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Just moments after posting news of a possible return for the PlayStation Store in the next few hours, Sony has moved to quash the rumours. "PlayStation Network will undergo routine maintenance today," SCEE blog manager James Gallagher stated. "If you wish to play online during the maintenance, please ensure you …

Sony has announced that PSN will be shut down for essential maintenance tonight between 16:00 and midnight. Throughout this time the following services will be unavailable – PC registration, account management and account registration. Those signed in before 16:00 will remain logged in and can continue as normal, though logging …

CEO on the crisis talks at EA's darkest hour, and how far the firm has come from failure

Sony’s PSP Remaster series will offer HD visuals and online multiplayer but PS3’s Trophy system will not be included in the games. That’s according to Siliconera, which claims to have word directly from SCE Japan. It’s not hard to guess the reasoning behind the decision. Way back in 2009 Sony …

It’s something that most of us believed would never happen. Duke Nukem Forever is complete. It’s finished. It’s gone gold and being pressed onto disc right now. When the game eventually hits the shops it will mark the end of a 15 year journey that has spanned multiple platforms, decades, …

Amazon UK and Argos have stayed at last year’s number one and two spots respectively, while Tesco has knocked Play.com off the number three spot, moving it down one place to number four. Experian said that one of the fast moving sectors were department stores and John Lewis was one …

Microsoft will launch the successor of its Windows PC operating system next year, the company’s chief has revealed. Steve Ballmer said at a press conference in Tokyo that the new operating system would be optimised for tablet devices, PCs and a variety of different form factors”. Elsewhere in his speech, …

Microsoft is reforming its Windows Phone with an imminent release of a new and improved operating system, the company’s CEO has claimed. Steve Ballmer said at a press conference in Tokyo that the Windows Phone OS is now much more global”, and will add over 500 new features”. Microsoft will …

PSN remains online, but it seems that hackers are not letting up on their tirade against PlayStation platform holder Sony. Reuters reports that Sony websites from three different countries have been hacked. In addition, it claims that the personal in formation of 8,500 customers has been stolen from its Sony …

With less than two weeks until this year’s annual E3 kicks off, Microsoft has teased journalists about what to expect from its press conference. As published by Kotaku, the invites that have been posted out contain a number of references, chief amongst them being Halo, Star Wars and GLaDOS. It …