When EA launched its EA Access subscription service five years ago, it was exclusive to Microsoft’s Xbox. The service later launched on PC through EA’s own Origin. EA and Sony have now announced that the subscription service will finally be coming to PlayStation this July.

A little while back, Sony appropriated a Nintendo-esque way of showing the world its upcoming games. When Nintendo stopped doing great big E3 press conferences, they opted to show off their impending wares through pre-made videos in a segment called Nintendo Direct. Sony started doing the same thing, calling it State of Play. And there’s a new State of Play later this week!

Cross-Play has been a big talking point for many players across the world who desperately want to play their favourite titles with friends that maybe own a different platform to them. While many developers and companies have come to the table and met this demand, Sony has been infamously against the notion of implementing the PlayStation into any kind of …

The records for Sony’s latest fiscal year have been revealed and oh boy, did they make a TON of cash. Hey, have you ever heard of Sony? Probably not, they’re just a small company. Still trying to pave their in the industry; nothing, you know? Yeah, well they just released their 2018 fiscal year earnings and what do you know? …

Sony has been on a winning streak with its first-party exclusives, knocking it out of the park with great games like Horizon: Zero Dawn, God of War, and Marvel’s Spider-Man. They have a focus on both quality and quantity, so there’s a lot of pressure on Bend’s Days gone to deliver the same sort of impact. Unfortunately, it doesn’t, and critics have largely slammed the game for being repetitive, buggy and uninspired. It’s not a bad game, just not the sort of thing you’d expect from a first party one.

Days Gone has moments where it reveals its brilliance, but they’re buried under a litany of uninteresting and repetitive missions and numerous technical issues

Well here’s some good and bad news for anyone who is looking to leave that horrific past behind them as if it were a MySpace page. Good, because PlayStation 4 owners can finally swap their custom nickname for something better, and bad because today is the last day I’ll ever be able to make fun of Alessandro for choosing StArKiLlER_360_NoscopeXXxxXXx as his nom de guerre.

For a game that was billed as a connected experience, not having working servers for months after launch was a bit of a death knell, and the game never really managed to get the time in the limelight it deserved. Eventually, everything was patched up, the game was updated and the servers worked as intended. Unfortunately for the handful of players still clinging to its original promises, the servers will be shut off next year. The game, its VR mode and the bikes expansions will also be delisted in a few months.