around, but aren’t playable. (I’m guessing the TouchPad isn’t either, because creating a giant version seems…

Horizon Zero Dawn’s Best Armor Makes The Game Even More Fun

One set of armor in Horizon Zero Dawn stands above the others: The shield-weaver armor. It’s really good, and pretty hard to get. It’s also totally worth it. Most of the armor in Horizon has a specific application. This armor protects against fire, this armor against melee attacks. This armor gives you a stealth bonus.…