Categories Posted inin Business Analyst: PS4 sales slowed in August — Xbox One and Wii U both saw gains Posted byby Jeff Grubb September 8, 2014 2 min While PS4 sales fell month-over-month, it still outsold Microsoft and Nintendo's home consoles. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business The DeanBeat: A microcosm of mobile games reveals the coming death of the consoles Posted byby Dean Takahashi September 5, 2014 4 min It's not that hard to see how mobile games will bury game consoles anymore. Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Velocity 2X brings sass and side-scrolling to your average alien shoot-em-up (review) Posted byby GamesBeat September 2, 2014 6 min Hurtling through space at full speed means a lot of painful crashes and impossible tele-leaps ahead of you. And it's awesome. Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business PlayStation Network down for rescheduled maintenance Posted byby Jeff Grubb August 28, 2014 1 min Sony previously planned today's outage for Monday, but a cyberattack forced it to delay. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business PlayStation Network down intermittently for PS4, PS3, and Vita owners — Sony working on a fix Posted byby Jeff Grubb August 26, 2014 1 min Sony experienced an extended outage over the weekend due to a cyberattack, but it hasn't confirmed that today's issues are related. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business PlayStation Network, League of Legends back online after a day of outages due to DDoS attacks Posted byby Jeff Grubb August 25, 2014 2 min The FBI is looking into a hacker group that is taking credit for the attacks. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business PlayStation Network goes down, and hackers claim responsibility (update: it gets crazier) Posted byby GamesBeat August 24, 2014 1 min Sony's online service has been down all morning in North America, leaving people with no way to play online with their PlayStation consoles. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Sony is finally bulldozing its decrepit, abandoned PlayStation Home in Japan Posted byby Jeff Grubb August 22, 2014 2 min Sony plans to hold a big event to mark the end of PlayStation Home, but the service's fate in the Americas is still unknown. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business PS4, League of Legends, and Nintendo: These (and others) lack two-factor authentication Posted byby Jeff Grubb August 22, 2014 2 min Despite frequent hacks, some gaming companies still haven't implemented one of the basic security standards to protect their customers. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Minecraft didn't pass its PS4 certification — developer is fixing bugs now Posted byby Jeff Grubb August 20, 2014 2 min The PS4 port will need another round of bug fixing before 4J Studios resubmits it to Sony. Continue Reading 2 min