Since 2007 TheSixthAxis has continued to cover PlayStation news with our own brand of opinion and humour. It’s been an increasingly tough challenge – sticking to principles and weathering countless offers of well-meaning but ultimately fruitless assistance – but our community and reader support has kept us going.
Today we’re excited to announce the next stage in our ongoing development: a dedicated PlayStation 4 news hub.
In the short term the new site will feature content pulled exclusively from TheSixthAxis, but there are plans to very quickly grow the site into a catch-all destination for everything to do with Sony’s brand new console, expected in 2013. It’s the same team behind the site, and it’s in addition to TSA – we’re not changing our goals, just moving outwards with the resources we have.
The URL? http://www.playstationfour.co.uk
We hope you like it. It’s designed to be fully scalable across every device, and there’s been considerable focus on layout and typography, with minimal requirements from our writers to do anything more to get the content onto the site other than a simple checkbox.
Comments, as ever, are most welcome.
tonycawley
What’s the legality of calling it playstationfour.co.uk?
Could sony force you to take it down? I have no idea, just asking.
Other than that it’s good. Could maybe do with being categorised e.g. games, hardware, feature or whatever.
Peter Chapman
Nothing illegal about it, there’s a clear disclaimer and we don’t impinge any copyright. I half expected Sony to want us to transfer the domain when they realised we had it but then, they do all their stuff via playstation.com so I probably shouldn’t have expected that.
cc_star
There’s hundreds or thousands of domains containing the word ‘PlayStation’ which is a Sony trademark.
I presume, as long as any such site isn’t defamatory of the PlayStation brand, Sony wouldn’t show any untoward interest.
SpikeyMikey23
how long will it be before we see playstationfour.tk? …… ;)
tonycawley
Fair enough to all of you! Like I said I had no idea of the legalities involved so I was merely posing the question. Suppose it’s no different than calling your site thesixthaxis really, they’re both Sony registered TMs.
Still it’s an excellent acquisition from you guys. Well done there!
anyjungleinguy
“how long will it be before we see playstationfour.tk? …… ;)”
Ha, If that’s the reference I’m thinking of, it should be .tr.
anyjungleinguy
How in the world did you manage to get your hands on that domain?
Still, looks great. I hope they don’t take it off you.
Dr_mohannad
good luck my favourite website evaaaar
Youles
Glad that stuff is being pulled from here, so I can still check in one place (here) for the most important PS4 news.
Could maybe do with a (coloured) background, unless you’re waiting for sponsorship….otherwise looking good ;)
Peter Chapman
it’s just designed to be as lightweight as possible, so it’s extremely mobile friendly. No advertising is secured or planned yet but I would assume it does make sense for certain companies to target. We’ll see what happens with that in the future. For now, we just wanted a nice hub for the info.
Youles
Indeed, please don’t think it was a criticism….hopefully someone will come along with a big bag of cash for you though…particularly since that domain may get you a lot of hits in addition to us TSAers who already know it’s there.
cc_star
With responsive designs like that I like to grab the corner of my desktop browser window and watch the content flow as I resize it.
It’s a good scalable design, although I wonder if a ‘featured’ section at the top of the ‘stream’ would help it on large (desktop) displays.
wonkey-willy
nice!
i like it but wheres the xbox 720 dedicated site.?
Peter Chapman
it’s not even really officially announced yet! We’ll think about that possibility but we’re generally more comfortable with PlayStation (and we have more support from Sony in terms of getting us info and access).
SH Number 7/Mini-Lipscombe
I love TSA, the staff and the community, but it’s always leaned more to the PS side (for obvious reasons), especially on the community side of things, not having a PS for most the time and not being a big fan of the console I’ve been wanting a site similar to how TSA is run but with more of an Xbox presence (in writers and community,not wanting fan boys though, god I hate fan boys) I would love that site and feel more of a part of it. I’m not necessarily saying you guys should make one though, as you should stick to what you know.
Peter Chapman
I would love that site too, and if we had some serious investment, I’d do it. Unfortunately, we’re limited by time (none of us have very much of it) and money (we hardly have any of that either) so we have to focus on what we’re best at.
SH Number 7/Mini-Lipscombe
Yeah I completely understand that, that’s why it’s best to stick to what you can as you said, I’ve been searching around and can’t find anything that seems as good as TSA, damn you people making me have to high standards!
Peter Chapman
If you can’t find anything, build it yourself ;)
SH Number 7/Mini-Lipscombe
Haha, I did think about that, I’ve been meaning to start a podcast for ages, I really need to get to doing it but I’m lazy. If that ever happens I’m sure I would start a site around it. But I’m not exactly a good writer or as intelligent as other Lipscombes, but who knows what might happen if I can be bothered to move my ass.
freezebug2
Nice job, although as others have mentioned, I’m amazed that domain hadn’t already been snapped up, some very forward planning must have ensued or good contact has been established with the powers that be!
cam the man
I wonder how many people are busy trying to register http://www.playstationfive.co.uk ?
cam_manutd
Good to see your sticking to your principles with a PS orientated focus.
G_The_Enemy14
Are all future ps4 articles going to be on TSA as well as the new site, or just on the new one?
Peter Chapman
The new hub just pulls info from TSA so everything will still be here. playstationfour.co.uk is just a different way of presenting what is posted on TSA, for now, at least.
bunimomike
That’s interesting. You want us back here to comment! Ha. Like children misbehaving over at a mate’s house.
Peter Chapman
yeah, for the time being. It’s just easier to display that stuff without having to account for comments too – but we wanted to let new viewers know there is a way to join the discussion and hopefully encourage a few over here to join in :)
bunimomike
Agreed. Win the new folk over and not scare them away from the unique people on TSA’s comment areas. ;-)
DividSmythe
Ash but the big question on everybody’s lips is when comments are enabled will they be carried over to playstationfour.com
DividSmythe
Not ash ah
Alex C
Yes, comments are already carried over to the PS4 site. They’re just not properly 100% working, so we switched them off for now.
G_The_Enemy14
Fair enough :) The fact that it is named ‘playstationfour’ will hopefully help people to stumble across in, and then in turn come to TSA!
LycanGav
As others have said Peter, how the hell did you secure the domain?
Peter Chapman
We didn’t register it until January this year (I think), I was surprised it hadn’t already been locked down :)
cc_star
*looks at playsation5, playstationfive….. playsationeleventeen domains*
SH Number 7/Mini-Lipscombe
Well you might be able to get “Playsation5” CC I’m sure no one’s going to register that haha.
Bilbo_bobbins
thats a fantastic URL, well done chaps and keep up the good work. I’ll be visiting it a bit more often once the articles are coming through. It’s a little slow on me just clicking on an article, but I’m sure its because its new etc.
Looking forward to using the site in the future.