Microsoft and Sony are often considered direct rivals in the game space, competing for players through new consoles and exclusive games. Brand loyalty and “console wars” for some players dictates whether they’ll grab a PlayStation or Xbox. Extreme fans have even escalated their affinity for one over the other into harassment. But Microsoft’s real threat isn’t Sony, Nintendo, or any other company, says Microsoft’s head of gaming Phil Spencer.

Sony has shed some light on PS5 sales performance and has bullishly claimed that “absolutely everything is sold”. Speaking to TASS (a Russian news outlet), Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan revealed that PS5 launch sales are doing phenomenally well, and that increasing supply is now the main focus.

Bold looks, radical controller, and sick processor, has Sony built the holy grail of exclusive gaming? Get a look at the PlayStation 5.

PS4 users will seemingly be able to control their next-gen console remotely from another location…

Sony PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan says virtual reality won’t be a meaningful part of interactive entertainment in the near future. Ryan indicated to The Washington Post that VR still has a long way to go, although he emphasized that Sony isn’t giving up on the medium. The statement suggests that an update to Sony’s PlayStation VR headset is years away.

As we know, one of the last big releases for PlayStation 4 was the highly acclaimed Ghost of Tsushima. With a great concept, the title turned out to be a complete success both commercially and critically, as it received great support from the community and specialized media. Now then, Sony has just revealed that the success of the game was completely unexpected by the firm.

A peripheral manufacturer has been ordered to stop selling PS5 faceplates by Sony. Having already changed the company's name following a complaint from tech giant Sony, the firm has now also had demands to cease selling the product or it will "end up in court", with lawyers insisting that Sony's intellectual property also "extended to the faceplates".

If you were hoping to customize your new PS5 with a fancy faceplate, you may have to wait for an official Sony solution. A company offering replacement PS5 plates in a variety of colors has canceled orders after being threatened with a lawsuit.

Owing to the rapid growth of technological advancement, no company is leaving scope for lagging behind. Sony is among those companies that are changing the way we think and is constantly progressing towards building innovations one after the other.

PS3, PS Vita games will no longer be available

The PlayStation Store on web and mobile will stop selling PS3, PSP, and PS Vita games later this month.

When was the last time we saw a game-changing reveal in the immediate run-up to the launch of a next generation console? Sony may well have pulled this out of the bag with today's new State of Play, concentrating on the much-anticipated PlayStation 5 user interface. Sony's menu systems have always been polished, beautiful pieces of work, but for the next generation, this is married with a truly impressive range of in-game functions.

Official Grand Theft Auto 5 Gameplay released by Rockstargames on July 9th 2013! Hope you guys enjoyed.

Mark Cerny’s journey from 17-year-old Atari programmer to lead architect of Sony Computer Entertainment will define the next blockbuster games console.

If reports in the Chinese press are to be believed, Sony’s next-gen games console may be being assembled using some very outdated labor practices. According to Hong Kong’s Oriental Daily, thousands of students from an IT engineering program at the Xi’an Institute of Technology are being forced to work at Foxconn’s Yantai plant assembling the Sony Playstation 4.

How can a day be more perfect than battling your friends on PS4?

The PlayStation 3 was the best-selling games console in the US for September, according to NPD, breaking an impressive stranglehold on the top of the charts that the Xbox 360 had managed to keep for the 32 months since January 2011. NPD analyst Liam Callahan told Gamesindustry.biz that Sony's system was boosted by the release of a Grand Theft Auto V bundle, showing how Rockstar's blockbuster series "can shake things up in hardware as well as software.”

There's a good chance you're already well-acquainted with most of the launch titles for the PlayStation 4 by now, but Sony has today made things official and confirmed the complete list of titles that'll be available on day one.

Shuhei Yoshida still remembers the call that convinced him Sony needed to change. It was the late spring of 2006, and Yoshida was rushing to make his deadlines for the unveiling of Sony’s next big bet on the future of home video games, the PlayStation 3. He had worked on various PlayStations for more than a decade and was now one of the execs in charge of developing games for the new console.

In the seven years since the introduction of the PlayStation 3, we've seen our gaming consoles transform into living room hubs through constant evolution and software updates. Those updates weren't always smooth – though on PS3, they were always happening – but it's easy to see just how far the platform has come.