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In perhaps the most directed and precise attack on video games to date, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has not only slated violent games but also accused them of being a capitalist propaganda tool. Those games they call PlayStation are poison,” the revolutionary democratic socialist told TV show Alo Presidente, as …

In perhaps the most directed and precise attack on video games to date, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has not only slated violent games but also accused them of being a capitalist propaganda tool. Those games they call PlayStation are poison,” the revolutionary democratic socialist told TV show Alo Presidente, as …

PS3’s 1.35m unit sales in North America in December – an 87 per cent year-on-year increase – saw the console finish 2009 by enjoying its best ever month in territory, leaving Sony celebrating what it is calling a turning point in the machine’s fortunes. 4.3m PS3s were sold throughout the …

Five months after Swedish courts ordered the closure of BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay, four of the world’s largest music labels have requested the District Court fines the site’s owners. TorrentFreak reports that Universal Music, EMI, Sony BMG and Warner have requested that courts enforce a ruling passed late …

Having been pencilled in for a March release in Japan for a few weeks now, SCEJ has retracted the speculative release date for Gran Turismo 5 and reverted back to a TBA listing, Kotaku reports. Sony has said that a new date will be named at some stage in the …

Publisher Namco Bandai has revealed that a brand new entry in its flight sim series, Ace Combat Joint Assault, will touch down on the PSP runway in the spring. Following on from the series’ 2006 PSP debut Ace Combat X, Joint Assault promises the most accomplished visuals yet seen on …

There can be no clearer demonstration of the huge appetite that remains for Sony’s much-delayed PS3 title Gran Turismo 5 than the huge success of the recently released GT Academy Time Trial demo. The teaser game has now been downloaded over 1m times across Europe, Australia and New Zealand since …

SCEE has confirmed via the PlayStation blog that it will release a beta version of anticipated PS3 title ModNation Racers on January 22nd. However, the beta is limited to just the first 100,000 PS3 owners who log into the PlayStation Store on Thursday January 21st and click on the download. …

SCEE has confirmed to VG247 that the recently revealed God of War: Ultimate Trilogy will retail for 109.99 in the UK. The SKU bundles the upcoming God of War III as well as HD remakes of both God of War and God of War II, which until now have only …

SCEE has confirmed via the PlayStation Europe blog that the unquestionably interesting adventure outing Heavy rain will be released on PS3 in the UK and Ireland on February 26th. This follows confirmation of a February 23rd release date for North America. Mainland Europe will be receiving its copies on February …