PlayStation hires Double Fine vet Greg Rice to oversee indie relationships
Sony Interactive Entertainment has made a major hire to ensure PlayStation indie support remains strong. The company has brought in Greg Rice, who worked...
Xbox Scarlett and PlayStation 5 launches will be all about service games
Google Stadia’s launch didn’t make sense. The cloud-gaming service debuted with nearly two dozen games, but they are nearly all premium-priced products that were...
PlayStation controller patent shows larger triggers, no light bar
A new patent filed to a Japanese patent office revealed some possible minor details about the next iteration of Sony’s DualShock controller, to be launched...
Sony begins courting indie devs again as PlayStation 5 approaches
Sony Interactive Entertainment appointed a new head of its PlayStation Worldwide Studios today. Of course, that’s Sony veteran Shuhei Yoshida’s old job. But while...
The DeanBeat: PlayStation 5, Blizzard’s blunder, and Harold Ryan’s big bet
Thanks for reading The DeanBeat and supporting our independent journalism. This is a good time to announce that our GamesBeat Summit 2020 web site...
PlayStation 5: The 4 features that matter (and 4 that don’t)
Sony is slowly building a public vision for the PlayStation 5. In an interview about the next-gen console with Wired today, it confirmed the...
Sony studio boss: PlayStation exclusives may need ‘wider install base’
Sony Interactive Entertainment added another major studio to its lineup of first-party teams yesterday. Marvel’s Spider-Man developer Insomniac Games is in the process of...
PlayStation is benefiting from subscriptions and live services
PlayStation 4 is nearing the end of its life. The next PlayStation is coming soon as Sony Interactive Entertainment has already confirmed. That has...
PlayStation 4 is the fastest to ship 100 million home game consoles
PlayStation 4 continues to lead the thriving console gaming market. Sony Interactive Entertainment’s gaming box surpassed 100 million consoles shipped to retailers. It reached...
Sony PlayStation CEO confirms PlayStation 5 will have cross-generational play, default SSD storage
Sony’s CEO Jim Ryan told CNET that the PlayStation 5 will launch with cross-generational play. That means players will be able to play a...