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As the most successful home console the world has ever known, Sony’s PS2, celebrates its tenth birthday in Europe, former SCEE president Chris Deering has said that the PS3 could yet go on to eclipse its accomplishments. Now entering its 11th year, the PS2 has sold a total of 147.6m …
Read More »Sony warns of Move shortages
PlayStation move stock is likely to be hard to come by until 2011, platform holder Sony has warned. SCEA’s senior VP or marketing Peter Dille told VentureBeat that Sony misjudged the demand for the stand-alone Move controllers” and that stores are running low across Europe, America and Japan. That bodes …
Read More »Gran Turismo 5 reviews are GO!
After what has felt like an eternal wait for the millions of fans of the franchise, the first reviews of Gran Turismo 5 are currently appearing online following the lifting of Sony’s reviews embargo at 8:00am. The overall picture is positive, with plenty of eights, a nine from Eurogamer and …
Read More »Sony teases PS3 holographic games
The PS3 has lead the way when it comes to 3D gaming on consoles – and new comments from Sony suggest that the PS3 could be about to take the lead in the still developing holographic sector. Earlier this month US academics predicted that holographic TVs will be available to …
Read More »Over 50 3D PS3 games in the works
Sony is assembling an arsenal of over fifty 3D games in its new assault on the home console market – with over twenty of those titles being built internally. Ahead of his ‘3D gaming’ keynote at this week’s Develop in Liverpool conference, SCEE studio director Mick Hocking said he will …
Read More »â??3D adds just 2% on time and budgetâ?? â?? Sony
And the tech can demand as little as 3ms of GPU time, says SCEEâ??s Mick Hocking
Read More »EA: Shift 2 can beat sterile GT5
Just hours before Sony’s Gran Turismo 5 at last arrives at UK retail, publisher EA has said that its upcoming racer Shift 2: Unleashed can offer a more authentic driving experience” that Polyphony’s racer. If you look at Hot Pursuit and Gran Turismo, there is a big difference in those …
Read More »GT5s place in the modern market
Gran Turismo 4 came out on PS2 in 2004. Back then there was no iPhone, free-to-play online Flash games were in their infancy and paying 50 for a new console release was perfectly reasonable. Fast forward to 2007. Nope, scrap that. 2009? No. Try again. Fast forward some more to …
Read More »Update needed to play GT5 online
Consumers who rush out tomorrow to be among the first to get their hands on the long-awaited PS3 racer Gran Turismo 5 tomorrow will need to download a hefty update right away if they wish to take the game online. Confirmation of the 133MB patch comes from Eurogamer. The download …
Read More »Konami ships 1m Castlevania
The recent 3D reinvention of cult games IP Castlevania has enjoyed a solid start at retail, publisher Konami has announced. The company has shipped 1m units of the game to European and North American retail since its release last month. It will hit Japanese retail in December. Castlevania has truly …
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