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#playstation

Anicorn and Sony just dropped a fully mechanical PlayStation watch, and the fact that it exists at all feels like a minor miracle in a market drowning in lazy licensed quartz. Limited to 300 numbered pieces and priced at $780, the PlayStation 30th Anniversary watch launches December 19th with a Miyota automatic movement, a custom rotor, and enough thoughtful design touches to justify the "limited edition" label beyond artificial scarcity.

The Gibson SG's $135 price point matches the Les Paul Blueberry Burst Pro that's officially licensed by Microsoft for Xbox consoles. The Black Tribal Encore Edition is $125 for Xbox and has membrane fret buttons instead of mechanical switches. The multiplatform versions of the Les Paul are $10 cheaper than the Xbox models. It's worth noting that the Blueberry Burst Pro Editions have strum bars with haptic feedback.

Sony's 2025 PlayStation Wrap-Up is now available. The recap, which is similar to those from music streaming services, sums up gaming habits from throughout the year. It shows players how many hours they used their PS4 or PS5, what games they played the most, preferred genres, trophy counts and more. These digital cards are shareable on social media, which is kind of the whole point.

Sony unveiled a new gaming monitor for PS5 users who prefer desktop gaming at its State of Play Japan presentation on Tuesday. The 27-inch PlayStation gaming monitor comes with a charging dock for the DualSense controller and a QHD IPS display that supports HDR and variable refresh rates of up to 240hz when connected to a PC or a Mac.

On November 10, 1995, the original Twisted Metal for the first PlayStation dropped, and no aspect of gaming was ever the same again. Before Twisted Metal, we did had racing games, and games where you could fire missiles and guns and blow things up. But Twisted Metal combined these subgenres and tropes in a way that had never really been attempted before.

One is a shared "PS5/PC" icon and the other reads "Cross-Buy." They add that the new symbols use official Sony fonts and aren't found on PS4. While these new icons aren't yet proof of anything, they suggest Sony is exploring new features that would expand the PlayStation ecosystem beyond a single console, much like Microsoft has been doing with its "Play Anywhere" initiative and recent movement into PC gaming handhelds with the full-screen Windows gaming experience for the ROG Xbox Ally X.

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Read-Only Memory, the publisher behind well-regarded volumes on Sega and other gaming history, is handling the project with spring 2026 delivery. The standard edition runs $125, while collectors willing to drop $325 get a deluxe package with a clamshell box and only 1,994 others for company. That's not a typo, by the way. The limited run of 1,994 copies is a nod to the year PlayStation launched in Japan, because of course it is.

Sony has been marking the 30th anniversary of PlayStation by selling you stuff, like PS5 consoles and accessories styled after the PS1. The company has something else lined up to mark the occasion: a photography book showcasing "never-before-seen prototypes, concept sketches and design models that shaped hardware development" from the early days through to the current PS5 era. PlayStation: The First 30 Years is a 400-page hardback book printed on heavyweight matt art stock.

Thirty years ago, the PlayStation console kicked off a new gaming era with its launch in the US and Europe. To celebrate this milestone, Sony has announced that it'll be exploring the history of the console with PlayStation: The First 30 Years. Scheduled to ship out in 2026, you can now preorder the book for $125. PlayStation: The First 30 Years Deluxe Edition

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Iron Gate's hit survival game sold more than 1 million copies in its first week on Steam, and has since sold more than 12 million total. It currently features cross-play between Xbox and PC and is an Xbox "Play Anywhere" title, meaning purchasing Valheim on Xbox consoles or on PC via the Microsoft Store also grants access to the game on both platforms. It's currently unclear if Valheim on PlayStation will support cross-play between all platforms.

The original PlayStation hit U.S. shores 30 years ago today, helping usher in a disc-based gaming revolution that reshaped the industry. Four new consoles and lots of hardware iterations later, PlayStation is the undisputed winner in the high-end console gaming space. What were the top-selling games that helped it get there? A newly released list of the top all-time performers across all PlayStation platformers in the States tells part of the story, and it's a pretty depressing one.

Sony held out longer than Microsoft and Nintendo, but it too is increasing the prices of PlayStation consoles in the US starting on August 21. The standard PS5 (the one with with a disc drive) will now run you $550, up from $500. The Digital Edition is $500, up from $450. The PS5 Pro, meanwhile, will require you to fork over a whopping $750. That's up from an already-eyewatering $700. In other words, each console got a $50 price bump.

The original Resident Evil is a horror classic that confined the action to a single location, the Spencer Mansion. Resident Evil 2 took things much further, expanding to the entirety of Raccoon City, building out the story of the Umbrella Corporation's role in the zombie outbreak, and setting the standard the series would be judged by for decades to come. Like its predecessor, Resident Evil 2 has two protagonists to choose from, in this case Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield. Both have become iconic franchise mainstays, and unlike in the original Resident Evil, each protagonist has a separate storyline with branching paths. To get the full picture, you need to fight your way through Raccoon City twice.

Whoever lands the job will play a critical leadership role in shaping and executing the global commercial strategy for PlayStation Studios software titles across all digital platforms beyond PlayStation hardware, including Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox, Nintendo, and mobile.

Patapon 1+2 Replay collection includes updated features like three difficulty levels and adjusted button press timing. Both games have identical Trophy lists to their PS4 remasters.

"We know gamers have been asking for this for some time and we are so excited to bring more Helldivers into our game. We have so much more in store for the future months and years - and the more players we have the more stories we can tell! The fight for Super Earth has only just begun," Helldivers 2 director Mikael Eriksson said in the Xbox Wire announcement.

The game's Steam page discloses that AI tools were used to make some of the in-game art.