Tag: sony

Hold Onto Your Wallets, October And November Will Be Hitting Gamers Hard

There must have been a point in our lives where we looked into our wallets and figured, “Well this is the day I go broke.” And after hours upon hours of playing the latest titles, you look around the house and whisper to yourself, “Totally worth it.” Well fellow gamers, that day will come soon. It’ll begin ...

Playstation Vue – “The TV Service You Wish Existed, Exists”

One of the non-gaming related news items at Sony’s E3 Press Conference on Day Zero, was television related. At last year’s E3 there were quite a few announcements about Microsoft and Sony both getting into the TV series realm, trying to grab a little of the House of Cards, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon cake. That ...

Playstation Plus: Free Games for June

Sony has revealed the official lineup of free games for Playstation Plus members for the month of June, and it’s looking to be pretty solid. The biggest hitter of the bunch comes in the form of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes for Playstation 4. For players who may be new to the series or ...

A Sinking Ship: the Rise and Fall of SEGA

SEGA was founded in 1940; in Honolulu, Hawaii. Originally calling themselves “Service Games,” the company at the time produced coin-operated slot machines. But it wasn’t until more than 40 years later that the soon-to-be monolith would really establish itself in the hearts and minds of many. With SEGA SG-1000 video game console and onwards, the famous ...

What happened to Motion Controls?

Christmas 2006, my family and I crowded around the TV after the turkey had been picked clean and watched in amazement as my little brother flailed his arms around hitting tennis balls, and throwing bowling balls, he was having a temper tantrum because I had taken over his brand new Nintendo Wii. It was the ...

Spotify Under Pressure to Limit Free Access

Popular music streaming service, Spotify, has built a reputation on the gargantuan library of music it provides users with in exchange only for their willingness to listen to the odd advertisement. Spotify also offers a premium service that eliminates advertisements and allows paid subscribers to download music to listen to offline. According to Digital Music ...

The Lawsuit Over Killzone’s Graphics Has Been Dismissed

A joint lawsuit claiming that Sony falsely advertised Killzone Shadow Fall has been dismissed by the State of California. In particular, the accusation was directed at certain statements made about the game’s graphics. Sony said that both Killzone’s single-player and multiplayer modes ran in a native 1080p resolution, when in fact it is only the single-player ...

Are Vita Owners Giving Up?

This past February marked the 3 year anniversary of Vita’s life in the west. 3 years on the market, barely a modicum of support in the last one, and not much more the year before that. We had Freedom Wars last year, the so-called “AAA” title according to president of Sony Computer Entertainment, Shuhei Yoshida…and ...

Black Ops III Reveal: A Titanfall Clone?

After a series of leaked details and images, Treyarch and Activision decided to go the extra mile and revealed their trailer for the next installment of the Call of Duty franchise: Black Ops III. In lieu of the advanced warfare idea, players will be given futuristic toys to play with, but at the same time, ...