2K Games has just officially finalised the release date for Bioshock on PS3 – it’ll arrive in North America on October 21st, closely followed by its international release on October 24th. The PlayStation 3 version follows on from the critical and sales success of the Xbox 360 version, and contains …
Read More »No PS3 price cut at Leipzig
Sony will not announce a price cut to its flagship PlayStation 3 games console at the Leipzig trade expo next week, the company has confirmed. "It’s not going to happen. If you’re coming for that you’ll be disappointed," Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman Nick Caplin told Reuters. SCEE president David Reeves …
Read More »PlayTV launch date confirmed
Sony has announced that Freeview PVR device PlayTV will launch on September 19th in the UK for 69.99. According to a post on official Sony site Three Speech, the PS3 device allows ‘recorded content to be transferred to your PSP, or viewed remotely with Remote Play – something we reckon …
Read More »Consumers dont want Blu-Ray
A new survey from US research firm ABI has suggested that consumers are not that interested in Bu-Ray technology, with only 23 per cent of the 1000 respondents claiming they were thinking of investing in the technology sometime in the next year. TechTree reports that over half of those questioned …
Read More »Dead Rising to bite PS3 next?
Its popularity on Xbox 360 was great enough to make its recently confirmed move to Wii a reality, but now developer Capcom has hinted that Dead Rising may also be upping sticks and heading over to Sony’s PS3. Speaking on the US PlayStation blog, Capcom’s John Diamonon responded to a …
Read More »GameSpy: PS3 is ‘definitely beating 360 in some areas of online’
The momentum's now with Sony, reckons firm's director of technology
Read More »80GB PS3 pre-orders appear
A number of online retailers have begun taking pre-orders on Sony’s new 80GB PS3, which will go on sale on August 27th. Whilst many are reporting this as new news, it actually just confirms the announcement made by SCEE president David Reeves at E3 last month. However, the listings do …
Read More »360 Rock Band 2 exclusivity for just one month?
Microsoft was coy about its Rock Band 2 exclusivity deal when it was unveiled at E3 recently – but now it seems that its agreed deal to see the game locked out from PS3 could last for just one month. Eagle-eyed Spong has noticed that a handful of North American …
Read More »505 announces Battle Fantasia
Blossoming games publisher 505 Games has announced that it is to bring Arc System Works’ 2D fighter Battle Fantasia to Xbox 360 and PS3 in the first quarter of 2009. Developed by the same team that handled cult fighting series Guilty Gear, Battle Fantasia is heavily influenced by Japanese fantasy …
Read More »LittleBigPlanet dated
Media Molecule’s massively hyped LittleBigPlanet has been given a firm release date of October 30th – in Japan, at least. The news comes from Sony’s official Japanese PS3 site. Unfortunately, there’s no word yet on either a European or US release date. Some sources are claiming that an October release …
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