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News Playstation Move Brawler Gets Titled The Fight: Lights Out
Playstation Move brawler Motion Fighter has been given a new title
Now known as The Fight: Lights Out, Sony's gritty beat 'em up has been detailed in a developer diary with producer John McLaughlin. Hands-on impressions from the early build at GDC were not particularly positive, but the build was very early. McLaughlin's stated the team's ...
News Ruh-Roh: Electronic Musician Outs LittleBigPlanet 2
Ever since Sony acquired talented British studio Media Molecule everyone's been questioning what they're going to do next
There's no way Sony would extend their already bulging European first-party suite for LittleBigPlanet costume packs, and naturally that's resulted in the title LittleBigPlanet 2 popping up a fair bit. Looks like the game's just...
Rumour New Open-World, Mature "Play Create Share" Title Headed To Playstation 3 In The Future
Official Playstation Magazine's Ben Wilson may have dropped a huge hint regarding an upcoming Playstation 3 title under the "Play Create Share" banner
In the latest edition of the Official Playstation Magazine podcast, the magazine editor declared that he'd seen an open-world online title that would allow users to create their own missions. While...
News Insomniac Label Infinity Ward Sackings As "Horrifying"
Resistance: Fall Of Man's lead multiplayer designer Jake Biegel has labelled the saga which saw the breakdown of Modern Warfare developer Infinity Ward as "horrifying"
</span> He went on to describe that the event "reiterates how good it is to be working at a wholly independent developer." "I have some friends at Infinity Ward...
News Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Gets Deservedly Lavish Art-Book
Some video game art books leave a lot to be desired, but this premium 272-page illustration-laden manuscript is exactly the reason why Naughty Dog are so special
Realising that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves deserves to be more than a flimsy glossy pamphlet, Naughty Dog's teamed up with Ballistic Publishing to release this high-quality publication...
News Gran Turismo 5 Will Be "Totally Different" To Prologue
Just in case you were one of those people on the message boards, spewing rubbish you can't even comprehend, Gran Turismo 5 will be more than an updated version of the Prologue "demo" released in 2008
Series veteran Yamauchi told PSM3 magazine so. Prologue is really only a prologue, he said. Though the look and feel of Prologue and the full...
News Playstation Store Update Days Move Forward
We've known that it's been going to happen for a while, but Sony's now confirmed that Playstation Store updates are moving from their traditional Thursdays, starting in May
That's right, in response to XBOX Live's Wednesday updates, Sony has confirmed that Store updates will take place on a Tuesday in North America, with Europeans having to wait the...
News Playstation Portable Returns To The Top Of The Japanese Hardware Charts
After a brief hiatus in second-place, Sony's Playstation Portable has once again taken the Japanese hardware sales crown from bigger brother Playstation 3, shifting 29K units to the PS3's 28K
The PSPgo managed to pull itself up from the bottom of the sales charts, just gathering enough steam to propel it past Sony's aging PS2. The rest of the chart...
News NPD March 2010: "Consumer Demand Remains Incredibly High" For Playstation 3
Console shortages are hindering the Playstation 3's performance in the US despite "consumber demand remaining incredibly high", was the message of SCEA's Patrick Seybold this morning
The statement comes in response to the Playstation 3's NPD performance which saw Sony sell 313.9K Playstation 3 systems and dominate the hardware charts. There appears...
News NPD March 2010: God Of War III Shifts 1.1 Million Units
Huge success for Sony and their Santa Monica studio last month, as God Of War III went on to rule the American software charts selling a whopping 1
1 million copies in the country. Kratos managed to oust out March's other big releases in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Final Fantasy XIII, the latter of which performed better on the Playstation 3 SKU...
News NPD March 2010: Playstation 3 Rules Software Charts, Shifts 313.9K
The NPD hardware and software sales for March 2010 are in, and Sony's given a particularly impressive showing in the region that's given them most trouble over the past few years
Despite hardware shortages limiting the PS3's performance, Sony's home system still managed to shift a whopping 313.9K, just shy of the 360's 338K. The most pleasing thing...
News Sony Says "No More" To Portable Social Network Experiment Playstation Room
You may a remember a little announcement at Tokyo Game Show last year regarding Playstation Room
The service was essentially designed to replicate a Playstation Home-like experience on the PSP, allowing players to create avatars, decorate rooms and interact via chat and blogs. The service's been in beta for some time over in Japan, but was today...
For years we've been trying to slip Frankmusik into a post, but finally Sony Europe usher up the goods by including the tune "In Step" in their debut trailer for Everybody's (Hot Shots to you American folk) Tennis on the Playstation Portable
The game seems to retain the "Everybody's" franchise tradition of easy, accessible gameplay, plenty...
News Free 3D Playstation 3 "Taster" Titles To Be Included With New Sony TV
As summer nears, so to does Sony's push for 3D technology
There'll be a new range of televisions from the electronics manufacturer, alongside a Playstation 3 firmware update that will bring the system and its blu-rays into the third-dimension. But, we're also expecting content. Gran Turismo 5 is a given for the launch of the new technology (hey -...
News Bleach: Heat The Soul 7 Details Emerge, Still Unlikely To Come To The West
Bleach is a pretty popular Western anime
It's pretty popular in Japan too, as Sony's managed to create and release six PSP games in the Heat The Soul franchise. Indeed, news coming out of Siliconera today suggests there's a seventh game on the horizon, with a wireless four player mode expanding the multiplayer beyond previous iterations. The games...
News Check Out Some New White Knight Chronicles 2 Screenshots
RPGLand's got a host of new screenshots from the upcoming SCEJ and Level-5 Playstation 3 exclusive White Knight Chronicles 2
Check 'em out if that's your thing.
News Lavish SCEA Presentation Puts Ted Price In The Modnation Racers Driving Seat
This super lavish SCEA production has Insomniac Games' CEO Ted Price waxing lyrical about Sony and United Front Games' upcoming "Play Create Share" kart-racer Modnation Racers
We love you Ted, and yes, we're excited about the game too.
News Retail Partners For God Of War Trilogy "Still Being Worked Out"
If you're worrying about your order for the God Of War Trilogy being cancelled, then you can stop now
There's no real need to worry, but there is the need to be annoyed. Apparently, Sony's yet to work out the retail partners that will be distributing the God Of War Trilogy special edition. I.e. not all shops will be stocking the product, hence your...
News Confirmed: Heavy Rain Knocks Up Figures Of One Million Plus
Sony's just confirmed via the Playstation Blog that Quantic Dream's ambitious Playstation exclusive, Heavy Rain, has totalled a million sales plus worldwide since its release just five weeks ago
We fell head over heels in love with Heavy Rain when we reviewed the game in February, describing the experience as "captivatingly original". If...
News Sony Submit An Entourage Of Playstation Portable Games To The ESRB, 15 New Titles Incoming
America's chief video games rating board, the ESRB, has outed no more than 15 upcoming Sony titles for the Playstation Portable
The list of games, discovered by Joystiq, appear to be download-only titles due to UMD not being listed as a potential release format. Detective work's also revealed that the games are unlikely to be Minis either, as the...
News Level-5 Working On Five Unannounced Games, To Reveal Them This Week In Famitsu
Level-5 over-ruler Akihiro Hino has Tweeted that the company are to announce five games in this week's issue of Japanese gaming bible Famitsu
While Level-5 are best known for their Nintendo DS Professor Layton releases, the team are also known for working on Sony's own White Knight Chronicles - of which there's a sequel in the works. Exactly how...
Report PS3 Has Highest Proportion Of Internet-Connected Users
You'd think given the constant touting of the XBOX Live service that Microsoft's XBOX 360 would have the most Internet-Connected users, but according to a survey by the Diffusion Group, that's just not true at all
In fact, their findings note that in a study of 2,000 broadband users in the US, 78 percent of users hit the Internet high-road with...
News Playstation Move Nunchuck Unit Gets Tagged "Navigation Controller"
Look, let's not beat around the bush - the Playstation Move's analogue stick attachment is a wireless Wii nunchuck
That's not as offensive as some people would like it to be - the nunchuck was a fantastic idea and Playstation Move would be limited without it. It's the name that's gotten some people's back up. We're not sure why it can't just be...
News God Of War 3's "Zipped Up Too Tightly" For Certain Types Of DLC, Says Stig Asmussen
According to Sony Santa Monica's Stig Asmussen, there's only so much the team can do with regards to God Of War III DLC as the game's "zipped up so tight"
He told Destructoid: Maybe we could do the epilogue that Im talking about. The full epilogue, just something fun to do. Theres skins and theres challenges, we could do those things. The...
Some interesting comments came out of Castlevania producer David Cox's pie-hole this week
The dev spoke candidly to PSM3 magazine about Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2 and its baring on the industry. In that interview Cox dropped a bomb of a quote, declaring that Uncharted 2 couldn't set a genre benchmark because it was a single-platform release. It left...
News Sold: More Uncharted 2: Among Thieves DLC On The Way
There's more Uncharted 2: Among Thieves DLC on the way
Yup, big hurrah. The Siege Expansion pack due at the end of the month includes new multiplayer maps, trophies, skins and an entirely new co-op mode. The new co-op mode, entitled Siege, has players working together to try and hold a territory against waves of invaders. In all there'll be two new...
News Heavy Rain Shifts Over One Million Copies, On Track For 1.5 Million By Year's End
Armchair analysts predicted Sony and Quantic Dream's unusual experiment Heavy Rain would barely break-even
They were wrong. Extremely wrong in fact, as David Cage has confirmed that the thriller has shifted over one million copies since its release in late February. The visionary told Play3.de: We have sold more than 1 million copies of Heavy Rain...
News Sony's John Koller Explains The Advantages Of Playstation Move Over Natal
Sony's John Koller has dropped a few sound-bytes as to why he believes the company's Playstation Move controller is better than Microsoft's Natal solution in an interview with Destructoid
The Sony man states: is better than Natal for a few reasons, but the biggest reason is what we call draw distance. What Natal has is very XY, youre playing...
News Japanese Hardware Sales Do The Ol' Sony One-Two
Sony's took the top two spots once more in Japan, with the Playstation 3 and Playstation Portable topping the Japanese hardware charts
Sony's home console managed 38k sales, where their portable hit the 37k mark. The consoles were followed up by a bunch of Nintendo SKUs, with the PSPgo still floundering at the bottom of the charts. Hit the jump for...
News SingStar Gets Free Online Battle Mode Update This Summer
Still playing SingStar? The likelihood is yes, it's definitely the best karaoke game on consoles
Thus you'll be delighted to hear that Sony and Studio London have a new free update in the pipeline for you: Online Battle Mode. Here you'll be able to send invites to your friends and challenge them to a song performance. Both players will need to own...
News Sony Plan To "Lead The Way" When It Comes To 3D Gaming
Sony's Simon Benson reckons that 3D is going to be gaming's "biggest revolution" of the modern age, and that Sony are plan to "lead the way" when they update all PS3's to support 3D content later this year
The fact that we have a team dedicated to stereoscopic 3D gaming shows that we are taking this very seriously, he said. We believe that...
News FirstPlay Launches This Week, Makes Official Playstation Magazine All Digital
FirstPlay's essentially the British version of Qore - a digital resource that runs directly on your Playstation 3 for all things Playstation
It's being put together by the fine folks at Official Playstation Magazine UK and episode one launches this week. Each episode'll set you back a measley £0.99 (or £8.99 for a 90-day subscription) and will...
News Castlevania Man: Uncharted 2 Didn't "Redefine Action Games" (Erm, Nobody Said It Did?)
Well this is an odd one
We liked Uncharted 2: Among Thieves because it was the best game of 2009. The gameplay mechanics, stunning visuals and fabulous scripting, pacing and voice acting were all key components for its success. Many hail Uncharted 2 as one of the best games this generation - but for some reason, in an interview with PSM3 magazine,...
News GeoHot Develops Custom Playstation 3 Firmware 3.21OO, Brings OtherOS Support Back
So if you've not been following the dramas of console hacking, here's the story: GeoHot claimed to hack the Playstation 3 a few months back, essentially allowing him to manipulate the system in anyway he pleased
That led to security concerns within Sony who decided to remove the OtherOS functionality found it older PS3 models. The removal of this...
News Kojima Reckons Games Consoles As We Know It Are On The Way Out
Speaking during this morning's Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker conference (which resulted in the announcement of a Monster Hunter collaboration), Kojima made a prediction that console gaming as we know it will be "phased out in the near future"
The Kojima Productions man predicted that console gamers should have their fix "on the go" in the...
News Mark Your Diary: Sony Confirm Their E3 Conference For June 15th
It's getting closer
Scarily. It feels like it was only just Christmas. Whatever. June's coming. That means E3 is coming. And that means Sony are preparing for what might be one of the most important E3 conferences in the last four or five years. We've just got word of the date too - June 15th. The event's set to kick off at the Shrine Auditorium...
News Hori Create A Portable Playstation 3 (Kind Of)
Are you ever out and about thinking to yourself: "Damn, I wish I could play the Playstation 3 right now
" Probably not many of you. But for the few of you in that situation, Hori's got your back with this ridiculous Sony-licensed LCD docking station. The devices attaches a neat little 1,366 x 768 LCD screen and Stereo speakers to your PS3...
News Blu-Ray Discs Are A-Getting Bigger
Blu-Ray discs are pretty huge
Traditionally they hold from 25-50GB on a single-layer, and 50-100GB on a dual-layer. Their size makes content such as God Of War III possible. But what if they were to get bigger? Well, they are. New 128GB BDXL discs are ready to go, but only for commercial usage. They won't work in your current PS3 because, well, the...
News Sony: The Age Of "Arrogance" Is Long Gone, Kevin Butler Has Changed Perception
At the launch of the Playstation 3 and for many years later people perceived Sony as completely arrogant
Launching a system for $600 and promoting it with crying babies didn't exactly help. But SCEA veteran Peter Dille reckons we're long past that, stating that "whole positioning was a bit intimidating to people". Dille told IGN that...
News David Cage Frustrated By Microsoft's "Sci-Fi" Natal Showcase
Remember when everyone went insane about five minutes after E3? "Oh man," they screamed, "Microsoft's created virtual life and science fiction technology via the XBOX 360
" Yeah - a PR masterpiece. The initial Project Natal showcase - Microsoft's controller-less gaming solution - was a bunch of smoke and mirrors, but it took most people a while...
News No, Actually Killzone 2 Won't Be Getting A 3D Update
News coming out of SCEA's PSN magazine Qore last week hinted that Killzone 2 was to get an update into the third dimension, courtesy of Sony's new Bravia range and updated PS3 firmware
That news was incorrect. Sony's said so: That last feature included interviews, footage from CES 2010, and a brief montage of SCEA titles intended as examples of...
News It's Easter Monday: Have A Pile Of Stunning Gran Turismo 5 Footage
It's a new week
It's a bank holiday. And that means there's more footage leaking out of Gran Turismo 5. Honestly - there's more unofficial footage of this stuff right now than there is official. These videos were picked up by Mimaximax , and feature footage of the McLaren F1, TVR Tuscan Speed 6, Mercedes SLR, and Nissan GTR V-Spec. Oh, it looks...
News Free Realms Hits 10 Million Users Mark, Plans Festivities
Sony Online Entertainment's free-to-play MMO Free Realms is barely a year old, but has already hit the 10 million user milestone
Reaching 10 million registered players on the eve of Free Realms first birthday is an incredibly exciting event for SOE and our passionate online community, says SOE president John Smedley. The service launched in...
News Ninja Theory Gaffer Not Stoked By "Limited" 3D Console Tech
Ninja Theory's boss man Tameem Antoniades has told CVG that 3D effects in current gen consoles are limiting
The leader of the team responsible for Heavenly Sword reckons framerates are the culprit. The problem is that to do 3D properly you need to render 60 frames per second, per eye. And at least a 720p resolution [per eye]. So in essence...
News David Jaffe Drops Hints That Eat, Sleep, Play's PS3 Title Is "Falling Into Place"
David Jaffe - legendary Playstation developer - has dropped some pretty big hints that his company's latest title (hotly tipped to be a Twisted Metal reboot) is on the cusp of an announcement
The God Of War creator wrote on his blog that the project is "starting to fall into place", and that Playstation fans will get a glimpse of the title...
News XBOX Man: Web Browsing On PS3 Is "A Nightmare"
We don't know about you lot, but we actually use the PS3 web browser all the time
It's often a broken, slow and clunky experience - no doubt about it. But we'd be lost without. When the computers are all switched off, we're in the middle of a game, and we need to quickly get an update on a story or something happening around the web — the first...
News Sony: Hardcore Gamers "Look Down Their Nose" At Motion Control
Peter Dille, SCEA's top marketing honcho, made a few comments regarding the Playstation Move this weekend that have been a little misconstrued
Speaking of motion control, Dille noted that the Wii has been supremely successful "but at the end of the day it's not a very precise experience". So far so, true? So what has got the Internet's...
High Velocity Bowling has been on my Playstation 3's hard-drive for a long time
I think I bought it while it was in one of SCEE's ludicrously cheap sales. I played it for maybe five-minutes after purchase and then never touched it again. But yesterday was a Bank Holiday here in the UK - a.k.a. "Sit On Your Ass And Do Nothing For 12 Hours"...
News Killzone 2 Enters The Third Dimension This Summer
As part of an upcoming firmware update for the PS3, Sony's box of tricks will be able to handle full 3D when used in collaboration with a 3D-compatible TV
But what games will support the new tech? Well, a hot rumour shooting its way out of Sony PSN-download show Qore suggests Killzone 2 will be one game in the line-up, alongside LittleBigPlanet,...
News Peter Dille: God Of War III Sales Passed A Million In "Just A Couple Of Days"
Good news for Sony and their Santa Monica studio, SCEA's VP of marketing Peter Dille has confirmed that God Of War III has sold over one million units in "just a couple of days"
No word on whether that figures worldwide, or just the US. The NPD sales data for America are due next week, so we'll know for sure just how well God Of War III (and indeed...
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