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Before the PlayStation 3 could be what it is today, it had to surpass a lot of obstacles, and it's none other than the very "Father of the PlayStation" that helped it get past those mounds of adversity. But Ken Kutaragi is no longer part of Sony, after he stepped down from the SCE Group executive position in 200... |
16 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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It seems that Pete Edwards was horribly misunderstood when he talked about his view on the PlayStation Home at the moment and what his plans of development were for it. Sony felt the need to clarify the general impression that was flying around after the director of the PS Home had been misquoted as saying that Home ... |
2 November 2009
07:54 GMT |
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PS3 Media Server is, as its name suggests, a multimedia server that is designed to interface with the PlayStation 3 gaming console. You install it on a computer that is on the same network with the PS3 and, thanks to the Digital Living Network Alliance-compliant Universal Plug and Play support in both the console and... |
30 October 2009
11:05 GMT |
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A little under a week has passed since SOCOM: Confrontation turned one year old in North America. We need to mention its specific age for different areas on the globe because even though games tend to be exactly the same, their age varies depending on the different economical profile the country fits. This is mainly ... |
19 October 2009
09:31 GMT |
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A lot of eyes have been cast upon Metal Gear Solid these past couple of years, but this is not the only popular franchise Kojima Productions has. During August's GamesCom the official European PlayStation blog listed an entry with Hideo Kojima regarding future plans. Among the other things mentioned, the game de... |
16 October 2009
04:45 GMT |
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Tekken 6 has been around as a project since 2005, when it was announced at the same time as Sony's PlayStation 3. Four years have passed, and it seems like the game is finally ready for the audience. Namco Bandai announced on Friday that they'd finished developing the game for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStati... |
12 October 2009
13:31 GMT |
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A new title in the Resistance series was pretty much inevitable, and it seems Insomniac doesn't plan on fighting that which should be done. But the way in which they decided to make their new project known to the world is indeed interesting, if not just plain odd. In Shreveport, Louisiana the movie Battle: Los A... |
12 October 2009
06:12 GMT |
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PlayStation Home are about to extend their portfolio with two new environments. The brand-new spaces will be inspired by Rachet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time and Uncharted 2 and they'll bring a whole new series of minigames and prizes. According to PlayStation Home director Jack Buser this update to the social... |
12 October 2009
03:04 GMT |
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The 16GB PSP Go gets a final price of $250 for the October 1 launch at just $50 dollars short of the 160GB PlayStation 3 Slim. To promote the product, Sony Computer Entertainment America will make available for the launch over 16,000 items PSP Go-compatible in the form of 13,300 television episodes and 2,300 movies. ... |
29 September 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Just a little bit late, six months to be precise, to share the hype generated by the movie, Little Big Planet gets a Watchmen pack. Media Molecule has put together a costume pack for the sackboys of the game, which will become available this Thursday and will be made up of depictions for four of the super heroes. Sil... |
29 September 2009
03:33 GMT |
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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 |
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The holidays edition of God of War will also include the God of War III demo. As part of an E3 exclusive presentation, the GoW III demo wasn't supposed to be given to the fans anytime soon, but it seems Sony gave in to the demands of the fans. The game will be part of the Collection as a voucher code that will a... |
24 September 2009
03:33 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson announced a while back the launch of a series of new entertainment-oriented mobile phones, among which we had the chance to spot the Sony Ericsson Aino. The said device might be gearing up for a release stateside, it seems, as it has just passed through FCC's hal... |
3 September 2009
09:23 GMT |
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There are a lot of development studios out there, but one of the most respected is id Software, which is behind glorious franchises like Doom, Quake or Wolfenstein, all of which shaped the way shooters and games are played today. One of the main innovators from the studio is John Carmack, who has charted a big amoun... |
14 August 2009
02:43 GMT |
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The gaming industry is huge these days, and it certainly is proving to be very successful in fending off the negative aspects of the worldwide recession. Even though most of the companies involved are recording losses these days, things aren't as bad as in other areas of the industry. But this trend won't ... |
4 August 2009
02:22 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is the most powerful console of this current generation, costing Sony a lot of money to develop and to market. But while the platform has a lot of aces up its sleeve, from online functionality to a lot of exclusive games, most of the customers are still put off by its high price tag, ranging around ... |
3 August 2009
13:01 GMT |
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It seems that Palm's Pre mobile phone can attract a lot of people after all, although its sales have been easily surpassed by the Apple iPhone 3GS. ZodTTD, one of the popular names on the emulation scene, has managed to come up with a version of psx4all for the newly launched device, making it possible to enjoy ... |
1 July 2009
06:06 GMT |
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The NPD Group has offered the data for sales of videogame hardware and software in the United States for the month of May and it's not looking too good. Year over year, the videogames industry actually registered a slump in sales of 23%, the worst seen this year. Of course, part of this is because of the strong ... |
12 June 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Sony is a huge corporation involved in creating electronics for a wide variety of markets, and a segment that the Japanese company has invested in quite heavily is the gaming one, where its PlayStation brand is pretty powerful and reputed. Sadly, sales aren't confirming that, as the flagship PlayStation 3 is lo... |
5 June 2009
02:34 GMT |
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The NPD Group has released its sales data for April and it seems that the value of the videogames market is at the moment a little over 1 billion dollars. Overall, the videogames industry slid 17% when compared with the same period of 2008. However, readers must keep in mind that April 2008 saw an increase of almost ... |
15 May 2009
18:21 GMT |
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Gamers can be found everywhere and almost anywhere around the world. Even though most of them can be found on a comfy sofa in their living room or at a desk while playing their favorite titles on their platforms of choice, we can also find them in prisons, as criminals who have nothing better to do. But even though ... |
14 May 2009
15:01 GMT |
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A PlayStation-branded phone has been rumored to come to the market for quite a while now, years maybe, though there has been no strong proof that such a device might actually be unveiled to the world, not until Sony Ericsson's president Hideki Komiyama stated in a recent interview with Financial Times that such ... |
11 May 2009
02:51 GMT |
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Each month the NPD group shares with us its sales charts, which track how hardware and software moves across the territory of the United States of America. Even though these charts make some companies look good while others bad, you can be sure that their PR departments will certainly spin these numbers to make it lo... |
21 April 2009
16:41 GMT |
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There are a lot of PlayStation and Sony fans out there. They can brag about owning every type of product the Japanese company has ever made, and are devoted to purchasing every piece of merchandise related to either the consoles, electronics or games that Sony produces, but it seems that they will need to start savin... |
7 April 2009
11:21 GMT |
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Last week we've seen the NPD hardware charts arrive from the famous market research firm. The results weren't very shocking, as the hierarchy is the same as in the last few months, with Nintendo's Wii dominating its opponents, and the Xbox 360 having the upper hand on the PlayStation 3. But things are... |
23 March 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has just announced that it has signed an agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment in regard to the famous PlayStation 3 gaming console and NVIDIA's own PhysX technology. According to the agreement between the two companies, the binary version of the PhysX software developme... |
17 March 2009
10:30 GMT |
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Nintendo has announced that the DS, the handheld gaming platform it produces, has just gone over the 100 million units sold mark. Although the company does not know exactly where the unit that pushed the Nintendo DS over the milestone was sold, Nintendo says that it happened on March 6. Presumably, a few thousand DS ... |
12 March 2009
15:21 GMT |
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Gaming has begun to play a bigger and bigger role in our daily life these days, but it seems that it has impacted our way of life so hard that doctors at the Geneva University Hospital in Switzerland have decided to name a skin disease in “honor” of Sony's PlayStation console brand. That's righ... |
25 February 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Hardware sales have been registering a small increase on the Japanese market, while videogame sales are quickly rebounding to levels not seen since Christmas with the launch of various new titles building on already established franchises.The Nintendo DS handheld is still the best sold gaming console, registering an ... |
9 February 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Intel's upcoming Larrabee chip is getting closer by the day, at least from what the few details available at this time are pointing out. This is probably the reason why in the upcoming months you will be able to read a number of articles based on various rumors and speculations regarding Intel's first graph... |
9 February 2009
08:38 GMT |
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It seems that the global recession has an impact on the entire industry, since not even the gaming segment can dodge its effects and still maintain a profit. After big gaming companies like Electronic Arts or Microsoft have or are planning to employ some major layoffs in their teams, it seems that Sony will confirm a... |
22 January 2009
15:10 GMT |
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It's clear that the Japanese videogame market, both in its hardware and software incarnations, is pretty different from the Western one. So, it makes sense for Sony, a console developer currently manufacturing and selling the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 2 and the PlayStation Portable handheld, and game publis... |
4 December 2008
03:44 GMT |
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Resident Evil 4 was a great game that pushed the boundaries of all the consoles it was launched on to new heights and set benchmarks for other titles that would appear on the GameCube or the PlayStation 2. It was met with very big critical acclaim having won numerous awards and praised for the creativity and the inno... |
24 October 2008
03:50 GMT |
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India is surely riding the big wave of development which is spreading in the region. With a fabulous ten times growth in domestic sales and a blooming economy, the Asian country is becoming a very attractive market for international companies. With many tricks up its sleeve, like cheap work force and great pote... |
19 September 2008
05:32 GMT |
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One of the most exciting game projects to be announced by Sony was DC Universe Online, an MMO game for the PC that can also be played on PlayStation 3 consoles. Although there are no details (not even rumors) on a release date, the development of the title is clearly going on well since the people working on it have ... |
11 August 2008
04:27 GMT |
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Do you feel you're intellectually challenged when playing Gears of War? Do you ever feel too stupid for today's games? Are you, in fact, tired from pushing all those buttons on the expensive controller that came with the overpriced console and which apparently is targeted at some rather inept individuals on... |
11 July 2008
20:06 GMT |
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Every day or so some political figure is ready to make a fool of themselves and mock the intelligence of their audience by claiming something outrageous about videogames. Most of these figures and their statements are not brought to the public's attention but sometimes someone important enough does or says somet... |
26 June 2008
20:31 GMT |
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The world's 17 best fighters begin their final phases of preparation for entering the Fifth World Fighting Tournament. They must not repeat their prior mistakes and achieve mind, body and soul steadiness. However, J6, the organization funding the tournament, has other intentions with this contest and the company... |
26 June 2008
09:33 GMT |
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Besides the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein successfully intuited a natural social law: the level of intelligence on this planet is a constant, but our population continues to grow. Maybe the statement is so obvious that we can actually interpret it like an axiom (a proposition that is not proved or demonstrate... |
20 June 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Activision is reporting that it is entering an agreement with developer System 3 regarding distribution of its videogame Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli on the North American market. The game is currently in development for the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 2, the Nintendo Wii and the DS.Mark Cale, Chief Executive ... |
9 June 2008
03:19 GMT |
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How does a rich football club get even richer? It signs deals in which it lends its good name to a number of different products and collects a whole lot of money for that. While we, the customers, get access to all kind of branded goods, from bicycles to, obviously, football gear (or soccer gear if you're North ... |
10 April 2008
19:11 GMT |
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Enterbrain, a company that specializes in the analysis of the Japanese hardware and software market, has released its findings related to the evolution of the videogames market over the fiscal year that has just ended on March 30. While not mind-blowing the figures suggest clear, sustained growth.The combined sales o... |
4 April 2008
03:40 GMT |
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Janco Partners is seeing the videogame industry as one of the few in the United States that is not currently affected - and will not be affected - in the future by the economic downturn that's currently in full swing. According to Mike Hickey, analyst with Janco, the company estimates that gaming software sales,... |
2 April 2008
16:06 GMT |
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MotoGP is something all testosterone-based living beings can love. It's got horse power, a lot of highly skilled pilots, it's very fast paced and there's plenty of drama involved. And don't forget the crashes. Man, those guys can really take hits to the head (I guess the helmet really helps there)... |
31 March 2008
19:06 GMT |
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KBC Securities Japan has recently downgraded the financial rating of games giant Nintendo, saying that it expects the sales of hardware like the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS to fall after the record numbers that the company has recently released. Being Japanese-based, KBC is in a unique position to monitor Nintendo&#... |
24 March 2008
06:20 GMT |
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Not since the launch of Sid Meier's Pirates! has the pirate impersonation genre hit success. Although the Pirates of the Caribbean movies created huge expectations for the games, they quickly turned out to be disappointments. So, it's about time for a new company to try and cash in on the whole pirate mania... |
17 March 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Phil Harrison, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, will quit his job by the end of the month, an official press release states. He will be replaced with immediate effect by Kazuo Hirai, President and Group CEO of SCEI. The resignation reasons are unclear right now and they seem to stay that wa... |
25 February 2008
05:27 GMT |
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2K Games has announced that the console exclusive title, developed by Firaxis and available for the Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and PlayStation 3, will be released on June 3, 2008. For the first time ever, the franchise moves away from the PC, after the success of Civilization 4 and its two expansions, Warlords and Beyond ... |
21 February 2008
05:28 GMT |
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It was a reason of sadness for most of the PS3 fans when they found out that they were going to be unable to play PlayStation 2 classic games on their next-gen consoles. This backwards compatibility was dropped with the introduction of the 40GB PlayStation 3 and, since then, nobody thought that Sony could change thei... |
14 February 2008
05:05 GMT |
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In the Summer of 2007, rumors about a Sony Ericsson PSP mobile phone have appeared, allowing both Sony Ericsson and PlayStation fans to hope that, someday, a device that combines the two brands' technologies could really exist. Since then, the PSP handset was confirmed, denied and almost confirmed again, so it ... |
30 January 2008
04:18 GMT |
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