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Nintendo had its strongest Switch quarter ever this holiday season, moving 10.81 million units to reach a total of 52.48 million sold as of the end of 2019. The 16-bit SNES was released in …
But it’s also one of the first times that Pokémon, the most lucrative media franchise of all time, addressed the climate crisis. Today, there are eight generations of Pokémon games and, dependin…
Fans have long bemoaned the inability to purchase digital versions of films from legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. Nearly the entire collection of Studio Ghibli movies are now av…
It’s been a decade since Keita Takahashi released a commercial video game — the last title from the creator of the Katamari Damacy series was Noby Noby Boy in 2009 — but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t b…
Far from being detached from the environment, the PlayStation 4 is an object hewn from its materials and inhabitants. Grid View Photo: Lewis GordonPhoto: Lewis GordonPhoto: Lewis GordonPhoto: Le…
Twenty-five years after the launch of the original PlayStation, however, its greatest offering is also its most improved: the Persona series, created by Atlus. In 1996, Atlus, best known fo…
But it would be unfair to write off Sony’s travails in the portable gaming industry. The idea of a portable PlayStation was something that seemed inevitable as soon as it was clear that Sony was…
I still remember the very first time I laid eyes on a Final Fantasy game and, by extension, the original PlayStation console. But there it was, a copy of Final Fantasy IX playing out on his bulk…
Much like a section of vaporwave a few years ago that integrated the PlayStation logo into videos as a method of evoking a powerful nostalgic emotion, the PlayStation icon works because it stirs a fe…
Scientists from Japan have used machine learning for the first time to identify a new figure among the ancient motifs of Peru’s Nazca Lines. “It’s a large achievement.”The geoglyph was discovere…
