Categories Posted inin Business Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End — greatness, from small beginnings Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 10, 2016 11 min Editor’s note: This post has some story spoilers, though we’ve avoided the biggest spoilers. Check out our official review of Uncharted 4 here. Sic... Continue Reading 11 min
Categories Posted inin Entertainment Playful’s Paul Bettner: VR is just getting its start, like Disney in the 1920s Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 9, 2016 10 min Paul Bettner has been waiting for virtual reality for decades. That’s one reason why his VR gaming studio, Playful, created Lucky’s Tale as a... Continue Reading 10 min
Categories Posted inin Business Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is the conclusion that Naughty Dog’s landmark series deserves Posted byby Mike Minotti May 5, 2016 5 min Forget the pirate’s life. Yo ho, yo ho, it’s a Nathan Drake life me. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End brings the digital adventurer to... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Development Rami Ismail: Vlambeer’s indie hits come to PlayStation 4 first because they love working with Sony Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 4, 2016 2 min Maybe you’ve noticed that a lot of indie games end up on PlayStation 4 before Xbox One, and one of the studios that has... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Sony returns to profit, but slipping PlayStation hardware revenues beg for the rumored Neo Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 28, 2016 3 min Consumers have purchased more than 40 million PlayStation 4 consoles, and that has helped Sony return to an annual profit for the first time... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business Why Sony needs the PlayStation 4 ‘Neo’ — even if you hate it Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 21, 2016 6 min The repeatedly rumored upgraded PlayStation 4 and Xbox One systems are a new spin on an old trick. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One may... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business Oculus Rift delays are hurting VR spending, but it’s not a long-term problem Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 20, 2016 2 min Many customers are still waiting for Oculus VR to ship their preordered Rift headsets, and every day that those consumers don’t have their virtual... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Pyre is the next gorgeous game from Bastion, Transistor developer Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 19, 2016 1 min Sometimes you want a game developer to stick to its niche. That’s definitely the case with studio Supergiant Games, which is one of the... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Former Kabam COO Chris Carvalho carves a niche as a game startup adviser Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 19, 2016 13 min You can think of Chris Carvalho as a game company accelerator. He started at mobile game company Kabam when it had just 25 people.... Continue Reading 13 min
Categories Posted inin Business PlayStation Network will go down tonight for scheduled maintenance Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 18, 2016 1 min Sony is going to bang some hammers on its online gaming service tonight, and that could cause some minor connectivity troubles. PlayStation Network is... Continue Reading 1 min