At Sony Interactive Entertainment, we’re committed to providing safe play for gamers of all ages, including enhancing ways for parents to manage their children’s gaming experience. This includes the current parental control features available on the PS5 and PS4 console, such as playtime settings and age restriction settings for games. Today, we’re pleased to announce…
Gaming communities once lived in arcades, spaces filled with the steady hum of CRT monitors and the familiar clink of quarters. Players formed rivalries around high score leaderboards and built friendships in the warm glow of cabinet screens. While those neon-lit halls are less common today, the drive to connect has never disappeared. It has…
Category: Games September 10, 2025 Assassin’s Creed Shadows: What To Know Before the Claws of Awaji Expansion Lucy O’Brien, Director of Editorial Communications, Ubisoft Summary Assassin’s Creed Shadows expansion Claws of Awaji launches September 16. The expansion follows on from the story of Naoe and Yasuke, and introduces over 10 hours of brand-new content. Here’s…
MMOs tend to function, more or less, as enormous mechanisms for competition. PvP, being the first to a particular raid, pulling off troubling works of deception in EVE Online—this is what I associate with the phrase ‘massively multiplayer’. But sometimes, the stars align and players come together to do something truly nice for each other….
Xbox is really getting around these days. Microsoft seems to be shoving the gaming platform onto all manner of things… handhelds, the cloud, Windows PCs… and now even cars, of all things. Not any and every car, though, just “select internet-connected vehicles” with some LG smart TVs in them. Xbox says: “With the Xbox built…
If it exists, you best know Epic Games is probably going to get its hands on it and churn out a 1,200 V-bucks skin for the pleasure of feral Fortnite fans. Something it seemingly won’t be snagging anytime soon, however, is a Helldivers 2 collaboration despite Fortnite’s newest season leaning very heavily into that game’s…
This month, step into the ring and dominate the squared circle in WWE 2K25, lead the Phantom Thieves in a new turn-based strategy adventure in Persona 5 Tactica, survive the unforgiving wilderness of the Amazonian jungle in Green Hell, or partake in a Holy Grail War set in Edo Japan in Fate/Samurai Remnant. All these…
A $300 million black hole in handheld form. As much as I love modern-day gaming hardware, it’s all a little too safe for my liking. Platform holders like Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have a stranglehold on the industry now, and, outside of the likes of Valve, AYANEO and ROG – all of whom are producing…
Primed and ready. Nintendo’s marketing for the Switch and Switch 2 is going absolutely nuts in 2025. We had a Partner Showcase in July, an Indie World and a Kirby blowout in August, and now we’re getting a full-fat, juicy Direct in September. Crikey! Naturally, questions linger regarding the likes of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond…
Category: Games September 10, 2025 Bringing the Darkness to Xbox – Karma: The Dark World Available Today Yonghe Wang, Creative Director, Pollard Studio When we first began developing Karma: The Dark World, we never imagined it would come this far. This project began in a tiny studio in Shanghai — just three of us, sitting…