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Read More »Battlefield 1943 out next week
The next instalment in DICE’s popular multiplayer war series Battlefield 1943 will be released on Xbox 360 and PS3 next week, publisher EA has confirmed. Xbox 360 owners will get a one-day head start of their PlayStation rivals when the game arrives on Xbox Live on July 8th, priced at …
Read More »No more Wii for No More Heroes
Wii’s hardcore gaming credentials have taken another knock with the news that one of its leading mature brands is unlikely to appear again on the system. No More Heroes, a title from Goichi Suda’s Grasshopper Manufacture, is one of the leading hardcore titles on the system and a sequel is …
Read More »UK console installed base tops 24m
This generation of consoles has sold 24 million units in the UK to date – up 8.4 million in the last 12 months. According to GfK-ChartTrack data for sales up to June 27th, 2009, DS enjoys the biggest installed base with 9.1 million, up 2.7 million from the same period …
Read More »JAPAN: Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 dated
The latest adventure in the digital life of the bad-tempered Ryu Hayabusa, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, will be released for PS3 in Japan on October 1st, it has been confirmed. NGS2 is a reworked version of Xbox 360 exclusive Ninja Gaiden II and includes a host of new additions such …
Read More »PS3 Slim already in production?
It was the big pre-E3 rumour that never happened, but talk has once again emerged of a slimmed down re-imagining of Sony’s PS3 console, with claims that contracts with manufacturers have now been finalised. Joystiq reports that two Taiwanese manufacturing companies, Foxconn and Pegatron, who already enjoy contracts to make …
Read More »Pachter: PS3 will trump 360 by 2015
As part of his report that outlined the true scale of the North American pre-owned software market, Wedbush Morgan’s analyst Michael Pachter has thrown the cat amongst the pigeons by predicting that PS3 will ultimately overtake Xbox 360’s install base in this generation of machines. Crediting the Blu-ray alliance’s victory …
Read More »Home to be essential for all PS3 games
PlayStation Home stands to become an essential component for all PS3 games”, according to the service’s director. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s Peter Edward predicted the online virtual world would become integral to future PS3 titles as the company continues to develop the service, Gamasutra reports. Home is the starting point …
Read More »PlayStation Home attracts 7 million residents
Sony's online community in numbers
Read More »SCEE to detail PS3 motion controller at Develop Conference
New sessions announced for Brighton conference this July
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