Sony’s Next Generation Portable must be priced lower than 300 to compete with Nintendo’s 3DS, say UK retailers. Specialists have told MCV that they predict the NGP – previously known as the PSP2 – will cost around 300 when it goes on sale later this year. Any higher and retailers …
Read More »Sony denied Google, PayPal subpoenas
Sony’s ongoing war on hackers has stumbled as a judge has ruled against the company’s planned subpoenas. In order to learn more about the identities of hackers such as George ‘GeoHot’ Hotz, fail0verflow and others responsible for the surge in PS3 hacking, Sony attempted to subpoena the likes of Google, …
Read More »OPINION: Manufacturing. Replenishment. Fulfilment. Logistics.
Distribution is filled with lots of boring, un-sexy words that can make you ignore what is often the literal pulse of games retail. Manufacturing. Replenishment. Fulfilment. Logistics. That’s our veins, arteries, capillaries, and aorta. They keep the games blood of goods moving around the retail circulation system. But give UK …
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id Software co-founder says developers must follow demands of market
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Unconfirmed study claims the PlayStation Store took in $9.3m over December
Read More »Kevin Butler makes PS3 gaffe
In what can only be described as one of the worst corporate Twitter faux pas’ of recent times, comedy PlayStation executive-come-marketing character Kevin Butler has accidentally tweeted the PS3’s root key to his 70,000 followers. The root key is the piece of code that has opened the door to PS3 …
Read More »Motion control ‘the future’ of FPS
The arrival of Killzone 3 on February 25th marks a big step forward for traditional console gaming and motion controllers. In fact, Guerilla Games believes that it could be the beginning of a new future for the first person shooter genre. "I think, as this develops, in a few years …
Read More »Cheaters force GT Academy rethink
The second round of Gran Turismo 5’s online competition GT Academy has been scrapped after some gamers were caught cheating. Some players found a way to cut a row of corners on the Rome and Madrid tracks, resulting in significantly reduced lap times. Sony had already changed the selected course …
Read More »LG calls for US PS3 ban
LG Electronics has called for the International Trade Commission to block sales of the PS3 and other Sony products in the US. The firm claims Sony’s Blu-ray players – including the PS3 – infringe on four patents regarding data streaming, while some of the Japanese corporation’s high-definition TVs infringe on …
Read More »LittleBigPlanet powers new N-Dubz video
PS3 exclusive LittleBigPlanet is to get a good dose of mainstream exposure thanks to a tie-up with Camden-based hip hop act N-Dubz. The tech behind the PS3 exclusive title has been used to make the video for the band’s upcoming video for track Took It All Away, which features on …
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