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The studio behind one of the PSP’s biggest recent releases has claimed that Sony’s portable machine was destined to fail from the very start. It was the first portable that Sony released – it’s a trial by fire,” Ru Weerasuriya, the co-founder of God of War: Ghost of Sparta developer …
Read More »PSN+ members get Killzone 3 beta
PS3 owners who have signed up to the PSN+ online service can download and play the Killzone 3 beta – for one day only. The beta allows gamers to experience the upcoming PS3 exclusive FPS before its February 2011 release. Sony made the following announcement on its European PlayStation Blog …
Read More »Now GameStop warns of Kinect, Move shortages
Perhaps the warning from Microsoft’s Don Mattrick wasn’t just hyperbole – GameStop also reckons that motion controllers are going to sell out this Christmas. In fact the global games retail giant says both Microsoft Kinect and Sony’s Move will see tight supply as seasonal spending ramps up. Speaking in the …
Read More »Reeves predicts Xbox/PlayStation hybrid
Never one to be afraid of making bold comments, former Sony Computer Entertainment president David Reeves has made his most startling prediction yet – that platform holders such as Sony and Microsoft could co-develop a console within the next decade. When you’re on the first-party side, you realise how really, …
Read More »Microsoft, Sony praise Black Ops success
Call of Duty: Black Ops is officially the biggest entertainment launch of all-time – and platform holders Microsoft and Sony are delighted with its success. With a record breaking performance on Xbox Live, home to the world’s largest Call of Duty gaming community, Call of Duty: Black Ops has already …
Read More »Gran Turismo 5 for £4.99
Entertainment retailer HMV is to sell Sony’s Gran Turismo 5 for just 4.99 next week to any customer happy to trade-in a copy of Codemasters’ F1 2010 for PS3. The deal will run between the game’s release on Wednesday November 24th and Friday November 26th. The offer echoes the trade-in …
Read More »PSP2 – the first pictures
The first images of what pertain to be the still secretive PSP2 have appeared online. You can see them both below. VG247 says the images are of the dev kit that until recently had been doing the rounds. However, it has since been superseded by a single brick design that …
Read More »Sony claims October software victory
While Microsoft has claimed a notable victory in the US hardware market last month, Sony has highlighted the strength of PS3s software sales in its response to NPDs latest report. The platform holder says it enjoyed an incredibly strong October” and that the PS3 was the only format to enjoy …
Read More »Move key to PDC Darts Pro success
O-Games believes advanced motion controllers will make PDC World Championship Darts Pro Tour its greatest darts game to date. This year’s entry in the series will be the first to be released for PS3 and is fully compatible with Sony’s PlayStation Move. Pro Tour will also be the first PDC …
Read More »Move sales pegged at 400k in US
With firm sales figures still unavailable, US analyst Michael Pachter has said that he believes Sony’s PlayStation Move controller has sold 400k units in the US since its launch in the territory in mid-September. The comparisons with Kinect are inevitable, of course. Kinect sold in excess of 1m units in …
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