Tag Archives: ps3

LittleBigPlanet GOTY finally hits UK

LittleBigPlanet Game of the Year edition will finally reach UK shores this month. The game will be available from Friday, April 16th and includes the full LittleBigPlanet game, all Metal Gear Solid packs, a selection of non-licensed DLC and 15 exclusive levels. MCV discovered the SKU last year, but the …

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Wii captured 47% of market in 09

Nintendo’s Wii accounted for 47 per cent of the global home console market in 2009, according to a report from Ibis Capital. Gamasutra reports that of the remainder, Xbox 360 claimed 35 per cent of the market and PS3 just 18 per cent. Total global console revenues hit $30bn. Looking …

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Sony: The arrogance has gone

The decision to change the cryptic, artistic PS3 ads of the past to the more straightforward design of the present – lead by the new ‘It Only Does Everything’ message – has seemingly delivered the goods for Sony. Speaking at the MI6 marketing conference in the US, SCEA’s head of …

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Current 3D console tech limited

Both the PS3 and Xbox 360 lack the processing power needed to run ‘proper’ next-gen 3D titles, according to one console developer. Citing the fact that only a handful titles to date have even struck upon what was once championed as the defining standard of the current generation of consoles …

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Killzone 2 getting 3D update

Sony’s throwing its weight behind the upcoming PS3 3D update in June by confirming that popular FPS title Killzone 2 will be patched to support 3D in the same month. As spotted by Gamer Access in the latest edition of PSN series Qore, the move adds triple-A credentials to the …

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GoW III sold 1m in week one

We don’t know in what region and we don’t know the exact timeframe, but SCEA’s VP or marketing Peter Dille has stated that God of War III passed the 1m unit sales barrier in just a couple of days”. The news comes courtesy of IGN reporting from the North American …

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Hotz declares war on Sony

Having been the first to crack some of PS3’s key security features earlier this year, famous iPhone hacker George Hotz has vowed to discover a method to circumvent Sony’s upcoming PS3 update that will remove the ability to install an alternative operating system. Hotz claims that the move is not …

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GAME secures Backbreaker exclusive

505 Games’ American football title Backbreaker is to be sold exclusively via GAME on Xbox 360 and PS3. And the iPhone edition of the game – Backbreaker: Tackle Ally – features a link so customers can instantly pre-order the console version from GAME websites. The iPhone game is already available …

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Sony: We dismissed motion camera tech

In a not-so-thinly veiled attack on Microsoft’s Natal camera, Sony’s R&D boss Richard Marks has claimed that the PlayStation Platform holder rejected similar technology for its PS3 motion update. We tried a lot of different 3D cameras,” Marks told The Engadget Show, as spotted by VG247. We worked closely with …

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