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PlayStation 4 becomes second-biggest selling home console of all time
Read More »Sony tops 102m PS4 sales but acknowledges ‘significant decreases’ in PlayStation revenue
PlayStation Now adds download functionality for PS4, PS2 offline play
PS3 games remain streaming-only for now, though
Read More »Sony ends service centre resource for PS2
The best-selling console ever, is officially dead
Read More »Nihilistic, Swingin’ Ape and Blizzard recall ‘identity crisis’ that doomed StarCraft: Ghost
First-person spin-off to PC RTS failed to find a comfortable middle ground between action and stealth, before being cancelled after five years of development
Read More »The Develop Post-Mortem: Insomniac retraces the evolution of Ratchet & Clank
14 years, three generations of hardware and countless innuendos after it first appeared, Insomniac’s lombax-meets-robot series of action platformers has been reborn on the PS4 – with a silver screen debut to boot. Studio head Chad Dezern walks through the franchise’s history
Read More »PaRappa the Rapper 2 coming to PlayStation 4
Another PlayStation 2 classic is set for release on PS4. 2002 PS2 game PaRappa the Rapper 2 is another game being updated for the PlayStation 4, according to the PlayStation Blogcast 189 (via Gematsu). The game will be available from Tuesday, December 15th. PlayStation 2 games came to the PS4 …
Read More »PS2 games now available on PlayStation 4
Gamers can now play PS2 titles on their PlayStation 4. Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida announced via the PlayStation Blog that eight PS2 games would be available to play on PS4. Those titles are Dark Cloud, Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Vice …
Read More »PS4 sales pass 30m worldwide
Sony has confirmed that PS4 has hit a new sales milestone. As of November 22nd 2015 sales of the console have reached 30.2m units. It has reached this number almost exactly two years after it was launched – and two months quicker than the PS2 managed. That, of course, went …
Read More »PS4 will get PS2 emulation, Sony confirms
It’s not just Xbox One owners that will be able to play older games – Sony has plans for its own backwards compatibility. Both the PS4 and Xbox One launched without the ability to play older games, though a recent update has seen the latter console gain support for Xbox …
Read More »PEGI rates batch of PS2 games for PS4 – report
The PS4 iteration of PS2 Classics could be in the works, as a trio of the legacy hardware’s titles have been rated by the Pan European Game Information Board. Gematsu reports Twisted Metal: Black, Ape Escape 2 and Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2 in the US) have been rated on …
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