I’ve lived in Japan for nearly twelve years, and I’m still not used to the awful summers. Between the high temperatures and suffocating humidity, stepping outside in July and August feels like being slowly cooked in a sous vide pot. As a seemingly interminable rainy season comes to an end, I’m not going to need much encouragement to stay home.

Robots carry on legacy of craftsmanship at little-known Kisarazu plant

Sony has launched a wearable air conditioner to keep you cool in the summer. It was about a year ago when we first heard that the company was developing the gadget, called Reon Pocket. The diminutive device fits inside a pocket on the back of a specially made undershirt and works using a Peltier element usually found in cars and wine coolers. It pairs with an Android and iOS smartphone app that lets you control the temperature in a few quick taps.

Sony has invested $250 million for a minority stake in Fortnite maker Epic Games, the companies announced today. Epic's games will stay cross-platform.

Ghost of Tsushima has received a lot of praise from Japanese magazine Famitsu which has given it a perfect score. It is the third western game to reach this milestone. Ghost of Tsushima is out on July 17 and the review embargo was lifted on July 14. Famitsu, which is a Japanese gaming magazine equivalent to Edge there, has given Ghost of Tsushima a perfect score. The review criteria at Famitsu is different compared to other publications where four editors offer their opinion on a game and each score them individually. The scores are then combined.

Facebook and Sony are preparing to increase output of upcoming gaming devices by as much as 50%, showing how big tech companies are profiting from consumers' thirst for home entertainment during the global coronavirus pandemic, the Nikkei Asian Review has learned. Facebook's Oculus, the global leading provider of virtual reality headsets by market share, is eyeing growth of at least 50% from a year ago for its latest version of head-mounted VR devices, pushing production to 2 million units, sources said.

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.

Earlier this week, Epic Games unveiled the latest version of their long-standing game development engine, Unreal Engine 5. As usual, the company did so with a tech demo showing off the engine’s capabilities. What’s more interesting is that they claimed to have ran this demo on Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 5 hardware, which is powered by AMD Zen 2 CPU and RDNA2 GPU technology.

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."

Sony has said its relationship with Microsoft is “deepening” following continued discussions around licensing the Xbox parent’s cloud server technology. Microsoft and Sony announced a “strategic partnership” in May 2019, which will result in the PlayStation maker using Microsoft Azure data centres for cloud gaming and content streaming services.

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 has never shared official sales numbers for last year's Death Stranding, but according to Hideo Kojima himself, it did well enough to recoup development costs and begin turning a profit. Those margins will only increase with the upcoming PC version to the point where Kojima says there's nothing to worry about. "We have enough profit to be ready for the next title."

Sony is going to reveal next-gen PlayStation 5 games at an event on June 11 at 1 p.m. Pacific time. This comes after Sony postponed from June 4.

It beats Uncharted 4 to become Sony's fastest-selling PS4 game

The PS5 will cost $499 in the US and £449 in the UK when it launches at the end of the year, according to somewhat reliable leaker IronManPS5 on Twitter. That tracks with the rumors we’ve heard so far around Sony’s next-generation games console. But the leaker also revealed that the PS5 Digital Edition will be $100 and £100 less than its disk drive-equipped sibling, costing $399 and £349 in the US and UK respectively.

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.”