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Sony will not announce a price cut to its flagship PlayStation 3 games console at the Leipzig trade expo next week, the company has confirmed. "It’s not going to happen. If you’re coming for that you’ll be disappointed," Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman Nick Caplin told Reuters. SCEE president David Reeves …

The momentum's now with Sony, reckons firm's director of technology

THQ has confirmed it has cancelled Destroy All Humans: Big Willy Unleashed for the PSP. The move comes as a surprise considering the title had been long in development and was one of the more anticipted PSP titles of recent times. A spokesperson for THQ told IGN: "Basically, the PSP …

Sony is planning to further boost it’s already-announced commitment to games development in India – and could even open an internal studio of its own in the territory. That’s according to a report in DNA India, where Indian country manager at SCE Atindriya Bose says the company is boosting its …

Format holder looks to further boost development activity in India

Media Molecule’s massively hyped LittleBigPlanet has been given a firm release date of October 30th – in Japan, at least. The news comes from Sony’s official Japanese PS3 site. Unfortunately, there’s no word yet on either a European or US release date. Some sources are claiming that an October release …

Nintendo could topple Sony’s 13-year stint as the world’s biggest platform holder if Wii and DS hit their sales targets, says a report in The Times . Following the two platform holders’ financial announcements this week, the Times report reads: Though currently riding high on continuing strong sales of the …

Sony has revealed huge like-for-like rises in PS3 hardware and software in its Q1 financials. In terms of like-for-like sales, the platform holder’s flagship console sold double the amount it did last Q1 – up to 1.56m from 0.70m the previous year. PlayStation 3 software also fared rather well – …

Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai has called into question Don Mattrick’s claim that Xbox 360 will sell more than PS3 in this generation – predicting that Microsoft’s console will struggle to match the longevity of Sony’s flagship machine. When asked what he made of Xbox boss Mattrick’s claim, Hirai …

Don Mattrick has told MCV he is confident that Microsoft ‘won’ E3 this year – and has even accused Sony and Nintendo of slacking off over the past year. In assessing his rivals’ E3 conferences, he said: I think we got more than 12 months’ work done, and others went …