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Sony boss Kaz Hirai has moved to reassure European consumers who recently purchased a 40GB PS3 – telling them they still have a very powerful”, high capacity machine. Talking in the wake of SCEE’s announcement that it would be phasing the 40GB model out in Europe to make room for …
Read More »Partnertrans UK re-brands to Universally Speaking
Partnertrans UK is to officially unveil its new corporate image and identity – Universally Speaking – at the Develop Conference in Brighton, MCV can reveal. The Cambridgeshire-based QA, localisation and audio specialist is the proud sponsor of Publishing Hero Award at this year’s Develop Industry Excellence Awards, and will be …
Read More »E3 08: Trophies on the way to PSP?
Some had speculated that a PSP Trophy announcement was on the cards for E3 – but whilst that didn’t materialise, the possibility of the achievement-like system migrating to Sony’s handheld has now been hinted at. GameSpot reports that in an E3 presentation about Sony’s PSP title Buzz! Master Quiz, producer …
Read More »E3 08: Sony roundup
It’s fair to say that most people weren’t really too sure what to expect from Sony this E3. The heavily rumoured , and indeed more-or-less-already confirmed God of War III was a given, but still succeeded in raising the pulse upon its unveiling at Sony’s conference . Arguably more exciting …
Read More »E3 08: Uncharted Trophy support one month away
With Sony’s latest PS3 firmware now out in the wild and seemingly hurting no-one (unlike its direct predecessor ), Jak and Daxter developer Naughty Dog has told Joystiq that a patch which enables Trophy support in its successful PS3 title Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune will be out next month. The studio’s …
Read More »E3 08: Sony backing 80GB PS3 in US
Sony made an important announcement regarding its PS3 hardware strategy at last night’s E3 conference, confirming that from September its focus would be laid solely on its 80GB model. The hardware will drop from $499 (as it was in the MGS4 bundle) to $399 and will replace the existing 40GB …
Read More »E3 08: No other handheld can match PSP, says Tretton
Jack Tretton has told the global media that no other handheld can match the PSP at Sony’s E3 ’08 Media Briefing. Having termed 2008 the ‘year of the PS3′ before unveiling several new PSN features, the SCEA boss moved on to talk about PSP, and revealed new title Resistance Retribution …
Read More »E3 08: PS3 and PSP movie service goes live now!
Sony has lifted the lid on its upcoming movie and TV service on PSN, which, in a surprise move, will launch later tonight – in North America, at least. Interestingly, any content acquired can be viewed either on PS3, or transferred to PSP for use on the move – and …
Read More »E3 08: This is the year of PS3
Sony Computer Entertainment of America CEO Jack Tretton has kicked off today’s E3 press conference in LA by telling a packed auditorium: This is the year of the PS3” and boasting that PS3 has the biggest exclusives in the industry.” Tretton (pictured) promised the crowd that the company was just …
Read More »Stringer: Wii is an expensive niche game device
With all sorts of verbal fisticuffs likely to erupt following the E3 presentations of the big three over the next few hours, Sony CEO Howard Stringer has attacked rival Nintendo’s Wii console as analysts predict big things for Sony’s machine in 2008. Bloomberg quotes Stringer as telling attendees at the …
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