Tag: Sony - Page 362
News Sony Strengthen European First-Party, Acquire Media Molecule
Media Molecule and SCE has today announced that they're getting hitched
That is — Sony has acquired Media Molecule making them an official first-part studio under the SCE Worldwide Studios banner. Obviously, if you didn't know, Media Molecule made the brilliantly innovative LittleBigPlanet.Since they burst onto the gaming scene, Media Molecule...
News MLB 10: The Show Gets A Launch Trailer, Looks Amazing
Just a little more visual confirmation that MLB 10: The Show is one of the best looking Playstation games available right now for you
This is the launch trailer for today's (USA) release. It looks fantastic.
News Sony Registers "Arc" In Japan, Playstation Motion Controller Meet Your Name
Perhaps fuelling the fires that Sony's Playstation Motion Controller will eventually be called the Playstation Arc, Siliconera's found a Japanese trademark filing for the name
Couple that with a website registration a few weeks ago and you have your name. It doesn't really take a genius, eh?
News Make Your Ears Bleed: The God Of War III EP Hits iTunes
Fancy a host of terrible metal music without buying the God Of War III Ultimate Trilogy Edition? You're in luck - the God Of War: Blood & Metal EP has just hit iTunes (in the US at least)
It includes bands such as Killswitch Engage ("This is my lassst serenade - ROAR RAH ROARRRRRR!"), Opeth and Trivium. As much as we love God Of War...
News Ruh Roh: British Newspaper Metro Runs Frontpage On PS3 Errors
If you want hilariously out-of-date news, go pick-up the Metro from your local bus-stop or train-station
The paper, released this morning, runs with the headline "Millions Hit By PS3 Meltdown". Not great PR for Sony, but kinda ironic given that by the time people were reading this "news" all PS3s had been back online for roughly...
News Playstation 3: It Only Does Self-Resurrection, Bugged Consoles Back To Full Working Order
As we speculated yesterday, at 00:00AM GMT last night a whole host of borked Playstation 3 systems fixed themselves
There was a simple glitch in the system clock that caused the Playstation 3 to think March 1st was actually February 29th; in turn causing older systems to flip out. Everything should be back to normal now though, regardless of which...
News God Of War III Previews Laud The Opening 30 Minutes
An embargo for God Of War III has lifted this afternoon, with much of the American press evangelising the game's opening scene
Kotaku describe the opening boss fight as "unforgettable", while Destructoid suggest "you're not ready" for it.
News Heavy Rain Stock Shortages Are Being Dealt With
If your PS3 is totally working right now, you might be suffering from a whole new problem this evening: you can't find a copy of Heavy Rain
According to MCV, Quantic Dream's thriller is suffering from shortages in some retail circles after the game shot straight to the top of the UK charts this morning.We have been extremely delighted with the...
News Sony Issue Statement On PS3 Bug Situation, Hope To Fix The Problem Within The Next 24 Hours
Sony's released a press release regarding the impending "apocalyPS3" which has seen millions of Playstation 3s borked since Sunday evening
As you may be aware, some customers have been unable to connect to the PlayStation Network today. This problem affects the models other than the new slim PS3. We believe we have identified that this problem is...
News New Line Cinema Own The Rights For A Heavy Rain Movie, Won't Ever Happen
What if interactive drama wasn't quite so interactive? It would be a movie right? Of course it would
And while it would never happen, it's been discovered that copyright documents exist for such a thing. Apparently, in May 2006 New Line Cinema grabbed the rights for a Heavy Rain movie. It's totally never going to come out of course. But y'know. It's...
News Keighley: Wait Until You See What The God Of War Team Are Doing Next
GameTrailers TV's Geoff Keighley has given the first hint on Sony Santa Monica's next project, simply stating on his Twitter page, "Wait until you see what they're doing next
" It comes in response to a fan's Tweet to Keighley, in which he stated "Can't believe how amazing God Of War III looks." God Of War III already appears to push...
News God Of War III Advert Pops Up, Features Silly Voices
We're torn by this God Of War III advert that will be shown in the UK
On one hand, it does everything you'd want it to: show the actual gameplay, show the scale, show the violence. On the other hand though, the narrator's voice is bloody ridiculous. We definitely think this trailer could do with an "Actual gameplay footage" note though, as...
News Disaster: PS3s Conk Out, PSN Serves Blackout, Trophies Lost, Armageddon Nears
Update @ 15:35GMT - it's now commonly believed the issues are related to a system clock error
</em> When we went to bed last night, everything seemed sugar and rainbows. Over night though, all hell has broken loose. The PSN has gone tits up, bombarding users with a host of 8001050F error codes. The frightening error basically locks you out of...
News Heavy Rain Tops The UK Sales Charts & Rightly So
"Bu-Bu-But Heavy Rain sucks because it's not going to sell
" It may be a comment you've read on a message board somewhere. Well those people are not only stupid, but they're also officially wrong: Heavy Rain just topped the UK sales charts. As in — outsold every other video game in the UK in the past seven days. We thought it was...
News David Jaffe Reacts To God Of War III With A Firm "Holy Hell!"
For those of you who have followed David Jaffe's recent interviews with Kotaku and 4Guys1Up, you'll know the God Of War creator is yet to play the final version of God Of War III yet
So it's pretty interesting to see him react to the latest footage uploaded by GameTrailers TV yesterday. Obviously, whilst still not being directly connected to the...
News Listen To Some Terrible Metal Music From The God Of War III Ultimate Trilogy Edition
The God Of War III Ultimate Trilogy Edition comes with practically everything but the kitchen sink
That means you get some heavy metal with it, yo. You can totally sample those tunes by heading over to AOL Radio's, erm, Metal Mosh Pit (sigh) Station. We played one of the songs for all of, oooh, ten seconds. It was horrific.
News Jacky-Boy Tretton: Heavy Rain's Gonna Sell "Incredibly Well"
You know, there was a time when we would have scoffed at Jack Tretton's comments regarding Heavy Rain's sales
But now, not so. Tretton has told FastCompany that Heavy Rain will sell "incredibly well", and he's absolutely right. In fact, from what we're hearing around the world it already is. When the game was announced in 2008, we really...
News New Gran Turismo 5 Screens Are Typically Pretty (Surprise!)
Above is a picture of cars driving on a race track
They are being rendered by the unbelievably pretty Gran Turismo 5 engine. You can see more through the link at GTPlanet. Can we have a release date now, please?
God Of War III really will result in chaos
Not because of Kratos' plight, but simply because this baby looks better than every other video game out at the moment — every other non-Sony developer must be pretty nervous. The latest footage comes as part of a GameTrailers TV special, in which host Geoff Keighley visits Sony's Santa Monica studio,...
News Heavy Rain Players Encountering Some Technical Issues
Honestly, we can categorically state we played through Heavy Rain without any noticeable glitches
Sadly, that doesn't appear to be the case for everyone though, as it appears some people are having technical issues with the game. From freezing, to out-of-sync audio, you can guarantee there's someone complaining about it right now - most likely on...
News Castle Crashers Still Totally Coming To The PS3, Includes Volley Ball
It's been a while since we got an update regarding Castle Crashers, but a post on the European Playstation Blog has confirmed that, yes, it's still happening hurrah
In addition to the game actually existing, the fine folks at The Behemoth have disclosed details of a new volley ball game that is being added into the Playstation 3 version of the game...
News Playstation Home Having Difficulty Attracting Advertisers
Playstation Home is actually a pretty busy service considering
Sure, when the Home open beta launched what seems like an eternity ago, it was pretty sparse. But since then the space has grown quite a lot, still not quite delivering on its potential, but still giving users plenty to do. Sadly, according to Brand Week the service isn't quite...
News Heads Up: There's A God Of War III Demo On The Playstation Store
If you still haven't played the E3 demo of God Of War III, now's your chance
It's available on the European Playstation Store. Go download it if you've yet to try out the third iteration of Kratos' journey. It's a shame it's not a new demo, but that E3 build was mighty polished.
News MAG Patch 1.03 Arrives At Some Point Today, Looks Big
MAG will be upgraded to 1
03 today. Hurrah. That means we get to dissect a massive list of upgrades to our now-favourite online shooter. The upgrades are "dramatic" according to Zipper, and it certainly looks like they've gone to town with improving the experience. Which of course, is totally awesome news. We'd summarise the updates here,...
News God Of War III Gets Unsurprisingly Brutal Trophies
TheSixthAxis has stumbled upon the semi-complete list of trophies you can expect to unlock whilst playing God Of War III next month
As anticipated, the trophies sound particularly brutal, with unlocks for a 1,000 hit combo and beating the game on "Titan" mode. There are sixteen, presumably story related, secret trophies in addition to the...
News GameTrailers TV Blow Out God Of War III This Week
Geoff Keighley's promised to blow the lid off God Of War III this week, with an episode of GameTrailers TV coming straight from Sony Santa Monica
In the teaser trailer Geoff promises an exclusive gameplay blowout, aswell as an interview with God Of War III director Stig Asmussen.
News Check This Out: Olympique Lyon Wear Heavy Rain Branded Football Shirts
Over the weekend, French football team Olympique Lyon thrashed fellow league rivals Sochaux 4-0
They did this whilst wearing Playstation 3, and more specifically, Heavy Rain branded shirts. Awesome. It's part of the latest craze in European football, where teams change their sponsor on a match-to-match basis. It's weird seeing Heavy Rain on a...
News Terrible News: Sony Computer Entertainment No Longer Called Sony Computer Entertainment
Update @ 11:18GMT: In light of further press releases and what-not we're actually really bloody confused
But what we understand is that Sony Computer Entertainment will become SNE, then the Playstation business will be separated back out into a new company called, erm, Sony Computer Entertainment. Ridiculous, right? That's what appears to be the...
Rumour Killzone 3 Coming This Christmas
The Killzone 3 rumours apparently will just not die
According to Play.TM, Killzone 3 is due this Christmas and will support both 3D and Playstation Motion Controller support. To be honest, there probably couldn't be a better franchise for Sony to push their latest technology (particularly 3D), but is a Christmas slot to soon for Killzone 3? Well the...
News God Of War III Will Not Have A Mandatory Install
Sony's exclusive developers have once again shown why they are the some of the best in the world, announcing that God Of War III - despite being a complete graphical powerhouse - will not have a mandatory install like other PS3 titles
It'll need 5MB to save your game data, but, yo, we're sure you can spare that. God Of War III's due out next month.
News Check Out SCEE's Heavy Rain Commercial [It's Pretty Alright]
Surprise
Sony are going to actually promote Heavy Rain as a product. On the television. Blimey! Sony, television, advertising? Who'd have thunk it, eh? That advert sticks with SCEE's "Start" tag-line, still not as good as the "Only Does Everything" commercials in America, but the more serious tone probably fits this game...
There's no denying that as Sony faithfuls we've seen the Playstation Motion Controller lose all its buzz since E3 because of a barrage of Microsoft press regarding the Natal motion controller
Interestingly, shortly after both Sony and Microsoft's presentations at E3, gamers perception was little different — most coming away extremely impressed...
News Heavy Rain's Female Cast Are Definitely Not Just "Eye Candy"
NowGamer's Samuel Roberts recently posted a critique on the portrayal of women in Quantic Dream's forward-thinking noire-thriller Heavy Rain
Having played the game to death already for review here in the PushSquare office, we took issue with Samuel's particular point. [Some very mild spoilers through the link] Without wanting to tread too far...
News Playstation Motion Controller "Could Work Fantastic" With Red Steel 2
The first Red Steel game on Nintendo Wii was a bit of disappointment
The follow-up looks hella awesome. And Ubisoft reckon it "could work fantastically" well on Sony's upcoming Playstation Motion Controller. He told VideoGamesDaily:I think it could work fantastically with the Sony wand, he said. With this kind of game you need a...
News Playstation Portable Lineup To Be "Robust" In 2010
Remember the PSP? Yeah, there's not been so much great content on the system early this year, but it had a rip-roaring lineup in 2009
Sony's Rob Dyer reckons players shouldn't worry, as the PSP will be getting a pretty "robust" lineup in 2010. He told IndustryGamers:I think we had a great lineup last year, said Dyer. The biggest...
News Michael Pachter Is All Like, "Natal Will Outsell Playstation Motion Controller 5:1"
We like Michael Pachter
We don't think he's particularly biased, and we don't often disagree with his opinion. But the dude is unreal when it comes to Microsoft's much-hyped but not-so-much-shown camera device "Project Natal". In his latest report, the American analyst has once again declared his love for the Microsoft philosophy, claiming...
News SCEE: MotorStorm Website Registation Is Not A Confirmation [Wink, Wink]
Sony's told VG247 that the registration of a MotorStorm 3 website should not be interpreted as an announcement"
Whoopsies, and there was us going all wild with our jet-ski fantasies.Its not uncommon for us to secure the URLs containing the names of our successful IP, and those actions should not be interpreted as an announcement of a new...
News Let It Rain, Let It Rain, Let It Rain...
We just wanted to remind you folks that this week is indeed the week you've been waiting for
Heavy Rain is launched in Europe and USA, meaning you'll finally get to find out just who the origami killer is. We already know, but our lips are sealed firmly shut. In our 4/4 review last week we described Heavy Rain as "captivatingly original"...
News Sony Files New PS3 SKUs To The FCC
Sony's filed two new PS3 SKUs to the FCC, hinting perhaps at a fresher version of the PS3 Slim
The filing - listed under Sony's secret alias The Sand Dollar Enterprise - reveals two new hardware SKUs listed as CECH-2101A and CECH-2101B. As Engadget point out, the the alphabetical difference points towards the different hard-drive sizes. Apparently...
News Watch People Like Samuel L. Jackson Talk About Heavy Rain
You know what? Heavy Rain is a much bigger deal than most ordinary games
We're sorry to say it because we look all pretentious and dumb, but it really is. And so, on its launch week, it deserves more than just another trailer. It deserves a highly produced video featuring people like Samuel L. Jackson answering the question, "how far would...
News Literally Not Very Interesting "News": God Of War III Is 35GB In Size
In probably the most dull story to break over the weekend, Sony Santa Monica's tech-dude Tim Moss has announced that God Of War III is roughly 35GB in size
Amazing news, no? Erm. Ol' Timmy followed up by stating the European version is in the low 40's. "Thank goodness for Dual Layered blu-ray," he proclaimed. To which we respond — thank...
News MotorStorm3.com Registered By Sony Computer Entertainment
To be honest, we've been hearing MotorStorm 3 rumblings for months and months
But this is the first "concrete" piece of evidence we've been privvy to regarding the follow-up to Evolution Studio's popular arcade racer. It's not a lot to go on but, according to the WhoIs of motorstorm3.com, Sony Computer Entertainment registered the domain...
News Sony's Playstation Portable Continues To Top The Japanese Hardware Charts
This week's Japanese hardware chart looks vaguely similar to the week before it
The Playstation Portable still tops the charts, with the PSPgo in dead last at the other end of the spectrum. Somewhere in the middle is the Playstation 3, with some Nintendo platforms above it and the XBOX 360 far below it. Check the numbers after the jump. PSP -...
News Sony On Nintendo: "There's Not A Lot Of New IP"
Following our, now favourite Sony exec, Rob Dyer's verbal attack on Microsoft, it's awesome to see the dude come out and hate on Nintendo too
Well, awesome in a childish console war business kind of way. Rob said of Nintendo's system:"Unless they've got a particular franchise that's worked well on the Wii, you don't see a lot of innovative new...
News Valve "Reconsidering" Playstation 3 Development At Long Last
We've been very vocal about Valve and their refusal to develop on Playstation 3
But thing have changed since Valve last shot their mouth off. Sony essentially re-marketed the Playstation 3 in the backend of last year, and the console has since emerged as a worthy contender in the console war, rather than a straddler. That's not totally changed...
News God Of War III's Totally Done, Finito, What They Call "Gold"
According to a Tweet from Sony Santa Monica's Christer Ericson, "God Of War III has gone gold [
.] Whee!" That means, valued readers, that the game is done, and is currently in production, ready for you grubby lot to get your greedy mitts all over it. Awesome.
News PixelJunk Racers "2nd Lap" Presumably On The Horizon
A mysterious rating by the ESRB for PixelJunk Racers "2nd Lap" suggests we're due a dose of new PixelJunk Racers content anytime soon
It almost seems traditional for a PixelJunk title to get some extra DLC somewhere down the line, so if you were a fan of Racers we suggest keeping your ears to the ground for an official announcement of 2nd Lap.
News Want To Know About God Of War III's Sex Mini-Game? [Spoilers?]
The ESRB rating for God Of War III has outed the game's sex mini-game; a common staple for the God Of War franchise
The ESRB write:Players will encounter a goddess and her two hand maidens, all topless, all holding and caressing each other. If players wish to, they may join the goddess (and only the goddess) in bed. Actual sex is never depicted...
News Get The God Of War III Demo By Preordering Now
According to a listing on UK retailer GAME's website, anyone who preorders God Of War III before February 25th will get exclusive access to the demo that, well, most of us have already played
But if you haven't played it, hey, now's your chance right? Sony's committed to a public release of the demo in the future, but are yet to specify a date on...
News David Jaffe: "Soon, B***h - Eight Or Nine Months!"
At DICE's AIAS awards last night, acclaimed Playstation developer David Jaffe may well have caved to speculation that he's working on a Twisted Metal reboot
The outspoken God Of War creator received chants of "Twisted Metal" from the crowd at the AIAS, to which he responded, "Soon, b***h - eight or nine months!" That kind of...
![Check Out SCEE's Heavy Rain Commercial [It's Pretty Alright]](https://images.pushsquare.com/news/2010/02/check_out_scees_heavy_rain_commercial_its_pretty_alright/250x183.jpg)
![SCEE: MotorStorm Website Registation Is Not A Confirmation [Wink, Wink]](https://images.pushsquare.com/c137b030d9ef6/250x183.jpg)
![Want To Know About God Of War III's Sex Mini-Game? [Spoilers?]](https://images.pushsquare.com/941c858c520c1/250x183.jpg)
