Yep, they're still nearly impossible to find.

Much like other hardware items, PlayStation 5 consoles are still damn near impossible to find and purchase. To maybe help alleviate some of the stress of hunting for Sony's latest console, the company has opened up a direct registration system that will give those in the United States a chance to purchase a PS5 this holiday season.

Naturally, invitations will be limited. Additionally, Sony notes that invitations to purchase...

Free games are being offered as part of a five year anniversary celebration.

Sony is giving away three PlayStation VR titles to all PlayStation Plus subscribers in November 2021. This is being done as part of the headset's fifth birthday celebration. Included in today's announcement is word about what the most-played PlayStation VR titles of all time have been.

I guess that stipulation about needing a PlayStation Plus subscription to get these games is a bit of a misnomer....

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 Studios...

Sony also commits to $10 upgrade paths for future releases.

Just a few days back, we reported that the upcoming release of Horizon Forbidden West would not have a free upgrade path from the Standard PlayStation 4 version to the PlayStation 5 version. In fact, there wasn't even a direct paid upgrade route. The only way you could possibly be given a dual entitlement was to purchase the $80 (USD) Digital Deluxe Edition at a bare minimum. So, if you own a PS4 now and think that maybe you'll...

Sony gonna Sony.

Horizon Forbidden West will not offer a free upgrade from the PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5 on either its Standard or Special Editions. You also cannot pay to upgrade from the Standard edition to an edition that does include the PS5 upgrade either.

As it currently stands, PS4 and PS5 will receive totally separate versions of the same game. You will be able to play the PS4 release on the PS5, but it won't have any of the PS5 specific visual and performance...

Get ready for the "future of PS5" next week.

Sony has finally announced a major showcase event and it's happening sooner than you may have anticipated. On September 9 at 1PM (PT), Sony will hold the PlayStation Showcase 2021. This event will offer fans a "sneak peek at the future of PS5, with updates from PlayStation Studios and industry-leading devs."

The entire event will run around 40 minutes. It will show off games that will be releasing this holiday...

$200 million to get at least four first-party Sony titles.

Over the past several months, Epic Games has been in a legal battle with Apple. Back in May, a ton of information was shared on the Internet concerning the internal operations of both companies, this just happened to include word that Epic was offering Sony millions of dollars to get first-party PlayStation titles on to the PC. Or, more specifically, millions of dollars to get PlayStation titles on the Epic Games Store.
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Were you really loving it? Were you? Really?

Last week McDonald's Australia allegedly created a limited number of special edition PlayStation 5 DualSense controllers. Each would be custom made to include illustration of burgers and fries all set alongside a white, red, and yellow color scheme. The original story, by Press Start, says that McDonald's Australia was going to give away 50 of these controllers in celebration of the 50th birthday of McDonald's being around in Australia....

You will finally be able to upgrade your storage capacity.

Sony quietly announced that M.2 SSD support will be added to the PlayStation 5 in an upcoming beta software update. No, it's not included in the current beta software update for the PlayStation 5. It'll be in the next update. This was revealed only through a new PlayStation 5 support page that the company added this week.

Sony notes that this is a feature that is only available to beta users. This is due to the...

Will be released at a later date to non-beta testers.

Sony just released its first ever major beta update for the PlayStation 5 today. This update adds in new 3D audio for TV speakers, trophy tracking, a bunch of other stuff.

3D audio for TV speakers is interesting in the fact that 3D audio was previously only available for those using headphones. Assuming you are in the beta, this new feature can be enabled through the audio output settings under "Sound" in...

This isn't the first time someone from Sony did this.

Sony has pulled a video ad that was posted earlier today that showed a PlayStation 5 in the background that was upside-down. Most people probably wouldn't have noticed such a mistake, but it sure caught the attention of fans that were quick to point it out on social media. This prompted Sony to pull the ad once it started to gain the attention of more and more people. ...

Will run for about 30 minutes.

Ready for another State of Play from PlayStation? It seems like a pretty good time for one when you consider Sony's voluntary absence from E3. On July 8 at 2PM (PT; 5PM ET), Sony will host a new State of Play stream that will focus on Deathloop, various indie titles, and third-party titles.

This new State of Play was announced by way of the PlayStation Blog. Deathloop fans will get a "nine-minute look at Deathloop's time-twisted world."...

This is Sony's second studio acquisition of the week.

This past Tuesday, we reported on Sony's acquisition of Housemarque, the development studio behind games like Returnal and Resogun. Today, Sony announced that they have acquired Nixxes Software. This Dutch development studio is best known for bringing over a number of PC ports for games developed by studios such as Crystal Dynamics, IO Interactive, and Eidos Montreal.

While Nixxes does excel at their work in porting...

This was not entirely unexpected.

Sony just announced that the sequel to 2018's God of War has been delayed until some time in 2022. Not only that, but they confirmed that the game will be coming to both the PlayStation 5 and the PlayStation 4.

Herman Hulst, the head of PlayStation Studios, shared the news via the PlayStation Blog just a short time ago today. This was revealed along with a few other tidbits of information via a mini Q&A on the future of PlayStation...