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The Japanese arm of Sony has revealed a number of the high-profile games companies that have currently signed up for licenses to develop content for the firm’s growing virtual world service PlayStation Home. Big-hitting backers such as EA, Capcom and Ubisoft had already been announced, and Siliconera reports that they …
Read More »Activision returns to Transformers IP
Publisher Activision Blizzard has confirmed that it is back aboard the Transformers bandwagon and lining up a games release to coincide with the summer arrival of DreamWorks and Paramount’s movie sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The game, which will be released on Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, PC, DS and …
Read More »Virtua Tennis 2009 takes to the court
Sega has announced that Virtua Tennis 2009 will be released on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in May. The game will feature real-world tennis stars such as Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams. And, for the first time, British number one and world number three Andy Murray …
Read More »Reeves: Theres a lot of fight left in us
In an interview with The Guardian , SCEE boss David Reeves has claimed that PlayStation has to suffer a little” in the battle with its next-gen competitors, conceding that the machine’s high price has caused problems but insisting that the priority remains staying profitable – a goal the European PlayStation …
Read More »amBX captures PS3 deal
Special effects hardware firm amBX this week took a step closer to wider acceptance after signing up as a tools provider for the PlayStation 3. The agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment means that amBX – which recently spun out of Philips via VC funding – can develop its light, sound …
Read More »Hawx dated for March
French publisher Ubisoft has announced that its upcoming Tom Clancy flight-sim Hawx will hit shelves on March 6th for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. PC gamers will have to wait a week until March 13th, just two weeks after Tom Clancy: End War gets its release on the format, which …
Read More »Sony: PS3 is still on track
Japanese electronics giant Sony has insisted that despite the f alling annual sales of its PS3 console , it is still on track to sell ten million units by the end of its financial year March 31st. The exact year-to-date sales of the console are not known, though Sony has …
Read More »Killzone 2 web game inbound
A Killzone 2 web game is to be launched as a part of Sony’s 2 million marketing campaign . The game will be available to download for Firefox and Internet Explorer users, and invites players to fight in teams against the ‘Helghast threat’ MCV’s sister site CasualGaming.biz has all the …
Read More »PlayStation sales drop 32%
Sony has posted some grim numbers for its gaming division for the three months ending December 31st 2008 that show falling sales for all three of its current PlayStation consoles. Sales at its games division hit YEN 393.8bn, down 32.2 per cent on the same period in 2007. Unit sales …
Read More »FFXIII confirmed for 2009
As had been previously suggested, a long-awaited new trailer for Final Fantasy XIII has confirmed that the next-gen Square Enix RPG will be released on PS3 in Japan this year. However, as MCV revealed earlier this month, there’s still no word on when the game will be released in either …
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