Clocked Features How the PlayStation 2 took gaming from niche to mainstream by Dan Shaw The original PlayStation entered a world that was already inhabited by giants. But when the PlayStation 2 arrived, it set trends of its own. Sony’s entry into the console arena…
Clocked News A massive sale has discounted 500 of PlayStation’s greatest games by Luke Saunders Sony has just announced their monolithic PlayStation Spring Sale. The discount covers almost 500 games with more than generous price drops. What a time to be alive! As is frequently…
Clocked Features Xbox Series X: everything we know about the next-gen console by Luke Saunders Are the console wars reaching their inevitable end, or are they only just beginning? It’s hard to tell. The tech specs have been revealed for both Microsoft’s Xbox Series X…
Clocked Features Console wars: Playstation vs Xbox in modern gaming’s greatest arms race by Luke Saunders All over the internet you will find conflicting headlines. “There is no console war because Xbox left PlayStation in the dust years ago” or “The arms race is over because…
News A Ghostbusters prequel could be on the way by Luke Saunders Despite the underwhelming box office of the latest reboot, Sony Pictures remains very keen on mining the franchise potential of Ghostbusters. Jason Reitman is set to start shooting an as-yet-untitled…
News What was the biggest cash cow for music superstars in 2016? A new study pits streaming against touring revenue by Jacinta Rets It’s no secret that the world’s biggest artists are raking it in. They’re making millions of dollars each day… but surprisingly, it’s not all about the streaming royalties. A majority of…
News The Nintendo Playstation lives! A CD-ROM based, love child prototype has emerged thanks to handy modders by Jacinta Rets Sony and Nintendo have joined forces to bring you the ultimate console collaboration, with credit to legendary console modifier, Ben Heck. The Nintendo Playstation was the love-child of Sony and…
News Paul McCartney is suing Sony over ownership of The Beatles’ music by Happy The world of copyright law is a complex beast indeed, and so needlessly disparate that here we are, watching Paul McCartney sue Sony/ATV over the ownership of the music he wrote…
News While it’s far from a chart topper, you can now listen to the first song composed completely by an artificial intelligence by Molly Ulm Jukedeck Research have just released the first song to ever be fully written and produced from start to finish by a computer using artificial intelligence. The computer was prompted with…
News Dune Rats sign publishing deal with Sony/ATV for ‘a fuckload of cash’ by Emily Mathison Everybody’s favourite ratbags, Dune Rats, have gone and raised the bar for themselves, signing a publishing deal with Sony/ATV. Any news is good news from the Dune Rats, and this…
News Sony will stop making Betamax tapes, kids everywhere ask “What’s Betamax?” by Happy Hey kids, did you know once upon a time there was a way to watch movies other than Netflix? (That’s Netflux for our New Zealand friends). Once there was a…
Features Why the SoundCloud lawsuit is total bullshit by Che-Marie Trigg Hands up if you’re a musician and you have a multi-million dollar recording, promotional and touring budget? And keep your hands up if you have a record label behind you, a solid…
Music Gang Of Youths finally bare all on The Positions by Nick Stillman Since 2012, Sydney’s Gang Of Youths have been a somewhat elusive figure in the Australian music scene, slowly circling and stalking, ducking out of view and creeping back in, waiting…