If you were somehow able to get your hands on a PlayStation 3 and you own a TV that displays at a 1080i resolution, then brace yourself for bad news. Just because Sony has been pushing HD gaming, that doesn’t mean you will get it. Here’s why you won’t be enjoying games in your TV’s native resolution: “PS3 games render images at either 720p or 1080p for High Definition, and you need 720p input on the TV to play select games that do not support 1080p....

PlayStation friends lists are broken right now too It hasn’t been a smooth morning for anyone who downloaded the 8.00 update on PS4 and likes to party up. In the short-term, friends lists aren’t working – they’ll try to load but an error message eventually pops up instead. Sony hasn’t publicly acknowledged the issue yet, but it will presumably be fixed soon. [Update: The team is “currently investigating” this problem with PlayStation Network....

Moar lyke Sonic the Expensivehog, right? Sega has announced that it might be next in line to move the price-point of its major releases up to $70, following in the footsteps of all other games publishers who have decided making money isn’t worth it if you aren’t makingallthe money. The considerations were noted during a Q&A conference held following the publishing of Sega’s latest financial report. Sega Sammy CEO Haruki Satomi and CFO Koichi Fukazawa were asked if the studio planned to follow the lead of publishers such as Electronic Arts,Nintendo,Ubisoft, andWarner Bros....

It’s like hearing Dr. Breen’s own playlist I’ve been a fan of the various You Are Listening To… streams for a few years now. Initially, you could listen to the police banter of various North American cities while a stream of ambient and instrumental music played at the same time. It made for an oddly soothing listening experience but I don’t think there’s anything gentle about thiscustom station, a loop of radio chatter fromHalf-Life 2’ssinister dystopia City 17....

‘Almost’ 60 million PS4s, one million PSVRs Ah Sony. Ever since the (mostly warranted) hubris of the“this is how you share games on PlayStation”video they’ve been sticking it to Microsoft directly, and indirectly, Nintendo’s Wii U. While Microsoft is shying away from sales numbers Sony is giving them out nearly every month, and sent out yet another reminder going into E3. To date, the publisher claims “almost” 60 million in sales for the PS4, which is a follow-up of their 60 million shipped number at the end of March....

What is the metaverse of the Square Enix NFT strategy in the blockchain created by AI – 2021 in a nutshell What is the current Square Enix NFT strategy? Well, the jury is out, butthis New Year’s Letterfrom company presidentYosuke Matsudacould be the canary in the coal mine. The letter is comically paced! Here’s the first line: “I would like to begin by wishing everyone a Happy New Year.” So far so good....

Man, sales on Steam happen all the time, don’t they? It’s like they plan sales every weekend or something. Well, you won’t hear me complaining. This weekend there are two awesome packs of games for a very low price on Steam. How much would you pay forbothFreedom Forcegames or how aboutall of theX-Comgames? $10 would be a deal, right? $5 would be an even bigger deal. Charging $2 would just be crazy....

Taylor Lautner, perhaps best known for his role as Jacob Black in theTwilightmovies, is set to return to his glory days of werewolves (sadly, no vampires have been confirmed) in the newly announced upcoming Amazon seriesTaylor Lautner: Vampire Hunter. Let’s face it, while Lautner has gone on to feature in a few movies and TV series since his breakout role as Black (Grown Ups 2, The Ridiculous 6, Home Team), he is definitely remembered most as part of the will-they-won’t-they love triangle between a werewolf, a vampire, and an infuriatingly moody teenage girl....

Build it up and tear it all down Most city-builders are about expanding and growing. The goal is to take a natural, untamed world and bend it to your benefit, turning the realm into a humming machine for resources and production.Terra Nil, however, does the inverse. Rather than creating a monument to your designs,Terra Nilis a reverse city-builder fromBroForcestudio Free Lives. It asks you to take the barren, scorched earth and fill it with life....

Some adorable 2D ghosts are heading to Steam soon A new RPG with a delightfully paper aesthetic is on the way.The Outbound Ghosthas locked in a PC release date for June 30, 2025. Developer Conradical Games’ ghost-party RPG hasdrifted onto our radar before, but today’s trailer is worth watching if you haven’t seen this RPG yet. Though it’s a game about ghosts,The Outbound Ghostlooks positively adorable. All of the papercraft characters and mixed 2D-3D environments look really great inthis trailer....

Don’t forget your toothbrush Shin’en Multimediahas announcedthat its jovial desert island mystery,The Touryst, will come sightseeing on PlayStation platforms in just two short weeks. The puzzling adventure — already available on PC, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch — will arrive on PlayStation Store for both PS4 and PS5 on September 9, priced at around $20. The cutesy, cubic title sees players visit the lush tropical paradise of Monument Islands, packed out with fun sights to see, places to explore, people to meet, and activities to engage with....

CD Projekt Red has given a progress update onThe Witcher 4. Currently known as codenamePolaris,The Witcher 4will enter full production “very soon”, as per Joint CEO Michał Nowakowski. The update was revealed during the latest earnings call where Nowakowski was explaining that while the Polaris team’s strength has only slightly increased (407 members on June 16, 2025, to 410 members as of July 29, 2025), the team is “maintaining the right scale to enter the production stage very soon....

New Kid on the Block Mane6 has released the first gameplay trailer for a new character headed to ass-kicking hoof-’em-upThem’s Fightin’ Herds.Joining the equestrian roster is a super-cute and super-spunky sea-faring goat, Shanty! In an extended breakdown session hostedon the developer’s Twitch channel, a panel of Mane6 devs debuted Shanty’s gameplay forTFHfans. It’s still clearly early days, as some of our little pal’s moves are early in the animation process, but we can see how her diminutive stature will offer Shanty incredible speed and air mobility as she charges and butts her way around the battlefield....