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Sony, the company which manufactures the PlayStation family of gaming devices and publishes video games for them, has launched a new and interesting bundle on the United Kingdom market, integrating a PlayStation 2 gaming console in a new 22 inch, 720p capable Bravia television set.
The Sony KDL22PX300 is said to b... |
6 December 2010
17:41 GMT |
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Hardware maker and video game publisher Sony has announced that it will be putting on sales a limited edition bundle of its PlayStation 2 home gaming console packed with Toy Story 3, the title created by Disney Interactive based on the popular movie series.The pairing between the PS2 and Toy Story 3 has a launch date... |
21 October 2010
04:32 GMT |
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The president and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe says that the PlayStation 3 has the potential to be the most successful console of the current generation and outlines plans for the future of the brand.Speaking at the Gamescom press conference of the company that executive, who joked th... |
18 August 2010
07:15 GMT |
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Since Final Fantasy XIII started out as a PlayStation 2 game, it's no surprise that it ended up staying in development for over five years, for it was eventually carried over to the PS3. And it seems like, while everybody at Square Enix is overjoyed with how well the title was received in Japan, as far as critic... |
9 February 2010
09:12 GMT |
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Gamers are rather sentimental beings and the first experiences they had with a console or with a series stick with them for quite some time. And it only makes sense for videogame publishers and developers to cash in on that nostalgia by offering them experiences that are similar to those in the past while allowing th... |
8 February 2010
14:51 GMT |
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A new Nielsen study is showing that 54% of the consumer base is owners of a home gaming console or of a handheld console. The 2010 Media Fact Sheet is also noting that dedicated PCs powerful enough to play modern titles get the percentage up to 73.Of these, no less than 23% are only owners of a portable gaming system... |
11 January 2010
15:11 GMT |
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If you live in Australia and you feel that you're being cheated by the delayed release of games and the censorship of the Australian Board, and the consequent banning of some violent titles, you don't have the right to complain about it anymore. Also, if you live in some other part of the world and feel in ... |
20 November 2009
05:34 GMT |
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Sony has released some new sales numbers for the PlayStation 2 home gaming console launched nine years ago this week. The Japanese manufacturer is saying that there are more than 140 million PS2 consoles sold to gamers all over the world, with one in three American households having one of them.The device is still be... |
29 October 2009
03:50 GMT |
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Konami has announced that it plans to release the new Dance Dance Revolution on the Nintendo Wii and the PlayStation 2 home-gaming console from Sony on October 27. The Wii version of the title will have Hottest Party 3 added to its name, while the PS3 version will be called X2. The overall library of Dance Dace Revo... |
22 October 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Kaz Hirai, who is the boss of Sony Computer Entertainment, is saying that the release of the PlayStation 3 Slim marks a new beginning for the console business of Sony and that the company will again become the leader of the videogaming market. The remarks were made to the Financial Times as part of a wide-ranging int... |
26 August 2009
03:54 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is one of the most powerful consoles currently on the market but, since it didn't have a terrific start because of too few games and a very high price, it is now trailing its other two rivals, Microsoft and Nintendo. One of the more interesting features that the console revealed when it was la... |
1 July 2009
03:06 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, a survey brought forth by Sony Computer Entertainment America about the upcoming God of War III game and its collector's edition generated a lot of speculation on the Internet. The reason was that one of the options that players could select to see in the CE of the very anticipated title was a B... |
6 May 2009
03:24 GMT |
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Comic books have been the source of inspiration for a lot of the entertainment industry's creations, ranging from movies to TV series or animated cartoons. Not even the gaming segment left the genre unexploited and a variety of titles based on comic books have appeared over the years. One of the most recent one... |
28 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 has seen a lot of versions appear, with some very different features contained by several of them, the most important one being the backwards compatibility, which has rendered the early consoles capable of playing PlayStation 2 games. Now, however, the PS3 doesn't have that option, which has ma... |
16 April 2009
03:20 GMT |
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At the moment, the big hardware and software creators active on the videogames market are focusing their efforts in territories like North America, Europe and Japan, trying to sell as many consoles and games as possible to those who have a culture of playing videogames for more than 20 years.But, demographically spea... |
16 April 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Shadow of the Colossus was one of the biggest (pun intended) titles for the PlayStation 2, as it introduced players to a great story and a fresh new type of gameplay in which the main character battled giant creatures known only as the colossi. Now, the game has re-entered the media spotlight as Sony announced it ha... |
13 April 2009
13:11 GMT |
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It's always nice to see numbers and charts showing how gaming is becoming more central to modern life and how bigger and bigger demographic groups are becoming interested in playing on a PC or a console. Nielsen has just put out a new report full of details, called “State of the Video Gamer,” which o... |
10 April 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Doom was a flop, both critically and financially. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li was an embarrassment for both the actors starring and those who produced the movie. Max Payne strayed so far from the videogame it was inspired from as to be unrecognizable by a gamer (and what did they do to Mona Sax?). Given the... |
8 April 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Sony is sending word that it is developing a new game in its Jak and Daxter series. The new title will be called The Lost Frontier and is mainly aimed at those gamers who are using a PlayStation Portable handheld from Sony.If you're not particularly interested in playing on the go, you can also get Jak and Daxte... |
2 April 2009
15:51 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii is a record-breaking console. It has totally rewritten the belief that new consoles need to be as powerful as ever in order to attract people. Because the company didn't follow the strategy of Microsoft or Sony, that of releasing powerful, high-definition devices, and focused on new concepts lik... |
2 April 2009
03:26 GMT |
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During the last few days, a flurry of rumors and speculations appeared on the Internet regarding Sony's big announcement, which was made yesterday. From the much awaited PlayStation 3 price cut to the introduction of new features for the PlayStation Portable to even the announcement of a new console, everyone be... |
1 April 2009
03:10 GMT |
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Sony has been a very successful company in terms of gaming over the time, but sadly, during the past two years, the market hasn't been under the Japanese company's domination, as the PlayStation 3 and PSP have achieved mediocre sales, being beaten by its local neighbor, Nintendo.Seeing how the PS3 is gettin... |
31 March 2009
03:21 GMT |
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On March 31, the fiscal year officially ends for Sony, the big game publisher and console manufacturer based in Japan. Taking into account the history of the company and some inside sources, there are reports suggesting that a big announcement will be made, in relation to its PlayStation brand of gaming dev... |
30 March 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that it has ended all support for the original Xbox, the first gaming console created by the company. Production of the platform was discontinued soon after the Xbox 360 was launched but Microsoft offered support to those who had bought the original machine. Now, the out of warranty services h... |
3 March 2009
15:11 GMT |
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The music game genre followed a very high ascending trend in the last year, as titles such as Rock Band or Guitar Hero opened a whole new world to gamers who are also into music. With the opportunity to play with their family and friends as the most famous bands out there, a lot of people purchased such games. But a... |
4 February 2009
03:46 GMT |
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Sony hasn’t had the greatest holiday season, as its PlayStation 3 console didn't register the same big sales that the company expected and fell well under the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360, its arch rivals. But things aren't all bad for the Japanese company, as the old PlayStation 2 is still selling s... |
15 January 2009
03:21 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii, the clear front runner of the current generation of consoles, is preparing to beat the numbers the PlayStation 2, the biggest last gen console, was posting back in 2002, two years after its release by Sony. This shows that despite the less than stellar performance of the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and ... |
6 January 2009
16:51 GMT |
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You know all the time we, the videogame oriented websites, spend talking about the Nintendo Wii, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft? Well, it might be a bit too much as media research company Nielsen just posted data showing that the Sony made last gen console PlayStation 2 is the most used i... |
5 January 2009
17:21 GMT |
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Looking at the numbers the NPD Group posted for November 2008, Sony executives must have had an ugly feeling. The PlayStation 3, the home console that competes with the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the Nintendo Wii, sold 378,000 units, which is less than half the sales of the Redmond giant’s console.Sony points ... |
16 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Sony is a giant of the Japanese industry and when the company sneezes, the whole country catches a cold. Well, there's sure to be an upsurge in the sales of tissues in Japan as Sony announced that, for the quarter which ends on September 30, profits took a 70% tumble. In a statement earlier in the month, the com... |
30 October 2008
19:41 GMT |
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Insomniac might not know it, but Sony are really pinning some big hopes on their latest effort, Resistance 2, the sequel to Fall of Man, the game which came out back in 2006 as a PlayStation 3 launch title. As the Xbox 360 is going to get an exclusive in Gears of War 2, Sony probably hopes that Resistance 2 wil... |
3 October 2008
08:11 GMT |
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Movies based on games don't have a very impressive track record. Most of the times, they just venture far away from the actual action it the game and the script writers use the characters in weird ways. In most cases, it's just an excuse for them not to develop other characters. A Max Payne movie is g... |
1 October 2008
03:36 GMT |
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The PlayStation 2 is quite a survivor, since, after dominating year after year the console market, it saw the launch of the next gen consoles, along with its bigger brother, the PlayStation 3. Although everybody thought that in a couple of months, a year tops, the once mighty consoles would become obsolete, it turns ... |
24 September 2008
12:01 GMT |
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Koei's most recent action game in the Dynasty Warriors franchise will make its way to PlayStation 2 consoles and PC systems too, following a successful release earlier this year on PS3 and Xbox 360. With these two new versions in sight, scheduled for a release on the 18th of November, Koei's game will certa... |
18 August 2008
12:06 GMT |
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We live in a full retro era, with classic titles being more appreciated than current-gen releases, which is not necessarily a bad thing. After all, some of today's games really deserve to be slapped by these classics since they seem to do everything wrong. SNK Playmore and Ignition Entertainment have teamed up i... |
11 August 2008
04:33 GMT |
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The RPG fans in Japan are already playing a great title from Atlus, called Poison Pink. In fact, the game was so successful in Asia that the developers have decided to give it a shot and release the title in the US, too. However, they wanted to change the name a little bit, to make it fit for the western markets and ... |
6 August 2008
05:22 GMT |
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Following the recent announcement that the PlayStation 3 division of Sony is expected to turn a profit by early 2009, the head of Sony, Kaz Hirai, revealed a more ambitious target for the gaming device. In an interview with the Financial Times, in which the manager talked about the future of the gaming console busine... |
22 July 2008
10:07 GMT |
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If you are one of the many people who enjoyed the movie Speed Racer, or one of the extremely numerous fans of the anime, you will definitely be excited to hear about Warner Bros' decision to release the video game version of the saga, too. However, unlike the two other episodes, Speed Racer: The Videogame will n... |
21 July 2008
02:42 GMT |
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Atlus is announcing that the launch date for its Persona 4 role playing game is set for December 9. The game, developed for the PlayStation 2, even if most of the mainstream titles tend to move to the PlayStation 3, is set in the same game world as Persona 3, with the action apparently taking place two years after th... |
9 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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If you remember well, we brought you a while ago the news regarding the release of a new PlayStation 2 model in Japan (a really nice red one, too) - and it was not at all a big surprise to find out that Sony does something "Japan only". It seems that we were wrong this time, though, since the company has just release... |
4 July 2008
12:06 GMT |
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Kids love the lazy cat, parents love it, too; so, we're not surprised to see video games taking advantage of the charismatic character to deliver us even more entertainment. The latest title to do so (especially for kids or for those who feel very young) is called Garfield: Lasagna World Tour developed by Conspi... |
30 June 2008
15:06 GMT |
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Probably, whenever you hear "women's volleyball", you think about sunny beaches and colorful bikinis but this time, we're talking about a sports game, not one which sells itself as a beauty contest. A game developed exclusively for the PlayStation 2, so really now, don't expect to see the true next gen... |
16 June 2008
17:06 GMT |
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The first thing that crosses your mind when you say Six Flags is "fun" because North America's Six Flags Inc. is one of the largest theme park companies. Thinking about it, you must agree that it was only a matter of time until a game developer decided to pop the question - and it has just happened. Brash Entert... |
16 June 2008
02:33 GMT |
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The people that are compiling the Gamer's Edition of the Guinness World Records Book are clearly hard at work because 2008 is set to be one of the most interesting and busy years of the videogame industry. A slew of great games is set to launch this year and there are records to be broken, either by man or by ga... |
6 June 2008
18:11 GMT |
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DFC Intelligence is a strategic market research and consulting firm that aims to present information regarding the evolution of the videogames market and the factors that shape it. In a new report out now they claim that it will take until 2011 for the current generation of consoles to reach the same installed base a... |
2 June 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has revealed that the Hasbro rights it has acquired are being used in the creation of a new videogame experience aimed at the whole family. After announcing that Monopoly would get a new videogame version, the producer is now unveiling the upcoming Hasbro Family Game Night.All the content in the game ... |
20 May 2008
14:21 GMT |
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In the last few days, a few of the major players have announced financial results for the fiscal year 2008, which ends on March 31. Electronic Arts surprised commentators with increased sales and revenue but also with some losses, while Sega Sammy, the parent company of Sega, blamed the world economic crisis for its ... |
15 May 2008
03:00 GMT |
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It might sound strange now, but PlayStation 2 exclusives are still being developed and - what matters most for us - really good games have hit the market for the last-gen console. One of the game developers that still has faith in the powers of the PS2 is Agetec and it has already announced Falling Stars, an RPG game... |
13 May 2008
04:23 GMT |
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The head of Sony Consumer Electronics Europe, David Reeves, has stated, at the PlayStation Day Europe event, that the PlayStation 3 has outsold the Microsoft Xbox 360 if one was to compare total numbers since the consoles launched on the European market. The PS3 from Sony just went over the 5 million sales mark.Reeve... |
8 May 2008
02:38 GMT |
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Rock Band and Guitar Hero, the two main competitors in the world of music simulation, have created a new market in the form of downloadable songs, which you can get online and then use in the game. It is estimated that the Rock Band DLC content has generated over 10 million song sales since the game was released in N... |
6 May 2008
03:58 GMT |
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