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News Bioshock 2 Takes The UK Charts' Top Spot, Bayonetta Re-Enters
Apparently Bioshock is still a big deal, as Bioshock 2 has shot straight to the top of the UK charts, removing previous leader Mass Effect 2
Interestingly, after a slew of price-cuts (and perhaps that Playstation 3 patch), Bayonetta has re-entered the charts in number 10 (up from 36). Elsewhere, Fifa 10 and Modern Warfare 2 are still strong...
News Future Publishing Announce Playstation Network Magazine, FirstPlay
Future Publishing has today announced FirstPlay, a digital Playstation Network magazine for the UK in a similar style to America's Qore
The weekly magazine will cost just 99p per episode, or £8.99 for a monthly subscription, and is being developed by the team behind Official Playstation Magazine UK.Future has an outstanding track record in...
News So, Killzone 2 Ain't Getting A Playstation Motion Controller Patch
Well that rumour popped up and was quashed in minutes wasn't it? We like it that way
TheSixthAxis reported this morning that Guerrilla Games' Killzone 2 is due a Playstation Motion Controller patch. But SCEE says, "Uhhh. No it's not." And that's the end of that, valued reader.
News Global PS3 Sales Hit 33.5 Million, Close The Gap On XBOX 360
Sony's reported that they are just 5
5 million systems behind the XBOX 360 now, with a strong showing for the Playstation 3 this Christmas driving the system up to 33.5 million global sales. Sony also reiterated that they will hit their 13 million systems sold target during the fiscal year, with 10.8 million systems sold for the nine months ending...
News For The Love Of: SCEE Mention "Gran Turismo 5" & "Fall Release" In The Same Sentence
Enough Sony, SCEE, Polyphony or whoever is involved with making Gran Turismo 5 take so bleeding long to come out
We were expecting it early 2009. It didn't come. We were expecting it late 2009. It didn't come. We were really expecting it early 2010. It ain't coming. Now you're talking about Fall? Really? Yes, really. SCEE Portugal's honcho James...
News Sony Studio Liverpool To Be Cut In Half?
Last week we reported the sad news that there was a "restructuring" process going on at Sony's Studio Liverpool
News this morning from Develop suggests that the "restructuring" is likely to result in a cull of 50%. An affected staff member told Develop that the layoff was looking "heavy", estimating around half us may be...
News Sony: Heavy Rain Is A Total "Gamble", Yo
Heavy Rain literally looks bonkers
The latest game from David Cage and his team at Quantic Dream dares to think outside the box. In that, it's a huge gamble for publishers Sony, but one they are giving their full support. Product manager Lucy Duncan told CVG:Being Sony, I suppose we have a little more luxury to take a gamble on more original and...
Rumour Sony Put $20million Worth Of Funds Into Multiplatform L.A. Noire
An unusual Twitter account under the pseudonym Veracious_Shift has popped up this morning, claiming to know the secrets of upcoming PS3 title Agent's exclusivity, and the fiasco regarding the oft-lofted, rarely shown L
A. Noire</a>. Veracious Shift writes:To McNamara [dude what did The Getaway - Ed], The Getaway was a tainted brand by Sony's...
News SCEE: 3 Million Playstation 3s Sold In The UK
It's milestone time for SCEE, as they've just confirmed that 3 million Playstation 3s have been sold in the UK to date
There's really not much else to say. As Brits ourselves, Sony's efforts have very much been brushed under the carpet by the mainstream here; but still outstanding marketing, pricing and, just sheer brilliant exclusive games have...
News Michael Jackson PS3 Bundle Not Coming To The UK We're 'Fraid
If you're a hardcore British gamer who likes nothing more than chillin' to the back catalogue of Michael Jackson - then you're out of luck
Sony has confirmed to VG247 that there are no plans to bring the recently announced "This Is It" bundle to the UK. The bundle's due for release in Japan later this month. Guess you'll just have to make...
News Sony Don't Really Think OnLive Is A Threat At All
Remember OnLive? The announced service that would supposedly allow "gamers" to kinda stream video games from a mega-hub computer server thing-ma-jig
Yeah? Sony doesn't think much to it at all really. In fact, they reckon that in order to play video games at the "expected quality" you'll need a traditional video games system."Whilst...
News Sony Claim PS3's VidZone Service Is The World's Biggest Music Video Streaming Application
Blimey
SCEE just dropped a press release in our inbox announcing that the PS3's VidZone application has become the biggest music video streaming service in the world, with more than 2 million users streaming over 200 million videos in its first month. Vidzone launched across Europe in the summer of 2009, and has since stretched to 18 countries. Pats...
News SCEE Confirms God Of War III: Ultimate Trilogy Edition For Europe
SCEE has announced a lovely little God Of War III collector's edition heading to Europe this March
The pack includes, obviously, God Of War III and the recently US-only God Of War Collection among a host of other lucious goodies. The pack includes (deep breath): God of War III God of War Collection Extra PSN game content (God of War Combat Arena...
News Playstation Home Hits The Big 10,000,000! Blimey!
SCEE announced yesterday that Playstation Home has reached the 10,000,000 user milestone
Love it or hate it, there ain't no way Sony are dropping the service with numbers like that.PlayStation Home is fast becoming the meeting place of choice between users and developers, said Dan Hill, European Home Business Manager at SCEE. Every new game...
First Impressions Digital Comics on Playstation Portable
Sony's decision to bring comics to the Playstation Portable has always been something that's stuck us as interesting
Interesting because we're not entirely sure who the move is aimed at. Hardcore comic fans will surely prefer reading their superhero gossip on paper; and will casual comic readers care enough to download them to their PSP? These are...
News SingStar Sells A Whopping 20million Units
Sony have just announced that their specialist karaoke franchise has now topped 20million units sold
The franchise began in 2004 and has seen numerous versions over the past 5 years, right up to the latest Take That themed release. We expect a Michael Jackson SingStar will be on the cards for early next year, with the franchise completely free to go...
News House: The Wii Is Experiencing Significant Downturn
The Playstation brand is kicking again
We've seen rather steady dominance for the Sony platforms over the past 3 or 4 months in the Playstation's homeland, and even a hint of celebration in the US; the Sony swagger is back. And that means Andrew House, Sony Europes head-honcho, can start talking about the competition again."I think at a time...
Feature Quick Impressions: European Playstation Video Delivery Service
Colour us impressed
Very impressed. We'd known the release date for the European Playstation Video Delivery Service (which we'll refer to as the "video store" for convenience) for a while, but we had no idea exactly how much content SCEE would pump into it before launch. We had the titles of just five or six movies when we got told the...
News European Playstation Movie Store To Get 50+ New Films Each Week
Having had chance to browse around the Playstation Video Store this morning, we have to say we are very impressed
The pricing is more than reasonable and the range of content on offer is already staggering. It's a flawless update from the folks at SCEE, and we have to congratulate them on that. But with 2000 movies already on offer from the service,...
News The European Playstation Store Now Includes Video Content...
.. And that means, like, right now! Trust us, we checked. There are an absolute ton of movies to buy or rent (in SD or HD). To be precise, more than 2000 movies are available. It's a pretty impressive roll out from SCEE, and a service we're looking forward to using. Renting a movie in HD costs around the £4-mark in the UK, with SD a bit cheaper...
News European Vidzone Release Dates Announced
It's easy to forget while we're dancing around to Glockenpop that other regions across Europe are yet to receive the Playstation 3's Vidzone application yet
Worry not though Europeans. The service is on its way. In fact, here's a list of the where and whens. November 23: Austria, The Netherlands, and Portugal December 3: Denmark, Finland, Norway...
News Buzz! Developer Dude Reckons Home Is Hitting Its Stride Right About... Now
The executive director of Relentless Games, Andrew Eades, reckons Playstation Home is totally not for him
"Home doesn't appeal to me personally that much," he told VideoGamer.com. Bad news? Not quite, as Eades reckons Home is just starting to reach its potential. He reckons that Sony should focus on " the tools to allow people to...
News Surprise: Modern Warfare 2 Debuts At The Top Of The UK Charts
Pretend to be surprised for us will you? Thanks
So, guess what? Modern Warfare 2entered the UK charts in the number one position for the week ending November 14th. It managed to sell a whopping 1.78 million copies over the five or so days it was on sale, with a speculated 700,000 or so copies attributed to the Playstation3 version. The rest of the...
News Worry Not SingStars - There's A Patch On The Way
There's a patch headed to Sony's karaoke title, SingStar, according to the European Playstation Blog
The patch is going through QA right now, and is due for release on December 1st. It'll fix a ton of problems caused by Patch 4.20, like stopping the game from deleting SingStore DLC off your HDD, etc.
News Playstation Motion Control Being Treated As A "Platform"
Playstation 3's studio boss Mike Denny reckons the Playstation Motion Controller is being treated as a platform by Sony
In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Denny said of the Playstation Motion Controller: The motion control system were putting in place going forward is were treating as more of a platform." Youre right that here in...
News Sony Survey Yummy Potential PSPgo Colour Variants
Seems like Sony are planning some flashy new colours for the PSPgo range
A Destructoid reader was invited to take a survey regarding new colours in the UK. As you can see, there are a lot of yummy colours on the survey. Personally we'd go for the more "out-there" ones, such as Coral and Turqouise. But knowing how boring people are, we...
News Playstation Network Scheduled Maintenance Planned For... Erm... Tomorrow
So, erm, Sony have announced some scheduled maintenance for, erm, tomorrow
Don't bite our heads off, we know what tomorrow is. We're just the messengers. The downtime will take place between 8AM and 11AM GMT and is promised to only affect PSN sign-in for roughly 15 minutes (so not to a big a deal). On the plus side, the European Playstation Blog are...
News Sony Reckon "New IP Is The Lifeblood Of The Industry"
Rehashing old IP is something that doesn't interest Sony at all
Of course, we'll always see sequels to popular Playstation franchises, but more than any other publisher this generation, Sony has also championed new IP in the likes of the Uncharted, Resistance and Motorstorm franchises. SCEE's vice president, Michael Denny thinks new IP is massively...
Sony have a strange affinity to Hannah Montana
First that lilac PSP, now the Hannah Montana movie launching directly alongside the European arm of Sony's digital video store. Of course, if you're over 16 and feeling a little uncomfortable at the prospect of perving on Miley Cyrus, switch your attention t
News Sky: Playstation 3 Player "May Very Well Happen"
Sky's On Demand director Griff Parry reckons a Playstation 3 version of the Sky Player could be on the cards in the near future
I can talk generally about our desire to extend to any device that supports a good quality experience to project the content. The PS3 is clearly a device where that is possible. And so it may very well happen in the...
News Race Those Folks That Made Motorstorm Arctic Edge Today
Are you good enough at Motorstorm: Arctic Edge to beat the folks that made the game? Well now's your chance, as the developers are putting themselves on the line against you guys
They'll be hitting the European servers around 17:30 GMT today, so if you want to race against the fine folks that made the game, be sure to play Motorstorm: Arctic Edge...
News So When's Sky TV Coming To The Playstation 3 Then?
Xbox got it
If you're an XBOX owner in the UK, you might be aware that this morning the Sky TV service rolled out onto XBOX 360s. To be perfectly honest, we're not quite sure how Microsoft are handling the whole service, but we assume it requires an existing Sky subscription and an XBOX Live Gold account. Given that the service is a perk for...
Feature Could Eye Pet Expand The Playstation 3's Audience? - "Twiggy" The Push Square Opinionator
Eye Pet is a massive risk
It's possible we could be playing Eight Days or The Getaway 3 this weekend. Sony pursued Eye Pet - an innovative implementation of augmented reality - instead. Given the platform, and its audience, Eight Days would probably sell better. And that shows just what a risk Eye Pet is. But could it expand the audience? When...
News Proof That Sony Are Getting Their Marketing Mojo Back
For a long time Playstation fans have complained about the lack of Sony's marketing
Truth be told, Sony have marketed their products a lot over the past few years, it's just those commercials haven't been very memorable. Anyone who's been tuning into the World Cup Qualification campaign on ITV will have seen those awful "technology...
News Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time Coming To Europe A Little Later
Time Extension!
Disappointing news European Ratchet & Clank fans, you're going to have to wait an extra week to play R&C: A Crack In Time. Many had assumed that the new game in the franchise would launch on the Friday following its American release - October 30th - but Insomniac have confirmed it won't hit the UK until November 6th, with...
News A Cute Little Homeless Eye Pet Was Left On Our Doorstep
Being the good natured folk we are, we brought him inside, hooked him up to our Playstation 3 and fed him cookies
So cute. Look out for our full Eye Pet coverage soon.
News Sony Studio London: The Getaway 3 & Eight Days Are Not Cancelled
In an interview regarding Eye Pet, Sony Studio London's Nicolas Doucet has confirmed that while the companies focus switched to SingStar and Eye Pet recently, previous Playstation 3 titles The Getaway 3 and Eight Days have not been canned, merely put to the side
He says:"I would not say they have been abandoned, just put to one side. Much work...
News Sony: PSP Go Sales "In Line With Expectations"
It seems some parties are intent on ensuring the PSP Go fails
Despite having no personal interest in the product, many people like to trash talk it. It's a bit like when the PS3 got cheaper but wasn't backwards compatible. We cue it down to insecurity. Whatever, we digress. Point is, PSP Go sold fine according to Sony. PSP hardware is up 120 per...
News Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Marketing Begins In The UK
We knew we weren't dreaming it -- the Twitter messages we read regarding Uncharted 2: Among Thieves appearing on Channel 4 were real; SCEE have started pushing Uncharted 2 towards being the mega hit it deserves to be
Three weeks away from launch, Sony are keeping things pretty low-key; hopefully they have a spectacular "build-up" campaign...
News SCE UK Announce 250GB Playstation 3 Bundles, ?284.99
As speculated over the past few weeks, Sony UK have just announced a series of 250GB Playstation 3 bundles due for release in the UK
Following the great success of the new, smaller, 120GB PS3, which sold over 1m units in its first three weeks on sale, the 250GB model has the same hardware specifications as the current model, but with greater...
News Sony Launches German & Italian Arms Of The Popular Playstation Blog
Whaddup Germany
Whaddup Italy! How's it hanging our European brethren? Just to let you know that Sony have localised their popular Playstation Blog format to your territories. You can check out the German version here and the Italian one here. Don't worry if you're French or Spanish because alternative versions for your territories are also coming...
News Salut 250GB European Playstation 3 Bundles Which Are So Totally Going To Happen
Joystiq have received some curious photos of a Norwegian GameStop's computer database
They include the listing of five (oui, five!) Playstation 3 250GB bundles. The bundles listed on the computer point towards Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time, Assassin's Creed II, Fifa 10, Need For Speed Shift and, of course, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves...
News BBC Watchdog Report Lacks Credibility, Consumers Can Rest Easy
Despite the greatest of attempts by the BBC to damn the Playstation 3's hardware reliability on their flagship consumer electronics show Watchdog, evidence fell short
The BBC were unable to repute Sony's claims that the Playstation 3's failure rate was any higher than one percent, with host Anne Robinson merely able to claim that...
News BBC To Air Damning Playstation 3 Report, Sony Respond With "At Your Peril" Document
The BBC's consumer show Watchdog is to tonight air a damning report on the little known Playstation hardware problem, the "Yellow Light Of Death"
The system error, which has caused some instances of hardware failure in early 60GB Playstation 3s, is the subject of tonight's episode on the BBC. In a seemingly furious response, Sony have documented an...
News Sign Up To The European MAG Beta (Kinda)
SCEE have 16,000 MAG beta codes to give away
That's quite a few, right? Right? Well, erm, we'll assume no because they've probably all been snapped up by the time you read this. Still, it's worth a punt right, you never know, a couple of clicks and you might be accepted into the loving world of the Massive Action Game. Head over to Sony's official...
News Wipeout HD Is (Finally) Officially Announced As A Retail Product
The PSN's crown jewel, Wipeout HD, is finally getting a retail release
The excellent Wipeout HD will retail at £19.99 in stores from October 16th and will include the original game and the excellent Fury expansion pack. If you haven't got this game yet, we absolutely urge you to pick it up. It's one of the Playstation 3's best titles, a real gem.
News Playstation 3 Sales Are Up By 999% In The UK
Surprise
The PS3 Slim is shifting units! Lots of units in fact. So many units that sales in the UK have increased by a whopping 999% since the Slim was introduced. So put it this way if Sony were selling 1,000 PS3s a week pre-Slim, they're now selling 9,999 units a week. Blimey. Did we get our maths right? We're not quite sure actually. Can someone...
News Microsoft Boast Basic 1Million Console Lead On The Playstation 3 In Europe
Microsoft recently announced a 9 million XBOX 360 sale mark in Europe
Sony then claimed 10 million Playstation 3 sales in Europe at GamesCom. Interestingly, an MCV article has Microsoft's Chris Lewis completely U-turn and claim a "confident" one million unit lead. Either we're confused or someone has their maths wrong. Still, there's no...
News Ghostbusters Gets PS3 Graphics Patch, Fixes Resolution
Remember just before Ghostbusters: The Video Game came out on the Playstation 3? Yeah, there was a bit of an uproar regarding the graphics
That's not a problem now though, because developers Terminal Reality have issued a patch to fix the problems:"Both single and multiplayer modes have been updated. In single player mode, fixes include an...
News Sony Prepare To Spend Lots Of Money On Marketing, ?82Million Planned For Marketing PS3 Slim
Sony are preparing to spend lots of money
You know when they said that 2009 was going to be their most aggressive holiday season yet. They bloody meant it. Sony have set aside a whopping £82Million ($134,388,496.78US) to promote the PS3 Slim across Europe. As reported by the Guardian the new campaign will be a massive change from Sony's traditional...
