PlayStation 4 worldwide sales surpass 35M with 5.7M sold during the ‘holidays’
Sony’s popular console continues to roll. The company announced today that it sold 5.7 million PlayStation 4s during the holiday season. This brings the...
PSN is down for gamers around the world (update: it’s back up)
Updated at 8:30 p.m. PST: PlayStation Network is back As people are tweeting, PSN is back online. Very sorry for the inconvenience and thank...
The DeanBeat: Our preview of next week’s CES 2016 tech extravaganza
I made my predictions last week about what will happen in games in 2016. But next week, I’m going to expand my horizons beyond games...
PlayStation 4 hacked to run Linux, Pokémon
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One systems are just PCs, and now hardware hackers have started doing some very cool things with at least...
To handle VR graphics, gaming PCs have to be 7 times more powerful
The folks at Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of stand-alone graphics chips, are good at numbers. So I talked to them recently about their...
Some PlayStation Network features down heading into Christmas
Santa may need to deliver Sony some new servers for this Christmas. Some PlayStation Network services are not working for everyone. Gamers are running...
2015 was the best year ever for games
Time is weird. We mostly use it to organize days and weeks to help us figure out how far away the next Star Wars...
2015’s biggest surprises in gaming
2015 was a year bursting at the seams with unexpected moments and surprises, not all of them positive. Recall here the year that revived dormant franchises while witnessing the implosion of a major publisher.
The masters of storytelling predict the future of narrative gaming
Video game storytelling has come into its own. The medium of gaming isn’t as old as books or movies. But some of the most...
PlayStation Network finally gets the GoPro Channel
Better late than never. GoPro is announcing today that its GoPro Channel action sports videos will now be available for viewing on the PlayStation...