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SONY: Move sales hit 8.8m

With Microsoft making lots of noise about Xbox 360 Kinect in its press briefing, Sony has also highlighted its own motion gaming success. To date the Move controller has sold 8.8m units around the world. It will also feature as part of a new Resistance 3 bundle. The SHKU includes …

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SONY: New Sly Cooper confirmed

Sly Cooper will return to PlayStation consoles next year after what will be a seven-year gap since Sly 3. As the fourth main entry in Sony’s action game series, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time will arrive exclusively on PS3 in 2012. Late last year the Sly Collection hit shelves – …

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SONY: 3D PlayStation monitor announced

One of the more intriguing announcements to emerge from Sony’s E3 press briefing was the reveal of a brand new PlayStation branded 3D monitor. The 24-inch screen comes bundled with cables, a pair of branded 3D glasses and a copy of Resistance 3 and will retail for $499. The PS …

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EA: Insomniac game is Overstrike

The first game to emerge from the publishing deal between EA and developer Insomniac has been named – it’s Overdrive. The games being developed for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, though no release date has yet been given. Overdrive’s main hook is cooperative multiplayer for four gamers, each of whom …

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SONY: Phaser controller for Star Trek game

Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot Productions have teamed up with Sony to deliver PS3 fans with a special Phaser controller and exclusive downloadable game. During Sony’s E3 press conference, SCEA president and CEO Jack Tretton announced that next year’s Star Trek title – which MCV reported on last week – …

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UBISOFT: Beyond Good & Evil 2 skips 360, PS3

Beyond Good & Evil 2 won’t be released on Xbox 360, PS3 or Wii, Ubisoft development veteran Michel Ancel has confirmed. The follow-up to the multiformat 2003 action adventure game will instead arrive on the next generation of consoles. It is still alive and we are very far into development …

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SONY: Tretton apologies for PSN outage

SCEA boss Jack Tretton opened Sony’s E3 conference last night with what appeared to be a very sincere apology for the PlayStation network outage that has dominated the headlines over the last few weeks. "This isn’t the first time that I’ve come to the stage at an E3 press conference …

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