Doing what they probably should have done a year or so ago, Sony has at last confirmed that it will be porting the Jak & Daxter Trilogy to PS Vita this June. The Naughty Dog developed collection of PS2 platforming goodness will include all three games that were seen on the recent PS3 re-release, which includes Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Jak II, and Jak 3.

It’s a new month and Sony is changing up how they are going to handle their PS Plus announcements. Like Europe does, they’re going to announce all the big freebies set to hit this month. Unlike Europe, they aren’t actually telling us when they’re hitting, just that they are arriving sometime this month. This week’s freebie arrival, however, is known to be Spec Ops: The Line for the PS3. Later [...]

According to tech website Engadget, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has confessed that the Playstation 4 will not allow you to transfer your existing PSN purchases over to the new console. That’s going to sting a fair few folks I reckon. In regards to the larger issue of backwards compatibility, Sony intend to circumvent the issue by facilitating backwards compatibility in the Playstation Cloud; though specifics and a business model [...]

In dispelling the biggest (and quite possibly nastiest) of rumours surrounding their fourth generation Playstation, Sony confirmed to Eurogamer that their latest and greatest home console will in fact play second-hand used games. Right up until last night’s reveal of the machine, it had been postulated by many rumour outlets that Sony intended to lock use of games to a single console through a patented technology that they sought to [...]

Tonight at 3 p.m. PST/6 p.m. EST/11 p.m GMT, Sony is expected to unveil the successor to the Playstation 3 tonight in an exclusive event being held at their 2013 Playstation Meeting in New York City. On this fateful night, we should finally know what the machine is going to be called (the current codename is Orbis), an overview of what it can do and naturally, get a taste of some [...]

After their trio of home console, nostalgia-panging overview videos, Sony appears to be capping things off by releasing a video detailing their flirtations with the handheld gaming space. The remembrance of their handheld offerings is certainly an interesting thing to do at this stage (especially with their newest bite at the apple, the Vita, being just over a year old), as it, along with the chronicling of  their home console history, points towards a more [...]

In the run up to their 2013 Playstation Event this Wednesday, Sony have  been periodically releasing overview videos, each succinctly chronicling the PSone, Playstation 2 and Playstation 3 home consoles. With the nostalgia pangs coming hard and heavy with the original Playstation overview video, what are your favorite memories of the brand as we build up to the announcement of a fourth generation Playstation? We’ve got all three videos for you after the [...]

And that’s all she wrote. Sony has let go the developers behind PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, SuperBot Entertainment. This comes less than two weeks after there were some layoffs at the dev studio.

While all this PlayStation 4 business is highly speculative and still suspect to fallacy, no matter what the source, it’s hard not to get excited that Sony are teasing something big for February 20th and that information keeps coming to light in different places, all of it very plausible, even if unproven. Development sources, writes EDGE, with working knowledge of both upcoming platforms say that Sony is set to reveal [...]

Sony have just released a live-action trailer for God of War: Ascension as part of their newly commenced marketing push for the title. We’ve got it for you after the break and while it isn’t staggeringly breathtaking, it does nevertheless do a decent approximation of what you would expect from a live-action take on the popular franchise. Give it a look after the cut.