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Read More »Sony fails to renew The Last Guardian US trademark
Sony had chosen not to renew its trademark for The Last Guardian in the US. VG247 reports on the US office of patent and trademark website listing, which shows Sony has allowed the current trademark to expire. What this means, if anything at all, is anyone’s guess. Sony abandoned the …
Read More »PlayStation won 2014’s battle of the gaming headlines, report claims
An analysis of articles published online in 2014 has shown that PlayStation enjoyed around 35 per cent more coverage than Xbox. A report from Ico Partners’ Thomas Bidaux found that the PlayStation brand as a whole was the subject of 560,573 articles while the Xbox brand received 411,380. That number …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Emma Simkiss
Simkiss was responsible for building up one of the biggest games networks in the world – Xbox Live Gold – as business manager for two years, before jumping ship to Sony last October to become senior manager for PlayStation Plus. Alongside three colleagues, she also helped form the Women of …
Read More »Unofficial app brings PS4 Remote Play to unsupported Android devices
PS4 Remote Play is now possible on a number of non-Sony Android smartphones. Sony’s official PS4 Remote Play app allows owners of supported Xperia handsets to stream games from their console. However, Polygon reports that an unofficial version of the app brings this functionality to a wide range of non-Sony …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Tara Saunders
Tara Saunders started in the games industry alongside the launch of the PlayStation 2 in 2000, fresh from graduating with an MA in Computer Animation. She joined Sony’s London studio as a junior animator working on The Getaway. Saunders is a long-standing member of the studio and now works as …
Read More »Resident Evil beats zombie rival Dying Light in January PSN charts
Capcom’s Resident Evil HD finished ahead of Warner Bros’ Dying Light in last month’s PSN charts, Sony has revealed. The remastered title finished top of the latest European PSN charts, with Dying Light debuting in second place. Both games have so far only been released digitally. However, while Capcom’s game …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Kathrin Strangfeld
Kathrin Strangfeld has been a major part in Sony’s recent console developments, working as senior business development manager and launching over 80 different video services in over 30 SCEE terriotires. We don’t let just everyone come on board; we only want the best or most interesting content for our users …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Hollie Bennett
Hollie Bennett was still at university when she got involved with the community at gaming blog Destructoid. She was named EU Community Manager for the website, creating European-specific content. This hobby became a career in 2012 when she approached Bandai Namco about being involved in its business and by April …
Read More »Sony shifted 6.4m PS4s in Q3
Company's financials show improvement
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