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Sony could be launching an new online feature entitled PlayStation Network Pass over the next couple of months. A logo for the PSN Pass was spotted on an image of a German Resistance 3 bundle, which features the game and a 320GB model of the PS3. According to the image …
Read More »Bethesda will support Wii U… if it’s powerful enough
Elder Scrolls, Rage and Prey 2 could be coming to Wii U and Vita – as long as these new platforms can handle them. According to Bethesda’s VP of PR and marketing Pete Hines, the original Wii was ‘not an option’ for the firm as it would mean re-developing its …
Read More »Why Xperia Play is not the new N-Gage
The fact that Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation Certified Xperia Play handset is a phone first and foremost and a games device second is the key differentiator that will save it from an N-Gage style fate. That’s according to Sony Ericsson market development head Dom Neil-Dwyer, who explained to Gamasutra why he …
Read More »Sony is ‘most valued’ Asian brand
A new survey conducted by market research firm TNS has named Sony as the most valued brand in Asia. It’s the third year in a row that the company has been awarded the gong. It has succeeded in maintaining its popularity in the region despite the huge PSN security crisis …
Read More »Rockstar ‘will not publish’ next Team Bondi game
Sources claim that Rockstar won't be publishing LA Noire developer's next game
Read More »Sony extends Welcome Back offer
PS3 platform holder Sony has extended its Welcome Back offer for PS3 owners. The scheme was designed to compensate customers for the widely publicised shut down of PSN and offered a host of free content – chief of which was free games for PS3 and PSP. However, many users reported …
Read More »PSN gets Japanese green light
The PSN crisis may be distant memory in the West, but it’s a different story in Japan where full restoration has finally been confirmed for this Wednesday (July 6th). Though most PSN services were restored in the country around the same time they were reactivated in the West, the Japanese …
Read More »Pachter: Vita will rob Nintendo market share
US analyst Michael Pachter believes that the PS Vita will achieve what the PSP did not and eat into Nintendo’s handheld market share. However, it’s not all good news – he also predicts that the overall portable games market will decline at the expense of smartphone gaming growth. "We continue …
Read More »Media Molecule ‘stepping away’ from LBP
UK studio Media Molecule has revealed that it’s work on Sony’s LittleBigPlanet franchise is over. For now at least. According to a Tweet from Edge, the studio’s Siobhan Reddy told at audience at Barcelona’s GameLab 2011 event that: We’re stepping away from Little Big Planet to focus on some new …
Read More »No more LBP for Media Molecule
Sackboy has to go it alone as studio says it's making a break from LittleBigPlanet
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