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SPECIAL REPORT: New content pipeline and cheaper, smaller download games on the way
Read More »Tool focus: PhyreEngine
A look at the fully-featured, free engine in the PS3 SDK
Read More »New LittleBigPlanet coming to PS3
Media Molecule is working on a LittleBigPlanet Game of the Year edition for PlayStation 3, MCV understands. The new title is due for release this year and will feature much of the downloadable content currently available over the PlayStation Network. LittleBigPlanet was released in November last year to huge critical …
Read More »Sony, MS and Nintendo will never support OnLive
The Big Three platform holders – Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo – will not support OnLive with their software, according to Gaikai founder David Perry. A pretty obvious difference between Gaikai and OnLive is the fact that they’ll never have a Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft game on their system,” Perry told …
Read More »David Perry: Cloud nine
Gaikaiâ??s founder uncovers key details of the service, that latency issue, and how it differs from OnLive.
Read More »Nintendo, Sony and MS â??will never support OnLiveâ??
â??OnLive is trying to directly compete with the platform holders,â?? says Gaikai founder David Perry
Read More »JAPAN: Monster Hunter ships 3.5m
Publisher Capcom has revealed that over 3.5m copies of its PSP hit Monster Hunter Freedm Unite have now been shipped in Japan – the first PSP title to reach such a landmark in the region. The game was first released in March of last year, propelling PSP to the top …
Read More »No full-price games-on-demand for PS3
Sony has ruled out a PS3 games-on-demand service for the PlayStation Network, leaving Microsoft with a clear run on trialling the ins and outs of a potentially retail-free future for software. [A games-on-demand service] is not something we have planned, just because the size of the games is massive,” PSN …
Read More »Now Tretton shoots down price-cut chat
It seems as if the dismissive power of Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer is not quite enough to convince the games industry that the platform holder will not be cutting the price of PS3 any time soon – so SCEA president Jack Tretton has joined in too. Speaking to FastCompany, …
Read More »Activision threat rejected by Sony
Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer has labeled recent threats from Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick as noise”. In June, Bobby Kotick claimed that Activision Blizzard may cease supporting Sony’s PS3 platform unless the system is given a price drop. Yet on Tuesday, when attending the Allen & Co conference in …
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