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A new take on how to deliver demo games has reportedly been patented by PlayStation platform holder Sony. Best described as a ‘deteriorating’ or ‘degradable’ tech, the idea is that gamers would initially receive the full version of the game in question. However, over time features would be removed until …

We’re still waiting to see what games will be fronting both Sony’s and Microsoft’s motion control offering when the pair go to war on the High Street this Christmas – but rumours are pointing to a big hardcore title for Sony’s device. Specifically, CVG claims to have word from a …

Sony has revealed the identity of its surprise sequel” – a fourth instalment in the SOCOM series, which is headed to PS3 later this year. Zipper Interactive, developer of the first SOCOM title and recently released online PS3 online shooter MAG, will take charge of the game. European project manager …

Its methodology is hugely dubious, but there are some press releases you simply have to report. A new survey of 2,400 male PS3 owners claims that 87 per cent of them chose to spend some quality time” with their partners on the night that their PS3 was out of action …

Activision’s upcoming racer Blur will be the first game to allow PS3 and Xbox 360 players to compete against each other AND the first to offer online multiplayer for Silver members of Xbox Live Arcade. That’s the headline claim being made by Bizarre Creations, though the mechanics of the functionality …

Upcoming third-person shooter Vanquish has been scheduled for a winter release in Japan. The Xbox 360 and PS3 title, produced by Platinum Games of Bayonetta and Mad World fame, should hit the UK in December or the first few months of 2011. Vanquish’s director Shinji Mikami said it will not …

Bizarre Creations confident they can get the most out of the knotty PlayStation set-up

April’s upcoming Splinter Cell: Conviction will, thanks to a deal with Microsoft, be exclusive to Xbox 360 – but don’t assume that the same can be said of its eventual successor. I don’t see why it wouldn’t,” Ubisoft Montreal’s Max Beland stated when asked by Edge Online if the next …

The PS3 crisis is officially over – but if for some reason you think PS3 is in line for a second global meltdown, bookmaker Paddy Power is willing to take your money. The bookmaker is currently offering odds of 11/8 on PS3 suffering a new worldwide glitch. If you think …

Throughout yesterday’s ‘Day of Despair‘ for PS3, Sony persistently referred to the issue as a problem with PSN – but the truth behind what caused the global blackout of around 90 per cent of the world’s PS3 is a lot more complicated. PSN was initially thought to be at fault …