Earlier this week, Sony published their earnings report for Q3 of 2020. In it, there were some staggering figures about how much money the company has made from the PlayStation brand. Alongside that information, the company revealed that, despite how tricky they are for consumers to get their hands on, the PS5 sales are over
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God of War received a remaster in 2018 and since then, it has continuously been at the forefront of gamers’ minds as one of the best PlayStation games. Although we don’t know a heck of a lot about its next installment at this stage, we do know that the game plans to release next year
Sega Sammy recently released their Fiscal Year Ending March 2021 first quarter financial results, encompasing the period from April to June 2020. As such there was the usual investor’s Q&A which featured Haruki Satomi (President and Group COO) and Koichi Fukazawa (Senior Executive Vice President and Group CFO). One of the questions concerned the recent
As a new episode for From Bedrooms to Billions documentary series, The PlayStation Revolution goes over the ups and downs of Sony’s gaming division since the year it was founded in 1994. The PlayStation Revolution was announced four years ago as a Kickstarter project by Anthony and Nicola Caulfield, the directors behind the upcoming documentary
It’s 2020, video games are being released left, right, and center and consoles such as the PS4 and Xbox One continue to wage console wars. However, how many consoles have been sold globally? Apparently, from the end of March 2020, 1.56 billion consoles have been sold globally. This latest statistic comes from LearnBonds.com that has
Sting announced its Sega Saturn JRPG and dungeon crawler Baroque is getting ported to Switch in 2020. The game will be titled Baroque Original Version and will exclusively launch digitally on the Nintendo Switch Eshop. Baroque was developed by Sting Entertainment and launched exclusively in Japan on Sega Saturn on May, 21, 1998. The game
If you’re having a hard time being quarantined, then fear not, as you aren’t alone – Solid Snake is struggling right there with you. Jordan Vogt-Roberts, the director of the forthcoming Metal Gear Solid movie, today released a fun new video on Twitter to encourage everyone around the globe to stay indoors. The video is
For many of us, whether we’re self quarantined or essential workers, the current pandemic marks an extremely stressful period in our collective times. But fear not! Because while I may not have any permanent solutions to this horrible reality, I do have a game franchise that can at least put a smile on your face.
Sony Computer Entertainment released the PlayStation 2 in Japan on this day 20 years ago on March 4, 2000. To celebrate, the official PlayStationUK Twitter account is asking players what was the greatest PS2 game to launch. While the initial prospect of the PS2 launching 20 years ago makes me feel incredibly old, the Tweet
While it launched just over a week ago, it took less than 24 hours for Platinum Games’ Wonderful 101 Remastered Kickstarter campaign to hit the 1.5 million mark. Needless to say, it’s been a success on the crowdfunding platform and for fans that have been waiting for this cult classic action game to return. If
We are now in a post-Kingdom Hearts III: Remind world, so this trilogy and the plethora of other games that released beside it finally seem complete. While die-hard fans have likely already bought the originals, Kingdom Hearts 1.5+2.5 Remix, Kingdom Hearts 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and those interested but unaccustomed to the series like myself
The Nintendo GameCube is a console that is looked on incredibly fondly. Launching back on the 18th of November in 2001, it was beaten to market by the original Xbox by only three days in North America. Over the course of both life-cycles, only 2 million units separated them at the close of play, with
Dimensional Ink Games’ was recently founded as part of Daybreak Game Company’s “Franchise First” initiative, and its focus at inception is on both DC Universe Online and an unannounced action MMO. DC Universe Online is still going strong; in fact, Daybreak is pleased with the results from its recent Nintendo Switch release. While Executive Producer
To celebrate its 25th anniversary today, PlayStation announced that it had received a new award from Guinness World Records, the record-keeping company responsible for those massive books you probably used to buy at your elementary school’s book fair. The award was given to honor PlayStation as the best-selling home console brand of all-time compared to
Believe it or not, the PlayStation brand is turning 25 years old tomorrow. The PS1 launched on December 3, 1994, in Japan before later coming to other territories the following year in 1995. To mark the significance of tomorrow’s date, current SIE President and CEO Jim Ryan shared a new message to thanks fans for their
A reveal trailer from THQ Nordic and Black Forest Games dropped just this morning, giving what some people have been waiting over a decade for–a remake of the 2005 cult classic Destroy All Humans! It’s scheduled to release sometime in 2020 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. Between this announcement and Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for
May 16, 2019 officially marked the 17th anniversary of Final Fantasy XI. Final Fantasy XI, also known as Final Fantasy XI: Online, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG, for short. Developed and published by Square it was released on May 16, 2002, for PS2 and later released for Microsoft Windows PC in November of
While gamers today are probably more familiar with the plethora of battle royale games or multiplayer shooters being the most common genre, in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s 3D platformers were just as common. Of course you had your big players – Mario, Banjo-Kazooie, Ratchet & Clank, etc. – but you there were also
As gamers, there are probably very few things that excite us more than coming across someone with a gigantic video game collection that covers their many walls from floor to ceiling. One hardcore gamer from Texas has done just that with his gargantuan collection of video games from every corner of the gaming spectrum that has
There are perhaps no games more nostalgia-inducing than Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. And it seems fitting that the Scarface-inspired game has an artistic tribute in the city it is based on: Miami, Florida. Thankfully, some awesome artists have come together to honor one of the best GTA games with a terrific mural alluding to the in-game loading screens.
Earlier this year, La Fée Sauvage confirmed that the Metal Gear Orchestral Concert Series would be stateside this March and April in New York and Los Angeles, respectively. Now, only five days prior to the first show in the United States, the concert’s full music lineup has been revealed. It spans the entire Metal Gear Solid
Cosplayer AGflower channels the beautiful and insane Tira from SoulCalibur in a new cosplay set that’s sure to impress fans of the fighting franchise. AGflower has recreated her iconic look in a gorgeous cosplay photo series that not captures the details of her original costume (including the armor plating) but also her distinctive makeup and hair
Final Fantasy XI will be receiving a massive new update this month. The developers also revealed that a big surprise awaits fans for the 20th anniversary of the game. During the video and developer’s blog titled “Freshly Picked Vana’diel 44 Digest,” they stated that “starting next fiscal year, we’re going to focus our development and operations on
Well here’s a post that might make you feel really old. Today marks the 19th anniversary of the release of the PlayStation 2. While the classic console from the dawn of the millennium didn’t release in North America until October of 2000, its original release in Japan was on March 4, 2000. Even in 2019, the
Editor’s Note: As we’ll dive into the explanations behind each of the Kingdom Hearts games’ titles and meanings (or try to), some spoilers will follow for the past series entries before Kingdom Hearts III‘s release. Kingdom Hearts III is dangerously close to release, and like a bunch of high school students cramming the night before a test
As one of the most highly-acclaimed games of 2018 (and the winner of DualShockers‘ own Game of the Year Awards), it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that God of War might end up on a few Christmas wish lists to unwrap from under the Christmas tree, though one story seems (at first) to have
Sometime later this fall, NIS America will be releasing the cult classic Gamecube title Killer7 on PC. Earlier this month they put out a trailer highlighting three of the playable assassins, and today they released another highlighting the final four. The four assassins shown off within this trailer are “The Wrestler” Mask de Smith, “The
17 years after its initial release it seems that Konami’s infamous survival horror game, Silent Hill 2, has still been holding onto a few secrets. Data miner and Twitter user @punk_7890 discovered that there is a cheat code that allows for a mini-map to appear in the top right-hand corner of the screen. A second
Today’s issue of Weekly Famitsu included the first screenshots of the upcoming PS4 remaster of Yakuza 3. We also learn that the gameplay is mostly unchanged from the original PS3 version of the game, but it will run in 1080p resolution, and 60 frames per second. For those unfamiliar with Yakuza 3, it was released
Since its introduction, PlayStation Now has offered PS4 and PC owners the chance to experience a vast back catalog of games to enjoy across numerous PlayStation generations, and now the service will be getting its first PS2 titles coming to the service very soon. Over on the PlayStation Blog, Sony has announced the next wave