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While Sony thinks that the physical distribution of software, like DVDs and Blu-rays or boxed games, isn't going anywhere in the near future, Square Enix sees not just the opposite, but the very apocalypse of things with shape and form. Yoichi Wada, the chief of Square Enix, predicts that not only will physical ... |
27 November 2009
06:34 GMT |
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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 |
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With international releases, it's really hard for games to celebrate their birthdays. Born one day on one continent, and born on another one some place else make things rather confusing when one decides to blow their candles. Killzone might have been launched for the first time on November 2, 2004 for the PlaySt... |
25 November 2009
07:07 GMT |
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After being banned from Resistance: Fall of Man by Sony for being a repeat offender found guilty of trolling, Erik Estavillo sued the company for its unjust action. When the courtroom dismissed the case, he moved on to Microsoft and Nintendo, accusing that a broken Xbox 360 caused him undue stress and that a Wii syst... |
25 November 2009
05:01 GMT |
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For an upgrade to the original, the PSP Go doesn't add as many new things from the older model as it loses. The sliding screen is an extra, but so is the cost, and not all previous PSP releases are available to the platform. But the main thing it has lost is the UMD cartridge in favor of the PlayStation Store-on... |
24 November 2009
06:48 GMT |
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Sony's PlayStation 3 is becoming less and less of a gaming console with the introduction of all sorts of applications, but, recently, the platform has become even less of an entertainment system. Just last week, we saw that the PS3's Cell processor was being used by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcemen... |
24 November 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Barack Obama, the President of the United States, has launched an initiative called “Educate to Innovate”, aimed at getting more people interested in topics related to the so-called STEM, which is science, technology, engineering and math. And it seems that big companies with a presence in the videogaming... |
24 November 2009
05:30 GMT |
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Sony has set a target of selling 13 million PlayStation 3 gaming consoles during the course of this fiscal year and Kaz Hirai, who is an executive vice president of the Japanese company, is telling the media that he is very confident that his company will surpass that number of devices sold.During the last fiscal yea... |
24 November 2009
03:49 GMT |
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Sony has announced that it has plans to expand the PlayStation Network service, which is at the moment free to all those who own a PlayStation 3 video game console and have an Internet connection, by creating something provisionally called the Sony Online Service. It will require a paid subscription and will offer co... |
23 November 2009
13:31 GMT |
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3D seems to be the next huge thing in videogaming, with more and more developers thinking about offering game experiences which rely on special television sets and on special glasses to add a lot more depth. And Sony, which is manufacturing the television sets with 3D technology, is saying that adding it to the PlayS... |
23 November 2009
05:28 GMT |
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Sony is having a very good week on the home Japanese market with the PlayStation family taking the two top spots in the hardware charts, for the first time in quite some time, and soundly beating the Nintendo duo of handheld and home console. In the software charts, J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 6 from SEGA is... |
23 November 2009
04:39 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 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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