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With a decision expected on Sony’s Australian injunction against the sale of PSJailbreak today, it has emerged that the American arm of the platform holder has joined the battle. Kotaku reports that SCEA has filed a lawsuit against Californian online retailer Zoomba LDC, alleging a number of copyright violations. It …

As was speculated yesterday, Sony is to launch an iTunes-rivalling digital music service for a number of its home entertainment products. Though technically it sounds impressive the branding could perhaps do with a little work – it’s called ‘Music Unlimited Powered by Qriocity’. Nonetheless, the European PlayStation Blog reports that …

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UK broadsheet The Financial Times is claiming that Sony will use its presentation at consumer electronics trade show IFA to unveil a brand new iTunes-rivalling digital sales platform. The service will reportedly be fronted by both the PS3 and PSP though will at a later date roll out onto Vaio …

Sony may have successfully (for now) curtailed sales of the first ever PS3 hack, but as feared the first clone of the device have appeared online – and more worryingly for Sony, it is free to download. Called PSGroove, the download allows PS3 owners to run unofficial code on their …

Activision has announced that console flight sim Apache: Air Assault will be released in the UK for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on November 19th. The title is being released in the US on November 9th. Apache: Air Assault being developed independent Russian studio Gaijin Entertainment which was the outfit …

The company behind the controversial PSJailbreak, a device that allows users to play homebrew and pirated code on PS3 for the first time, has asserted its position in the face of Sony’s legal challenge to the product. Last week Sony was been granted a temporary injunction preventing the importing or …

Famed racing developer Polyphony Digital has stated that owners of Gran Turismo 5 will have to endure a 10GB install if they want ‘a smooth play experience’. Andriasang reports that series creator Kazunori Yamauchi confirmed the details via Twitter, though he added that only a 250MB install will be mandatory. …

The Australian arm of Sony Computer Entertainment has won a temporary injunction that has banned the importing or sale of a new PS3 hacking tool until August 31st. The PSJailbreak first emerged earlier this month. It claims to allow PS3 owners to run pirated code directly from an external storage …

Move is unlikely to be a massive sales success on day one when it lands in the UK on September 17th – instead, Sony believes that the device will sell over time thanks to word-of-mouth amongst consumers. Exactly as with EyeToy in the PS2 days, it’s a product that needs …