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The PlayStation 5 is restocked at Best Buy [Update: Sold Out]

Update March 5th, 2021 1:00PM ET: Best Buy has sold out of both the PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition models. If you are still looking for an Xbox Series S, it is still available on the retailer’s website. The PlayStation 5 has been out for over three months now. Since then, it has been one… Read more

Outriders demo reaches 2 million players, new patch coming

Home / Software & Gaming / Outriders demo reaches 2 million players, new patch coming Matthew Wilson 4 hours ago Software & Gaming People Can Fly seems to be off to a good start with Outriders. At the end of February, the team released a demo version of the game and so far, over 2… Read more

PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo all sold more consoles in 2020 than 2019

Mustafa Mahmoud 1 day ago Console, Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming 2020 was a rough year for many industries. Due to COVID-19 and the global pandemic, many markets were either severely restricted or shut down entirely. For gaming however, this unfortunate situation served as a boon for the industry. Throughout 2020, the industry went… Read more

Walmart will have PS5 and Xbox Series X restocks available today

Both the Sony PS5 and Microsoft Xbox Series X / S gaming consoles will be back in stock at Walmart later today. A Walmart spokesperson told The Verge that the retailer will have the consoles available for purchase again at 11:30AM PT / 2:30PM ET for the Xbox Series X / S and 12PM PT… Read more

Sony announces six PlayStation VR games, including Doom 3 for VR

Sony has announced a new slate of PlayStation VR games for later this year. It includes a virtual reality adaptation of Doom 3, as well as titles from a few successful VR studios and a couple of relative newcomers to VR. Sony announced a new generation of PSVR for its PlayStation 5 console last month…. Read more

Amazon has both PS5 consoles in stock again [UPDATE: Sold Out]

Update March 3rd, 2021 11:04AM ET: Amazon has sold out of both PS5 console models. Sony’s latest gaming console, the PS5, is one of many gaming gadgets that are hard to find in stock right now due to mostly online-only sales. If you are trying to get your hands on one, Amazon has restocked both… Read more

Samsung Reveals First AMD FreeSync Premium Pro TVs, Mini LED Gaming Monitors

Home News Samsung’s 2021 The Frame TV has AMD FreeSync Premium Pro. (Image credit: Samsung) Samsung just leveled the playing field a bit in the battle between TVs and gaming monitors. PC monitors have long held an advantage over TVs for gaming, largely due to speedier refresh rates and response times. The best gaming monitors… Read more

Apple’s most affordable iPad is down to $299 at select retailers

At $329, Apple’s eighth-generation iPad is the most affordable tablet offered by the tech giant. But if you want to save some additional cash, you can buy the base model, which includes 32GB of storage, for only $299 at Amazon in space gray only (in stock March 28th). Walmart is price-matching the e-commerce giant, but… Read more

PlayStation Store won’t let you buy or rent movies and TV shows after August 31st

If you prefer buying all your movies and TV shows on the PlayStation Store, you won’t be able to do that for much longer. In a blog post today, Sony announced that it is discontinuing those purchases on its digital store starting August 31st. As for why, Sony cites the “tremendous growth” of entertainment consumed… Read more

Ratchet and Clank is now free on PS4 and PS5

March kicks off Sony’s “Play at Home Initiative,” and the first game available for PS4 and PS5 owners is Ratchet and Clank. PlayStation owners on both consoles can redeem a free digital copy of the game until March 31st at 8PM PT / 11PM PT, without requiring a PlayStation Plus subscription. Ratchet and Clank was… Read more

My PS5 is now matte black thanks to Dbrand’s Darkplates

A stealthy look for the elusive console Maybe you like the PlayStation 5’s distinctive white-and-black look. Maybe you don’t. Maybe you’d settle for a Zune-brown and orange model as long as you could find it in stock. But wherever you come down on the PS5’s color, one thing’s for sure: there’s a lot of demand… Read more

Sony’s PlayStation Network experiencing outage Saturday

An outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network that began Friday afternoon appeared to be persisting on Saturday morning. According to an update on the status page timestamped 6:33PM (not clear what time zone that is) on February 26th, the affected platforms are PS Vita, PS3, PS4, and PS5. “You might have difficulty launching games, apps, or… Read more

Persona 5 Strikers is a perfect excuse to reunite with the Phantom Thieves

Atlus is a master of weird spinoffs. In the past, the developer has revamped its RPG series Persona as dungeon crawlers, brawlers, and rhythm games. Heroes have bounded through space and time for fanfiction-worthy team-ups, all in service of giving players a reason to see their favorite characters again. Persona 5 Strikers goes one step… Read more

Canelo vs Yildirim live stream: weigh in, start time, how to watch the boxing in UK, US and more

Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez returns to the ring this Saturday night to defend his WBC and WBA super middleweight titles against Avni Yildirim in Miami. The big fight costs up to $50 in the US, but savvy sports streaming service DAZN has the rights to show the clash in 200 countries – and from only £1.99… Read more

The PS5 is back in stock at Best Buy

Sony PS5Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony’s latest gaming console, the PS5, is one of many gaming gadgets that are pretty hard to find in stock right now due to mostly online-only sales. If you are trying to get your hands on one, Best Buy has restocked the PS5 and PS5 digital edition… Read more