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News Sony: PlayStation 3 Hardware Sales Ahead Of Expectations
Good news for those that choose to enjoy their games based on sales numbers: Sony has announced that the PlayStation 3 is actually slightly exceeding expectations
The platform holder previously predicted that it would sell 15 million consoles during the fiscal year ending in March 2012, and executive Andrew House has told journalists that he fully...
News Sony Discusses 'Re-Tooled' Sorcery
It's evident from yesterday's reannouncement that Sorcery has grown since its promising debut at last year's E3
While the PlayStation Move exclusive includes the same precise motion control mechanics as its original demo, it's visually prettier and much bigger in scope. "Coming out of E3, we knew there were some things we weren't happy...
News The Last Of Us Concept Art Hints At Gameplay Possibilities
You'd think that for the number of stories we've written about The Last Of Us over the past week, we'd know a thing or two about the upcoming title's gameplay
But we don't. Naughty Dog's insisted that fans should watch the game's debut trailer over and over in order to etch out some new details, but we're more taken with the game's concept art. One...
News Sorcery Video, Screenshots and Details All Inside
Due in spring
It's been a long wait to see more of Sorcery, but Sony finally lifted the game's invisibility cape this week to reveal more of what The Workshop has in store for 2012. Revealing differences since the game's well-received E3 2010 showing, design director Brian Upton says: What we showed at E3 was largely organized around a dungeon...
First Impressions Frobisher Says on PlayStation Vita
If Simon Says had an illicit affair with Nintendo's madcap minigame series WarioWare, Frobisher Says would be the hyperactive accidental love-child
Honeyslug's eccentric PlayStation Vita launch-title might not be drawing the headlines like Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Wipeout 2048, but its easily the most humorous game we've played in a long time...
News What The Heck Is The PlayStation Game Music Service?
Have you ever been walking to work wishing you could listen to the Uncharted soundtrack along the way? It happens to the best of us
But it's mighty frustrating when you realise you haven't got the MP3 on your portable music player of choice. Sony's PlayStation Game Music service in Japan attempts to alleviate that problem. The service allows...
News Gran Turismo 5 Gets New Content To Celebrate The Holidays
We know what you've spent the past 12 months doing
No, we're not stalkers or anything, we've simply been keeping a keen eye on your PlayStation Network account. You've been playing Gran Turismo 5, haven't you? Ok, so this post might not apply to you specifically, but there are genuinely four or five people on our PSN friends list that play nothing...
News Sorcery Enchants Stores In Spring 2012, Looks Hella Pretty
Sorcery was the first game to make people take notice of the PlayStation Move
Debuted at E3 over a year ago, The Workshop developed motion exclusive generated buzz because it felt like the title gamers had been calling for ever since the Wii was released. Family oriented, yes, but with a deep underlying core. A year later, Sony's re-revealed Sorcery...
News Get Prepared For The Last Of Us With Various PlayStation Network Goodies
We barely know anything about Naughty Dog's upcoming PlayStation 3 horror title, The Last Of Us -- but that's not stopping the developer from packing the PlayStation Store with new goodies relating to the upcoming title
Those that head to the North American PlayStation Store right now will be able to grab the game's debut trailer, a couple of...
News Sony Releases More PlayStation Vita Trailers Than Your Eyes Can Handle
How are you handling all that PlayStation Vita hype? We've taken to printing off PlayStation Vita screenshots and sticking them onto our PlayStation Portable's screen
It sort of gets the job done, but the problem is that none of the games move, or do much of anything really. To be honest it's all a bit rubbish. The number of trailers Sony's pumping...
News Sony Reveals Top Selling PlayStation Network Indie Titles Of 2011
Indie titles are all the rage right now, and PlayStation Network is a great home for them
Posting on the PlayStation Blog, the platform holder has revealed the best-selling indie titles released through the PlayStation Network in 2011. The platform holder broke the sales charts down into a trio of categories: third-party self-published, Sony...
Despite details being relatively scarce, Naughty Dog's The Last Of Us has been a hot point of discussion all over the Internet since its announcement at the weekend
The game — borne out of a BBC documentary about the haunting cordyceps fungus — depicts the story of Joel and his teenage companion Ellie, who find themselves survivors in an...
News New PlayStation Vita Trailer Sells Us On The System All Over Again
It doesn't take much to sell a great product; all you need to do is explain exactly what it can do
Sony's released a brand new trailer for the PlayStation Vita that does exactly that. It covers every feature in just over two minutes, and it's hard not to get excited. Dual analogue sticks, multiple touch interfaces, cross-game chat, social...
News Sony Talks Up Cross-Platform Play With New PlayStation Vita Trailer
It looks like cross-platform play is going to form a key component of Sony's promotional activities for the PlayStation Vita
The platform holder's released a brand new trailer showing off all of the handheld's PS3 connectivity functions. The snippet shows save sharing in the Diablo-esque dungeon crawler Ruin, cross-platform multiplayer in Wipeout...
News The Last Of Us Nets Oscar Winning Composer Gustavo Santaolalla
Don't ever expect Naughty Dog to do things by halves
The Uncharted developer has announced that it has snapped up Oscar winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain, Babel) to score the music for its recently revealed PS3 exclusive, The Last Of Us. "He's awesome," creative director Neil Druckmann said of the musician. "He...
News Naughty Dog Talks About Keeping The Last Of Us Secret
The announcement that upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last Of Us is in development at Naughty Dog came as a surprise to most people at the VGAs this weekend
And in an interview with the PlayStation Blog, co-presidents Evan Wells and Cristophe Balestra have discussed a little about what the process was like keeping the game secret for almost two...
News Dark Days: Sony Confirms Fumito Ueda's Departure
Legendary PlayStation developer Fumito Ueda -- the creative force behind ICO and Shadow Of The Colossus -- has left Sony, the platform holder has announced
Ueda's departure comes following a series of rumours surrounding the developer's employment. But while Ueda's long-term future remains unclear, Sony confirmed that his immediate commitments are...
News Heads Up: Playstation Network Maintenance Scheduled For This Week
It's been a while since the last batch of scheduled PlayStation Network maintenance, so we suppose we can't complain
Sony's announced that it's set to do some work on the PSN for a few hours this week, starting Thursday evening. The maintenance will run from 16:00PM, 15th December through to 02:00, 16th December UK time. During the downtime you...
News Fresh The Last Of Us Details Trickle Online
While a lot is still unknown about Naughty Dog's upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last Of Us, a sparse number of development details have leaked online overnight
The first of which is that Enslaved lead designer Mark Davies is working on the project. "Okay, so I never worked on Uncharted 3 - I was really doing this," the newly employed...
Feature Why The Last Of Us Looks Like More Than Just 'Another Zombie Game'
As gamers we've probably dismembered thousands of zombies over the years
Reanimated corpses have become a crux for game designers wanting to add a "horror" edge to their action games, and as a result we've all got a little tired of them. It's unsurprising to see a corner of the Internet dismiss Naughty Dog's latest franchise, The Last Of...
News Naughty Dog Shares More Details About The Last Of Us
Still in a state of shock regarding the unveiling of The Last Of Us overnight? Yeah, we are too actually
Not about the game itself — it looked pretty much like we'd expected it to — but the fact that Naughty Dog is at the helm. We'd never have suspected that in a million years. But now that the cat's out of the bag, we've started to turn our...
During the build-up to the VGAs, Geoff Keighley pondered how Sony's new PlayStation 3 exclusive, The Last Of Us, hadn't leaked
It's a question we're asking ourselves right now. Despite Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception launching to critical acclaim less than a month ago, Naughty Dog has confirmed that it is the developer behind the upcoming horror...
News Sony's The Last Of Us Helps Us To Learn About Ants
We don't think we've ever been quite so curious about ants
Sony's mysterious marketing campaign for The Last Of Us — an upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive that the platform holder's been drip-feeding information about for the past couple of weeks — has brought out the budding researcher in much of the video games media. PlayStation Lifestyle's got...
News Sony Comments On Team ICO, Says Fumito Ueda Is 'Committed To Completing' The Last Guardian
Sony's said that Fumito Ueda is "committed to completing" upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last Guardian, but has once again managed to completely dodge the issue of the developer's employment
In a statement issued to IGN's Colin Moriarty, a SCEA spokesperson revealed that "Ueda-san is in fact under contract and is committed to completing...
News November NPD: Call Of Duty & Skyrim Top The Software Charts
It was a monster month for software releases in November
Unsurprisingly, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim came out on top. But despite the high profile roster of software releases — and growth in unit sales across the board — NPD analyst Anita Frazier warned that "a decline in average retail price in all...
We've been telling you to purchase a PlayStation Plus subscription for a couple of weeks now
We sincerely hope you followed our advise. Because in addition to the "12 Gifts Of Christmas", and the regular updates, SCEE has announced that anyone that pur
News MLB 12: The Show To Support Cross-Platform Saves
If there's any genre that needs to take advantage of the PlayStation Vita's ability to share save data with the PlayStation 3, it's the sports genre
Just imagine being able to take your FIFA season on the go when you're out and about, and then upload it back to your PS3 when you're at home. In order for the functionality to take off, someone needs...
News Someone Played White Knight Chronicles II For Nearly 9,000 Hours
What's your Skyrim save file look like? Fifty hours, maybe sixty? Sounds like a lot, until you hear about the Japanese White Knight Chronicles II fan that invested nearly 9,000 hours into the Level-5 developed game
According to Siliconera, the unnamed man accumulated 8,701 hours playtime, bringing his playcount up to a whopping 362 days without...
News The Last Of Us Teaser Spotted In Uncharted 3
So this is getting really cool now
Regular readers of the site will be aware of the build-up to Sony's new PlayStation 3 exclusive, The Last Of Us. If you're not up to date, you can read our big blow-out piece on the impending announcement through here. Sony has been gradually drip-feeding information about the game all week, going as far as to add...
News Multiple PSN Accounts Means Multiple Vita Memory Cards
Get buying
PlayStation Vita offers on-the-go gaming either solo or against others through WiFi or 3G, but there were recent reports that the machine would only support one PSN account. That's not quite true, according to a Sony spokesperson talking to Wired.com. Each PSN account is bound to your Vita memory card, so if you want a second PSN account,...
News Sony Offers PlayStation 3 Owners A 60-Day Trial To Music Unlimited
If you're enjoying your PlayStation 3 but wish you could stream the hits of The Saturdays while not playing games, Sony Entertainment Network's got your back
The company's announced that a 60-day trial for its audio streaming service, Music Unlimited, will be made available to all PlayStation 3 owners imminently. The trial will allow participants to...
News PlayStation Vita Not Limited To A Single PSN Account, But There's Still A Small Caveat
The PlayStation Vita is not limited to a single PlayStation Network account, as was widely reported last week
But you'll need to own multiple memory cards if you want to use different PSN accounts on the same system, Sony has confirmed. Sony suit Crystal MacKenzie confirmed the news in an interview with Wired, explaining that accounts are linked to...
News inFamous: Festival Of Blood Becomes The Fastest Selling PSN Download Of All Time
What do you get when you release a great product at the right time with a competitive price-point? Big sales, that's what -- and inFamous: Festival Of Blood is a testament to that philosophy
The bite-sized (pun intended) PlayStation Network standalone has become the fastest selling title in the PlayStation Network's history, topping the downloadable...
News Unit 13 Takes It To The Dancefloor
Every shooter needs a good nightclub stage
And Zipper Interactive's upcoming PlayStation Vita exclusive Unit 13 looks more than happy to oblige. New screenshots fired over by Sony show some four-to-the-floor shootouts. Everyone grab your dancing shoes.
News David Jaffe's Not So Keen On An Online Pass For Twisted Metal
Legendary PlayStation developer David Jaffe has indicated he'd prefer it if his upcoming Twisted Metal reboot didn't ship with an Online Pass code
The developer told Eurogamer: Id actually prefer [it if we didn't do an Online Pass], even though its probably good business. Only because we have such a mountain to climb in terms of gaining...
News The Last Of Us Teaser Website Updates With Wallpaper, Extended Video
The teaser website for upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last Of Us has updated
While the body of the page remains the same — ants and quarantine videos are still the focus — the big change is the inclusion of a wallpaper image listed as a "screenshot". It shows the foliage that has appeared on the background of the PlayStation Blog...
Nintendo's 3DS dominated the hardware and software charts in Japan this week, with Mario Kart 7 getting off to a stormer
But while the system-seller pushed over 400k units, the PlayStation 3 port of popular arcade title Gundam Extreme VS wasn't far behind — selling a very respectable 349k units. Newcomer Assassin's Creed: Revelations managed to...
News The Last Guardian Producer Leaves SCEJ For London Based Social Games Company
Things aren't going smoothly at Team ICO it seems
Just days after creative lead Fumito Ueda reassured fans regarding the development of The Last Guardian, news of another departure has surfaced. This time it's the game's executive producer, who's left Sony for London based casual games studio, Bossa. Yoshifusa Hayama worked as the executive producer...
News Journey's Desert Backdrop Designed To 'Encourage A Connection' Between Players
There are no hard rules to thatgamecompany's Journey
But in an interview with The Guardian, producer Robin Hunicke has explained that the developer designed the world in a way that would encourage player connection. One of the things we talked about early in the project was this idea of creating a connection between players in an environment where...
News The PlayStation Blog Gets Mysterious New Background
The PlayStation Blog's got a mysterious new background, presumably in preparation for the announcement of upcoming PS3 exclusive The Last Of Us
The image shows little more than foliage and sunshine, but it looks like a real-time screenshot. Meanwhile, the unannounced game's teaser website has updated with a similar image of trees. Interestingly,...
First Impressions ModNation Racers: Road Trip on PS Vita
ModNation Racers stole our hearts last summer
The Sony published "Play Create Share" kart racer was a real triumph, championing the best of Mario Kart and LittleBigPlanet in one tidy, well presented package. ModNation Racers: Road Trip sees the core ideas from last year's PlayStation 3 game shrunk down and repurposed for PlayStation Vita...
News Sony Experimenting With Unannounced 'Freemium' Concepts Internally
With social networks and smartphones being a big talking point in the industry at the moment, "freemium" is a term that's starting to emerge more and more frequently
The coining pertains to the idea of "free" and "premium" gameplay models — where players can enjoy a base experience at no cost, but can choose to enhance their...
News Resistance 3 Goes Heavy Metal With The Brutality Pack
Insomniac Games has announced the latest DLC pack for the brilliant Resistance 3
Entitled the Brutality Pack, the $3.99 expansion brings Horde-inspired co-op to the bleak shooter's roster of modes. Faced with a never-ending stream of Grims, you'll need to keep your cool in an overcast Wales to stem the threat. The expansion pack will see the...
News Heavy Rain Was Completed By 74% Of Players
Heavy Rain remains one of our favourite PlayStation 3 games to date
Quantic Dream's moody adventure might not have got everything right, but it deserved its plaudits for trying. And according to statistics released by an IGN infographic, the game got its just deserves. The thriller was completed by a whopping 74% of players, which we're guessing is...
News Monster Hunter Wins Big At The PlayStation Awards
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan held its annual PlayStation Awards overnight, celebrating the best-selling PlayStation games of the year
As with recent years, Sony also used the event to give out some special awards that were voted for by fans of the platform. The awards covered games released between November 1, 2010 and October 31, 2011. Six...
News Uncharted Series Serves Up 13 Million Sales
Don't expect the Uncharted series to go anywhere soon
According to an interview on Industry Gamers, the franchise has netted a whopping 13 million sales to date. Nathan Drake's first escapade appeared on PlayStation 3 back in 2007. Naughty Dog's developed two more entries in the series since, with the latest releasing last month on PS3. A fourth...
News Uncharted: Golden Abyss Is Japan's Most Anticipated PlayStation Vita Title
Following a successful launch for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Japan seems pumped to get its hands on upcoming portable outing Uncharted: Golden Abyss
The Sony Bend developed exclusive won a poll conducted by Japanese gaming bible Famitsu magazine, which also noted that more than 50% of readers intend to buy the system at launch. Just 8.2% of...
News Tomb Raider: Underworld Headlines Bumper Christmas PlayStation Plus Update
European PlayStation Plus subscribers will net a complimentary copy of Tomb Raider: Underworld this month
That's in addition to free copies of Cool Boarders, Sneezies and Orbit, as well as a slew of savings and discounts, including half-price offers on Split/Second and Burnout Crash. Subscribers will also net a free copy of Marvel Pinball later in...
News Fumito Ueda Reassures Fans Of The Last Guardian
Fumito Ueda has responded to rumours suggesting that he has left Shadow Of The Colossus developer Team ICO, affecting development of the studio's next project
In a short Twitter message, the creative powerhouse said that development of The Last Guardian was still on track and that fans have nothing to worry about. While Ueda did not outright deny...
News Sony: PlayStation 3 To Skew Towards 'Younger Demographic', Core Gamers Won't Be Neglected
The PlayStation 3 still hasn't reached a mass market price-point, but it's getting there
And with the hardcore gaming crowd already well serviced, SCEE boss Jim Ryan believes that the console's next challenge is to appeal to a younger demographic. I think youll see us taking the console more towards a slightly younger demographic. More family...
