This joint effort announced today by the ESA.

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), yes that one, announced today that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo will now have required policies that ensure the odds of loot boxes are known on their platforms. These odds will be shown on any and all paid loot boxes in games that are developed for their platform.

This comes straight from the ESA's chief counsel for tech policy during a workshop on loot boxes held by the Federal Trade Commission. ...

Some games can be had for up to 80% off.

Sony just kicked off a big double discount sale for a bunch of PlayStation 4 games, a decent amount of PlayStation 3 titles, and a handful of Vita games. I say that this is a "double discount" because that's what Sony is saying. There is already a sale price for non PlayStation Plus subscribers. But if you are a Plus subscriber, there is an additional discount on top.

This means that non-Plus subscribers can get up to 40% off on select titles during this sale, while Plus subs can get up to 80% off.

This...

A feature film based on Knack? It's more likely than you think.

It was announced today that Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) launched a new PlayStation Productions division. This is a production studio that will help to bring Sony's first-party game offerings to film and TV. PlayStation Productions is being led by Asad Qizilbash and Mr. Worldwide Studios himself, Shawn Layden.

Over its 25 year run producing games, Sony has accumulated more than 100 original properties. Shawn Layden and Qizilbash are all in for this idea....

This partnership focuses on "game and content-streaming services."

Microsoft announced today that they and Sony have formed a partnership that will see the two working together on AI solutions and "innovations to enhance customer experiences in their direct-to-consumer entertainment platforms." That's probably as close as you're going to get to them strongly hinting at some form of actual gaming partnership in this announcement release.

The two studios will work together to create new cloud solutions using Microsoft's Azure service that will "support...

Sony announced a new State of Play for May 9.

Earlier today, Sony announced both on Twitter and on their official blog that a new "State of Play" will take place on May 9 at 3PM (PT). According to their announcement, this event will provided an extended look at MediEvil along with a look at a brand new title.

In addition, Sony will provided "updates and announcements from upcoming PS4 games."

One thing they made sure to stress here is that they will not be talking about their next-gen plans during this event. However, there is already...

A new report from Wired provides us some of the first confirmed details for the next-generation PlayStation console. Though it's not confirmed to be called "PlayStation 5" we'll do so for the time being until we know otherwise.

The online magazine sat down with Sony's Mark "Knack's Baby Daddy" Cerny to talk about the upcoming Sony hardware. Though a lot of specifics were omitted, we did learn a bunch of tasty new details.

We know that the system will include backwards compatibility with PlayStation 4 games. The system will not ship in 2019....

Bend Studio released a new wedding themed trailer for Days Gone today. The game itself is full of zombies and this trailer focuses on the main character's wedding. Gosh, I'm sure nothing will possibly go wrong in the time between this wedding and the events of the game. ...

I guess the beta for Red Dead Online is "good" enough now that Rockstar felt comfortable opening up their real-money store for the game. Starting today, you can purchase gold bars to fulfill Red Dead Online's second economy. These bars allow you to purchase various in-game items such as horses, outfits, weapon customizations, and more without spending the other in-game currency of "RDO$" or Red Dead Online dollars. The prices for gold bars begins at $9.99 (USD), which will net you 25 gold bars. However, they do have a special that you can get 25 gold bars for $4.99. Lucky you! Other packages include 55 gold bars, 150 bars, 245 bars, all t...

4A Games and Deep Silver announced that after five years of being in development, Metro Exodus has gone gold and is set to release a week earlier than original anticipated. The new release date is February 15, 2019 for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.

To celebrate the good news, Deep Silver released the title sequence for Metro Exodus, which you can find below.
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