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President of SCEE David Reeves has admitted to MCV that there is a global piracy issue on PSP – and said that Sony is set to unveil a new clampdown on those responsible. However, speaking at the firm’s developer DevStation conference in London last week, Reeves said that the trend …
Read More »Sony’s Macdonald calls for educational Centres of Excellence
Lobbying from SCE WWS VP comes as Games Up campaign says 95 per cent of games degrees 'not fit for purpose'
Read More »New global Sony studios role for Denny?
Head of external development in Europe said to have new wider remit
Read More »London Studios’ big budget games on hold
Resources for The Getaway and Eight Days 'reallocated' to enhance other projects
Read More »Hirai: First-party studios must devise ‘envelope-pushing, genre-defining content’
SCE boss points to internal studio innovations as key in driving PS3 forward
Read More »Eidos, SCE Worldwide Studios and Frontier back Games Up
Tiga and ELSPA-supported campaign for tax breaks gets backing from studio heavyweights
Read More »PLAYSTATION DAY 08: PS3 cruises past 10m sales
Sony’s PS3 hit 10.5 million global sales at the end of 2007, the platform holder has revealed. Showing off stats at its PlayStation Day ’08 in at the O2 Arena’s Indigo room in South East London, SCEE president David Reeves also revealed the global sales for other PlayStation hardware at …
Read More »SingStar hits 12m PAL sales
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that the Singstar series has sold over 12 million units in PAL territories since launching in 2004. Five million of those sales came in fiscal year 2007-2008, according to the company, in the 12 months leading up to March 31st this year. The online …
Read More »PSP video downloads coming this summer
CVG reports that Sony is set to release its new video download service for PSP, GoView!, this summer. Created in conjunction with Sky, the service lets consumers download and watch programmes and films on their PSP. "This summer, PlayStation and Sky will launch Go!View, the first official PlayStation Portable video …
Read More »Free devkits part of Sony’s Indian games industry assault
Platform-holder doing 'whatever it takes' to help India's developers make games for their local market
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