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News inFamous 2 Shocks June NPDs, Takes Top Spot
It's not often that a PlayStation 3 exclusive tops the American sales charts, so let's all celebrate the news that Sucker Punch's inFamous 2 dominated the NPD software charts for the month of June
According to the latest NPD report, PlayStation continues to see growth in software with a strong demand for exclusive PlayStation 3 franchise...
News Capcom Confirms Development Of Four PlayStation Vita Titles, One To Be Available At Launch
Capcom has hinted that a new Monster Hunter title is in development for the PlayStation Vita, in addition to revealing that it has four titles on the horizon for Sony's new handheld -- one of which is set to be a launch title
In an interview with MEGamers, Capcom Europe boss (and former SCEE gaffer) David Reeves suggested that the company has lots...
News PushSquare Service Announcement: Uncharted 3 Beta Extended By 24 Hours
Naughty Dog's announced that its extending the multiplayer beta for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception by 24 hours, giving you until July 15th to pop some pirate skulls
The beta will close on the aforementioned date at 9AM PST / 12PM EST / 5PM BST. Yesterday Naughty Dog announced that a bug had caused it to permenantly lose the statistics of some...
News Japanese Version Of Minna No Golf 5 Secures PlayStation Move & 3D Support
As has been speculated for a few months now, Sony has released a title update for Minna No Golf 5 (Everbody's Golf: World Tour, Hot Shots Golf: Out Of Bounds) which brings PlayStation Move and 3D support to the PS3 classic
Unfortunately the update is currently limited to the Japanese version of the game, and is unlikely to make its way into the...
News Insomniac Release Resistance 3 Lab Video, First Up The Mutator
Resistance 3's art-direction is stupidly strong, is it not? The grainy, flickery effect in this Lab Video gives the footage an old-fashioned vibe
It's almost like you're watching a genuine 1950's science experiment. The weapon at the forefront of this trailer is the Mutator, a bioligical blaster that causes the Chimera to suddenly sprout fatal...
Now we're over the hurdle of the PlayStation Network hack and are well on the way towards getting back to normal, it's strange timing for a Sony employee to describe the downtime as a "really good time"
But that's exactly what Tim Schaaff has said in an interview with GamesBeat. "Great experience, really good time," Schaaff said of the...
News Spoil Yourself With 30 Minutes Of Resistance 3 Footage
We suspect if you're still undecided about Resistance 3, you might want to watch this half-hour video of the game's first level
If you've already decided to pick up Insomniac's latest shooter though, perhaps skip on the details of the embedded video because this is spoilerific. You've been warned. A bunch of previews for Resistance's opening seven...
News Joint Sony/Namco Bandai Studio Handling Development Of Ridge Racer Vita
A studio originally founded by Sony and Namco Bandai to work on R&D for the cell processor is developing Ridge Racer for the PlayStation Vita
Namco Bandai gaffer, Hideo Teramoto, revealed that Cellius was developing the Vita-bound racer in an interview with Gamasutra, and gave a bit of background on the studio. Ken Kutaragi who was running...
News Resistance 3 Impressions Hit The 'Net, Are Super Positive
With the backlash of Resistance 2 still ringing in the ears of Insomniac Games, this must be quite a nervous time for the Burbank-based studio
High-profile members of the American press got access to the first seven stages of Resistance 3 this week, and have gone live with their impressions this evening. Thankfully, it looks like Insomniac's...
News Sony To Invest $20 Million Into Its Exclusive PlayStation Network Portfolio
Sony's put out some huge PlayStation Network exclusives over the past four years
Ranking amongst our favourites are PixelJunk Monsters, Shatter, Joe Danger, flower and Critter Crunch. Today Sony has pledged to invest a further $20 million into extending its exclusive portfolio of PlayStation Network games. The company's planning to use the money to...
News Naughty Dog Explains The Lack Of Dedicated Servers In Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Naughty Dog has blamed long-term costs as the reason for Uncharted 3's lack of dedicated server support
Were not going to have dedicated servers, made that decision long time ago we built the current player host-client architecture, Naughty Dog stated on Twitter. decision for that server architecture was to be better able to support our...
News Insomniac Games Discusses The Return Of The Weapon Wheel In Resistance 3
One of the most exciting prospects about Resistance 3 is the return of Fall Of Man's "Weapon Wheel"
The feature, which was conspicuously absent in Resistance 2, resulted in a massive back-lash from fans of the series. The "Weapon Wheel" is such a key aspect to the Resistance series, that Insomniac's managed to base an entire developer...
News Sony Announces Brand New PlayStation Network Video Show For The UK
Sony's announced a brand new weekly HD video show for the British PlayStation Network today
The show — which has been created in conjunction with Future Publishing — will replace the now defunct FirstPlay, and will be free to PSN subscribers in the UK. Similarly to SCEA's Pulse, the show will feature up-to-the-minute HD previews, interviews and...
News Sony's 'Welcome Back' Plan Actually Boosted PlayStation 3 Sales
Remember all the doom and gloom during the PlayStation Network outage? Many wondered if the PlayStation business was finished for good
Sony desperately tried to claw back goodwill by announcing the PlayStation Network "Welcome Back" package, a plan involving a number of free games as way of apology for the inconvenience caused by the...
News Sony: Industry Needs To Support 'Garage' Developers
Sony's Shuhei Yoshida has continued to prove that he's the most level-headed employee at SCE right now, telling Develop that the industry will "stall" if it does not support garage developers
As an industry, we have to support those smaller teams, and let them try out their ideas, Yoshida told Develop. Without doing so, the whole industry will...
News Sony Introduces PlayStation Vita's Social Features With Happy Faces & Catchy Synth Riffs
Sony's released a new PlayStation Vita trailer demonstrating many of the system's social features, including Party and Near
The lifestyle video features tons of new gameplay footage from various Vita games, but is most used to demonstrate the system's array of networking capabilities. What's interesting about the trailer is its portrayal of users...
News Resistance 3 To Include Three PS3 Demos On Disc
If you're planning on picking up Resistance 3 in September -- and haven't got around to trying out Killzone 3, MotorStorm Apocalypse and inFamous 2 -- then you're in luck
Demos for all three titles will be included on Resistance 3's Blu-ray, according to information published by the BBFC. Resistance 3 itself received an 18 rating by the...
News Sony On PlayStation Vita: The Development World Has Changed, So Have We
PlayStation Vita will be the easiest PlayStation platform yet to develop for
That's according to a number of Sony executives quoted by Develop. Sony's thrown-out its old ambition for complicated architecture, and replaced the philosophy with a development environment that's easy for big and small studios to produce content for. In a sense,...
News Sony Developing Sci-Fi Bollywood Game For PS3 & PS2
A Sony development team in London has started work on a video game adaptation of bonkers Bollywood sci-fi flick, RA
One</a>. The game will release on both PlayStation 2 and PS3, the latter as a PSN download. Presumably the game will be exclusive to the expanding Indian markets. "We have always wanted to bring...
News Sony Signs Up New Director For The Uncharted Movie
Sony Pictures has reportedly signed up Neil Burger to direct the Uncharted movie
David O. Russell left the job earlier in the year, citing creative differences. Burger is known for his work on The Illusionist. No word as to whether Mark Wahlberg is still involved with the project.
News Sony to Start PSN Pass Scheme with Resistance 3
One game, one code
Sony has been dabbling with online content codes for its recent shooters, with a single-use code in SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs giving North American players access to the SOCOM "Pro" club. Without the code, entry to the club costs $14.99, but at least there's still online play. Now Sony is ready to change things up again...
News PSP Digital Comics Store Receives Its Last Update
Sony's confirmed that the Digital Comics store for PSP will no longer be updated
In a final update post on the PlayStation Blog, community moderator Yaster revealed that the "Digital Comics team are now working on bringing the comic service to other Sony devices". We hear Sony's got a new handheld console and a couple of tablet computers...
News Sony Confirms Online Pass System For Resistance 3, Future Titles
Sony's confirmed that Resistance 3 will be the first PS3 title to make use of a new "network pass program" designed to combat used sales
The PSN Pass — which emerged as part of a boxart leak yesterday — is very similar to the type of system employed by EA, Warner Bros and other third-party publishers. Sony's employed the use of online passes in...
News PlayStation Plus Is A Year Old, Celebrates With Cake
Sony has updated the PlayStation Plus content for July, announcing the service's one year anniversary with images of cake
Sadly your PlayStation Plus subscription does not include a slice of the iced delicacy. Sony reckons that since it launched the service last July it's delivered over £700 worth of content. There are a few cheeky stipulations in...
News Hallelujah: PlayStation Store Officially Returns In Japan
After a long and torturous rate, the Japanese arm of the PlayStation Store has finally released
The service was taken down after the infamous PSN outage earlier in the year, and has been held at ransom by the Japanese government ever since. But it's back now, meaning those of us in the West can hop online and finally find out what that bonkers El...
Rumour Sony To Introduce PlayStation Network Pass For Resistance 3
Sony's voiced its support of EA's Online Pass system in the past, and now it looks like it's about to introduce the used game sale combating feature into Resistance 3
A hardware bundle packshot — featuring a 320GB PS3 and copy of Resistance 3 — advertises something called the "PSN Pass", which sounds a lot like a one-time use code...
News Sony's Still A Hot Brand In Asia
Sony's still a force in Asia according to a survey published by the Wall Street Journal
The Japanese electronics giant was rated ahead of rival consumer electronics brands as the most valued brand in Asia. Over 3,000 people aged between 15 and 64 were surveyed. Interestingly the survey was conducted after the widely publicised PlayStation Network...
News Sony Japan Reveals Move Bundle for Hot Shots Golf PS3
Will it come West?
Sony's preparing to patch Move controls into its classic PS3 golf game Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds — otherwise known as Everybody's Golf: World Tour — but in Japan it's going a step further, physically re-releasing the game with a Move Starter Pack to entice PlayStation gamers onto the fairway. The bundle of game, controller...
Rumour Sony 'Quietly Testing' PlayStation Store Overhaul
According to reports popping up all over the Internet this afternoon, Sony is "quietly testing" a major overhaul for the PlayStation Store behind closed doors
The redesign will supposedly declutter the store-front with what's described as "an aesthetic layout with logically marked sections and rolodex lists" according to Reg Hardware. The...
Out Today PlayStation Move Ape Escape (North America)
Those apes infest PSN
After a disc release in Europe, PlayStation Move Ape Escape hits North America as a digital download today. The on-rails net-swinging catch-em-up may not be the best demonstration of PlayStation Move's abilities, but it's charming enough and might be worth a go if you're desperate to reunite with those escaped apes again. Be...
News Gawp At ICO & Shadow Of The Colossus, Cry A Little Bit
Sony's updated the Japanese websites for the upcoming ICO and Shadow Of The Colossus HD remakes
With the updated pages comes two new trailers which have been handily posted to YouTube for our embedding pleasure. Check out trailers for both games after the jump.
News Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta Updated With Two New Gameplay Modes
No sooner than we finish up our hands-on impressions, Naughty Dog has updated the Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta with two new game modes
The public test — which goes public in the US today — has been bolstered by the inclusion of Team Objective and Co-Op Hunters. The former shares some similarities to Killzone 3's Warzone mode, while the latter...
News Sony Reveals 'World Game Project' For Japan
Typically the Japanese games market can be quite introverted
While Japanese games have a history of success in the West, few Western games succeed in the Japanese market. This is something Sony's looking to correct with a new initiative in Japan called the "World Game Project". While details are still scarce about the Akihabara event —...
News Final Fantasy VII Costume Pack To Launch In LittleBigPlanet Next Week
The much anticipated Final Fantasy VII costume pack for LittleBigPlanet will launch on the PlayStation Store next week according to the PlayStation Blog
Costumes for Tifa, Sephiroth, Cloud and Aeris will be available for £1.59 / $1.99 each, or bundled together with an exclusive Vincent outfit for £4.79 / $5.99. Sony's also announced an inFamous 2...
First Impressions Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta on PS3
If the Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta has taught us anything, it's that we're terrible at Uncharted multiplayer
After a spot of beginner's luck — winning our first game of Free For All with a deftly timed melee swipe to the face — we've lingered in the loser's half of every game we've played. We're even rubbish at co-op, consecutively getting less...
News Capcom Excited About Cole MacGrath's Inclusion In Street Fighter X Tekken
inFamous protagonist Cole MacGrath's inclusion in Street Fighter X Tekken was announced at this year's E3 for both the PlayStation 3 and Vita versions of the cross-over brawler
Following up the announcement, Capcom's Seth Killian has told Siliconera that the "timing was right" for the inclusion and that the publisher is "excited"...
News Sony Extends Welcome Back Offer, Don't Wait Until The Last Second This Time
Sony has extended its Welcome Back package after a barrage of complaints from people seemingly incapable of utitlising 30 full days to download their "compensation" for the recent PSN outage
The offer — which was pulled at Midnight on July 3rd — will now run until 09:00AM PST (17:00PM BST) on Tuesday July 5th. If you were one of those people...
It's Monday morning: we're supposed to be writing about how Zumba Fitness has topped the UK sales charts for a billionth week running and not much else
Instead we've got a zinger of a rumour from DigiTimes, speculating that the PlayStation 4 will launch as soon as next year. The report mentions that Sony will begin production of its new system at...
News Japanese PlayStation Store Set To Return On Wednesday
Huzzah
Sony's revealed that the PlayStation Store will finally return in Japan on July 6th. That's this Wednesday if you haven't got a calendar nearby. There's very little else to say other than, yes, the PlayStation Store really has been down this long in Japan. The government demanded Sony provide evidence that the service was sufficiently...
News PlayStation Move Compatible Cricket Title In Development For PS3
SCE India has confirmed that the developers of the PS2's Street Cricket Champions, Trine Studios, are currently hard at work on a PlayStation Move enabled cricket title for PS3
The currently unnamed title is being developed with an Indian audience in mind, and is currently unlikely to release outside of the country. The game's due out in October.
News Sony Demonstrates PlayStation Vita's 'Face Control' Technology
PlayStation Vita's 'Face Control' technology was demonstrated in Tokyo this week
It uses the Vita's front-facing cameras to super-impose animated character model overlays on top of the users. The technology is reasonably impressive, apart from when it's trying to detect blinking. That ends up looking a bit scary.
News Media Molecule Taking A Break From LittleBigPlanet To Generate 'New Ideas'
This is a sweet story with a bitter after taste
British based developer Media Molecule has announced that it is considering taking a break from the LittleBigPlanet series in order to "focus on some new ideas". While this sounds like immediately wonderful news, it would be sad to see Sackboy sit quietly in the sidelines for a few years...
News Invizimals, Reality Fighters Developer Sticking With Sony For The Foreseeable Future
If you're a fan of augmented reality products, then you'll be delighted to learn that the developer of the Invizimals series on PSP, and Reality Fighters for PSVita, is sticking with Sony platforms for the foreseeable future
The Spanish based Novarama announced a new deal this week that will see more of the company's portfolio released exclusively...
News Kaz Hirai Promoted To Chairman Of SCEI, Andrew House Becomes CEO
What a difference a week makes -- or something
We've only been away six days or so, but the entire hierarchy of SCE has changed. Sort of, anyway. Kaz Hirai has been promoted to Chairman of SCEI, active as of September 1st. Presumably that means he will sit at the head of a big table wearing an expensive suit like in the Yakuza games. More surprising...
News Sony Continues To Apologise About The PSN Outage, Offers Tons Of PlayStation Home Stuff
What PlayStation Network outage?
Seriously, perhaps it's just our blase reaction to the whole scenario, but do people still feel wronged by Sony's alleged inability to protect its data centre? Either way, SCEE is continuing its welcome back process by bunging you an approximated £65 worth of PlayStation Home gubbins. All the stuff is available...
News Team ICO Moves Into Sony's Main Offices In Japan
The Last Offices
Everyone's favourite arthouse development suite, Team ICO, has made a bold move into the head offices of SCE this week — presumably so top figures like Kaz Hirai can ensure creative lead Fumito Ueda actually finishes the studio's latest title, The Last Guardian. Fumito described the move as a "major reformation of our development...
What other game could top our most anticipated list?
Naughty Dog's adventure opus, Uncharted, has gradually become one of the biggest franchises in video games The original launched to muted praise, but got a second wind of enthusiasm when it was one of the first retail titles to boast trophy support. For many, that patch introduced them to the...
Feature Push Square's Most Anticipated PlayStation Games Of Holiday 2011: #5 - Team ICO Collection
Look: we get it
You've spent the past few years learning about how pivotal the Team ICO titles are, but you've never actually experienced them for yourself. You've looked on eBay, but the original PS2 titles fetch a packet. You've all but given up. Thankfully HD remasters do serve a purpose after all. With Sony readying a bundle of both ICO and...
News What's This Nonsense About Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time Looking Like A PS2 Game?
"Meh," sneered one forum post we read on Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time, "Still looks like a PlayStation 2 game
" What planet are these people living on? The latest Sly Cooper title from Sanzaru Games retains the glorious visual style of Sucker Punch's Sly titles for sure, but it looks like a huge advancement from where we're standing. Seriously:...
Rumour Sony Gearing Up For PlayStation 4 Unveiling Next Year
IndustryGamers is speculating that Sony will unveil the PlayStation 4 next year
The website cites an anonymous source from a top developer, though naturally no names were mentioned. Rumours have already pledged an XBOX 360 unveiling for 2012, though they were resolutely denied. Analysts were less confident about IndustryGamers' rumour: "I think...
