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Ubisoft is back with another Assassin's Creed game this year, though this time it will be set in London, which opens up quite a few possibilities for potential DLC. One of these DLC packs will focus on Jack the Ripper, Ubisoft announced on Sony's stage at the Tokyo Game Show …

Constrained amount of internal storage is one of the major limitations of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 video game system, but fortunately the hard drive of PS4 is user upgradeable. Specially for those, who want not only to expand internal storage capacities of their PlayStation 4 consoles, but also to speed …

Sony has just announced two new smartphones, the Xperia Z5 and the Xperia Z5 Compact. Though a third smartphone is expected later on in the year known as the Xperia Z5 Premium, which will be the first one in the world to feature a 4K display, with a massive 806 …

We have known for a while that Sony has been pushing for its Japanese employees to experiment a bit more with product ideas in order to try to turn its company financials around. We've seen Sony drones, paper smart watches and now, we have a speaker that also doubles as …

What Sony would do with its partnership with Japanese automation specialist, ZMP, was pondered over by many in the know when it was announced earlier this year, but now we all know. Aerosene, the joint venture formed by both firms, showed off its new VTOL commercial drone yesterday, as well …

A few weeks back, Capcom kicked off the street Fighter V beta. Unfortunately, it had some immediate issues that stopped many from actually being able to launch the game. As a result, the dev team took the beta build back behind closed doors, spent a few weeks fixing it up …

The first wave of consumer virtual reality headsets are on the way, kicking off with Valve's headset, supposedly at some point this year, followed by the Oculus Rift next year and finally, Sony's console oriented headset, Project Morpheus. We have been following Morpheus for some time now but it looks …

When Sony Corp. span off its PC division last year, the new company decided to significantly shrink its product lineup and concentrate solely on the Japanese market. Apparently, Vaio Corp. is planning its return to the international PC market with new high-end models with exclusive capabilities. The company plans to …

Phil Spencer, corporate vice president of Microsoft Corp. and the head of Microsoft Game Studios, said in an interview that the company is not trying to bring virtual reality games to its Xbox One game console because Windows is a better platform for VR while the technology is still at …

Sony did in-fact sell off its VAIO PC brand some time ago but the company is still responsible for supporting older devices sold under its ownership. This appears to be creating a bit of an issue for those looking to upgrade to Windows 10, as Sony is currently warning VAIO …

Back when the PlayStation 4 was announced, Sony made the decision to make PlayStation Plus a requirement to play online, a departure from its approach with the PS3 last generation. Now after years on the market, PlayStation Plus subscription prices are set to rise here in the UK. At the …

It looks like Spotify might be preparing to limit its free streaming tier from early 2016 onwards in order to keep record labels signed on to the service. Spotify is apparently facing pressure from labels, including Sony and Universal to offer less music in the free tier in order to …

Sony Corp. on Thursday announced that global shipments of its latest PlayStation 4 video game consoles have surpassed 25 million units. Apparently, sales of PS4 are not only good, by they exceed shipments of all competing products from Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo combined. Sony Computer Entertainment managed to sell whopping …

One of the biggest downsides to playing competitive shooters on a console is the lack of keyboard and mouse, controllers just don't deliver the same level of speed and accuracy. However, that is set to change a bit on the PS4 as peripheral maker, Hori, is all set to release …

Recently we heard that Sony was preparing to launch an Xperia Z5 smartphone as soon as September this year and now we have a bit more to the story. Sony has two devices in the works, codenamed the S60 (Xperia Z5) and the Xperia S70, which will be the Xperia …

Nokia Corp. has developed thousands of various technologies useful for portable consumer electronics gadgets, but at present it cannot use them to build its own mobile devices due to agreement with Microsoft. However, the company, which used to be the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, plans to introduce its …

Advanced Micro Devices recently started to design its third semi-custom accelerated processing unit for an undisclosed customer. Some believe that this third semi-custom system-on-chip will eventually power Nintendo’s next-generation game console code-named “NX”. However, AMD claims that the new SoC “expands the base” of its semi-custom business beyond gaming, which …

The Shenmue 3 Kickstarter campaign is about to end with just 60 hours left to go. Right now, the amount raised sits at just under $5 million as funding slowed down in the days following the campaign's announcement at Sony's E3 press conference. To celebrate the campaign coming to an …

This year, Treyarch returns to the Call of Duty series with Black Ops 3 and it looks like some may get to try out the new multiplayer a little early as a beta test is scheduled to take place in August. Today Treyarch announced that on the 19th of August …

Sony will be launching a new app to allow Xperia smartphone users to broadcast Android games on Twitch. Users can also capture footage for use later, which would be good for those looking to make smartphone game content for YouTube. The app is called Screen Recorder and will work on …

It looks like Sony might be planning to launch its next flagship smartphone, the Xperia Z5, in September this year. Better yet, it may include Qualcomm's next flagship mobile ship, the Snapdragon 820, which will take over from the Snapdragon 810 and hopefully take care of the pesky heat issues …

Back in the day, when Nintendo dominated the console market and Sony was looking to break in to it, the two companies tried collaborating to manufacture the SNES-CD otherwise known as the PlayStation SNES. Unfortunately, the console never released but today, someone came across an old prototype of one. These prototypes …

Although sales of Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One are strong in the U.S., in Europe the situation is different and sales of the platform are rather low. Microsoft admits that it has issues in Europe and needs to somehow improve sales of its game consoles in the region. “We need to …

Sony has launched its own crowd-funding platform, with the intention of financing the company's own projects. The platform is called First Flight and is supposed to promote new business ideas in an effort to bring the company back in to profitability after a few years of bad financial performance. The …

This year Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 turns two years old and normally it is time to cut the price of the system in order to increase its sales. But while it is logical for Sony to reduce the price of the console, Sony claims that PS4  is doing so well that …

Micron Technology has announced that it had begun commercial shipments of GDDR5 chips made using 20nm process technology. The company did not reveal any details, but it is highly likely that Micron initiated shipments of its 8Gb GDDR5 chips several weeks ago. “We commenced shipments of our first 20 nanometer …

The Shenmue 3 Kickstarter has been a bit of a somewhat confusing campaign. The whole thing initially launched at E3 on Sony's stage, with Yu Suzuki asking for $2 million to fund the initial game. However, it later came out that the Shenmue creator actually wanted at least $10 million …

If any of you have been following or even playing Destiny since its launch last year, then you know that Sony has an extensive deal with Bungie and Activision to bring exclusive content to the PlayStation platform. Fortunately for everyone else, this content is timed exclusive so Xbox players will …

Last year, Sony revealed its own virtual reality headset for PlayStation devices, currently known as Project Morpheus. Apparently since then, progress on bringing VR to the PlayStation 4 has been “going very well” although Sony does not have a release date pegged just yet. This is in contrast to what …

Last week at E3, the Shenmue 3 Kickstarter campaign was announced live on Sony's stage. At the time, we didn't know much about the game's funding or its stretch goals but slowly, the full story has been making its way out. While the campaign kicked off with a $2 million …