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PlayStation’s digital publishing arm wants developers to pitch free-to-play games for PSN, an executive at the company has said. Ted Regulski, manager of SCEA Developer Relations, said Sony has changed its philosophy and is now open to any business model”. One thing we’re working on quite a lot is free-to-play,” …
Read More »GDC: Sony boasts 90 million PSN accounts
PS Vita provides new boost to user account numbers
Read More »UPDATED: Unit 13 gets release date
In a pleasant deviation from accepted games industry norms, Sony has announced that PlayStation Vita title Unit 13 will be released… today! The game should be available at certain retailers today and will appear for purchase on PSN at some point, hopefully this morning. The game is made by SOCOM …
Read More »Dust 514 skips retail and goes free-to-play
Cover charge removed to 'avoid customer confusion'
Read More »Sumioni: Demon Arts flows to Vita this month
XSEED has announced that its ink wash painting meets action platformer title Sumioni: Demon Arts will be available in North America on March 20th. Set in ancient Japan and presented in a ‘sumi-e’ art style, Sumioni puts players in control of an ‘ink demon’ who has been summoned from a …
Read More »Free-to-play Killzone 3 hits PSN today
The free standalone multiplayer version of Sony shooter Killzone 3 is available to download on PSN today, with a paid-for upgrade available. As revealed last week, users can download the standalone version of the PS3 game’s online mode, which includes all the original Killzone 3 maps, DLC levels and Guerrilla …
Read More »PSN maintenance scheduled this week
The PlayStation Network will be down for scheduled maintenancelater this week, with the disruption affecting service inboth US and Europe regions. The maintenancewill last roughly 14 hours,and during that time any functions such as online multiplayer that require the service will be unavailable for users. "Unlike typical maintenance events, consumers …
Read More »Killzone 3 multiplayer goes free-to-play
Sony to release multiplayer as a free download for PS3
Read More »Killzone 3 makes surprise F2P move
Sony has announced that it is to trial a new free-to-play version of popular FPS hit Killzone 3. As of next week a free download will be available on PSN for PS3 owners. It will contain the entire multiplayer portion of the game, including all the available maps. However, it …
Read More »UPDATED: F1 2011 expected on Vita store shortly
MCV has been told that Codemasters racer F1 2011 will belatedly arrive on the PlayStation Vita store shortly. The game was conspicuous by its absence last night when the store went live and has yet to appear on the service. It had been named earlier that day as a launch …
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