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Sony Won't Give Up on Physical Distribution Any Time Soon

Sony is making more and more of a push into the world of online distribution. Its PSP Go completely lost the UMD cartridge and the company supports more and more the PlayStation Network and the PlayStation Store by making most of its content available through these two online services. As such, Sony feels the need to...

26 November 2009
16:01 GMT

Sony Adds a Whole New Lot of Games to the PlayStation Store

To compensate for the lack of the UMD drive for the PSP Go, Sony has decided to flood the PlayStation Store with all kinds of games. Ever since the console was first launched on October 1, the company has poured in games every week, and it's doing it again now. The PlayStation Portable section of the store got l...

6 November 2009
04:11 GMT

The PSP Minis Will Stride to Overcome the Originality-Quality Compromise

When Sony announced the Minis section in the PlayStation Store, Apple felt like the ground was shaking under its feet. Basically, Minis are a group of games developed for the PlayStation Portable meant to be generally under the 100MB quota and part of the indie genre. The casual gamers that this kind of games appeal ...

6 October 2009
07:51 GMT

Sony Slips Up, Offers Full Game for Free Instead of the Demo

The UMD-less PSP Go was launched today. The platform's release was supposed to come with over 100 downloadable titles to the PlayStation Store, and it did, but it also came with a little something extra. The PS Store also listed a demo for Undead Knights, Tecmo's horror action adventure, but that's not...

2 October 2009
02:55 GMT

PSN Update Brings New Titles, Demos and Price Cuts

The weekly PlayStation Store update brings several new downloadable games for Sony console owners through the PlayStation Network. Zombie Apocalypse is now available for $10, as well as the Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Commander's Challenge, which will take up a cruel 2.17 GB of space on your drive. To match ...

25 September 2009
03:07 GMT

PSP Gets 'minis' Section in the PlayStation Store

Sony had a lot of announcements to make at last week's GamesCon in Cologne, Germany. We've seen the PS3 Slim, the new services for the PSP and many other news reports, but one that managed to slip under the radar was the new “minis” section in the PlayStation Store, accessible to PlayStation Por...

25 August 2009
11:11 GMT

Patapon 2 Will Be Available on Both UMD and PlayStation Store

The PlayStation Portable hasn't been one of the luckiest platforms when it comes to games released for it, as a lot of developers have stood away from it, despite the fact that it has sold over 50 million units worldwide ever since it was launched. But things are starting to get better for Sony's handheld ...

14 April 2009
03:07 GMT

Firmware 2.70 Coming to the PlayStation 3

Sony is good at building up excitement. On Monday, news leaked that it was readying an announcement related to the PlayStation brand and a lot of ears were listening when, on Tuesday, Sony said that it was cutting the price of the PlayStation 2 to 99 dollars and, respectively, 99 Euro. Now, the company is jumping at ...

2 April 2009
04:46 GMT

The PlayStation Network Will Catch Spring Fever

The gaming industry has seen a lot of trends come and go but there is one that has really caught on, downloadable arcade games. With titles being up for download at any hour of the day, via the Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, or the WiiWare services, people are really interested in them.Last year, Microsof...

12 February 2009
11:01 GMT

LittleBigPlanet Gets Metal Gear Solid DLC for Christmas

LittleBigPlanet is probably one of the most innovative games that have appeared this holiday season. It provided a unique twist to the usual puzzle platformer genre, enabling players to create their own levels via the unique tools that were made available by its developer, Media Molecule. Also, as Sony, its publishe...

23 December 2008
15:01 GMT

PlayStation Portable Gets Media Manager Update

Sony is working hard to make the PlayStation Portable, its handheld competitor for the Nintendo DS, a more nimble and easy to use piece of hardware. The new Media Manager update for it allows users to access the PlayStation Store from the PCs they own in order to better organize and synchronize the content that they ...

30 October 2008
05:02 GMT

Sony Hopes Digital Distribution Will Help the PSP

The recently released firmware update 5.0 for the PlayStation Portable from Sony is supposed to unleash a new wave of creativity related to the hardware platform. This is what Sony is saying through Zeno Colaco, vice president of the Publisher and Developer division at Sony Europe.  He stated that “Publish...

20 October 2008
06:13 GMT

PlayStation Portable Firmware 5.00 Detailed

Sony Computer Entertainment America is poised to release new firmware versions for both the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Portable later this month, augmenting the experience that users get from the two gaming consoles.The PSP will receive the 5.00 update, which will also be out on October 16, in Japan, and is su...

14 October 2008
05:15 GMT

PlayStation Store Update Comes with Premium Themes

The new update for the PlayStation Store arrives today and, if up until now it wasn't something that would really spark the interest of players, despite the classic new content like themes or icons, this time the developers are introducing a brand new feature, called Premium Themes. This new update will give Pla...

9 October 2008
02:33 GMT

Burnout Paradise Available on the PlayStation Network

Criterion says that Burnout Paradise is going to be available as a PlayStation Store purchase starting this Thursday, September 25. Every PlayStation 3 user will be able to get the game for 30 dollars. It seems that both Europe and North America will get the game at the same time.When you grab the game, you basicall...

25 September 2008
04:22 GMT

Siren: Blood Curse Dated and Priced

Sony Europe is announcing that Siren: Blood Curse has received a release date and a price. The episodic content game represents the reinvention of a successful PlayStation 2 survival horror title for the PlayStation 3.Because of the episodic nature of the game, it will be split up into four chapters, each consisting ...

9 July 2008
14:06 GMT

Judas Priest Bring Metal to Rock Band

After Motley Crue announced that they would release their Saints of Los Angeles single through Rock Band and after Def Leppard said that they would launch their new single through Guitar Hero on April 24, Judas Priest went one better in agreeing to release an entire album, long play, on Rock Band.Harmonix and MTV Gam...

21 April 2008
16:06 GMT

Playing the Metal Gear Online Beta Isn't Easy

The launch of Metal Gear Solid 4 and of its multiplayer companion, Metal Gear Online, has generated quite a bit of buzz lately. At first it was rumored that the Metal Gear Online beta would only be open for Japanese players, letting all others in the cold before the official launch of the game in June. Now it seems t...

18 April 2008
02:43 GMT

Will Europe Get Access to the Metal Gear Online Beta?

April 17 is the moment when the online beta phase for the highly anticipated Metal Gear Online launches. And there's a bit of panic going through European fans of Metal Gear because it seems that some, if not all, IP addresses from Europe are denied access to the beta site. Japanese based IP addresses do not see...

11 April 2008
18:06 GMT

PSN Store DRM Has Been Cracked

As always with crack and hack news, take this one with the proverbial grain of salt. Several sites from the "underground" of the Internet have begun reporting about the fact that the Digital Rights Management on the PlayStation Store titles that are exclusive to the PlayStation Portable has been cracked by some well ...

8 April 2008
06:43 GMT

PlayStation Store Upgrade Detailed

The PlayStation Store, part of the PlayStation Network, is getting a facelift in April. While rumors have been flying around since February, Sony has now made it official after the latest update to the Store was released late on Friday.The new redesigned look of the store will offer "better interface and easier navig...

1 April 2008
18:06 GMT

PlayStation Network Has a Security Breach

Sony has put up a warning on its PlayStation.com front page detailing a security breach that could affect users of the PlayStation Store, the main on-line sales service maintained by Sony and part of the PlayStation Network. The statement says the problem has already been solved and the security breach closed, but at...

27 March 2008
03:48 GMT

PlayStation Store to Get Facelifted in April?

April will definitely be one of the busiest months this year and I'd probably not overreact too much if I'd say one of the busiest months in the gaming history. Shadowed by the console war - Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3, to be more accurate - we're already receiving all the signs needed to understand tha...

27 February 2008
03:39 GMT

PS Store Subscription Service is Considered

Sounds good, but is it? A survey posted on the Asian PlayStation website includes the bold proposal of a monthly subscription plan for those using the PC-version of PlayStation Store. Given the truckload of PSone titles available on the Asian PlayStation Network, Japan might just say Yes!Yes dear gamers and fans of ...

7 January 2008
04:32 GMT

Free PlayStation Store Content Listed!

Two days before the Leipzing Games Convention we get a great treat, courtesy of PlayStation Store: a couple of trailers and demos, including the usual Heavenly Sword content, anime episodes and "Making of" videos. Before checking out the list below, you might want to know that its main highlights are the DiRT, Armou...

20 August 2007
06:26 GMT

Great Downloadable Games Coming from Nintendo Next Year

Wii owners had the chance to play many classic games, brought back to life by Nintendo thanks to its game download service. Many famous titles that rocked the NES, Genesis and TurboGrafX back in the days have made their way to the Virtual Console.Nintendo plans to offer the Wii gamers brand new titles, available for ...

20 August 2007
05:50 GMT

Ode to Sony - 'How You Killed Your Brand'. Video

It's all too familiar to everyone and especially PlayStation fans that Sony's kind of failing them more and more as they release a new game, console or make statements regarding their services. Sony has a good thing going with the still pricey PS3 and the services available with it, but they didn't exa...

29 March 2007
04:56 GMT


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