[ad_1] Be sure to temper your expectations accordingly. It’s no secret that Sony won’t be there, for instance. While you may see PlayStation 5 games, the odds aren’t great of seeing first-party titles or any big hardware news. Microsoft is expected to use E3 for a splashy Xbox Series X preview, but you probably won’t […]
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‘Outriders’ trailer reveals a superhuman co-op shooter
[ad_1] The trailer is characterized as a blend of “gameplay, cinematics and game-engine capture,” although it’s not clear which is which, or what platform the trailer is running on. Outriders will, however, be one of the earliest titles for both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X when it arrives in the 2020 holiday season. […]
Sony’s PlayStation business is slowing faster than expected
[ad_1] The figures, which account for the third quarter of the fiscal year 2019 — October 1st to December 31st — indicate that sales were “significantly” down (by 20 percent) year-on-year due to a decrease in PS4 hardware and third-party software sales. Operating income was also down, with a 19.6 billion yen (around $180 million) […]
PlayStation’s new Back Button accessory is a wasted opportunity
[ad_1] The accessory is a $30 addition to your existing controller, which circles impulse-buy territory. But what does this peripheral’s peripheral do? It plugs into the DualShock 4 through the 3.5mm headphone port — there’s a headphone port on the back button attachment, so it’ll still work with headsets and PSVR — and works straight […]
Watch Sony’s CES 2020 press conference in nine minutes
[ad_1] Sony made a leftfield announcement at CES today — it’s made a car. With help from Bosch, NVIDIA and Qualcomm the company has created its first prototype vehicle under its Vision-S initiative — pipping the likes of Google and Apple, which have been talking about doing something similar, to the post. It is, predictably, […]
Sony patent may show a familiar-looking controller for the PS5
[ad_1] At first glance, the new controller doesn’t look that different from the DualShock 4 we’re all familiar with, but there are some notable differences. First of all, it appears the new accessory won’t include a light bar. Combined with the higher capacity battery we know Sony plans to build into the controller, the light […]
Recommended Reading: The ICE surveillance playbook
[ad_1] How ICE picks its targets in the surveillance ageMcKenzie Funk,The New York Times Through the lens of officers operating in the Pacific Northwest, The New York Times explains how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) collects information on possible targets. That includes monitoring social media accounts and tapping into “the world’s largest privately run database […]
Sony says the PlayStation 5 won’t waste as much energy as the PS4
[ad_1] Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, announced the plans as part of the Playing for the Planet initiative which aims to making the gaming industry more sustainable. To make the PS5 more power-efficient it will use an integrated system-on-a-chip in which the components are held on a single substrate, and it […]
GameStop cuts costs to deal with plunge in console sales
[ad_1] The retailer didn’t expect the situation to improve any time soon, either. It also unveiled a string of cost-cutting measures to stay afloat, including scrapping the company’s share dividend (potentially saving $157 million per year) and merging ThinkGeek’s online collecting sales with the main GameStop website. Just days earlier, GameStop had reshuffled its leadership […]
Sony envisions ‘clothes’ with haptic feedback for PSVR
[ad_1] While the patent is explicitly for gloves, Sony mentions that the haptic feedback tech could be used in “a hat, footwear, pants or shirt.” The company is considering variety of systems to make the haptic feedback work, such as heating and cooling elements, a motor, compressed gas and liquid. The systems would of course […]