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Read More »Sony settles with FTC, to refund Vita customers over false advertising
Sony Computer Entertainment America has settled with the FTC over false and misleading advertisement charges involving PS Vita’s launch campaign. As part of the settlement, Sony will offer partial refunds to Vita customers who purchased the device prior to June 1st, 2012. Qualifying individuals will have their choice between a …
Read More »Sony turns to PlayStation, backs away from mobile and TV business
PlayStation is being engineered as the saviour of Sony’s struggling technology business. Reuters reports that the company intends to slash its existing smartphone and TV ranges and instead work to boost its PlayStation sales by up to a quarter in an effort to reverse recent declines. "We’re not aiming for …
Read More »NIS America: ‘We want to be the big fish in the small pond’
NIS America is easily one of the biggest names in niche gaming. Best known for the popular Japanese role-playing game series Disgaea, the Western arm of Nippon Ichi Software has brought many of its Japanese parent company’s titles across to the US and Europe. In addition to this, the firm …
Read More »Hatoful Boyfriend gets PS4 and Vita release
Devolver Digital’s pigeon dating simulator – yes, pigeon dating simulator – is getting a PS4 and Vita release next year. The game, which was released earlier this year on PC, is based on Hato Moa‘s visual novel and has already won itself a cult following. I never dreamt when I …
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LGC14: Sarah Wellock on how to engage with fans and when to moderate
Read More »PS4 must broaden to capture casual audience
PlayStation’s UK boss Fergal Gara has said that the next stage in PS4’s development should see the hardware broaden its audience to attract amore casual crowd. We want to see in the next year or two is a bigger mass market play, shall we say,” Gara told Redbull.com. So in …
Read More »Sony suggests PS4 sales outnumber Xbox One by 2-to-1
The president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America has suggested that PS4 has sold around double the number of Xbox One units shifted worldwide. When asked by Gamesbeat whether PS4 has about a two-to-one advantage over Xbox One”, Shawn Layden replied: The math seems to look like that. It’s …
Read More »EA exec says Xbox One is ‘catching up quickly’ with PS4
The rate at which Xbox One is narrowing its sales gap behind PS4 is accelerating. That’s according to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen, who Gamasutra reports told an audience at the UBS Global Technology Conference that: "Clearly Sony has jumped out to a lead with a great console and I think …
Read More »GTA V update causing headache for some PS4 players
There’s yet more technical bad news afoot for Sony’s PS4. Eurogamer reports that an increasing number of Grand Theft Auto V owners are claiming to have encountered problems when trying to download the game’s 1.14GB day one patch. Some say they are unable to get the patch to download at …
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