The original Sony PlayStation came out just in time for CD piracy to really start taking off. Aware of this threat to sales, Sony engineers included a copy protection and region locking mechanism ...

A Python script that prints its own hash would be easy. But not every file type is so easy. Take PNG for instance. these files are split into chunks of data, and each chunk is both CRC-32 and ...

Please verify your email address. With the release of the original PlayStation in 1994 came a golden age of gaming that would see many beloved franchises take their first steps. Sony's little gray ...

Concord released only a week ago and it's already in danger of being put out to pasture, but PlayStation Plus could offer the game a second chance. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom To ...

It sounds like we’re going to learn more about a next-generation PlayStation sooner rather than later. In early 2024, Sony Senior Vice President Naomi Matsuoka told Bloomberg the following ...

Backward compatibility in video game consoles goes back to the 1980s, but it didn't really catch on back then. Yes, Sega's Master System hit stores in 1985 and played games from the company's ...

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the recipients for the Big Field Fund, which includes the Iowa City nonprofit artist collective Public Space One (PS1), a fund that ...

Learn more› By Arthur Gies and Haley Perry In November, Sony will release the PlayStation 5 Pro, an upgraded version of the PS5. We’ve added details in the What to look forward to the What to ...

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A claim from a leaker suggests that the PlayStation 6 has 2 SoC’s (System-on-a-Chip) in development, which means two SKU’s could be coming next generation.

By Robin Pogrebin Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter ...

I also got to meet Andrew Buresh, a music editor at PlayStation. He's the guy who makes it so that the music in a game changes appropriately when you enter combat or start a cut scene. Mayer says ...