Image: Square Enix / MobyGames Digital purchases are mysteriously expiring on classic PlayStation consoles, rendering a random assortment of games unplayable. Over the last several days, PlayStation users have reported strange, decades-old expiration dates being applied to their digital games. Upon re-downloading the PSOne Classic version of Chrono Cross, for instance, Twitter user Christopher Foose …
Image: Microsoft / Kotaku According to a new report, it might get a lot easier—and cheaper—to provide the entire family with Xbox Game Pass as Microsoft plans to launch a five-person option later this year. Windows Central reported earlier Thursday that, after spending nearly a year planning and figuring out the details, Microsoft is ready …
Screenshot: GTA V Grand Theft Auto V is a very good video game, we’ve known this for almost a decade across more platforms than we ever should have had to know it, but one thing the game has never been able to sort out during that timeframe is its enormous loading time. While on the …
Image: From Software / Demon’s Souls Wiki / Bloodborne Wiki / Dark Souls Wiki / Kotaku Elden Ring may look a lot like Dark Souls but, as far as we know right now, it’s entirely its own thing in terms of narrative and lore. That doesn’t mean, however, there aren’t legitimate links between From Software’s …
Illustration: Angelica Alzona Congratulations! You weathered the queues and were able to nab a PlayStation 5. You’ve somehow finagled the thing into your TV stand and turned it on without issue. So, what comes next? Of all the options at your fingertips, which games deserve your time and energy? First, know this: The vast majority …
How much more time does this console have?Photo: SOPA Images (Getty Images) One day, the PlayStation 4’s time will end. It’s bound to happen! But earlier this week, Bloomberg claimed that Sony had planned to discontinue the PS4 at the end of 2021. Sony has once again denied this claim. So, when will the console’s …
Screenshot: Gog / CD Projekt / Kotaku Video game deals have become a holiday tradition for most gamers looking to get the best prices on games they missed out on over the year. And Gog.com has some of Kotaku’s favorites from 2021, and years past, on sale through the new year. Gog boasts more than …
Photo: Charly Triballeau (Getty Images) Sony is finalizing a new PlayStation subscription meant to give the platform its own Xbox Game Pass-style service that’s tentatively scheduled to launch next spring, Bloomberg reports. The current plan is apparently to combine PlayStation’s cloud-based gaming service PlayStation Now with the monthly free game offerings of PlayStation Plus, phasing …
Image: Destination Home The Metaverse is the latest stinker to make waves in the virtual world landscape, but why move forward when we’ve got gems returning from the past? There’s definitely been a hole in the hearts of many PlayStation players since the closure of the PlayStation 3’s virtual world, PlayStation Home, in 2015. Sure, …
A customer holds a 60GB PlayStation 3 at a launch event in Tokyo. Photo: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP (Getty Images) Can you believe it? The PlayStation 3 launched fifteen years ago today. It was an expensive console and a messy launch with hyper overload and some truly bad press conferences. But Sony didn’t give up on the …