For those old school gaming fans despairing over never being able to play certain PS3 games without having to fork out for an expensive physical edition, fret not! Sony has decided to do a 180 on two-thirds of those plans, and keep the PS3 and PS Vita stores alive. The PSP is still scheduled to be taken out to the shed, where you’ll hear a shotgun being loaded with fresh retirement buckshot.

It’s the end of an era later this year, when Sony sunsets its PlayStation 3, PSP, and PS Vita digital storefronts. Those banana stands have seen an influx of activity lately, with many players seeking to download as many of the rare and platform-exclusive games before the chance to do so is taken away from them.

It’s time to crack open a fresh LP of Boyz II Men, because we’ve once again come to the end of the road for a piece of the gaming industry’s legacy. Last week it was reported that Sony would be pulling the plug on its PS3, PS Vita, and PSP online stores, news which Sony confirmed last night. The PS3 and PSP stores will go offline on July 2 this year, with the PS Vita following its brothers into obscurity on August 27.

Forget about Bitcoin or turning your collection of questionable Jpegs into NFTs to score a big buck, because the next best resource that you can hoard right now might just be PS3 and PS Vita games.

It’ll likely be a long wait for Lara Croft to return to her roots of pillaging cultural ruins, but after a trilogy that was at least 66% brilliant, the idea of giving the franchise a chance to rest doesn’t sound like a bad one. Now’s actually a great time to revisit the older games, to see just how far the series has come over the years and if you were in the mood for a properly nostalgic dose of teal swimsuits and 9mm guns akimbo, then here’s a blast from the past.

A sluggish collection of games that doesn’t exactly have a user-friendly interface or features in comparison to Microsoft’s offerings on the digital retail side, that archaic console café is about to get a big upgrade.

A decade after the little warring eyeballs marched to the beat of their own drum and took the PlayStation Portable by Storm, Patapon was reborn on the PlayStation 4 in a remaster that did little new. It instead effectively stretched the brilliant and delightful little game onto a bigger screen and while that sounds dismissive, it certainly is not. The …

Sony confirmed back in 2015 that it was ready to throw in the towel on mobile gaming. And then this year, Sony snatched that towel back and revealed that it was more than ready to jump back into that market. What does the future of portable PlayStation technology look like? Who knows, but it might make use of a new game cartridge that looks a little something like this.