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PC owners will soon get the chance to play PS4 exclusives without purchasing a console. Sony’s PlayStation Now service allows gamers to access they titles they don’t own via Sony’s streaming platform. Until now it has predominantly been used as a way for PS4 to offer backwards compatibility with PS3. …
Read More »PS4 tops US hardware charts in February
As of next month, things might get more interesting, but for the time being Sony’s US console hardware run continues. NPD data shows that PS4 was once again the best-selling console in the US in February, VentureBeat reports. The Xbox One experienced a resurgence in 2016, for a while overturning …
Read More »Sony Australia MD Ephraim confirms departure
Michael Ephraim, the VP and MD Sony Interactive Entertainment Australia and New Zealand, has left the platform holder. Rumours of his departure began to circulate last week, but MCV Pacific has now confirmed that he left the company last Friday. "Over the last 18 months the PlayStation business has been …
Read More »Horizon Zero Dawn beats Zelda to No.1
Critical smash hit The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild hasn’t made it to No.1 in its first week in the UK charts. Instead, it’s Sony’s PS4 exclusive Horizon Zero Dawn that grabs the crown, beating Nintendo’s adventure title by a comfortable margin and becoming PS4’s biggest ever new …
Read More »PlayStation VR sales have passed 900,000
Sony has at last revealed how many of its virtual reality systems have been sold since October’s launch. Sony Interactive Entertainment boss Andrew House told The New York Times that as of February 19th sales of the headset had reached 915,000 worldwide. This puts PSVR on track to beat the …
Read More »Horizon Zero Dawn sales predicted to reach 4-6 million in 2017
SuperData thinks Sony has struck gold with its latest new PS4 IP. Horizon Zero Dawn arrives in the UK next week, and has already been receiving glowing reviews, boasting a current Metacritic average of 88 per cent. In fact, the game will do so well that it will rival established …
Read More »Concept art of cancelled Sony Santa Monica game emerges
The art paints a dark sci-fi world
Read More »Patent application points to room-scale and wireless features in PSVR’s future
Patent talks about device emitting beams and wireless connection to PS4
Read More »Sony: Horizon Zero Dawn’s Aloy is the ‘PlayStation icon of the future’
Horizon Zero Dawn is easily one of the most anticipated games of the year, if not the most anticipated PS4-exclusive of 2017. Of course, it’s still early in the year and E3 could bring its own share of surprises, but so far the Guerrilla-developed title ranks very high on the …
Read More »Former Harmonix COO Florian Hunziker joins Sony
Becomes PlayStation of America's VP of third party relations and developer technology group
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