Featuring a streamlined, cleaner motif and improved usability for mobile users, PS Blog's new look launches today.
Greetings! More than 11 years after its initial launch, it’s time to level up PlayStation.Blog once again.
We’ve been working on some assorted UX tweaks for the past few months, and over the next day or two, we’re excited to begin rolling them out for you.
We had a few broad goals for the new-and-improved (™) PlayStation.Blog:
- A streamlined look and feel
- A simpler, more pleasant user interface
- Improved mobile/tablet functionality
- Improved discoverability for new and recent articles, as well as new videos
There are a number of other tweaks and refinements. But we didn’t want to change what makes PlayStation.Blog great: you’ll still see all the great announcements, developer updates, and peeks behind our playful curtains that you’ve come to expect.
That said, please pardon our dust while we roll out the new updates — you may notice things that don’t behave quite as expected as we transition everything over. If you notice any issues or have requests for new features you’d like to see us implement (Blog-specific requests only, please!) leave them in the comments here — unless the comments are acting up. And in that case, send us a smoke signal or something. We’ll be watching!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support. PlayStation.Blog is something the whole team here is proud of, and we consider it a privilege to be able to keep bringing you updates on the games you (and we) love so much.
Now then, back to the news!
Wow. People sure can read. Not like it says in the post that things are still rolling out and may not work as intended at the moment.
What a disaster…all that time without being able to comment for this?…all you needed to do was bring the page system back.RIP good PS Blog.
Should expect this from Sony related stuff though…Sony is king too in changing what doesn’t need to be changed and making it worse ha.
Would be nice to see a darker layout option for the Blog. Like a night mode.
Not liking that the PSVITA tab has been removed. It not dead yet :).
Heart stuff is similar to EU blog. Though would be nice to like up individual comments.
Woo hoo! Love the new look. Slimey…Yet satisfying.
This new features and designs amazing and surprising, I am amazed :)
Now it looks like… Ever other website! It is very responsive at the moment though. Also to white please add a darker theme to!
I’m sorry to say that I preferred the old one by far. Especially the dark theme, my god, white is the worst. The rubberband on top is a bit weird, as it’s text seems randomly placed. Like “PS VR” on two lines? It makes is uneven with the “PS4” on one line to it’s side, while our playstation name is a lot bigger and the Playstation.Blog title is also bigger, and the search icon is also of a different size (nothing is of the same size, and some use one or two lines). It’s a weird design. Also, the rubberband at the top has a weird and laggy animation. Not sure why this was needed. Anyway, please bring back the dark theme, that’s the most important feature. While everybody else is starting to have dark theme, you remove yours XD
What happened to https://share.blog.us.playstation.com/ ???? Did you really remove the one place people talked about what they wanted ??
Bring back the store update posts, those were legitimately useful….
I agree with the comments. Too much empty space, and it would be pretty awesome to have a Dark Theme for the site. Other than that, not really sure what else could be said.
It’s nice to see the blog gets a fresh look.
The new design is pretty good but please add edit and delete button for comment.
This new layout looks like it’s done in WordPress with Simplest Theme. Honestly, I don’t like the new look at all, it’s too white and too much space left, makes it all very difficult to read.
Looks rather simple
Hmm, pretty snazzy lookin I guess. Though that is pretty funny that you lost the rating system. It’s not going to stop anyone from posting very angry comments if you pull that two game only Plus nonsense, hope you know.
Looking good, guys! It’s quite a change, but I’m all about simplifying when you can, so bravo! :-D
I haven’t been on the PlayStation Blog for many months but when coming back to check stuff here it turn into total piece of crap. This design is meh, the old PS.Blog was the best. If this going to be the new blog then i’m done with using blog now. I’m out then laters.
And not a single response to anyone from the Blog team. This is how much they actually care about what anyone thinks here. Feedback and criticism falls of deaf ears at PlayStation.Blog
Hey, the new look is pretty cool, but you broke the rss feed. The “thumbnail_url” is missing from the articles :(
It looks cool, maybe allow custom wallpaper or add featured background type of thing :)
What happened to Share.Blog?
I can’t find any information on it’s existence and/or closure as if it has been purged.
Slick,smooth and stylish, i like the new look!
It’s OK but I don’t really care one way or the other.
So all we can do is like something now? Lame. That’s not an “improvement”. It is for corporations who only want endless praise so they can pretend everything is fine and dandy at all times. But not for the end user.
Dark mode should be standard on all modern designs. It’s current year. And make an app already. Good grief.
I don’t see what was wrong with the old UI for mobile. And if you want to make things for mobile… again, make an actual application. There’s a billion PS apps but not one for the Blog that’s been around longer than most of the features that have apps today.
But hey, maybe the login will actually load consistently for me. But so far it shows a PSN avatar I haven’t used for months up top and none in the comment section while I type this comment. So that’s really a great improvement. So I guess I’ll go like the post since that’s all the feedback I can give! :D
And heavens everything is so big. I guess that’s what you meant with “for mobile users”. It’s not like you can zoom in on mobile or anything. (you can, in case you’re confused)
Where’d the good UI designers run off to? Everything is so bad these days.