All News tagged with 'PlayStation Network'

Sony is currently being investigated by the Romanian Competition Council for "abusing" the dominance of PS5 exclusives and the PS Store.

Posted 9 days ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 11

PlayStation Network users on PS5 and PS4 regularly face syncing issues with trophies they have unlocked. These issues prevent trophies from being counted online, and in the case of one game, it can take over three years to fix.

Posted 6 months ago by Lee Brady 11

Sony has a new PlayStation PC FAQ and while it doesn't shut out PSN integration, it does definitively mention trophies. With Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered marking the beginning of more PC releases, most will still prefer PS5.

Posted 10 months ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 5

PlayStation is currently running the Summer Sale on the store, with nearly 1500 games included. Thus, the team has selected the best PS4 and PS5 games that are being offered at discounted prices, from Tekken to Star Wars.

Posted 11 months ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 7

PS Plus news kept dropping this week, but the most interesting of the loss was confirmation from Bend Studio that Syphon Filter is getting trophy integration. Will you be getting the Premium tier now?

Posted 1 year ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 28

Ska Studios has matched Salt and Sacrifice on the Epic Games Store to the PlayStation Store's price. A contractual "obligation" was seemingly enforced by Sony, raising concerns about regional costs on the PS4 and PS5 stores.

Posted 1 year ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 5

The PlayStation game preservation project was announced by a new senior build engineer. Now, it has been reigned in as he clarified his role in the potential PS1, PS2, PS3, and PSP emulation rumours that started circulating.

Posted 1 year ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 2

PlayStation's Spring Sale has expanded this week with over 500 more deals added to the existing offerings. There are AAA blockbusters, indie gems, AA titles — enough for us to wonder how many you have bought on sale!

Posted 1 year ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 18

Earlier today, Sony rolled out firmware updates for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles, and since then, players have begun reporting issues with the PlayStation Network.

Posted 1 year ago by Sean Carey 5

Look at you, with your limited pennies to throw at a game. Don't worry though, chum, we are also as penniless as a writer and have you covered with the deals from PlayStation's Critics Choice and Games Under 15 sales.

Posted 1 year ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 6

For a short period yesterday, there were several reports that PlayStation Network had wiped all PS4 trophy data and replaced it under the PS3 label. While now fixed, this brings up further backwards compatibility questions.

Posted 1 year ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 11

PlayStation 3 games are elusive on later Sony consoles thanks to the proprietary PS3 CELL processor that forced games to be made differently. However, games of the era are now appearing on the PS Store.

Posted 1 year ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 3

PlayStation 4 and 5 lead architect, Mark Cerny, filed a patent on January 6th, 2022 called “Backward Compatibility Through Use Of Spoof Clock and Fine Grain Frequency Control” that suggests the issue is currently being solved.

Posted 1 year ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 9

Sony is reportedly going to combine its PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now services — one for online and one to stream games — into a single subscription model that can compete with the hugely successful Xbox Game Pass.

Posted 1 year ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 16

Sony has released the official list of top PlayStation Store downloads for the month of October 2021 on the PlayStation Blog. Kena: Bridge of Spirits and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy are both performing very well.

Posted 1 year ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 0

The PlayStation Store has has a bit of an issue with new game visibility, but this issue was particularly prevalent on the PS5. The issue has been solved with a new addition to the store.

Posted 1 year ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 5

PlayStation Network went down for a little while over the last 24 hours, as you may have noticed if you were busy mopping up a few trophies. However, the issue is now resolved and you can get back to that platinum hunt!

Posted 1 year ago by Kes Eylers-Stephenson 5

Sony has made a "minority investment" into Discord and plans to bring the social media service to PlayStation consoles next year.

Posted 2 years ago by Sean Carey 10

Sony has announced the PlayStation Bug Bounty program. The company is willing to pay up to $50,000 to anyone that finds critical security vulnerabilities on the PS4 or PlayStation Network.

Posted 3 years ago by Sean Carey 3

PS5 exclusives will be published under the PlayStation Studios brand, Sony has announced - take a look at the new animation here.

Posted 3 years ago by Oscar Dayus 4

Sony is taking measures to reduce internet bandwidth usage in the US. PlayStation Network download speeds have been slowed because of the current pandemic. Similar measures were taken in Europe a few days ago.

Posted 3 years ago by Sean Carey 4

Sony Interactive Entertainment is working alongside internet service providers to reduce the current strain placed on the internet. PlayStation Network download speeds are to be throttled.

Posted 3 years ago by Sean Carey 8

We have just picked up reports of some PlayStation Network service issues. Please note that the issues may be unique to a particular region or device. You can check out the details of the issues here.

Posted 4 years ago by Sam Quirke

Some may have seen their PlayStation ID changed to "Tempxxxxxx". This is because there's a problem with the PlayStation ID and it has breached the PSN Terms of Service, but Sony is offering players a chance to fix this.

Posted 4 years ago by Rebecca Smith

PlayStation Blog has revealed that the PSN Online ID change system is rolling out to all users starting today. Although the change pages are not showing any options as of yet, PS Blog has the low down on how it works.

Posted 4 years ago by Sam Quirke

A government body in the UK has today confirmed that they will open an investigation into PlayStation's service renewal policies and practices, along with the other major console manufacturers, to make sure the process is fair.

Posted 4 years ago by Sam Quirke

The PS Plus line-up has changed over, which means you can now grab the first season of HITMAN and Ubisoft's feudal fighter For Honor for free. You can also grab the last of the service's Vita and PS3 offerings.

Posted 4 years ago by Sam Quirke

You may have noticed that HITMAN is one of the games available next month for no additional cost to PS Plus subscribers. But did you know that this will also unlock a whole game's worth of content in the sequel?

Posted 4 years ago by Sam Quirke

If you want to check out your playing stats for 2018 and you are in North America, you should be getting an email from PlayStation that provides you with a simple summary

Posted 4 years ago by Sam Quirke

Recently, Sony announced that they would be introducing name changes for PlayStation Network accounts. With the feature now available to beta testers, we've added some code to make it easy to keep your names in sync.

Posted 5 years ago by Jack Watling

It looks like the leak from earlier in the month has held true -- Bulletstorm and Yakuza Kiwami are the PS4 headliners for PS Plus this November. As always there's a couple of PS3 and Vita titles in the mix as well.

Posted 5 years ago by Sam Quirke

Red Dead Redemption 2 is the latest title to get a snazzy free dynamic theme. You can download it from the PlayStation Store today and enjoy a a suitably atmospheric Woody Jackson musical loop and some character art.

Posted 5 years ago by Sam Quirke

If you've been a PS Plus subscriber for a while, chances are you've built up a pile of interesting curios thanks to PlayStation's generous quantity of free games each month. We want to celebrate some of the hidden gems.

Posted 5 years ago by Sam Quirke

Following on from the strong rumours last week, PlayStation Blog have confirmed that PSN Name changes are finally headed to the network with the functionality being tested in the Preview program.

Posted 5 years ago by Sam Quirke

The PlayStation Now service in North America now includes Bloodborne, along with ten other titles. Doki-Doki Universe and Sound Shapes are both upgraded from PS3 to PS4 too.

Posted 5 years ago by Sam Quirke

We got a good look at a preview of multiplayer gameplay from E3 2018 for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. We also got information on the various special editions.

Posted 5 years ago by Dave Bricker

The first day of June is imminent. By all means, Sony has left it late this time to announce the new PlayStation Plus Game Collection titles for the month.

Posted 5 years ago by Rebecca Smith

The main point of the update is to add compatibility for the "Egyptian Mythology Mash-Up Pack", although there are a handful of other bug fixes too.

Posted 5 years ago by Rebecca Smith