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Shuhei Yoshida, the head of Sony Worldwide Studios, has casually dismissed Nintendo’s efforts with the 3DS as the pre-E3 mud-slinging gets into full speed. "When we were designing the NGP we had no idea what Nintendo was going to do," he told GamesIndustry. "Aside from the 3D stereoscopic display, they …
Read More »1m new Sony passwords stolen
Having claimed to be making off with protected information last week, hacker group LulzSec now says it has obtained the password details of one million users of the Sony Pictures website. Sony says it is aware of the claims and is investigating, the BBC reports. "From a single injection, we …
Read More »Sony ‘should hire hackers’
Today marks the long-awaited return of the PlayStation Store, but one hacker has said that the network will remain unsafe until Sony hires hackers directly to test its security. "Most big corporations have what’s called an annual security audit and they go out and hire outside security companies," Ligatt Security …
Read More »First NGP hands-on goes live
One consumer site has gone live with its impressions of Sony’s NGP. Mobile-review.com says that it had some hands-on time with the machine at a London press event on May 19th. It says that its final dimensions are very similar to the original PSP and that "you immediately recognise the …
Read More »PlayStation Plus avalanche accompanies Store return
The PlayStation Store is back and as a reward for customers’ patience Sony has gone live with a host of fresh content to download. Currently all PSN members have been upgraded to PlayStation Plus membership for a month. Four PSN titles are currently free to download – Burnout Paradise, Magic …
Read More »Weight added to PS Vita claims
It’s looking increasingly likely that PlayStation Vita is to be the official name of Sony’s PlayStation Portable successor. As reported by Eurogamer, a brief look at the net code behind Sony’s E3 website includes several references to the Vita brand as well as directories named ‘games’, ‘media’ and ‘features’. The …
Read More »PSN’s 43 day nightmare is over
Sony has this morning confirmed that the PlayStation Store is being turned back on around the world. It’s recovery marks the full restoration of PSN. In total the full service was down for 43 days, or just over six weeks. "I’m happy to confirm that PlayStation Store is open and …
Read More »Trinigy’s NGP Vision Game Engine released
New version of popular engine promises to deliver console quality on Sony handheld
Read More »Crucial step for PSN restoration
Sony has confirmed that PSN will this afternoon go down for maintenance "for several hours" in what it describes a "crucial step" in the return of the PlayStation Store. It has also repeated its pledge to have full PSN services back online by the end of this week. "Starting soon, …
Read More »Sony hints at portable 3D
Sony is not ruling out the use of 3D technology for PlayStation small-screen devices such as NGP, the company has said. Yet the firm told Develop that its current strategy for the PSP successor is to build a pure gaming device”. Mick Hocking, the director of Sony WorldWide Studios’ 3D …
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