Sony has unveiled its upcoming free games for PlayStation Plus subscribers. These titles will be available to download for free starting in November, offering PS3, PS4, and PS Vita owners all something to enjoy. Next month's biggest free game is Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, which includes both add-ons and exclusive content.
Back in September, Sony announced that it will follow in Nintendo's footsteps by launching the PlayStation Classic. Like the NES and SNES Classics that made Nintendo money hand over fist, the PlayStation Classic looks to leverage consumers' nostalgia for the good old days. As you'd expect, the PlayStation Classic is a scaled-down replica of the original PlayStation that comes pre-loaded with a selection of fondly remembered PS1 games.
Sony's resistance to cross-play on PS4 got a lot of attention when Fortnite launched on the Nintendo Switch earlier this year, but this is a saga that has been running far longer than that. Though the topic of cross-play is one that's come up from time to time across multiple console generations, Sony's hesitance to enable it on the PS4 specifically came to light in a big way back in 2016.
If you've been looking forward to incoming PS4 exclusive Days Gone, it looks like you've got a little longer to wait. Today, Sony made the decision to push back the game's release by a couple of months, moving it deeper into 2019. However, while this may be bad news for consumers, the fact that it's no longer launching in February could be a good thing in the long run.
Sony is arguably not one of the top Android smartphone makers in recent history but it does have some qualities that endear it to Android fans. One is the near vanilla Android experience Sony’s Xperia phones offer. The other is its support of custom ROM development. Both of these factor in the speed of Android updates and now Sony is giving faithful fans the great news. Android 9 Pie will be theirs in the next few weeks.
Sony's livestreaming television service PlayStation Vue is now available through Apple's TV app on the Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad. The company announced the new support this evening, revealing that existing customers can now activate the serivce on their Apple device. As always, new customers have the option of signing up for a free trial.
Dying to get your hands on at least one of the three smartphones Huawei just unveiled? Unless the Chinese company's luck and standing has changed, however, that'll be near impossible for US buyers. Those will have to settle for one of the other expensive smartphones that are available in the US market, through carriers or retailers. One such premium phone is the Xperia XZ3, Sony's unsurprising late 2018 contender that will make you wonder how much Sony's smartphone brand is really worth.
Last month, Sony joined The Climate Group's RE100 initiative, vowing to utilize 100-percent renewable energy globally by the year 2040. Now, about a month later, the company is back with a revised goal, one that cuts a full decade off its renewable energy deadline for US-based operations. The company now says it will be fully utilizing clean energy in the United States by 2030, helping do its part to address climate change.
Almost everything is connected to the Internet these days. One benefit of that is the availability of data and services almost everywhere. One disadvantage is that it can take little to bring connected devices down. That was the hard truth that PlayStation 4 owners learned over the weekend when a simple message sent through Sony's PlayStation Network or PSN would cause the console to crash repeatedly. That exploit has reportedly now been fixed but, for some PS4 owners, the damage has already been done.
In the past couple of years, we've seen a number of instances where mobile platforms, both iOS and Android, are hit with bugs where receiving a text message containing unique code or a specific character causes the app or even the whole device to crash. Now it's the PlayStation 4's turn. A growing number of owner are reporting this same problem, where a message is received and it forces the console to crash, in some cases even requiring a factory reset to fix.
After a round of rumors suggesting as much, Sony has confirmed that it will indeed be allowing PlayStation Network users to change their names. This feature has been requested endlessly since the PlayStation Network was launched back in 2006, and now, nearly 12 years later, Sony is finally ready to flip the switch on this functionality. If you've got one of those PSN names that makes you cringe every time you look at it, you'll soon be able to do something about it and leave that name in the past.
Despite being more than six years old at this point, Borderlands 2 seems like one of those perennial games that people keep returning to. If you've got a PlayStation VR, you'll soon have one more reason to play through the game again, as Gearbox today announced Borderlands 2 VR. It sounds like this is more than just a simple port, as Gearbox has made a number of changes to make the game play well in virtual reality.