This may sound peculiar, but I don’t necessarily pick games for this column and expect to hate them. Spelunker, for example, I legitimately like, despite its reputation. So I went into Sonic the Hedgehog ‘06 with a little bit of...

Does Duke Nukem Forever really need an introduction? It was announced before I hit puberty. It spent 15 years in development hell, becoming legendary for its protracted development time. Every few years, another tease would come out, saying...

Last month, Sony confirmed a report that it would be closing the online storefront for PlayStation 3, Vita, and PSP. Today, the company announced it would no longer be closing two of those stores. Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan...

PlayStation 3 games have gotten expensive lately — as have a lot of other old games that are either rare, genuinely desirable as something an adult would play and enjoy in 2021, or heaven forbid, both. I'm not about to sell off anythi...

[Update: The PS3 community is starting to discover that some games are getting patches back, mysteriously, as of this week. Alien: Isolation, Battlefield 4, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Dante's Inferno, Dark Void, Dead Nation, Dungeon Sieg...

With Sony cutting off access to the PlayStation Store on PSP, Vita, and PS3 later this year, some of us have been exhaustively combing through recommendation lists to whittle down which digital games we want to grab before we're no longer a...

After hearing the PSP, Vita, and PS3 store shutdown news last week, I was disappointed, but I wasn't as fired up as some. More like all-around bummed and tired. We're really doing this, Sony? Welp, okay. With the recent clarification that w...

One of the elements that makes FromSoftware's Demon's Souls so utterly engaging is its epic score, composed by the brilliant Shinsuke Kida. If you're both a Demon's Souls fan and one of those "It has a much 'fuller' sound" types, then you'l...

[Update: Sony has reversed course on the PS3 and Vita store shutdown, but "PSP commerce functionality will retire on July 2." In a blog post, SIE CEO Jim Ryan admitted that "we made the wrong decision here," adding that "we see now that man...

Long-term access to digital and even physical video games is one of those concerns that might not necessarily matter day-to-day for the average person, but without intervention – without ongoing preservation efforts – it's like...

[Update: The PC port of El Shaddai is coming to Steam "soon." Here are some early screenshots.] If you never got around to playing the hidden gem El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron on PS3 or Xbox 360, you might have better luck on PC. ...

A building-high mural, painted in England to celebrate the launch of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, has finally been removed after impressing city visitors for seven glorious years. The painting of Revengeance protagonist Raiden has adorne...

Cblogs Recap: Week 48 -Kerrik52 writes about when he first learned to like M-rated games. -Julc3 thinks that the proliferation of scalpers means that Sony and Microsoft failed to kick-off the new generation. -Shoggoth2588 responds to this ...

Cblogs Recap: Week 47 -Julc3 shares his first impressions of the PlayStation 5. -Gamingnerd focuses on a number of forgotten PS3 exclusives. -Black Red Gaming sees similarities between Trackmania and the sport of Rock Climbing. -Humantofu ...

It has been the rockiest, rockiest road to fruition for Sony's cinematic adaptation of Naughty Dog adventure Uncharted. But, following a string of pre-production hurdles and COVID-19 delays, we finally have our first image of the silver scr...

Sony is about to make a frustrating change to the PlayStation Store that's going to hit desktop and mobile users the hardest. Soon, it will no longer be possible to buy PS3, PSP, or Vita games (or their DLC) from the PlayStation Store if yo...

It pains me to report that, no, all Metal Gear Solid V players did not cast aside their nuclear arms in pursuit of world peace. We have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok, and flat-out deceived. Earlier this summer, the ...

Where there's a will, there's a way. The heart wants what the heart wants. If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. Those vague expressions could apply to many things, but right now they apply to Warhawk. Sony took the ...

[Update: Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan has confirmed that PS5 won't natively support PS3, PS2, or PS1 games through backward compatibility. We'll see about digital re-releases, though.] Don't pack up your original PlayStation ...

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is kind of legendary. Not only was it one of the best beat 'em ups of the past decade (I mean, it even kicked off the last decade as it was released in 2010, so that's saying something), but it was...

Hideo Kojima built a nearly impossible global win condition of sorts into Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: Achieve nuclear armistice by every single player getting rid of their nukes. It's a cute thought, but there's no way everyone&nb...

Several years and seven directors later, it appears that shooting has actually, really, finally begun on Sony's big-screen adaptation of Naughty Dog's popular adventure series Uncharted.Originally conceived way back in 2009, pre-production ...

Here's a fun what-if scenario for your Tuesday afternoon: What if Gears of War, one of Xbox's flagship franchises, made it over to PlayStation? We may have an example of what that looks like. YouTuber Proto (who, appropriately, specializes...

In a move I don't think anybody saw coming, Sony has announced that its big-screen adaptation of Naughty Dog's Uncharted will now arrive ahead of schedule, having had its release date pulled forward from November 2021 to July 2021.This will...

Journey still has some gas in the tank. Eight years after it first launched on PlayStation 3, it's coming to the world's most popular PC games distributor. Earlier today, Journey got a Steam store page. This masterpiece from thatg...