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The PlayStation owned remaster and remake studio is no more.

Sony is in the process of shutting down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation subsidiary that is best known for developing several remakes for the PlayStation platform. Initial reporting on the shutdown of Bluepoint comes from Bloomberg who, citing a written statement from a PlayStation spokesperson, says that the decision was made "following a recent business review."

Bluepoint Games will officially be...

You probably thought they were already owned by Sony.

Sony announced today that they have added Bluepoint Games to their PlayStation Studios family. Today's announcement came via the head of PlayStation Studios Herman Hulst in a new PlayStation Blog posting.

Hulst says that Bluepoint has "raised the bar on console-defining visuals and gameplay, and the studio’s vast expertise in world building and character creation will be a huge plus for future PlayStation...

You died.

You died, will die, and may continue to die over and over again with today's release of the Demon's Souls remake for the PlayStation 5. Bluepoint has been hard at work bringing back the classic pre-Dark Souls FromSoftware title for a new generation of gamers and consoles.

Over on the PlayStation Blog, SIE Worldwide Studios creative director Gavin Moore, shares a bit on the journey that this game took to go from the PlayStation 3 to the PlayStation 5.
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A new look at bosses and locales.

A new gameplay trailer for Demon's Souls on the PlayStation 5 came out today. In it, we get a look at some of the bosses you'll be squaring up against in addition to a number of the gorgeous looking locations that you'll be dying in.

The trailer takes us back to Boletaria and the "barren lands" of Stonefang. This is one of the five distinct locations within Demon's Souls. Those who are used to playing the original release will...

Sony quietly announces this as a multi-platform title.

During today's PlayStation 5 Showcase, Sony showed off a number of launch titles for the PlayStation 5. One of those titles is none other than Demon's Souls, a remake of the original PlayStation 3 title. We already knew this game was coming. This isn't the news here.

The new news is that a new gameplay trailer for the game showed off today revealed that Demon's Souls is exclusive to the PlayStation 5 on consoles, but...

"Play has no limits."

Sony has busted out their first television spot for the PlayStation 5 today. Though the console does not yet have a release date, nor does it have a price revealed, that did not stop Sony from hyping up the console and its DualSense controller.

Really, the major focus is on the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers found on the new DualSense controller. To that point, the ad is really just a supplemental to hearing from a number of game...

As shown during the PlayStation Future of Gaming event.

Sony showed off a first ever look at the Demon's Souls remake that BluePoint has been working on. So far, it's a PlayStation 5 exclusive title.

We'll have more details as they are made available. ...

It's been over eight years, but all good things must come to an end. Publishers Atlus and Bandai Namco UK both confirmed that the servers for Demon's Souls will be shut down on February 28, 2018. This is a global shutdown of the services. This does mean that all online functionality will stop working for the game on that date. You can still obviously play the game solo but you won't get to see player messages, player deaths, and World Tendency features will be gone. Here are some of Atlus' w...

It's been over eight years, but all good things must come to an end. Publishers Atlus and Bandai Namco UK both confirmed that the servers for Demon's...

From Software made the Dark Souls series. Now they're making Bloodborne for the PlayStation 4.

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From Software made the Dark Souls series. Now they're making Bloodborne for the PlayStation 4.

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Apparently, the latest hot rumor creating some buzz out there is that there are a handful of leaked shots taken from a trailer for a new game coming from From Software. The working title for the game is called Project Beast and a lot of what is shown in these images may remind you of a certain game franchise, also from From Software. Actually, it should remind you of two franchises from the studio, Dark Souls and Demon's Souls.

Someone who claims to have act...