Consoles

Sony has opened pre-orders for the updated PlayStation 5 Slim in Europe. You can order the console from the PlayStation Direct online store or from third-party retailers. The public sale will start on November 29, 2023. Prices for the PlayStation 5 Slim vary by country and configuration. The version with ... Read more

The fact that Valve’s Steam Deck portable console already supports more than 12,000 games from the Steam library was pointed out by the GamingOnLinux website. According to SteamDB, Steam Deck currently supports 12,132 games. At the same time, 4,068 of them are officially verified by Valve, and another 8,064 are ... Read more

On the eve of the official release of the PlayStation 5 Slim, one user from X (ex-Twitter) was able to access the console earlier and shared photos comparing it to the regular PS5, reports The Verge. Since then, the user BrΔndon has already deleted the post with the photo, but ... Read more

Sony recently unveiled an updated PlayStation 5 with an optional Blu-ray drive. As it turned out, in order for the disk drive to work, users will definitely need an Internet connection, reports VGS. This applies not only to the version with the optional disk drive, but even to the version ... Read more

The large-scale role-playing game Baldur’s Gate III will be released on Xbox later this year. This is reported by Engadget with reference to the developer Larian Studios. The main reason for the delay in the release of Baldur’s Gate III on Xbox was Microsoft’s rules regarding the equality of game ... Read more

Microsoft is launching Age of Empires IV on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One consoles, as well as Game Pass subscription. The strategy game was announced for Xbox consoles last year with a promise of release in 2023, writes The Verge. The game supports resolutions up to 4K on Xbox ... Read more

Sony officially announced that sales of the PlayStation 5 console exceeded 40 million units as of July 16 — 32 months after its launch on November 5, 2020. Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan bragged on the company’s official blog. According to him, Sony managed to overcome the ... Read more

Microsoft, which, as we already know, “lost console wars” of this generation, expects the next generation of game consoles to appear no earlier than 2028. This became known from the documents made public during the hearing of Microsoft appeal to FTC to Block Activision Blizzard‘s acquisition deal. This is reported ... Read more

As reported by Tom’s Hardware with a reference to semiconductor analyst Sravan Kundojjala, last year Sony became AMD’s largest customer: in 2022 it sold $3.776 billion worth of chips to Sony, accounting for 16% of the company’s revenue for the year, according to its declaration to the US Securities and ... Read more

A little late – not the last days of the previous month, but the first day of the current one – but Sony finally announced another “giveaway” of games on the service PS Plus. So, in February, all subscribers of all PlayStation Plus tariff plans, including the basic Essential, will ... Read more

The year is coming to an end, and Sony traditionally announces the next “giveaway” of games on the PS Plus service at the end of the month. So, in January, all subscribers of all PlayStation Plus tariff plans, including the basic Essential, will be able to add the following titles ... Read more

Although autumn is coming to an end, Sony is still in no rush to officially announce the list of games that will be available on PS Plus Essential next month. But there has already been a “leak” of information from a user of the Dealabs website billbil-kun, who in the ... Read more

The fact that Microsoft’s previous console was inferior to its main competitor was probably assumed by everyone – but to what extent, it was not known. The fact is that Microsoft stopped reporting Xbox One sales at the beginning of the 2016 fiscal year, instead focusing on the number of ... Read more

Logitech G (the gaming division of the company) together with Tencent Games announced the development of a portable game console for cloud gaming. As reported in the official press release, “the partnership will combine Logitech G’s experience in creating gaming hardware with Tencent Games’ experience in software development.” Both companies ... Read more

Sony starts adding new free games to Extra and Premium plans of the updated PS Plus service. Thus, from July 19 “cat simulator” Stray (PS4, PS5), which will be released on this very day, and Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade will be added to several dozen projects that appeared there ... Read more

In honor of the premiere of the film Thor: Love and Thunder, the Microsoft company is raffling a custom version of the Xbox Series X console in the form of the Mjolnir hammer, which Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) becomes the owner of in the new film. Unfortunately, only citizens of ... Read more

Sony added the Ukrainian language to the PlayStation interface back in March, however PS Store has so far “spoken” to Ukrainians in Russian, regardless of the language of the system, Ukrainian or English. And now he finally got the Ukrainian interface – you can change the language in the menu ... Read more

June has started, which means that an updated PS Plus service will start this month. Meanwhile, Sony announced the traditional giveaway of games to subscribers of the “old” PS Plus which will become the base rate as soon as it “restarts”. So, if you have a subscription to this service, ... Read more

Rumors about the update of the PlayStation Plus service have been circulating for a long time—back in December last year. Then the new project had a working name Spartacus. And finally, Sony has officially announced what the future holds for PS Plus. As expected, Sony combined PS Plus with another ... Read more