Sony Interactive Entertainment has shattered records for its most profitable quarter yet, pulling in a whopping $8.8 billion during the three-month period ended December 31, 2022. This is a record figure for the PlayStation hardware business during Q3 FY222, with console earnings firing past $3 billion thanks to the PS5‘s ever-growing success. Sony’s gaming business generated revenue of $8.797 billion, with total Games & Network Services revenues growing 23% year-on-year, representing a $1.6 billion increase.

Drift? What drift? Remember a story we ran about some parents in the US who were trying to get their kids to sue Nintendo over "Joy-Con drift" in a class action lawsuit? Well, it seems the video game giant has come out on top.

Whether you’re strapping in for a Peloton ride or buying up virtual real estate, Mark Zuckerberg says you’ve joined the metaverse. On an August episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the Meta CEO said the evolution of virtual reality will unfold similarly to computers and cell phones: Gamers are the first to explore new technology, followed by mainstream users who want to use it to socialize.

Send it off for Valve to repair

Adding legs to the new avatars was "probably the most requested feature on our roadmap," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the Connect conference.

Popular 1996 shooter Quake 1 has been ported to all kinds of devices, and now it's even able to run on the Apple Watch. YouTuber MyOwnClone in...

Apple plans to ship approximately 1.5 million units of its upcoming AR/VR headset in 2023, according to reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a research note, Kuo reiterated that Apple plans to announce its long-rumored mixed-reality headset during an event in January 2023. The company's first AR/VR headset is expected to cost upwards of $2,000, making it a niche product. As a result, Kuo says shipments of the device are unlikely to exceed 1.5 million units in 2023.

The developers of Untamed Isles say they lost investment funding because of the cryptocurrency collapse, and can't afford to finish their game.

Just after three years of initial launch, Google has decided to shut down Stadia, it’s cloud gaming platform. Now, there’s one thing that demands our attention -The promise of better ‘Games As A Service’ and is it enough of a reason to stray away from the very notion that makes gaming fun?

In "Snow Crash," Neal Stephenson envisioned a world transformed by the metaverse, inflation and a virus. Now he's launched a metaverse start-up.

Almost a year after it came to every other platform, Skyrim: Anniversary Edition surprise-launched on the Nintendo Switch today. The newest version of the beloved 2011 open-world RPG includes a bunch of DLC, mod content, and fishing. It’s also $70 on Nintendo’s handheld hybrid. Gotham Knights and Callisto Protocol aren’t coming to Switch, but apparently the price point is, at least in this one odd instance.

Apple and Meta are developing technology for mixed reality that requires a lot of expensive parts and a powerful headset.

The inevitable death of Google's game-streaming service happens early next year.

Christopher Slayton spent two months exploring black holes, identifying the colors of Saturn’s rings and looking at his home planet from outer space. Mr. Slayton, 18, didn’t have to leave his desk to do so. He set out to build the entire observable universe, block by block, in Minecraft, a video game where users build and explore worlds.

A fight over "what direction the internet should go in"

The Last of Us has always been praised for its single-player narrative, but the game also features a surprisingly good multiplayer mode. Despite the enjoyable multiplayer mode, Last of Us 2 chose to launch as a single-player-only title.

First released in 2001, Nintendo's GameCube console was a rare miss for the venerable video game company. But it also paved the way for enormous successes in the years ahead.

Video game sales are set to decline annually for the first time in years, as another industry that boomed in the coronavirus era faces the grim prospect of a recession. The global games and services market is forecast to contract 1.2% year-on-year to $188 billion in 2022, according to research from market data firm Ampere Analysis.

Did you know that if you own a Nintendo Switch, a Switch Lite, or a Switch OLED, you can try out some cool features? While the Nintendo Switch has been out for a while, some of its features are so specific that most players are unaware of their existence. We conducted a survey to determine how many of these minor features go unnoticed by Slashbeats readers.

We don’t know if video games cause the improvements.