Sony Playstation 2 News

The debate around video game violence and whether it leads to actual violence has once again come to the fore this year since the Obama administration asked for funding to study the matter.

Unfortunately, the video posted on YouTube was a teaser for the final reveal that Sony says will come on June 10 at its E3 2013 press conference.

At Sony's PlayStation pre-E3 event in Santa Monica, The Last of Us' art director Eric Pangilinan explained that he isn't concerned about The Last of Us getting lost in the buzz currently surrounding next-generation video game consoles, more specifically the PS4.

It's perhaps a little ironic that the creators of some of the most beautiful console games ever made so very rarely promote their games using actual in-game footage or screenshots.

In the fall of 1980, a little yellow circle named Pac-Man with a bottomless appetite chomped its way onto our Atari consoles and into arcades.

IGN reports that Polyphony Digital president Kazunori Yamauchi announced that Gran Turismo 6 is in development and will be releasing on the Playstation 3 sometime during the 'Holiday 2013' window.

Namco Bandai Games, the company behind the upcoming "Dark Souls 2," may be releasing a new remastered compilation for the Playstation 3. According to a report by the NeoGAF forum, the publisher is planning to port "Tales of Symphonia" and "Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World" to Sony's high-definition console.

Busted out of death row, inmate James Earl Cash wakes up to find himself in a snuff film directed by a man who calls himself Starkweather.

Following last week's decidedly light lineup of new content on the PlayStation Network, this week's roster features a pretty hefty selection of titles from a wide variety of genres, including retail game Metro: Last Light , the official launch of Dust 514 , a few PSN titles and the PlayStation 2 Classic, Manhunt .

Remember when Namco Bandai producer Hideo Baba promised a " Tales of -filled year" a while ago ? Well, if a new report is to be believed, you can expect one of those fillings to be a PS3 HD remaster of fan favourite, Tales of Symphonia .

Always a halo product for the PlayStation brand, Gran Turismo's reputation as the top-tier console racer has remained the same since its debut.

Former Sony Computer Entertainment chairman and CEO Ken Kutaragi has joined Marvelous AQL as an External Director, according to a Nikkei report .

In 2003, Rockstar Games made one of the most violent and controversial games ever to land on the PlayStation 2. Manhunt placed players in the shoes of death row inmate James Earl Cash.

Comparison screenshots have been revealed by several members of the NeoGAF forum on May 9 in regards to the upcoming Playstation 3 remastered title, "Final Fantasy X-2 HD." The latest images compare the upcoming Playstation 3 port to the original Playstation 2 game in addition to an emulated version running from the PCSX2 program on the PC.

Gamers with a soft spot for Sonic are going to love the Sega Dreamcast Delta. This conceptual game system was created by Chicago-based designer Elie Ahovi.

Rockstar North's stealth slash slaughter game, Manhunt , launches on PSN next week on May 14, available in the PS2 Classics section for $10. European PSN users will have to wait until Wednesday, when their store is updated.

Twelve Games has joined Steam's Greenlight bringing all the wonderful, acrobatic antics of capoeira with it.

The company said today it expects to record a combined total of just five million Vita and PSP sales during the period.

Today, the people over at iFixit posted a teardown of the Ouya console, and although many Kickstarter backers are still waiting for their consoles to arrive in the mail, they can expect that their unit will be relatively easy to fix-as long as they're not too rough with it.

You might have to wait until September for Grand Theft Auto V , but Sony and Rockstar are determined to make that wait as painless as possible.