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Sony Releases the $450-Plus PlayStation 2

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

Firmware Update 6.20 Launched for the PlayStation Portable

Sony has released the 6.20 firmware update for the PlayStation Portable handheld, introducing quite a few new features to a platform that has been usually beaten in sales by the Nintendo made DS and DSi and could use some unique capabilities.Users will be able to upgrade as soon as they turn on their consoles and Son...

20 November 2009
03:41 GMT

Sony, EA, Disney and Ubisoft Are Charged with Copyright Infringements

Ever since the broadband Internet became a household appliance, games have begun to rely more and more on it. So much so that some have even lost the single-player element altogether and now rely on the online community the titles scored to keep themselves alive. Most online games encourage in one way or another a st...

18 November 2009
04:36 GMT

Sega Is Working on a Patch to Fix Bayonetta's Loading Time Issues on the PS3

The PlayStation 3 version of Bayonetta really got shafted, especially compared with the Xbox 360 one. On Sony's console, the game suffered from a lot of issues, including choppy framerates, lesser graphics and, not to be cast aside, the prolonged loading times. As it has been mentioned by a dedicated fan of the ...

18 November 2009
03:19 GMT

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time is a fitting end (if it is really the end, hard to know when it comes to such a long running and interesting series) to the adventures of the very unusual duo of a Lombax and a sentient robot.The first installment in the series arrived in November 2002 and just seven years...

17 November 2009
05:02 GMT

AdHocParty Coming to North American PSP Consoles

Sony has announced that it is planning to introduce online multiplayer capabilities to those titles for the PSP that only had ad hoc connectivity. The service, called AdHocParty, has been running in Japan for about one year and is set to debut in North America at some point later in November or in early December. The...

17 November 2009
04:18 GMT

Uncharted 2 Will Change PlayStation 3 Gaming

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves from Naughty Dog and Sony has managed to top the NPD Group chart for the month of October, beating out other titles that were also released for the Xbox 360 or for the Nintendo Wii.The game has been praised, with the Softpedia review not being an exception, for the quality of its graphics, ...

17 November 2009
03:30 GMT

A Teenager Was Kidnapped and Forced At Gunpoint to Buy a PS3

The universe is a vast and mysterious, endless patch of knowledge. But somehow, all that the Earth got was an endless batch of incredibly confused and disturbed individuals. As far as fantasy goes, movies, books and all other forms of entertainment usually depict criminals as the greatest masterminds of human history...

16 November 2009
16:31 GMT

Ken Kutaragi, the 'Father of the PlayStation' Has Founded His Own Company

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

The PlayStation 3 Can Do Everything, Even Catch Criminals

You may find it confusing at times why exactly people don't refer to the PlayStation 3 or to the Xbox 360 as their just being gaming consoles. Well, that's because they can do so much more than just run games. As it turns out, the PS3, among all the other things it can do, can convict criminals. The way in ...

16 November 2009
04:59 GMT

Nintendo Still Has an Edge

Nintendo is the biggest winner of the current console generation, with its Wii home console managing to consistently beat the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 when it comes to sales, despite having less storage space and a less powerful graphics engine, thanks to the impressive and forward looking motion tracking contr...

16 November 2009
03:46 GMT

Facebook Also Coming to the PlayStation 3

Microsoft has been making a lot of marketing noise lately in relation to the coming update for the Xbox 360 home gaming console, which is set to introduce social services, like Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm, to those who are paying for the Xbox Live Gold subscription. The company hopes that the introduction of the s...

12 November 2009
13:01 GMT

Project Natal Could Arrive in November 2010, Priced as Low as £50

Microsoft first announced its Project Natal at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in June, but it was rather unspecific regarding how close the project was to its finalization. Neither a release date nor any details regarding how much it might cost have been offered as of yet. The camera-sensing motion technology was ...

12 November 2009
03:48 GMT

Visually Impaired Gamer Sues Sony over Video Games

Sometimes, people try to bite more than they can chew and then complain about the sore jaw. One such person could be Alexander Stern. The gamer suffers from a visual impairment and yet insists that he not only play video games, which is a God-given right to anybody, but that Sony make its games more accessible for th...

9 November 2009
05:41 GMT

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford Stands Up To Sony

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has another bone to pick with Valve, and, this time, it's about Left 4 Dead. He didn't point any eye-gouging fingers towards Chet Faliszek and his kick below the belt at the PlayStation 3, but he strongly criticized the zombie-shooter's developer for its stance regarding Son...

9 November 2009
04:42 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

Sony Got Sued over 3.00 and 3.01 Firmware Updates

Firmware updates for the consoles allow the manufacturer to keep its products up to current standards and make all sorts of small improvements and tweaks. As the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii showed, the firmware updates kept the platforms alive for a longer period of time and made sure they were not becoming outd...

5 November 2009
03:21 GMT

PlayStation 3 Focus Hurt the PSP

The recent focus on the PlayStation 3, with the redesign process beginning in 2008 and with the recent launch of the Slim version and the price cut, has been detrimental to the health of the PlayStation Portable as a viable gaming platform. Now, Sony is aiming to shift focus to its mobile gaming platform and challeng...

4 November 2009
04:28 GMT

Ultimate Edition for God of War III Brings New Arena, Pandora's Box

Sony has announced that it plans to release an Ultimate Edition version of God of War III, the action title set to be launched early in 2010, as a PlayStation 3 exclusive and is expected to attract quite a lot of players to the said console.Players who will pick up the Ultimate Edition should get an art book showing ...

3 November 2009
14:11 GMT

The PSP Go Has a Body Count for Its First Day of Sales

The PlayStation Portable received a lot of attention from Sony this year, with a lot of promotions and special offers, but that didn't lead to an increase in total sales. According to the financial report for the April-September period, the company revealed that the PSP sold less than it had done the past year. ...

3 November 2009
13:01 GMT

Sony Selects SanDisk's pSSD Gen2 SSD for VAIO X Ultraportable

SanDisk, one of the world's leading vendors of flash memory cards, has just announced that Sony, a leading merchandiser of portable computer systems, has selected the SanDisk pSSD Gen2 solid state drive to be incorporated into the company's line of ultra-thin VAIO X laptops. According to the Milpitas,...

3 November 2009
10:20 GMT

Magic: The Gathering Comes to the PC and PS3

Sony Online Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast LLC have announced an agreement to collaborate on developing a videogame called Magic: The Gathering – Tactics, which is set to be released on the PC and on the PlayStation 3 at some point in 2010.The aim of the project is to bring the same mechanics and fellin...

3 November 2009
07:40 GMT

Sony Unveils the VAIO Nebula FW Laptop

Buying a laptop has become an increasingly easier decision for computer users, especially given the high number of new models, form factors and configurations that have recently been launched on this ever-expanding market. On this note, Sony has decided to expand its line of portable VAIO systems with the introductio...

3 November 2009
04:36 GMT

PlayStation 3 Sales Rise, Sony Still Loses Money

Sony has announced a loss for the second fiscal quarter of the year and lower revenue but overall sales of the PlayStation 3 home gaming console have gone up by 33% because of the price cut that kicked in and because of the better value for money of the new Slim version of the device.For the quarter that ended on Sep...

3 November 2009
02:33 GMT

PlayStation 3 Wand, a New Platform for Videogames

It seems that Sony has great plans for the new motion tracking controller, shaped like a wand, set to be released at some point during the spring of 2010. Far from seeing it as only an add-on that can offer some players a new way of controlling their experience, the company sees the new device, which has not yet rece...

2 November 2009
15:51 GMT

Pete Edwards Was Misquoted Regarding His Intentions for the PlayStation Home

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

Sony Recalls About 69,000 Vaio Adapters

It's a known fact that Sony has had a series of mishaps with a number of its laptop batteries in the past, with the company being forced to issue recalls for those affected models. Just last year, Sony batteries powering systems from the likes of HP, Dell and Toshiba were recalled, with 19 reports of batteries o...

29 October 2009
06:24 GMT

The PlayStation 2 Is Nine Years Old

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

Xbox Live Gold Won't Change Its Fee to Deal with the Competition

Now with Netflix coming to the PlayStation 3, it seems like Microsoft is about to lose yet another exclusivity. So, the normal course of action would be to think of a way to sweeten the deal for the Xbox Live Gold membership that offers the service on its console. And maybe it is, who's to tell no. Well, Microso...

28 October 2009
12:01 GMT

God of War Collection Arrives on November 17, Trophies Revealed

Sony has officially confirmed that the God of War Collection release is coming on November 17 and has also put out a list of all the PlayStation 3 Trophies that gamers will be able to earn by playing the two titles included in it. The Collection is set to allow them to get through the two previous titles in the Krato...

28 October 2009
08:41 GMT

It's Official, Netflix Will Come to the PlayStation 3

Rumors have been flying around that Netflix streaming will soon come to a new device. The stories were true, and the lucky winner is the PlayStation 3. Yesterday, the official announcement was made by both companies, Sony and Netflix, and now the console is receiving the final preparations required. Netflix will beco...

26 October 2009
18:01 GMT

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Kill. Climb. Love. Take down a helicopter from the rooftops. Battle a tank on the streets of a Himalayan village. Get a giant dagger to stab the heart of a millennium-old statue. Climb on a train as it plummets into a crevasse. Save the love of your life from a mass murder. Steal from a Turkish museum. Get betrayed (...

23 October 2009
07:05 GMT

Windows 7-Powered Sony VAIO X-Series Hands-On

Early this September, at the IFA 2009 show, in Berlin, Germany, Sony, one of the world's largest vendors of consumer electronics and computing products, announced a couple of new additions to its line of VAIO laptops, including a more interesting model in the form of the VAIO X, touted as the “world's...

23 October 2009
06:20 GMT

Hands-on with Sony's VAIO W Netbook

With Windows 7 freshly launched, several  PC vendors have updated their product portfolios with new solutions designed to provide consumers with full support for the latest operating system. Such is the case with Sony, which has recently announced its product lineup for this fall, with new models designed with t...

23 October 2009
05:02 GMT

Sony Patents a Brand-New 'Hand Held Game Controller'

Sony have put together a brand-new device and they've already filed the patent for the invention. The tip is brought by Siliconera and Sony's newest masterpiece appears to be some sort of game controller. The PlayStation 3 gadget is designed to be a one-hand device and any other details regarding it are vir...

22 October 2009
04:33 GMT

PixelJunk Monsters Heavily Pirated on the PSP

The leader of Q-Games, Dylan Cuthbert, seems determined not to bring more of his companies videogames to the PlayStation Portable for fear that piracy will lead sales of the titles to be so low as not to justify the effort made.At the moment, PixelJunk Monsters has been released on the Sony handheld and appears to be...

21 October 2009
07:25 GMT

Spin Cycle: Sony Is Redefining Entertainment

Sony was, undoubtedly, the company that had most to celebrate when the NPD Group sales figures for September were released. The PlayStation 3 managed to sell almost half a million consoles during the month, significantly more than the Xbox 360 and even more than the Nintendo Wii, and with three PS3 games breaking int...

20 October 2009
15:11 GMT

Green Arrow and Green Lantern Confirmed for DC Universe Online

Sony has announced that both The Green Arrow and The Green Lantern are confirmed as appearing in DC Universe Online, the MMO that is being developed for both the PlayStation 3 and the PC and set to be launched in 2010. The company has released images of both characters as they will be encountered in the videogame by ...

20 October 2009
04:17 GMT

God of War Collection Back on Track

Not so long ago, Sony announced the God of War Collection, a pack that would include God of War I and God of War II as well as a demo for God of War III. The title was soon plagued by rumors of delays, and word that the package would no longer become available this year began to spread amongst the gamers. But Sony ha...

19 October 2009
15:31 GMT

Sony Brings Halloween to its MMOs

Sony Online Entertainment has announced a host of events set to be introduced in MMOs like the Everquest pair, Legends of Norrath, Star Wars Galaxies and Free Realms as Halloween approaches. The biggest events should take place in Free Realms, the free-to-play MMO that Sony launched this year. The Super Spooktaculer ...

19 October 2009
14:31 GMT

SOCOM Receives Very Generous DLC

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

A 250GB PlayStation 3 Slim Will Come Out in November

Yet another PlayStation 3 version is about to hit the market. The new SKU's hard drive is more than twice the size of the older one but thankfully it's not twice the price as well. The new product is a 250GB edition of the PlayStation 3 Slim, it will become available on November 3 and will cost $349. It...

16 October 2009
07:45 GMT

Xbox 360 Will Dominate This Hardware Generation

The NPD Group sales numbers for September will not be coming out until Monday but the various console manufacturers have already begun putting out statements related to the order in which the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii will arrive. Microsoft seems determined to preempt the expected dominance of ...

16 October 2009
03:04 GMT

PlayStation 3 to Soon Get Cross Game Voice Chat

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, the latest adventure starring Nathan Drake created by Naughty Dog and published by Sony, has been making the news lately on account of its beautiful graphics, intense firefights and interesting plot. Unfortunately for the developers, Sony might send them to the doghouse for a day or two be...

15 October 2009
16:41 GMT

Motion Comic Prequel Announced for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

It seems that Sony, the publisher, and Naughty Dog, the developer studio, are really keen on making sure that Uncharted 2 attracts as many players as possible. Taking a page out of the book of Electronic Arts, the two are trying to expand the appeal of the videogame by delivering content related to it via a new motio...

14 October 2009
16:21 GMT

Another Infamous Game May Be in Development

Infamous proved to be a great game and, like any good company, Sony won't let any opportunity go to waste. Cole, the protagonist of the game, received very decent voice acting and even if the voice actor wasn't showered with compliments, he didn't really receive any complaints either. Still, it seems h...

14 October 2009
06:23 GMT

PSP Go Has a Fundamental Concept Problem

Regie Fills-Aime, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Nintendo of America, has launched scathing attacks on the various devices that are trying to position themselves as being rivals to the company's Nintendo DS handheld. The company man touted the advantages of the platform, which at the moment leads the mark...

13 October 2009
15:41 GMT

Beta Stage for MAG Expanded to Accomodate More Players

Sony, as the publisher, and Zipper Interactive, as the developer, are announcing that they are expanding the amount of gamers who can get into the beta stage of MAG or Massive Action Game, their multiplayer shooter set to offer complex team-based and objective-oriented battles for up to 256 players.The new stage is s...

13 October 2009
13:31 GMT

Sony Is Working on a PlanetSide Sequel

PlanetSide has operated as a solo name for quite some time now. Sony Online Entertainment haven't announced any new titles in the successful series but they did show signs that they planned to add another name to the franchise. In the last days of September Sony issued a request towards former and active PlanetS...

13 October 2009
04:49 GMT

PSP Go Launches in Japan, DSi Still on Top

Sony released its new handheld, the PlayStation Portable Go, in Japan last week while also taking down the price of the older PSP-3000, which resulted in a series growth for the line. Still, the Nintendo DSi managed to be the biggest seller of the week, moving no less than 53,293 units. The Sony-made PSP only shipped...

12 October 2009
14:21 GMT


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