As with previous models, the PlayStation 3 160GB system features an IBM "Cell" processor and a co-developed NVIDIA graphics processor that together allow the system to perform two trillion calculations per second. Yet the 160GB system manages to improve on this with its 45nm version of the processor, which although running at the same 60+nm speed as previous PS3 versions, uses less energy.
The game underwent a period of PS3 beta testing in Japan this month, and Kotaku has now learned that FromSoftware will delay it in order to fix issues discovered during the beta.
The Blu-ray disc is a medium that can store a hell of a lot of content. So much so, in fact, that game publishers are starting to include PlayStation 3-exclusive content to fill up all of that room. Thus, back in June, Electronic Arts promised that the PS3 version of Battlefield 3 would be bundled with Battlefield 1943. But now that Battlefield 3 is out, it's clear that that's not the case.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is First-person Shooter rooted in a fictional, but ultra realistic near-future conflict of mostly American forces with those of the Russian Federation around the globe. The third installment in the Modern Warfare branch of the Call of Duty franchise, Modern Warfare 3 features a heavy focus on multiplayer gameplay which includes innovative new functionality that encourages multiple gameplay combat strategies, a new 2-player co-op option, new play modes, weapons and more. The game also includes a gripping single player campaign that picks up where Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 left off, and game integration with the Call of Duty: Elite online service.
"June 14 in North America will forever be celebrated as the day that the legendary Duke Nukem Forever went from video game folklore to earth-shattering reality," Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K Games, the title's publisher, said in a statement. "For 15 years, fans have waited in limbo just yearning to hear those two little lovely words strung together--now available."
If you watched Sony's E3 press conference, you might've dismissed Dust 514 as just another Playstation 3 shooter among countless others. And that'd be too bad, because Dust 514's latest trailer doesn't do justice to the crazy ideas that CCP Games is trying to execute.
SEGA wants Rise of Nightmares to be Kinect's first adult game. I'd say it's more like Kinect's first comedy game. This is a horror-themed first-person beat 'em up that uses Microsoft's motion controller to put you in a dungeon full of zombie-like monsters. But the controls are so awkward and you look so goofy playing that myself and IGN PlayStation Executive Editor Greg Miller couldn't stop laughing while exploring the catacombs.
Publisher's executive vice president of marketing offers his take on Gearbox's new game, secondhand market, the six-week-long PlayStation Network outage, and Vita support.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is one of my favorite games ever, and I love portable gaming. Needless to say, the prospect of playing MGS3 on the go is something approaching my video game ideal, which means I was beside myself when Konami announced it would be porting Snake Eater to 3DS last year at E3. The non-interactive in-engine demo for the remake looked great and promised pure excellence. So why is the game such a dud now that it's playable?
At its E3 press conference yesterday, struggling electronics giant Sony apologized for recent blistering attacks against its online services and customer databases while launching a next-generation version of its popular PSP handheld video game system.
We're really, really sorry for the PlayStation Network outage, and thanks for sticking by us--the gist of Sony's E3 press conference intro, as Sony Computer Entertainment America president and CEO Jack Tretton took the stage to address "the elephant in the room."
During the original PlayStation era, I turned into a bit of a niche gamer. Having grown up with the NES, and later with the SNES, I played a smattering of different kinds of titles that essentially touched on every conceivable genre. But when the PlayStation rolled around, I was all about JRPGs. The PlayStation had a majority of the best JRPGs ever released, after all, and I couldn't help but spend all of my gaming time focusing on titles from Tales of Destiny to Wild Arms to Brave Fencer Musashi. It was an incredibly active time in my gaming career, but perhaps the most one-dimensional few years I experienced as a gamer as well.
I didn't think I'd enjoy the touch screen controls in the PlayStation Vita version Virtua Tennis 4 when I walked up to try it at Sony's E3 2011 Press Conference. I was ready to write them off as nothing more than a gimmick, but they're not. Well, at least not totally.
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Final Fantasy 4: The Complete Collection bundles together both Final Fantasy 4 and The After Years. We've got guides for both games, which you can find linked below.
After more than a year of allowing Final Fantasy XIV owners to play the game online for free, Square Enix is now just a month away from instituting a monthly fee.
Along with a new Nathan Drake costume, Sony has announced that LittleBigPlanet 2 will receive a new Special Edition. The new version will include a ton of bonus content, including:
IGN doesn't hand out the coveted 10 score very often, but for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, we did just that. With its meaty campaign and immersive multiplayer, Uncharted 3 is selling like hotcakes and keeping PlayStation 3 gamers around the world very busy.
Emails, home addresses, passwords, birthdates and bank account numbers. More than 100 million PlayStation Network users entrusted Sony with their data, which is now in the hands of hackers.
James Cameron's Aliens isn't just an inspiration for video games; it lies at the foundations of an entire species of game that have taken the 1986 action flick to heart, and its touch is felt far and wide. Team 17's 1991 Alien Breed, a top down shooter for the Amiga, was one of the first to explore this world of service tunnels and cold wet metal, and it remains one of the few games that nailed the blend of dread and gun-lust that helped make the film the ultimate thrill ride.
If you're going to be bumping around Dolores Street in San Francisco (as above) and want your brand-new PlayStation Vita to know about it, you're probably going to need to sign up for AT&T's 3G service after purchasing your system. AT&T hasn't spoken much about how much Vita 3G is going to cost yet, but over in Japan, provider NTT DoCoMo has set up a payment system designed to make the process as easy as possible, much more so than what consumers have to go through with cell phones.
You know how Microsoft's Kinect broke a world record last week, selling somewhere in the vicinity of 10 million sensors? And how we've heard relatively little from Sony about PlayStation Move sales?
ARM has come out and stated that its Mali GPU will be able to match the power of the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 within 18 months. They said that Moore's Law was not the only way to achieve this kind of leap in processing power, according to The Inquirer. There is little doubt that this will eventually happen, but in less than 18 months? We have heard this song from ARM before. A quick Google search pulls up results from Slashgear and the Bright Side of News. There is probably more to be found, if one does further searching.
Publisher confirms six games in development for Sony's next portable PlayStation product; Lumines, Michael Jackson, Asphalt, and Dungeon Hunter Alliance also headed to new handheld.
Developer Splash Damage has updated all versions of Brink, addressing technical and stability issues across Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC platforms. Brink just launched this past Tuesday to mixed reviews, including a 6 out of 10 on IGN for the Xbox 360 version, and 6.5 for the PC version. The PS3 version has not been reviewed due to the PSN outage.
Rewind to E3, June 2011: we saw the PlayStation Vita. We marveled at its capabilities and its price. For $250--at the time, the same price as a Nintendo 3DS--Sony offered a far superior piece of hardware. We looked forward to its release at the end of the year.
The shut down of Sony's Playstation Network is approaching the three week mark and its becoming clear that the online PS3 console service's down time will cost Sony tons of money in both the short and long term. But it's not just Sony that's being affected. Other game publishers who use the network for things like online multiplayer services, downloadable content, demos and videos are also unable to use the service.
PlayStation Vita may not have gone digital-only -- it's not the right time, Sony says -- but that won't help should you want to play your PlayStation Portable's UMD games on the system. With no UMD slot, those games might as well be Coleco cartridges.
Crysis 2 is having a less than smooth run up to its launch next week. The biggest problem it has faced so far is a late beta release of the game being leaked along with the DRM activation master key. Now the much anticipated multiplayer demo has been removed from the PlayStation Network by publisher EA just two days after it went live.
Class action lawsuits are already rolling in from the United States after Sony belatedly revealed a massive data breach to its PlayStation Network, affecting roughly 77 million of its users. But the Japanese company can expect just as much uproar in Europe, albeit of the institutional kind.
In Japan the regulatory ball rolls slower: the PlayStation Network remains offline in the Land of the Rising Sun, even as Japan-headquartered Sony Corporation spent the past four days turning it up pretty much everywhere else.
If there's one thing Team Ico head and Sony game producer Fumito Ueda is trying to drive home right now, it's that The Last Guardian (his latest PS3 title) is taking on animation and story-interaction challenges that his team's never dared to try before.
At its Gamescom 2011 press conference, Sony announced a FIFA title will be appearing on PlayStation Vita. No exact details were available, but it's likely to replicate the FIFA experience found on consoles with a few unique Vita-specific control mechanics.
If you've been holding off on buying Gran Turismo 5, it's time to hit the gas. Sony has announced Gran Turismo 5 XL Edition, a $40 version of the game that packs a bunch of extras you can see below. Look for the game on January 17 in North America; there were no international release dates announced.
When hackers at Berlin's annual Chaos Congress announced that they had freed the PlayStation 3 master key, the jig seemed up for Sony. With the release of the PS3 master key, any PlayStation 3 was jailbreakable forever, it seemed, and Sony was powerless to resecure them. Any firmware updates they released would only be a temporary fix against the problem, and easily jailbroken by the community.
When Sony removed the PlayStation 3's OtherOS functionality almost nine months ago, they were subjected to a torrent of disapproval for their actions. Now, the sought-after feature has returned. Hackers have managed to restore the ability to install Linux on their Playstation 3 consoles again, though it does require an already-modified PlayStation 3 console in order to use the 'OtherOS' feature again. ArsTechnica has managed to uncover more than just the restoration of the feature; they have also managed to find one of the sites where such a hack can be explained and performed.
The Sony Playstation hack that exposed details for up to 77 million accounts, coming on the heels of the Epsilon hack, has the country talking about what to do about data breaches. Two different approaches popped up in the New York Times and Time this weekend: more laws vs. better technology.
On the official PlayStation Blog, Sony Director of Hardware Marketing John Koller reveals that you can get the PlayStation Vita on February 15 -- instead of February 22 -- by purchasing the first edition bundle.
One surprise that Sony pulled out of its hat at the E3 expo this week was the announcement of a 3D display specifically designed for the PS3 owners. But at $499, does it represent a good buy for gamers?
First three titles in platformer series bundled in $40 package due next month for PS3; 720p HD visuals, stereoscopic 3D support, and over 100 trophies included.
Sony announced over the weekend that it would be restoring PlayStation Network service gradually throughout the globe. However, not every country will welcome the service back just yet.
If you compare games on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 there is very little to choose between them now. The PS3 was notoriously difficult to squeeze performance out of when it first got released, not because it wasn't there, but because the system architecture made it so difficult to utilize. But developers have caught up and at the very least equalized the platforms.
With Sony's Playstation Network now up and running in some form in some parts of the world (Japan and other Asian nations are still in the dark) many PSN users have questions about various issues and concerns about the online console network. In the latest update on the official Playstation blog web site. Sony is attempting to answer at least some of these questions.
Capcom's monster-killing game for PSP and PS3 nabs Sony Japan's highest awards; Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2 also top winners in User's Choice category.
Despite what was initially suggested in a leaked memo sent to GameStop stores yesterday, the new model of PlayStation 3 will not require owners to use an HDMI cable to play games in high definition.
Sony continues to be taken to task by government representatives over the cyber attacks on the Playstation Network. Bloomberg reports via unnamed sources that the latest such group to enter the fray is the New York State Attorney General's office. It claims that the state's attorney general Eric Schneiderman has sent subpoenas to Sony over the cyber attacks that forced Sony to shut down the Playstation Network on April 20 and Sony Online's MMO game services last Monday.
Everyone ready for the PlayStation Vita's launch in just a few weeks? Well get on over to your PlayStation 3, download the new milestone 4.00 firmware, then get ready to sync your...oh wait, wrong country.
Last June at E3 2011, Sony first revealed its plans to release the Playstation 3D Display, made especially for the Playstation 3 console. At the time the company said that the monitor would be bundled with a copy of Resistance 3, the upcoming next game in the Playstation 3 exclusive first person from developer Insomniac. However later this summer it was revealed that Sony would replace Resistance 3 in the monitor bundle with the off-road racing game Motorstorm Apocalypse.
Back when PSX4Droid was initially announced a lot of users were pleased to of have had a PlayStation emulator arrive on the scene. Here we are now, many months later and we're getting a Sony Ericsson built device with PlayStation gaming capabilities built right. I'm guessing at the time no one thought that would happen but indeed, it has.
Millions of PlayStation users are once again able to shoot, fight and race their way through online worlds after Sony resumed online gaming service late Saturday and Sunday in many major markets.
All we've heard so far from the PlayStation Network and Qriocity hacking debacle are bad things -- namely, that personal data, including user names, passwords, and possibly stored credit card information may have been compromised. However, here's something to ease your mind: all stored credit card info was encrypted.
Sony announced today that future games purchased on the PlayStation Network will only be granted activation on two devices at any one time - down from the current number of five.
It appears the Xperia Play isn't going to be available for Android gaming fans just yet, despite Sony promising a "very early second quarter" release back when it was still promising such things.
This is a timeline of major events associated with the attack on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services.Dates are given relative to the location the events took place. Sony announcements, released globally, are listed according to their publication in the U.S. See also PlayStation Network Security Breach: A Survival Guide.")
In 2008, Microsoft's 'New Xbox Experience' reboot took a page (or was it a book?) from Sony's up-down, left-right Emmy-winning XrossMediaBar PlayStation 3 interface. According to Reg Hardware, it sounds like Sony's about to return the nod by revamping its PlayStation Network interface "along the lines of Xbox LIVE."
Tomorrow a week will have passed since Sony took its Playstation Network completely offline. The company has given only the most token of updates in that time and in the meanwhile the rumor mill has been churning. However, new information has surfaced which points to Sony's action being prompted by an unprecedented piracy threat.
Sony finally admitted yesterday that account details, logins and online IDs for registered Sony PlayStation Network users, as many as 77 million people, have been compromised. The information was stolen sometime between April 17 and 19, according to a Sony blog post, as early as nine days before Sony notified its users of the breach. Even worse, the company says it can't be sure whether credit card information was stolen.
Subscribers to the Playstation Network, like many online services, are subject to changes and revisions in its terms of service from time to time. This week, Sony decided to sent out emails to Playstation Network users alerting them to yet another change in the terms of service agreement. Customers must accept the new terms in order to sign on and use the Playstation 3 online service. The new agreement, however, now forces its millions of users to agree to not join any new class action lawsuits against Sony.
After many, many weeks of troubles, attacks and extended downtime, Sony has finally announced that the full restoration of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services has begun in the Americas, Europe/PAL regions and Asia (excluding Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea). The PlayStation Store should be available right now, with a huge line-up of new content available from releases throughout the downtime period (full list available via the PlayStation Blog). PlayStation Plus has also been updated with a selection of new content.
Android tablets are getting a well-deserved boost with the launch of Ice Cream Sandwich. Android head, Andy Rubin, revealed there's about 6 million Android tablets floating around, which is only slightly encouraging in light of Apple's 40 million iPads sold. For Android manufacturers, differentiation is key as they compete against each other to dominate not only the Android tablet market, but the tablet space in its entirety. Sony is looking to media and entertainment for its tablet expansion strategy, with music and game streaming for its tablet devices.
With the online gaming components of the PlayStation Network restored, users of the service are wondering when the PlayStation Store will be back. According to Gamasutra, Sony is telling its development partners that the online marketplace for the PlayStation 3 and PSP will return on May 24, next Tuesday.
Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that it'll be releasing a software development kit for its PlayStation Suite starting this November, with the newly-created games becoming available from spring 2012. Using Microsoft's C# programming language, the PS Suite SDK will allow developers to create games for PlayStation-certified Android devices, as well as the upcoming PlayStation Vita console.
When Sony's PlayStation Vita goes on sale in the U.S. Feb. 22, it will have Netflix on board so users of the subscription service can start watching movies on Vita's 5-inch OLED display.
In midst of ongoing lawsuit, George Hotz travels to South America; Sony says trip raises "very serious questions," contends defendant lied about not creating PSN account.
Last week Sony rolled out v3.60 of the PS3 firmware. The main new feature introduced was the ability to save games in the cloud if you are a PlayStation Plus member. But also included, yet not really spoken about, was a range of security updates to stop hackers gaining access to the system. Had Sony finally closed the security holes allowing for jailbreaks? According to one hacker they had and the console was now resecured.
Rockstar has turned the heat up on Sony's PlayStation 3 again last night, after a forum post by one of its reps claimed the latest PS3 firmware update, version 3.61, is to blame for reports of older PS3 models overheating and uncontrollably shutting down.
A while ago Sony promised that it would provide individuals affected by the PlayStation Network security breach with a year of free identity protection service and the company is now making good on that offer.
As reported by Digitimes, a Taiwanese manufacturer has claimed that a PlayStation 4 is on track for release in 2012, and that it will feature "body movement-based control like Kinect".
Tru Blu Entertainment announced today Rugby Challenge for PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 would release in New Zealand on 2 September, and Australia and South Africa on 8 September. The game will be marketed in New Zealand as All Blacks Rugby Challenge, Wallabies Rugby Challenge in Australia, and Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge in the rest of the world.
Sony used outdated software on its PlayStation Network servers, according to the testimony of a security expert sitting before a congressional subcommittee.
Another day, another Xperia Play exclusive. This time it's the popular iOS game Sleepy Jack that's coming to Sony Ericsson's PlayStation-certified device before any other Androids. Sleepy Jack is a 3D flying game where players must guide Jack through a series of dream worlds, collecting Zs as they go. We had a chance to try out a pre-release version of the game on Xperia Play last month and were really impressed with the level of polish and overall smoothness of the game.
With the announcement of a new Sonic game to celebrate the gaming icon's 20th anniversary, we spoke to Sega producer Takashi Iizuka about the future of the franchise.
We've known for awhile that Sony's PlayStation Vita would hit U.S. and Canadian store shelves next year on Feb. 22. Now we know exactly what games will be available alongside that launch, as well as how much some crucial accessories will set us back.
A subscription to Sony's Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity service is going to get more valuable now that the library of now seven million songs is going to be portable soon.
There was no shortage of criticism over the amount of time it took Sony to inform the public of the PlayStation Network breach that resulted in users' personal data being stolen. Sony claimed the intrusion was discovered "between April 17 and April 19," PSN was taken offline on April 20, and word didn't go out until April 26 that data might be at risk, despite days of speculation that such a scenario was possible.
Following almost two months of delays caused by software issues, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has finally launched on British network O2. The phone is available now in O2-exclusive white and the original black, for £429.99 off-contract, or for free on contracts of £37 or more per month.
While Sony's last update to the public about the status of its currently shut down Playstation Network was last Tuesday, the company is apparently reaching out to Playstation Network game developers to give them their own update on the crisis. Industry Gamers obtained a memo sent by Rob Dyer, the senior vice president of publisher relations at Sony's Playstation business. The memo was apparently sent out on Wednesday.
Northern California court orders Bluehost, Google, Twitter, YouTube to hand over identifying information of all individuals who accessed George Hotz' websites, videos, hack.
Sony has revealed lower prices for PlayStation Vita memory cards. The cards' pricing was previously revealed by GameStop and caused some controversy among fans for ranging up to $120.
While the server downtime for Sony Online Entertainment's MMO servers hasn't gotten as much press as the Playstation Network's shut down, it has still has left a lot of MMO players in the dark since the servers were taken down on May 2. Late on Thursday, Sony Online posted its first major update on the situation on its Station web site.
Sony Computer Entertainment America this week will begin rolling out exclusive new games as part of a strategy to lure players with fun titles only available on its PlayStation Network (PSN).
The PlayStation is slimming down again, after Sony made further tweaks to the console's innards, while insisting a PS3 successor is still a long way off.
Looks like the PlayStation Store is coming back online in the next few days, even though it wasn't up on Tuesday, as some prior indications suggested it might be.
Sony is developing a PlayStation Network design upgrade that could transform the online environment into a more image-driven layout along the lines of Xbox Live and Steam, Reg Hardware has learned.
Sony has released a software update for the PlayStation Vita to fix bugs with the device ahead of its U.S. launch in February. The PlayStation Vita 1.51 firmware comes just over a week after the device was introduced in Japan and fixes an issue that affects progress in NEXT Dynasty Warriors, one of the 26 games available at launch.
Not to be outdone by Nintendo, Sony's PlayStation Vita will be launching in Japan with Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Katamari no Biita, with 100 other titles in the works.
It's a good thing Sony warned people to be vigilant about their credit cards, because as part of the company's Tokyo press conference yesterday PlayStation boss Kaz Hirai said that up to ten million customer's account details could have been compromised.
A Skype application launched for the original PSP back in 2008, however after Microsoft's recent acquisition of the internet telephone tool, it seemed an inclusion this time for the PlayStation Vita was unlikely.
Sony has given the strongest hint yet that we will be paying a higher than expected price for the PSP 2 when it arrives late this year, or more likely early 2012.
If you tried to sign into PlayStation Network on your PS3 or PSP in the last 30 minutes, you may have had no luck. Do not be alarmed: Sony says that PSN will be down today but that it's not another security issue.
Sony will fully restore PlayStation Network service to users in Japan this week, ending a two-and-a-half month suspension of service, and bringing to a close an embarrassing incident that began with the largest known loss of customer information by a company.
It seems that Sony is, at last, doing the right thing and offering all those in the US affected by the PlayStation Network and Qriocity 12-months free ID theft protection.
Though they still don't know who orchestrated the intrusion on the PSN servers in San Diego, Calif., they were "very sophisticated," Hirai said. It's still not entirely clear what kind of data the hackers got their hands on, but he reiterated that they don't believe credit card data to have been taken and added that the company has received no complaints of identity theft or credit card fraud yet.
As you might have imagined, when the PSN went down, all of the titles and releases that were meant to happen were halted. This has caused a backlog of content, with publishers and developers losing quite a bit of money each week. Develop is reporting on what Sony plans to do to clear this backlog.
Sony Corp. on Monday took the wraps off its next generation portable gaming machine, PlayStation Vita, a touch-interface and motion-sensitive handheld that outdoes its workhorse PlayStation Portable and will go on sale before the winter holidays. Company executives have called the device Sony's biggest product launch since the PlayStation 3 five years ago.
Sony has officially extended its tax on gamers who buy secondhand PlayStation titles, confirming that all future Sony games with network functionality will be mediated through an online pass system.
All those rumors of a Playstation 4 reveal at E3 2012 have just been dashed by Sony executive Kaz Hirai. The Wall Street Journal reports that during an interview roundtable with reporters at CES 2012, Hirai, who is the head of Sony's consumer electronic division, answered a question on that topic by saying that," ... we are not making any announcements at E3."
On April 20, Sony's Playstation Network online gaming service was shut down for several weeks due to a cyber attack on the network. The experience was a major public relations blow to Sony as tens of millions of PSN's personal info was exposed. However, the head of Sony's network entertainment division, Tim Schaaff, has a slightly different viewpoint than one might expect.
Speaking in an interview published yesterday with IndustryGamers, Sony Computer Entertainment America Senior Vice President Phil Rosenberg acknowledged that the company's PlayStation Network breach and subsequent outage were bad for business. But Rosenberg said he sees the incident as one issue in a long-running, mutually beneficial relationship between his company and gamers.
Sony has hit back at analysts who say its PlayStation Vita will struggle in the face of smartphone and tablet gaming, insisting punters will in fact discard those rival products for the Sony handheld. Shocker!
A subsidiary project of Sony Pictures, Crackle has a limited library of films, including The Da Vinci Code, Ghostbusters, and Big Daddy. But given that the service is ad-supported, streaming these full-length films is free to the viewer. Plus, Crackle promises that 20 new movies from Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics will be added each month.
Tuesday's episode is brought to you by the letter M for Microsoft, who may be dropping its digital currency known as Microsoft points, and V for Vita-playing PlayStation 3 games.
While an official price for the PSP 2 (NGP) won't appear from Sony for a while, we're bound to get hints over the next few months as Sony shares details with its partners and retailers. One such hint has just appeared by way of a survey publisher Ubisoft commissioned.
The city of Taipei is demanding that Sony provide details about any leak of PlayStation Network user data following an intrusion last week or face fines.
The city of Taipei has sought more help from Sony for PlayStation Network gamers whose personal details may have been leaked, an official said on Wednesday. Its Law and Regulation Commission has also demanded answers from Apple over allegations that it had recorded the locations of iPhone users.
In a freewheeling interview published in this week's issue of Famitsu magazine, Yakuza series producer Toshihiro Nagoshi announced that he's forming a new studio within Sega, his employer and publisher. The new outfit, called the "Ryu ga Gotoku Studio" (named after the Japanese title for the Yakuza games), is headed up by Nagoshi and four other directors; it'll handle all future development of the Yakuza series as well as original titles like Binary Domain.
Today Ubisoft announces Fit in Six, a new fitness game for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system which also utilizes PlayStation Move functionality and for the Wii system from Nintendo which leverages Ubisoft's USB camera accessory is available at retail. Developed by Ubisoft Blue Byte studio in Dusseldorf, Germany, the game separates overall fitness routines into six core elements -- core body, upper body, lower body, cardio, balance and flexibility -- that help you focus on getting fit and reaching your goals.
Sony reports that Naughty Dog's latest PS3-exclusive game exceeded expectations with multimillion day-one tally, is on track to top its predecessors' sales totals.
A US Senator who previously questioned Sony's response to the cyber attack that cause the company to shut down its Playstation Network is now apparently turning the other cheek. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Republican from Connecticut, posted up a note on his official web site that praised Sony's efforts after the cyber attack that has kept the Playstation Network in the Dark for three weeks and the MMO servers of Sony Online Entertainment down for nine days.
One of the PlayStation Vita's most promising features is the ability to buy games on the go, but new reports indicate that game downloads may actually be limited.
According to court documents addressing the case Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC v. Hotz, et al. (Case No. C-11-00167), Sony petitioned the court to obtain the Internet network addresses of anyone who accessed Hotz's website, Geohot.com, from January 2009 on, and it appears the petition succeeded.
We've asked a lot of questions about the Sony security breach, some of which Sony has been able to answer. But here's a big so far unanswered one: where has Howard Stringer been?
The PlayStation 3 just got a little cheaper, but is it cheap enough to put Sony back in pole position after years lagging behind Nintendo and Microsoft in unit sales? Early reports suggest that yes, the $50 shaved off the entry-level 160GB model (from $300 to $250) and 320GB premium model (from $350 to $300) are impacting. In the U.K., at least one retail source claims PS3 sales have surged 65 percent, and both Target and GameStop are saying PS3 sales are well up in the U.S. following the Gamescom-timed price drop.
Sony Ericsson's PlayStation phone - the Xperia Play - now has a UK release date and price. It has also been confirmed that the gadget will come with six pre-installed games.
When I got to spend some time playing with Sony Ericsson's Playstation-branded Xperia Play in March at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, I was more than a little impressed.
THQ officially announced UFC Undisputed 3, its latest title in the mixed martial arts series due out this coming January for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The publisher previously stated it was lengthening the development cycles of the franchise, going to an 18 month release window rather than annually.
The outage of the Playstation Network earlier this year kept Playstation 3 gamers from playing online with their friends for a number of weeks. That kind of situation has led developer Naughty Dog to add LAN multiplayer support for its upcoming Playstation 3 exclusive title Uncharted 3. Industry Gamers reports that according to the game's director Justin Richmond, the development team had to add LAN support to Uncharted 3 in order to continue development of the game's multiplayer mode while the Playstation Network was down in late April and early May.
The Uncharted series became a favourite of mine almost as soon as I started to play through the first game. The adventuring, shooting, treasure hunting and the story told through Nathan Drake and friends were all superb and helped rekindle my love of Indiana Jones style adventures from years ago.
THQ today announced Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team, a third-person arcade title for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. The game is due out in July and will cost 800 Microsoft Points or $9.99.
