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Video game publisher and hardware maker Sony has announced that it plans to launch the biggest ever marketing campaign linked to the video game console in order to promote the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld before and during its first few weeks after launch.
John Koller, who is the hardware marketing director wo... |
14 February 2012
19:51 GMT |
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A representative from video game publisher Electronic Arts has revealed that the upcoming action and role-playing mix Mass Effect 3 from BioWare is set to get tie-ins that will be available on both handhelds and on mobile devices.
EA has mentioned the new games linked to the Mass Effect universe in a number of quart... |
3 February 2012
04:18 GMT |
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The developers at Genius Sonority, who are well known for their work on Nintendo-made handheld devices, have announced that they plan to launch a new 3DS title that will use the much-touted Augmented Reality features of the device.
The game is called Radio Wave People and will challenge the player to collect a numbe... |
2 February 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Video game hardware maker and publisher Nintendo has announced that the Pearl Pink version of the Nintendo 3DS handheld will be launched as a standalone product on the United States market on February 10.
The new hardware will cost those interested 169.99 dollars (129 Euro) and it is already offered on European mark... |
1 February 2012
12:11 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita is rapidly approaching its late February release date and Sony has now revealed two special deals it will be running at that time. These focus on the 3G version of the handheld console by offering free accessories, like memory cards, as well as a free game and free AT&T mobile internet access. T... |
30 January 2012
15:51 GMT |
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What we know:
The Katamari series is a perfect example of the kind of gameplay that only Japanese developers could dream and then create.
The series launched on the PlayStation 2 in 2004 and has since then appeared on the iOS powered devices, the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation 3, and now Namco Bandai has also brou... |
27 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Nintendo might have posted a series of financial results for the last nine months of 2011 that were below expectations and included losses, but the company was proud to announce that the much-maligned 3DS handheld was now the fastest selling product that the company has ever launched worldwide.Satoru Iwata, the presi... |
27 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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Telecom company AT&T announced that it had changed the pricing for the 3G data services for the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld from Sony.
The smallest plan is still a 250 MB traffic limited one for 30 days, which will sell for 15 dollars (11.6 Euro), but a plan that was set to sell for 25 dollars (20.6 Euro) wit... |
24 January 2012
04:16 GMT |
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Video game publisher SEGA has released a new trailer for Super Monkey Ball Banana Splitz, one of its upcoming PlayStation Vita titles, alongside the image that will serve as the cover.The game is a platformer which uses a number of time travel mechanics in order to allow the player close control over his chosen chara... |
16 January 2012
05:56 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Sony has launched a small firmware update for the PlayStation Vita handheld device in Japan, bringing it up to version 1.52.The company seems to have been forced to launch the small update in order to fix a problem which was introduced via firmware patch 1.51 which made han... |
16 January 2012
04:48 GMT |
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Sony is set to execute its biggest marketing campaign ever, ahead of the release of the PlayStation Vita at the end of February. The PlayStation Vita is eagerly awaited by quite a lot of gamers all around the world, with plenty of people being attracted by its hardware capabilities, the array of games that will appe... |
11 January 2012
03:12 GMT |
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Kaz Hirai, who is the leader of the consumer products division at video game publisher and hardware developer Sony, has officially announced that, at the moment, the sales numbers for new the PlayStation Vita handheld stand at just over 500,000.This is the exact number of devices that Sony has shipped to retail chain... |
10 January 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Rayman Origins, the colorful side scrolling platformer that was released late last year on the PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii, is making its way onto the Nintendo 3DS in March. Rayman Origins was Ubisoft’s attempt at reviving its classic Rayman franchise, using its UbiArt technology, which recreates stunning hand-drawn ... |
9 January 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Dedicated mobile gaming platforms like the already launched Nintendo 3DS or the upcoming PlayStation Vita might achieve impressive sales throughout the year, but M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon believes they’ll still be affected by other mobile devices like phones or tablets.
Many years ago, the only way to ... |
4 January 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Video game hardware creator and game publisher Nintendo has announced that with 4 million units moved on the United States market during the whole of 2011 the 3DS handheld is now better performing, for a nine month period, than the Wii home console was on launch.Despite the good sales performance, especially after th... |
4 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Nintendo seems to be interested in keeping up the momentum of the Nintendo 3DS handheld not just by launching new video games for it but by also adding new features that have been so far linked to smartphones and tablets, like eReader capabilities.A source inside Nintendo has talked to fan site ForgetTheBox and state... |
4 January 2012
04:14 GMT |
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BioWare, the studio responsible for huge games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, or the more recent Star Wars: The Old Republic, has said that it’s still exploring the mobile gaming industry, with one member of its team being tasked with spotting “logical extensions” of its franchises into this area.
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3 January 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Developer and publisher TikGames has announced that it is working on a new action arcade game called Stick Man Rescue that will be launched on the PlayStation Portable handheld using the Mini program from Sony.The game allows players to pilot a troop transport copter through a number of levels littered with danger, t... |
3 January 2012
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2012 is the year when the PlayStation Portable Vita from Sony is finally launched in both North America and Europe and this might actually mean that the Nintendo 3DS, a device that has enjoyed a good period lately, might face some tough times.Colin Sebastian, who is an analyst watching the video game industry for Bai... |
29 December 2011
04:16 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita has just been released in Japan and Sony has now revealed just how the features of the new device are being showcased to new customers, thanks to a group of minigames that are part of a ‘Welcome Park’ collection.
The PlayStation Vita is, at least according to Sony, the most advanced ... |
28 December 2011
14:31 GMT |
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The Nintendo 3DS might have had a sluggish launch but now the device is selling very well in Japan and seems to be also picking up steam on Western markets and the company that launched it seems to be ready to invest the resources to keep up this momentum in the coming months.As part of the Nintendo Direct presentati... |
27 December 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and publisher Nintendo has announced that it has sold more than 4.1 million units of the new 3DS handheld on the Japanese market, managing to turn around a hardware platform that seemed destined for failure just a few months ago.The 3DS has been launched in Japan in late February of this... |
27 December 2011
08:17 GMT |
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Video game companies Namco Bandai and Nintendo have announced that they are collaborating in order to launch the upcoming Tekken 3D Prime Edition in Europe on February 17 of next year.Nintendo is set to be responsible for the sale, the marketing and the distribution of the new fighting game both in Europe and in Aust... |
22 December 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Sony has once again praised its upcoming PlayStation Vita, which has just been released in Japan, saying that it’s the best handheld gaming device ever made by the Japanese company, being designed to trump the experiences delivered by other dedicated portable game consoles as well as tablets or smartphones.The ... |
21 December 2011
18:41 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita has been launched in Japan for close to one full week and the developers at Sony working on the hardware and the software for the device are already looking to the future, with the Augmented Reality features of the device one possible focus.Shuhei Yoshida, who is a vice president at Sony Computer... |
21 December 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware creator Sony has launched an English version of the manual for the PlayStation Vita online, allowing all those who speak the language to take a closer look at how the features of the new device will work.The move is somewhat surprising because the device is only set to launch on West... |
20 December 2011
05:29 GMT |
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Reports from tracking firm Enterbrain as seen in the magazine Famitsu are saying that on December 17 and 18 the PlayStation Vita handheld from Sony has managed to sell 321,407 device on the Japanese market.This means that the new device has managed to sell better than the original PSP, which moved 166,074 units durin... |
20 December 2011
04:15 GMT |
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The leadership of the well known Louvre Museum in Paris, France have announced that they are planning to make the switch from traditional audio guides to the new Nintendo 3DS handhelds, which will offer a much better multimedia experience to visitors.Nintendo is set to deliver 5,000 devices to the Louvre during March... |
19 December 2011
20:11 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer and game publisher Sony has initially shipped 500,000 units of the PlayStation Vita handheld for the launch on the Japanese market and has then supplemented the number by another 200,000 in order to make sure that there are enough devices available in order to sate the demand of gamers.S... |
19 December 2011
04:20 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita handheld from Sony launches in Japan during the weekend but it seems that some developers are not interested in the device and see its release as a symptom of a wider problem affecting the video game industry.Henrique Olifiers, who is the leader of the Bossa Studios development studio in the Unit... |
16 December 2011
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Sources from video game retailers have stated that publisher Capcom has shipped 420,000 copies to stores in preparation for the launch of the Nintendo 3DS version of Monster Hunter 3G, which is set to arrive on December 10.100,000 of those are linked to bundles that also include the Slide Pad add-on while another 20,... |
6 December 2011
04:53 GMT |
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The Japanese division of Sony has launched the first full commercial for the PlayStation Vita handheld, after putting out a teaser earlier, and it’s rather tame by the standards that the brand has set in the home market.The main character is an actor named Eita Nagayama, who has some measure of popularity after... |
5 December 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Sony has announced that each PlayStation Vita sold will only allow the registration of one PlayStation Network ID, limiting the ability of gamers to take advantage of the fact that the upcoming handheld is not region locked.Presumably the measure is a way of making sure that gamers do not massively import both consol... |
5 December 2011
10:39 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer Nintendo has announced that in its first eight months the new Nintendo 3DS handheld has managed to sell more on the United States market than the original DS.Regie Fils-Aime, who is the leader of Nintendo of America, stated, “In sales through this past Saturday - 8 months - has out... |
2 December 2011
09:05 GMT |
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Sony has admitted that it wants to provide multiple price points for developers that are bringing their experiences to the PlayStation Vita, in order to better rival the existing mobile gaming market on smartphones and tablets.While dedicated handheld games consoles like the PSP or Nintendo 3DS have had fixed prices ... |
2 December 2011
04:28 GMT |
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The upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld platform will allow its owners to experience all existing PlayStation 3 games via the Remote Play feature.The PlayStation Vita is Sony’s big bet on dedicated handheld gaming consoles, with the Japanese company being quite confident that it will prove to existing gamers tha... |
28 November 2011
20:31 GMT |
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The Japanese division of Sony has launched the television advertising campaign for the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld with a teaser that seems to pave the way for even weirder advertisements.The tag line of the spot can be translated as “The future of games is changing” but it is not clear what this h... |
25 November 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Sony really wants people to get excited about its upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld platform and has now presented the array of games that are currently in development at third party publishers from all over the world.Sony unleashed lots of details about the PlayStation Vita in recent days, highlighting just what ga... |
24 November 2011
19:31 GMT |
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Nintendo really wants to make its 3DS handheld a platform that can appeal to all sorts of gamers, just like the previous DS, so the company is preparing to reveal some more casual experiences throughout the next year, especially at E3 2012 in summer.Nintendo's 3DS hasn't exactly had the best of start, with ... |
22 November 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Video game hardware maker and game publisher Nintendo has announced that, according to data offered by the NPD Group for the United States video game market, the Nintendo 3DS handheld has managed to sell more than 1.65 million units since it was released and is now close to breaking the one year sales total of the or... |
15 November 2011
20:51 GMT |
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A rumor suggests that Nintendo might be getting ready to unlock a second Central Processing Unit inside the 3DS handheld, allowing video game developers to use it for their titles, which would result in a 25 percent overall increase in terms of processing power.Initially this second CPU was only used by the operating... |
11 November 2011
18:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher Codemasters has announced that it will launch its well known F1 2011 simulation game on the Nintendo 3DS handheld on November 25 of this year, taking full advantage of the glass free three dimensional gaming capabilities of the platform.The development of the game version will be handled by Sumo ... |
3 November 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Sony has talked about its upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld console and how the number of pre-orders received for the new device are "substantial."Sony's getting ready to push out the PlayStation Vita on the Japanese market on December 17, and will deploy it for the North American and European ones this Februar... |
1 November 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Some brand new reports say that the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld console might see some features cut from its Japanese launch at the end of the year, including compatibility with PSone or TurboGrafx-16 games, as well as Flash support for its built-in web browser.Sony is hyping up its PlayStation Vita these days... |
27 October 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Video game hardware developer Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation Vita handheld will have a 20 MB file size download restriction when it launched in North America early during 2012.The company has made it clear that the limit was introduced by the infrastructure limitations of AT&T, the company which offers the 3... |
13 October 2011
18:21 GMT |
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The PlayStation Vita handheld is set to be launched on December 17 on the Japanese market and Sony is keen on drumming up player interest by talking about its more obscure features, including the fact that it will have a remote play mode for use with the PlayStation 3.Shuhei Yoshida, who is the president of Worldwide... |
6 October 2011
17:11 GMT |
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Sony has once again talked about its upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld and how it's going to "supersede" regular mobile platforms like phones or tablets, largely because it offers more serious handheld gaming experiences thanks to its dedicated nature.Mobile gaming is rapidly changing these days, as phones or t... |
4 October 2011
14:21 GMT |
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A recent survey from research firm Interpret LLC has shown that 22 percent of the gamers who have bought and are using a Nintendo 3DS handheld see the glass free three dimensional gaming capabilities of the device as an improvements when it comes to gameplay while a bigger number, 28%, see it as a distraction.Dan Cas... |
26 September 2011
16:31 GMT |
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At the Tokyo Games Show, an event that can be considered home ground for Nintendo, the company doubled down on its 3DS bet and made a number of announcements that show the support for the platform and show how committed Nintendo is to make the device is success in the long term.First off Nintendo sought to make clear... |
24 September 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Shuhei Yoshida, the president of Sony Computer Entertainment worldwide studios has weighed in on the two major announcements made by Nintendo in regards to its 3DS, the price cut made back in August and the more recent circle pad add-on.The last couple of weeks have been filled with announcements for the PlayStation ... |
21 September 2011
04:04 GMT |
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