Who owns the game? French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir has filed a lawsuit against Valve demanding that it alter its policy to allow for the resale and transfer of PC games on Steam, the company’s digital platform. The ban on the resale of games through Steam is one of a dozen clauses the association says…
Rule changes Microsoft has put the word out to developers that ad injection software that uses any of a variety of man-in-the-middle (MiTM) techniques — injection by proxy, changing DNS settings, network layer manipulation, and so forth — will run afoul of its updated adware rules. “We’re updating our Adware objective criteria to require that…
It’s a shim, not a sham Aqua Computer, a German PC parts vendor, is doing Skylake CPU owners a solid by offering a relatively low cost spacer to help with the installation of heavy heat sinks. It’s essentially a shim, not unlike the ones that were popular for AMD CPUs back in the day (as…
Hi guys, this is Brittany, Production Coordinator and Unofficial XSEED/Falcom-Hybrid Super Fan for XSEED Games. After many crazy years figuring out how to best wrangle what we dubbed the “Curse of Kiseki,” The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel launches physically and digitally for PS3 and PS Vita today, complete with cross save support….
Ah, December. A time to celebrate a number of different holidays for a number of different reasons. The PlayStation.Blog team is taking some time off to visit, gain a few pounds, and hopefully catch up on some of that gaming backlog we’ve accrued over the course of 2015. Before we sign off for the year,…
Hi everyone, Great to be back with our final blog post on Batman: Arkham Knight. Sadly, we’ve come to the end of our Batman: Arkham Knight Season Pass content, but we’re going out with a bang – the biggest content drop to date! Don’t fret; we still have the Community Challenge Pack hitting in January…
At a glance Gear VR (+) A lot of varied content; social VR adds a sense of presence; resolution is surprisingly good; only $100!Fear VR (-) Overheats and drain’s phone’s battery life; some motion sickness present depending on experience; can get heavy and cause eye strain after a while Competent virtual reality on the go…
Back on December 9, HTC said that its Valve Software-backed “Vive” virtual reality headset wouldn’t be released to consumers until April 2016. Originally, Vive was slated to launch as a retail unit by the end of the year. At the time of the announcement, the company didn’t provide a reason for the delay. “Since announcing…
Top Deal: It’s been a long year and who really knows if you made the naughty or nice list, right? Rather than leave it up to chance, you can take matters into your own hands and treat yourself to a new system build to ring in the New Year. The question is, where do you…
Playing the blame game A Russian gamer located in Krasnoyarsk has filed a lawsuit against Bethesda that essentially blames the developer for building a fun game. Of course, the lawsuit doesn’t quite word it way. What’s at issue here is the 28-year-old’s obsession with Fallout 4 and the price he paid for spending too much…