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SCEA has denied recent reports that the company is looking to re-evaluate the price of PS3 early next year. Amongst the plethora of titbits revealed in SCEE’s leaked internal meeting yesterday was the claim that the company intends to make the European PS3 price more competitive” next March. However, a …

Sony has launched a brand new web portal for its long-awaited PS3 social networking service Home, adding weight to the claims that the service should arrive before the end of the year. In addition, in the last week Sony is believed to have sent out an additional 100,000 invites to …

National Geographic announced earlier this week that it had established a games arm and would in future both develop and publish its own titles. However, of the two titles announced, namely National Geographic: King Herod and National Geographic: Africa, it seems that the latter may actually be SCEJ’s title. For …

Sony is reportedly to make the inclusion of Trophies, the firm’s answer to Xbox 360’s popular Achievement system, mandatory from January next year, Videogamer reports. The site claims to have word from an SCEE spokesperson that any titles released from the turn of the year must include the system – …

It has emerged that North American firm Netflix, which operates Microsoft’s movie rental and streaming service in the territory, has withdrawn all of its Sony Pictures titles from the service. Those using Netflix via their PC or TV, however, are still able to access the content – a fact that …

With LittleBigPlanet finally out there in the wild wowing gamers and critics alike, talk has returned of the long-rumoured PSP outing for the series. Acclaimed developer Media Molecule has previously admitted that it’s had talks with Sony about a possible portable outing, but the next issue of US games mag …

Despite being trumped by Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in the October hardware sales battle, Sony still has reason to celebrate NPD’s North American October sales figures with some impressive rises for its PS3 console. Sales of the machine are up 56 per cent on October 2007, with total unit sales of …

Some of the UK’s leading developers and publishers have discussed PS2’s relevance to the domestic market with MCV – and it appears the console may be bowing out sooner than you might think. The industry leaders we spoke to were largely unanmimous in agreeing that they would halt new releases …

The effects of the current global economic global crisis could see sales of Blu-ray discs and associated technology dramatically underperform this Christmas, according to some industry observers at the recent HD3 Conference in the US. The economy is the biggest challenge, because there are just so many pieces to the …

Sony’s big FPS release on PS3, Resistance 2, is currently sitting on an 88 per cent average review score on Metacritic. That leaves the game at 16th spot in the PS3 All Time High Scores list on the site – which aggregate scores from the US and UK specialist press. …