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Shuhei Yoshida looks back on his long career at PlayStation while at Gamescom Latam 2025
Shu Yoshida has graduated from Sony, but he is not retired. Rather, he is running a new indie games consulting company dubbed YOSP Inc. Yoshida’s appetite to do more in gaming shows just how much he loves indie game developers. He won a Lifetime Achievement Awards at Gamescom Latam 2025, where I did a fireside…
How a USB stick gave my PlayStation 3 a new lease on life
Summary A PlayStation 3’s USB ports allow you to update and alter the system. Format a hard drive and connect to the console to access games and updates. Use emulators to access retro games from other consoles and handhelds. For all the excitement surrounding the PlayStation 5 and the updated PlayStation 5 Pro and whatever…
The GTA 6 trailer makes Rockstar’s changed politics very clear
Back in 2022, Bloomberg reported that “Rockstar Games cleaned up its frat-boy culture – and Grand Theft Auto, too.” The changes took shape in different ways, from less crunch to a narrowing of the gender pay gap for workers at the studio, and to the introduction of the game’s first playable female character, a Latina…
How to solve the chess puzzle in Destiny 2
The chess puzzle in Destiny 2 is just the first piece in an all-consuming puzzle the Destiny community is rapidly trying to solve ahead of the The Edge of Fate expansion reveal for Destiny 2 on May 6. If you don’t complete this chess puzzle, released in the twilight of the “Heresy” episode, you can’t…
Marathon may be made for PvP fans, but Bungie says there’s still plenty for the rest of us
Marathon, Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter, has been officially rerevealed via a Saturday stream out of the developer’s main offices in Bellevue, Washington. As part of a preview event for press and creators, Bungie flew me out to Washington to spend about six hours with the game, see the reveal event early, and speak to some…
My Excitement For The Switch 2 Is Dying By A Thousand Cuts
Let me get this out of the way first: I’m not a Nintendo girlie. A couple of decades ago, my parents gave me a choice between N64 or PlayStation for my birthday, and I chose the team with the badass bandicoot and didn’t regret it. It wouldn’t be until 2019 that I’d pick up a…
The 10 Best PlayStation 1 Games on Nintendo Switch – SwitchArcade Special – TouchArcade
Well here it is, friends. This will be the last of my retro game eShop lists, mostly because I am running out of retro consoles with a good variety of games to choose from. I’ve left one of the best for last, though: the PlayStation. Sony’s first whack at the ol’ console market succeeded beyond…
How The Sims franchise leader went from QA to Maxis’ top creative role
For nearly four years, Lyndsay Pearson has led The Sims franchise as the creative franchise vice president at Maxis. But her legacy at the studio, owned by Electronic Arts, spans more than 20 years as she worked her way up from a quality assurance tester on The Sims, moving into an associate producer role for…
Everything You Need To Use PlayStation VR2 On PC
The PlayStation VR2 Headset didn’t light the world on fire when it originally released in 2023, but its user base has grown despite a lackluster launch. Plus, the headset itself features some pretty impressive VR hardware. Following a substantial $200 discount in 2024, many PlayStation 5 owners got to enjoy Beatsaber and Resident Evil 4…
The Console Wars Are Over And Nobody Really Won
For decades, a war has been raging online and in stores. A fight between massive corporations trying to sell you plastic boxes that play games and their weirdly dedicated supporters. The fight was always silly, but very real and expensive, involving massive companies spending hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing, game development, and hardware….
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