Sony has told PlayStation 4 game developers that any new titles submitted for certification must also be compatible with PlayStation 5, beginning 13th July. This means all PS4 games received by Sony for testing after the middle of that month are technically forwards compatible - playable on Sony's next-gen console - though it is up to each game's developer to ensure this is the case.

Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida has said the company will be announcing a lineup of games for PlayStation 5 'soon'. Speaking as part of a statement about corporate strategy for Sony, Yoshida (according to Bloomberg's Takashi Mochizuki) said: "we will soon be announcing a strong lineup of PS5 games."

Today’s Xbox Series X third-party gameplay showcase has come and gone, and the public reaction seems to generally be one of… disappointment. That’s less because the games themselves didn’t seem cool – they did, especially reveals like The Medium or The Ascent for me – and more because this display that was hyped as the world’s first proper glimpse at next-gen gameplay was, well, a little anticlimactic.

Sales and revenue for the fourth quarter slipped to 1.7 billion yen (roughly $16.3 billion), down billion yen (roughly $3.6 billion) year-over-year.

We visit Microsoft for a briefing on the impressive tech of its next flagship console.

This is the essential PlayStation 5 vs Xbox Series X specs comparison: CPU, GPU, storage, backwards compatibility and more compared by Digital Foundry.

The PlayStation 5's operating system sounds like it's really going to prioritize speed and efficiency above all else, putting that high-speed SSD to very good use in the process. That's a far cry from the PlayStation 4's current dashboard, which almost instantly slows to a crawl as soon as you boot up a particularly intensive game. That'll hopefully be an annoyance of the past, however, as Kotaku's Jason Schreier has shared one of Sony's pitches to developers as it attempts to turn playing a PS5 game into something "as easy as Netflix".

During the IGN Podcast(1 Hour With Head of Xbox Phil Spencer), Phil Spencer explains the relationship between Xbox and Nintendo. Phil Spencer is an American business executive, who is the current executive vice-president of Gaming at Microsoft. He is currently the head of the Xbox brand and leads the global creative and engineering teams responsible for gaming at Microsoft

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare console players are turning off crossplay to try to escape PC cheaters. Cheating is an increasing issue for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare across both traditional multiplayer and Warzone, but it feels pronounced in the battle royale mode. This week, developer Infinity Ward said it had issued over 70,000 bans worldwide to protect Warzone from cheaters. "We are watching. We have zero tolerance for cheaters," the studio tweeted.

The Xbox Series X is upon us. But what do game developers think of this next-gen beast? We spoke to several to find out their thoughts.

The strategy game is part of a newfound focus.

The new Battlefield game is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in 2021.

The Xbox Series X is still slated to release later this year, and head of Xbox Phil Spencer continues toContinue Reading

Skype, SkyDrive, Office Web Apps could let the system serve productive purposes.

If you unbox and turn on an Xbox One on November 22nd, make sure you have an internet connection nearby. Microsoft has revealed that a day-one patch for its upcoming next-gen console will be a requirement to play games and access basic apps on the console. "Functionally, you will be able to do very little without taking the day-one update," said Microsoft’s senior director of Xbox product management Albert Penello in an interview with Engadget recently.

The new Kinect is kind of awesome. Just by the numbers, it's a huge upgrade. You can see (most of) the full walkthrough we saw just a bit ago here at Microsoft's Redmond campus in the video above. Parts are jaw-dropping.

We're sat opposite Palmer Luckey, 21-year-old inventor of the Oculus Rift. There's so much we want to ask him but right now he's too busy explaining his plans to build the ultimate Pokemon team.

After its launch on Friday, the PlayStation 4 has come under fire from some gamers who say their units have been dead on arrival. The most troubling reports describe a so-called "blue light of death" syndrome, in which the console's light bar flashes blue but never outputs a video signal or boots up.

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There are a lot of very unhappy PS4 owners right now, as reports of bricked consoles and no available replacements come in from all over the web.