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Boring
Really boring. Look, we accept that the PSP has some issues, but we're really getting tired of the Western games media trying to kick it at every given opportunity. The device has sold over 50 million units, is the top selling device in Japan week-after-week, and remains the only platform to compete with Nintendo in the space they've...
Sony's dropped some fresh news about what we can expect from the LittleBigPlanet franchise this Christmas
Honestly, a whole lot. Sony will be sending out fresh beta invites and a story demo for LittleBigPlanet 2 from next month, as well as releasing a stand-alone PlayStation Move experience entitled Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves. Sackboy's Prehistoric...
News Kevin Butler Explains Why Gran Turismo 5's So Awesome, Steals A Sports Car
Kevin Butler's excelled himself this time
Not only is this American commercial for Gran Turismo 5 pretty darn comical, it also hammers home every single one of the game's unique selling points. For a spot that's just thirty-seconds long, it's pretty much perfect. Good job SCEA. [Also: ten points to the first person to correctly spot Jacky-T]
News PushSquare Service Announcement: PlayStation Network Downtime Scheduled For Today
SCEE's announced that the PlayStation Network will be experiencing some downtime later this afternoon
Those of you getting out of work at 5PM to slot in your brand new copy of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood or Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, prepare to be furious. The maintenance is scheduled for between 16:05 and 01:00GMT. Users will not be able to...
News Oh Right Yeah, Gran Turismo 5 Is Out Next Week Folks
Here is Japan's official Gran Turismo 5 commercial
Everybody sing with us: "We love cars, we love cars, la-la-la-laaa." Imaginitive stuff. Still - Gran Turismo 5 is out next week folks. Next week.
News Sony Go Head-To-Head With Microsoft Over Non-Game Offerings
With the announcement of VUDU for the PlayStation 3 this afternoon, analysts are getting all hot and sweaty over Sony and Microsoft's latest console battle -- the war for non-gaming applications
Gamasutra note that with Netflix, Hulu Plus and Sony's own PlayStation Video Delivery Service already available on the XMB, Sony is making the integration...
News European PlayStation Plus Members: Go Grab The Killzone 3 Beta Right Now
SCEE's allowing all European PlayStation Plus members to take part in the Killzone 3 beta
It's a limited offer, so make sure you make the most of this opportunity — jump on the PlayStation Store and hit "Download". Go on, it's free. For a limited amount of time today, you will be able to download the Beta straight from the PlayStation...
News First Shots Of The PSP2's Development Unit Hit The 'Net, Send Us Gaga
Somehow VG247 has managed to acquire shots of an early version of the PSP2 development kit
It's real folks, these crumby photos prove it. The shots reveal forward and rear-facing cameras, as well as a track-pad on the reverse of the unit. According to VG247 this is not the final form factor of the PSP2 — in fact, the sliding PSPgo case has since...
News VUDU Movie Service To Launch On North American PlayStation 3s Next Week
Variety is the spice of life
.. Or something. SCEA's announced that the on-demand movie service VUDU is set to join Netflix, HULU Plus and Sony's own PlayStation Video Delivery Service on the XMB. The service will launch on November 23rd in North America. VUDU offers over "4,000 HD movies" making it the "world's largest HD...
News Sony To Conquer "Fourth Global Gaming Superpower" Latin America
One of the reasons the PlayStation 3 is doing so well -- despite XBOX 360's marginal lead in both the US and the UK -- is down to Sony's gaming division being a truly global brand
The news might not be occupying the front page of gaming websites, but the PlayStation is still a leading power in many European countries. While the sales aren't being...
News The PlayStation 2 Is Still Japan's Most Used Piece Of Hardware
The PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable might be out, but Japanese gamers are still in love with their PS2s
That's according to a CESA survey which polled 1,000 Japanese gamers on the final day of TGS. The survey found that the PS2 is still the most used piece of video game hardware in the country. Sony's ancient system stole 70% of the votes...
News Auditorium On PlayStation Network Nets New Levels, PlayStation Move & 3D Support
Auditorium is all about "transforming light into a symphony of sound"
Nope, we don't get it either, but the game's executive producer assures us we'll have an "a-ha" moment after a couple of levels. Good, because judging the game purely on its aesthetics it looks amazing. Like something we'd want to play anyway. The PlayStation Network...
News Warning: This Fan-Made Gran Turismo 5 Trailer May Cause Cases Of Unwarranted Sex-Wee
Gran Turismo 5 has had a lot of trailers over the span of its five-year development
None of them have come close to being as good as this fan-made trailer. Sure it uses bits of recycled footage from the official trailers, but it's the way that it's cut that makes it so exciting. There are eight days to go now folks. Eight days.
News Dead Nation Brings The Zombie Apocalypse On November 30th/December 1st
We've been waiting a long time for Housemarque's next PlayStation Network title, but finally the wait ends as December nears
Sony's placed a November 30th date on Dead Nation in the US, with Europe getting it just a day later on December 1st. The game will cost £9.99 / $14.99 but will include a platinum trophy. Of course, Dead Nation's ambitious...
News Zipper: MAG Still "Amongst The Most Played PS3 Games Out There"
Zipper Interactive's Jeremy Dunham has responded to claims that MAG is struggling to maintain a substantial player-base
Posting on Zipper's official forums, Dunham stated: This is incorrect MAG has more concurrent players than SOCOM Confrontation worldwide on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. This has been true for every month since...
News UK PSPgo Price Cut Due To "Website Error", Hope You Nabbed It In Time
Sony's confirmed that PSPgo price-cut reports from this weekend were due to a "website error"
The company accidentally dropped the price of the digital-download system to £130 on their official Sony Store website, leading many publications to believe that the price of the device had dropped for the second time in less than a month. Give yourself a...
News This Picture Was Taken In-Game Using Gran Turismo 5's Photo Mode
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News Sly 4 Teased In Sly Cooper Trilogy Re-Release
Can we get a hell-yeah? Sony's teased the inevitable release of Sly 4 in a sneaky teaser trailer hidden in the PlayStation 3 re-release of the Sly Cooper Trilogy
The teaser trailer doesn't reveal much (apart from looking bloody beautiful), but it finally confirms that a next-generation entry in the franchise is on the way. Speaking of which, the HD...
News PSPgo Hits Bargain Status In The UK, Now Only ?129.99 From The Sony Store
Whatever your opinion of the PSPgo, it's time to stand-up and take notice
Sony's confirmed that they'll be cutting the price of the device in the UK to £129.99. That might still sound like a lot, but it's worth noting that if you buy the device before January 11th you'll also net ten free games. Seeing as the PSPgo is a great piece of hardware, the...
News Sly Cooper Steals into Europe in Early December
Cooper trio next month
The Sly Collection, or The Sly Trilogy in Europe*, is already out in North America but it won't be too long until European gamers can get their claws into it, as the game's launch kicks off on December 1st. Gamers across continental Europe can grab the game from Wednesday December 1st, antipodean fans receive the title the...
News The Sly Collection Comes To PlayStation 3 On December 3rd In The UK
Sly Cooper's cutting it fine, but he's going to be around in time for Christmas
Sony's confirmed that the Sly Collection — which includes remastered versions of all three Sly Cooper titles and some bonus PlayStation Move mini-games — will launch across Europe from December 1st, with the UK getting the game on the 3rd. There's more information...
News Gran Turismo 5's Release Date Locked For November 24th (That's 2010 In Case You Were Wondering)
Sony's just confirmed that Gran Turismo 5 will finally launch worldwide on November 24th (Japan has to wait until the 25th)
It's been a long wait since the game was delayed in late October. The game's been leaking all over the Internet for a good week now, with copies reportedly going astray in Europe. But none of that matters any more, the game's...
News Media Molecule Detail LittleBigPlanet 2's Grabinator, Sell Us With Basketball
On its own, the Grabinator sounds like a fine idea
When wearing Sackboy's specially crafted gloves you can pick up objects and throw them. That's fine, but it's not getting us too excited. However, the end of this trailer shows the perfect use for LittleBigPlanet 2's new gameplay mechanic — basketball. Now you can have perfect, free-flowing...
News Today Could Be The Day: Yamauchi Claims Gran Turismo 5 Release Date Is "About To Be Announced"
Polyphony Digital's head-honcho, Kazunori Yamauchi, has Tweeted that the Gran Turismo 5 release date is "about to be announced
" It's about time, ever since the game was delayed late last month we've been waiting patiently on a new release window. The game should have been out by n0w. GT's been leaking all over the 'net for the past week or so...
News Beat Sketcher Hits The American PlayStation Store On November 23rd
Bizarre PlayStation Move paint/rhythm game hybrid, Beat Sketcher, is set to hit the American PlayStation Store on November 23rd
The whacky paint application — which allows you to draw all over your PlayStation Eye's camera feed — mixes beats and blops with pin-perfect PlayStation Move paint precision. It's all a bit weird, but it's pretty...
News PlayStation Home 1.4 Client Launches, Brings Voice Chat & More
PlayStation Home has been getting awesome behind the scenes for a while
Today Sony's launched a new client for the virtual world which brings with it new wardrobe support, voice chat and new character status settings. Are you happy, angry or sad? Now you'll be able to tell the world — or at least the small portion of the world using Home...
News Sony Release Bonkers PlayStation 3 Ads For Latin America
Up until mid-way through this generation, Sony's marketing strategy for the PlayStation revolved around creating some kind of classy, otherworldly brand image for the platform
After taking a caning from Microsoft and Nintendo's "no-nonsense" advertising, Sony's switched to more generic campaigns with the fake PlayStation exec Kevin Butler...
News Potential PlayStation Move Sackboy Spin-Off Is Rated By Australian Board
What's "Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves"? The game's certainly new to us, but it's been rated by the Australian Classification Board
Siliconera, who picked up the rating, note that the name suggests this could be some kind of PlayStation Move spin-off title. Seeing as Supermassive Games (the studio behind Tumble and Start The Party) are listed as the...
News Live NHL Streaming Application Hits The PlayStation 3 In North America & Canada
Honestly, we couldn't care less about hockey nor the NHL
We can imagine fans of the sport are literally drawling at the prospect of Sony's new NHL GameCenter application for the PlayStation 3 The application allows NHL GameCenter Live subscribers ($169) to "stream live out-of-market regular season and select playoff game broadcasts in HD."...
News LOVEFiLM Is Available On British PlayStation 3s From... Well, Right Now!
Stop reading this and switch on your PlayStation 3
Scroll to the Video section of the XMB and — what's this? — the LOVEFiLM icon's already there!? Apparently the magic Sony ninjas broke into everyone's house last night and installed the application onto our PS3s. Or something. Pretty neat not having to install a patch though, right? For those...
Rumour Behaviour Interactive Hints At Involvement With The PSP2
Behaviour Interactive's working on a "next-generation portable platform" according to CEO Rémi Racine
The studio, who changed their name from A2M earlier in the week, are famous for their work on WET and Naughty Bear. While the executive was keen to point out his studio's involvement with the platform, he did follow up with a big fat, "That's...
News New Data Shows The PlayStation 3 Trailing The XBOX 360 By Just 3 Million Units Worldwide
The PlayStation 3 is seriously closing the gap on the XBOX 360's worldwide sales total, and it doesn't even look like the marketing clout of Kinect is going to stop Sony's resurgence
New worldwide hardware figures shared by both platform holders detail the PlayStation 3 as having shifted 41.6 million units worldwide. The XBOX 360 (which launched...
News Gran Turismo 5's Introduction Movie Is Seven Minutes Long, Fitting Right
For a game that's been in development for so long, it's rather fitting that Gran Turismo 5 should have an epic introduction movie
While we tried not to spoil too much of the intro for ourselves, we did enjoy how classy the opening moments were. This is Polyphony Digital through and through. No jumping cars and chugging guitars, but pianos and...
News Heavy Rain Video Details Cut Content & Deleted Scenes, Is Fascinating
Beware: this video is pretty spoiler heavy.
Did you know that the original version of Heavy Rain featured gameplay segments in which Ethan Mars swam around in a metaphor for the Origami Killer's mind? No, neither did we, that's why we found this trailer featuring deleted scenes from the game absolutely fascinating.
News European LittleBigPlanet 2 Collector's Edition Confirmed, A Bit Disappointing
Remember that amazing LittleBigPlanet 2 collector's edition Sony announced for the US? Yeah, we're not getting that here in Europe
SCEE's decided we'd probably prefer a slightly more boring package to represent our admiration for Media Molecule and Sackboy. In all, it's a bit disappointing, but at least we're getting something, right? Right? The...
Out Today Tuesday November 9th 2010 (North America)
A string of titles to delve into today
Whether you're into singing, dancing, fighting or stealthing, there should be something to tickle your fancy this week as a trio of Move-enabled titles land on North American shores. Of course, we'll bring you full and honest reviews of these games shortly. Will you be picking any of these titles up? The Fight:...
Rumour Consider This Your Bi-Yearly Update On Medievil III
We've got a running joke on PushSquare pertaining to the alleged development of a new title in the Medievil franchise
The rumour seems to pop-up every six months or so, but despite us covering the game for a couple of years now, it's never been announced. The latest rumour comes courtesy of PlayStationLifeStyle. They've dug up a job listing for Sony...
News Gran Turismo 5's Trophy-List Hits The Web, Features A Whopping 60 Awards
It's fitting that the most complete title to hit the PlayStation 3 also happens to have an insane number of trophies
Gran Turismo 5 will come packaged with a whopping sixty awards, so prepare to work your ass off for that platinum. It's also hilarious how this story continues to develop. Let's not forget that Gran Turismo 5 is the biggest game in...
News Sony Confirms Smaller, Sleeker, (Sexier) PlayStation Headset
Last week we reported that Sony might be giving the PlayStation 3 Bluetooth headset a bit of a make-over
Today we can confirm it. The smaller, sleeker and totally sexier headset will arrive at American retailers for $49.99. The headset carries the same features as its predecessor, but features better noise cancelling technology and is obviously...
News LOVEFiLM Hits The PlayStation 3 This Week
MUBI last week, LOVEFiLM this week -- as an entertainment hub the PlayStation 3 will truly cater to everyone come Wednesday, as the LOVEFiLM affiliates blog has confirmed the movie-streaming application's launch
The blog notes:Good news for all LOVEFiLM members and PS3 owners our free streaming service is launching on the PS3 on 10th November...
News Gran Turismo 5 Is Real As Real Can Be, This Guy's Playing It
Just to put a nice, frilly feather-bow on top of one of the worst build-up campaigns to a blockbuster release, it seems photographed copies of Gran Turismo 5 that have been popping up on the Internet all weekend were real
How do we know? Because this guy's playing it. Hot rumours around the 'Net are stating that the game's going to hit the US on...
News Yamauchi: PlayStation 3 "Still Not Enough" For Gran Turismo
Polyphony Digital god-father Kaz Yamauchi believes that the PlayStation 3 "restricted" what was possible in Gran Turismo 5
"Software has to be created under the restriction of the hardware," he told the latest issue of Esquire UK (via CVG). "With each new PlayStation, the vessel has become bigger, but it's still not enough. "With...
News Turn Yourself Into Kratos With This Amazing God Of War Web Application
Who wouldn't want to be Kratos? Running about, stabbing monsters in the face wearing nothing but a skirt -- sounds incredible, right? PushSquare's editor Sammy Barker thought so, hence why he spent the ten minutes or so required to use Sony's "Kratos Yourself" web-app
Thing is, he couldn't get it to work, so here's a picture of Kratos' kitty...
News Sony Launch £14m Advertising Campaign In The UK
Woof
With Microsoft about to launch their Kinect camera in under a week here in the UK, Sony's launched a £14million PlayStation Move advertising initiative to counter the "controller-free" hype. Sony's formed partnerships with Channel 4, Disney, Nickelodeon and more, and will also sponsor Cineworld and Odeon's Kids Clubs. The ad campaign will...
News Check Out God Of War II's Cut "Lost Atlantis" Level
If you enjoyed the cut sections from God Of War III the other day, then here's another relic for you -- God Of War II's "Lost Atlantis" level that never was
The watery city is featured in God Of War: Ghost Of Sparta, so it came to the franchise in the end.
News SCEA: Gran Turismo 5 Still Locked For Pre-Christmas Release
Everyday that passes without word on Gran Turismo 5 raises more concern in the PushSquare office
We'd just like to know what's going on. We get the impression Sony want to make sure everything is absolutely 101% locked down before they make a new announcement, and that makes sense, but it would be nice to be kept in the loop wouldn't it? SCEA's...
Sony's countered the release of Microsoft's Kinect device with an extensive list of PlayStation Move compatible software
The list — which includes new, old, upcoming and patched titles — makes for enticing reading to anyone considering picking up the device, but there are a couple of notable absentees. In the category for upcoming PlayStation...
News Sony Launches £14m Advert Campaign to Counteract Kinect Effect
Will have sold 500,000 Moves in UK by Christmas
With six days before Kinect for Xbox 360 lands in the UK, Sony has kicked off a high-profile advertising campaign for its own motion controller across the country. Sony's spending £14m to reach three major audiences: families, social players and core gamers. It's formed partnerships with Channel 4,...
News Sorcery Mysteriously Absent from Sony's Coming Soon List
Curiouser and curiouser...
Magic wand-wielder Sorcery is undoubtedly one of the most exciting titles on the way to Move, promising a completely accurate motion-based method of casting spells. Whilst some retailers have it listed for a release in the first three months of 2011, the official US PlayStation Blog recently posted up a list of games on...
News Polyphony Digital Get Started On Gran Turismo 6 (Really!)
Gran Turismo 5 may have gone gold, but there's still no release date for the top-tier racing sim
That said, it's not stopping Polyphony Digital's head honcho, Kazunori Yamauchi, from turning his attention to the next game in the Gran Turismo series. When asked about Gran Turismo 6 in an interview with Autoweek, Yamauchi admitted that development for...
