Excuse us while we go gossip column for a hot minute, but several Sony executives have been spotted in the San Francisco area. Recently minted Worldwide Studios chief Hermen Hulst was the first to post that he was in the area, but then Sucker Punch communications boss Andrew Goldfarb and indie evangelist Shuhei Yoshida were both snapped in the city.

I was born on the south side of Glasgow. I was heading for a life of crime in my teens because I was in with some bad people. After a brush with the law, I headed as far south as I could go before I hit the sea. I ended up in Brighton.

On Dec. 26, Sony was approved for a patent on a new type of PlayStation controller. The patent is on the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) database, but it isn’t quite clear what Sony intends to do with the controller. The design itself is similar to the familiar DualShock 4 design that most players are used to with the PlayStation 4. The new controller has the same layout for its face buttons, directional pad, and analog sticks. The only real departure on the front of the controller is that there’s no PlayStation button visible on the patent design.

Sony has confirmed that it doesn’t consider itself to be in the business of making handheld gaming consoles any more. That means we shouldn’t expect a follow-up to the PSP or PlayStation Vita anytime soon, if ever.

Microsoft is gearing up to reveal Xbox "Scarlett" in full in the near future, and we've finally got some credible information on the target specs.

The only rare model created by the collaboration between Sony and Nintendo in 1991 will be put up for sale at the collector’s auction in February 2020. Yes, Tierry Diebold, the lucky owner of this must-have hybrid console, has decided to sell it at an auction at Heritage Auctions.

It's 2020, which means we are less than a year away from the release of the PlayStation 5. That [...]

No, Sony's PlayStation 5 won't use expandable SSD cartridges. The cartridge patent wasn't for PlayStation hardware, but instead for Sony's line of Toio kids toys.

A freshly leaked image of the PS5 has given us our first look at the DualShock 5 controller. As shared by prominent internet newshound AllGamesDelta on Twitter, the photo reportedly comes from an anonymous developer, and shows the next-gen console's devkit (the same one which Sony has confirmed as genuine) in all its V-shaped glory.

Behind the curtain of PlayStation’s pared-down year of free games

Sony has acquired a patent for a PS controller design with back buttons.

Hey, have you ever heard of Sony? Probably not, they’re just a small company. Still trying to pave their in the industry; nothing, you know? Yeah, well they just released their 2018 fiscal year earnings and what do you know? Turns out that small company Sony that everyone has definitely never heard of had the most successful and profitable year ever.

Boulder Dash 30th Anniversary, which is currently available for PC (Steam), iOS, and Android, is coming to Xbox One and Switch, publisher BBG Entertainment announced. The news comes via a press release from Japanese publisher Worker Bee, which will release the Switch version in Japan.

Sony's next PlayStation State of Play broadcast is due to happen next week.

PlayStation also stated that it is "re-thinking" the PS5 controller with a number of new features

Earnings from Alphabet and Shopify, hacking the Olympics, the Rise of the Rest rides again, Amazon is making grocery delivery free and letting you pay your electric bill via Alexa, and don’t update your HomePod, or you might brick it.

The PlayStation 5 might be more affordable than we first thought, a Sony exec teased during a conference call recently, although the company has not mentioned actual price points

Death Stranding released last week onto the PS4, and it appears to be off to a great start, despite dividing critics and lacking mainstream appeal, showing that the name Hideo Kojima still has strong selling power and that Sony's absurd amount of marketing for the game is paying off. According to the UK market, it's the second biggest PS4 exclusive and the second biggest new IP released this year, behind only fellow PS4 exclusive Days Gone, another game that divided critics but sold very well.

For one short moment, some of the most powerful computers in the world could be hacked together with code, wire, and PS3s.

Mobile gaming is too strong.