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Sony’s PlayStation Network has got three high-profile offers for gamers to buy digitally this week. The BBC’s Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock is finally available to buy, as is Sony’s long-awaited PlayStation Move title Sorcery. As if that wasn’t enough, Ubisoft’s new squad shooter Ghost Recon: Future is also available …
Read More »Shadow of the Colossus: The Movie
Sony’s cult IP Shadow of the Colossus is to be turned into a movie. Joystiq reports that Josh Trank, the director of 2012 sci-fi release Chronicle, has been appointed as the director. Potential writers are currently being interviewed. Trank is said to have requested the job directly – and it’s …
Read More »Uncharted duo get digital PSN release
Sony is to release both Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Game of the Year Edition as downloads on PSN. Crucially, the prices of each have not yet been divulged. The first game was released way back in late 2007 and the sequel in 2009. Both can routinely …
Read More »Sony’s Music Unlimited app hits iPhone this week
Sony’s cloud-based music service application Music Unlimited will arrive on the Apple App Store this Friday, the company has announced. The new app allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to listen to their music library, channels, and playlists, add songs to said playlists, discover related artists and tracks, and browse …
Read More »3DS nears UK 1m; Vita sales slow compared to PSP
Nintendo’s 3DS could hit the 1m unit sales milestone next month. PocketGamer has reported numbers from GfK Chart-Track’s exclusive hardware reports, which are widely distributed around the press but not authorised for publication. If the machine does reach that number in June, it will mean that 3DS has taken three …
Read More »Cage: Five more years on PS3 wouldn’t concern me
Heavy Rain director believes games should evolve through ideas, not just tech
Read More »Vita gets more PSP titles
Sony has re-released 13 PSP titles on the US PlayStation Store that can now be downloaded directly to Vita. Six of the new additions are retail games, including two Tom Clancy games, while the other seven are app-like Minis titles, with four from Fruit Ninja creator Halfbrick Studios. Sony has …
Read More »VIDEO: New The Last of Us trailer
Sony has released a new teaser video for upcoming PS3 exclusive The Last of Us. The game was announced late last year and sees two survivors of a modern day plague, Joel and Ellie, attempting to cross and increasingly desperate and hostile US. What you watched here is only a …
Read More »BBC Sport app confirmed for PS3, Sony Bravia TVs
Sony’s multimedia credentials have been given a big boost this morning with news of a dedicated BBC Sport app heading to PS3 and connected Sony Bravia TVs. The app will sit alongside the BBC News and BBC iPlayer apps on the Sony Entertainment Network and will launch in time for …
Read More »Bach: Sony PS3 mismanagement helped Xbox 360 success
Former Microsoft executive Robbie Bach has said that mistakes made by the Sony management in the transition between PS2 and PS3 played a big part in the tremendous success of Xbox 360. Some of the success of Xbox was due to the fact that Sony did some really not so …
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