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News Sony Fleshes Out PlayStation Vita's Array Of Social Features
One of the best features of the PlayStation Vita's hardware is its suite of online social options: Near, Party and LiveArea
In an interview with Eurogamer, Sony Europe's R&D gaffer, Phil Rogers, has offered a little more insight into what each of the features offers and hopes to achieve. According to Rogers, Near is a little like Nintendo 3DS'...
News Tears Of Joy: Tekken Hybrid Confirmed For PlayStation 3 In Europe
Ask and ye shall receive -- Sony has announced that it will be handling publishing duties on the hotly anticipated Tekken Hybrid in Europe
The brilliant teaser-movie-nostalgia package includes an HD version of the original Tekken Tag Tournament, the CG movie Tekken: Blood Vengeance and a special preview for the upcoming Tekken Tag Tournament 2...
News Brazil Gets Its Own PlayStation Store & PlayStation Blog
Hello Brazil
How're you doing? We hear your economy is booming. So much so, Sony's looking to get a piece of the pie. The company's just announced the launch of the PlayStation Store in the region. You'll now be able to buy content in Portuguese and English. You're even being offered your own Welcome Back package. There's also now a local version of...
News Public Go Hands-On With PlayStation Vita At Tokyo Game Show
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan's gaffer Hiroshi Kawano has revealed that the Japanese public will get their first taste of the PlayStation Vita at September's Tokyo Game Show
Kawano said in a blog post that numerous booths will be provided for fans to get hands-on with the new device, presumably leading into a Japanese release date later in the...
News Global Resistance is New, Free Resistance Strategy Game
More war
Resistance 3 marches into battle in September, but you can get a head start on the Chimera by taking part in the new Global Resistance strategy game over at MyResistance.net. The free to play web game will allow players to unlock extra content in the upcoming shooter, including XP boosters, new titles and character skins for multiplayer...
News Check Out Starhawk's Stellar Transitions Between Cut-Scenes & Gameplay
The emphasis of the footage coming out of Starhawk's Comic-Con panel is to demonstrate the game's transitions between gameplay and cut-scenes
With Starhawk including inFamous' motion comic cut-scene approach, Lightbox has developed a really neat effect that transforms polygons into art, as demonstrated in the video embedded above. The cut-scene...
News Elena Fisher Was Originally Chloe Frazer... Or Something
Elena Fisher began life as a Spanish character named "Elena Vargas", Naughty Dog has revealed
Speaking during a Comic-Con panel devoted to Uncharted, series writer Amy Hennig revealed that she wanted Claudia Black — who later took the role of Chloe Frazer — to voice the character. The panel — which was attended by Hennig, Emily Rose (the real...
News Icon Games Discusses 'Joy' Of PlayStation Minis Development
To some pockets of the industry, PlayStation Minis is a taboo term
Sony's micro-game initiative has struggled with an identity crisis for some time; offering digestible titles similar to those available on smartphones at double the cost. Despite this, the service has been paramount to the success and growth of some independent games developers. One...
News Insomniac Games Posts Resistance 3 Comic-Con Panel Highlights
If you were unable to get to the San Diego Comic-Con last night to witness Insomniac Games' Resistance 3 panel, the PlayStation Blog's got your back
James Stevenson has posted a short highlights video from the panel, featuring Creative Director Marcus Smith, Art Director Grant Hollis, Animation Director Kevin Grow, as well as voice actor Robin...
News PlayStation Smartphone Application Reaches Version 1.1
Sony's updated the official PlayStation smartphone application to version 1
1, fixing log-in issues that have persisted since the app was previously updated to 1.05. New features allow you to sort and search you PlayStation Network friends, as well as compare trophies. You'll also be able to comment on PlayStation Blog articles with the app. There's...
News Mark Your Calendars: PlayStation GamesCom Press Conference Kicks Off August 16th
Please date PlayStation Vita for 2011
Please date PlayStation Vita for 2011. Please date PlayStation Vita for 2011. We predict two fates for Sony's GamesCom press conference this year: jubilation or abject disappointment. All eyes are going to be on the date Sony gives PlayStation Vita in Europe and North America. Japan's pretty much confirmed for a...
News PlayStation Gamers Raise Over ?1 Million For Japanese Earthquake Relief
Give yourselves a huge pat on the back
Seriously, this is genuinely brilliant news. Sony's announced that PlayStation gamers have donated over £1.01 million to the Japanese Earthquake appeal. That's a staggering number. North American PSN users raised £260,995, while Europe stumped up £538,122, and Asian countries offered £16,673. Japanese...
News Resistance 3 Multiplayer Beta Begins Kicking Chimera Ass In Early August
Sometimes we wake up in the middle of the night covered in a cold sweat, itching to play Resistance
Insomniac's first-person shooter series has been a staple of our PlaytStation 3 diet for years now. We ploughed hours into Fall Of Man, only to spend a similarly ridiculous amount of time with Resistance 2. But the latest title — Resistance 3 —...
News The E3 Announcement That Time Forgot
Ever heard of Carnival Island? No, us neither, but surprisingly it's a Sony published PlayStation Move party title in development at Magic Pixel and Sony Santa Monica
Apparently Sony just forgot to tell us all about it. The Carnival Games series has been a huge success on the Nintendo Wii, so it's surprising to see Sony completely ignore Carnival...
News God Of War 'Master Collection' Spotted On Amazon Germany
Never played God Of War ever before? Sony's got the perfect solution for you
Popping up on Amazon Germany is a retail listing for the "God Of War Master Collection", a gigantic PS3 collection that includes every God Of War game ever made — aside from that shoddy mobile phone title. If you're having trouble keeping up, that's: God Of War,...
News Heads Up: PlayStation Store Down For Maintenance Today, Don't Cancel Your Credit Cards
Just a quick heads-up: Sony's bringing down the PlayStation Store today for a couple of hours maintenance
We're posting this because we know how frightening outages can be in the post-PSNgate climate. We just wanted to let you know that, hey, if you try to log on to the PlayStation Store this afternoon and it flips out — everything is fine. Don't...
News Sony Shows Off Resistance 3's 'Survivor Edition' With New Trailer
Sony's put out a trailer for Resistance 3's bumper "Survivor Edition" collector's set
The pack is crammed with luxury goodies such as Resistance themed toy soldiers, Capelli's backpack and an SRPA branded hip-flask. Admittedly, much of the content included in this pack is needless tat — but it's dangerously tempting for Resistance fans like...
News Sony: 3D Can Enhance Experiences, But Only When Done Properly
With Sony so heavily invested in 3D content, you'd think they'd be pushing every visual media outlet to develop content in the extra dimension
But that's not the case. Speaking with Eurogamer at the Develop conference in Brighton, Sony's 3D gaffer, Mick Hocking, revealed that 3D needs to be done properly and appropriately to be truly successful...
News We Will Probably Read Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth
While you all settled down with your high-brow novels last night, we tucked into bed with a copy of Killzone Ascendancy
Don't get us wrong, we like quality literature as much as the next person, but sometimes you just feel like something trashy, right? Speaking of which, we have high hopes for Christopher Golden's upcoming Uncharted novel, The Fouth...
News Bonus Content To Be Bundled With The Team ICO Collection
We approve
One could argue that getting high-definition remasters of Team ICO's massive PlayStation 2 adventure titles, ICO and Shadow Of The Colossus, are bonuses enough, but Sony's got some extra goodies to bundle with the upcoming Team ICO Collection to make the package that touch more tempting. Included with new copies of the game will be a...
News Sony Initially Intended LittleBigPlanet To Be Free-To-Play
You can see the origins of a free-to-play game in LittleBigPlanet
The accessibility of the PlayStation Store within the game makes the package ripe for freemium potential, and when you factor in DLC content packs for costumes, stickers and materials it's easy to see how the title could adapt to that business model. In fact: that was the original...
News PlayStation Network Outage Did Not Stop LittleBigPlanet From Growing
More than 1
5 million new players have jumped into LittleBigPlanet 2 since the PlayStation Network outage earlier in the year. Media Molecule confirmed the figures as part of a panel at the Develop conference this morning. "I like that stat because it's growing," revealed Media Molecule co-founder Alex Evans. "LittleBigPlanet is not...
News Media Molecule Talk Candidly About Leaving LittleBigPlanet Behind
Media Molecule is moving on from LittleBigPlanet
While it will continue to support past releases, the British studio wants to put all of its future energy into creating something new. According to the studio, making this decision felt like a child leaving home. "It's a bit like, if you think of LBP as having a child, Sackboy was our child, you...
News Sony Signs Exclusivity Contract With LittleBigPlanet Vita Developer Double Eleven
Sony has signed an exclusivity contract with LittleBigPlanet Vita developer Double Eleven
The British studio (comprised of former Rockstar Leeds employees) will develop titles exclusively for PlayStation platforms going forward. The firm is currently hard at work on LittleBigPlanet Vita, but will move onto new titles for various Sony platforms in...
News Third Time Lucky: DONTNOD To Attend GamesCom
We just received a press release from DONTNOD Entertainment -- the studio believed to be working on an upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive called Adrift
While the press release was agonisingly ambiguous about the specifics of DONTNOD's debut project, it did provide a few morsels of information. The game's plot has been crafted by Alain Damasio, a...
News Ubisoft Gaffer The Latest Exec To Start Banging On About PlayStation 4
Next-Gen
Is anyone else getting tired of the constant "next generation" chatter? If analysts are correct and the next PlayStation is not coming out until 2013 at the earliest, does that mean we have to endure another two years minimum of this hypothesising? Urgh. Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot is the latest video games boss to drop the "next-gen is...
News Sony's Experimenting With VR, Has An FPS In Development
Sony is experimenting with virtual reality
Mick Hocking, senior director at Sony's Worldwide Studios, told Develop that that platform holder is experimenting with the technology in a variety of projects, including a first-person shooter. "We've got a new head mounted display that we showed at Consumer Electronics Show," Hocking said...
On paper it sounds like a dream scenario: a future where Sony and Microsoft work together to build the ultimate system
Sony's knowledge of hardware architecture coupled with Microsoft's dominance in the software sector. Sony's outstanding first-party output supported by Microsoft's (supposedly) superior networking talents. Combining both Sony and...
News Uncharted 3's Multiplayer Beta Concludes, Is The Biggest In PS3 History
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception's multiplayer beta has come to a conclusion, and Naughty Dog's taken to the PlayStation Blog to reveal that it was the biggest PS3 beta of all time
By the time the beta concluded, Naughty Dog had scooped up a whopping 1.53 million unique players. That's absolutely monstrous for a multiplayer test, and bodes well for...
News Lightbox Interactive Explains How To Create A New Universe
Creating new IP must be one of the most exciting and daunting tasks for any game designer
On one hand, it must be extremely satisfying to see your ideas brought to life in front of you. But on the other hand, it must be a serious creative challenge. Great ideas flourish at good teams, but they don't always grow on trees. Thus it's interesting to...
News Bizarre: Microsoft Registers Sony Domains
Strange tid-bit coming out of Internet supersleuth Superannuation's Twitter account this morning: Microsoft has registered a slew of Sony-related website domains
The US company owns the URLs for Sony-Microsoft.com and Microsoft-Sony.com. We suspect this has got something to do with a non-video game related collaboration. After all, despite being...
News Sony Brings Western Games To Japan, Reveals World Game Project
Sony wants to educate Japanese gamers on the values of Western titles, and it intends to do so with an event dubbed the "World Game Project"
The initiative will see the platform holder bring a slew of hot Western titles to Japan's famous Akihabara district. Playable titles will include inFamous 2, Resistance 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Shadows...
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,...
