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Pain gets Blu-ray retail release

Well over a year since its release on the European arm of PSN in March 2008, Sony is to grant Idol Minds’ action physics title Pain a boxed retail release across Europe. The disc will most of the DLC released to game to date, including levels such as Movie Studio …

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Tretton: Motion control possible on all PS3 games

As well as revealing his disdain for sensitive info leaks, SCEA CEO Jack Tretton has also suggested that the PS3’s prototype motion controller is more flexible than the Wii’s. Speaking in an interview with news group CNBC Tretton compared Nintendo’s revolutionary Wii remote with Sony’s own post-Sixaxis motion controller. Personally, …

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VidZone is it PS3s Spotify?

Sony yesterday launched its brand new VidZone service for PS3 users in the UK – and whilst the release has been met with little fanfare, those who have downloaded and tried it are already chalking VidZone up as a potential system seller. To read the full story, click here to …

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Valve reluctant to develop for complicated PS3

Washington-based independent Valve has said it is reluctant to develop PS3 games due to the system’s complex hardware design. Left 4 Dead 2 project lead Tom Leonard stated that Microsoft’s Windows and 360 platforms remain more inviting for the studio to work on. For the full story, click here to …

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Borderlands now aiming for October

Having missed its provisional 2008 release date, 2K Games’ Borderlands is now on track for a release this October, according to Shacknews. The game, which is being developed by Brothers in Arms studio Gearbox, is a shooter-come/RPG set in an apocalyptic future with a heavy leaning towards vehicles. It bears …

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Sony says 360 and Wii owners will upgrade to PS3

Andrew House, the president of SCE Europe, has suggested that owners of current consoles such as Wii and Xbox 360 will ‘upgrade’ to a PS3 in an effort to keep track of the technology offered by Sony’s machine. If you look back at previous lifecycles, like PS2 versus N64, we …

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Rockstar: Exclusivity does work

Take 2 Interactive and Rockstar president Ben Feder has been waxing lyrical about platform holder Sony in the wake of the news that upcoming title Agent will be a PS3 exclusive. The trade-offs a publisher will typically make is, if you’re platform-agnostic, you get a larger installed base,” Feder told …

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Nintendo: We want to win over the Halo audience

After enjoying huge growth in the now blossoming casual market, Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has said that PS3 and Xbox 360 owning core gamers are the company’s next target for market growth. We have near-term, mid-term and long-term opportunities – the near-term opportunity is the consumer who owns …

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