Sony has announced a ‘business update’ to take place on February 20th – and although it’s unwilling to announce any further details at present, it seems highly likely this’ll be where they host the unveiling of the PlayStation 3′s successor. A teaser trailer released on PlayStation’s official YouTube channel runs through 40 seconds of ambiguous imagery before announcing the date,
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Electronic Arts was comfortably the UK’s top physical games publisher of 2012 with Activision and Ubisoft taking second and third respectively. EA enjoyed a successful year thanks to record-breaking sales of FIFA 13, which sold through 2 million units two weeks faster than its predecessor. Other games that will have helped figures included Mass Effect 3, Need for Speed: Most
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Sony will launch a new sales promotion on the PlayStation Store on December 1st. Titled ’12 Deals of Christmas,’ it will feature a dozen “incredible deals” added periodically in the run up to Christmas. Each of these “great one-time offers” will only be redeemable from the PlayStation Store for a period of 48 hours. More as we hear it.
A recently published patent document from Sony, discovered by Kotaku, shows a Move controller with a band inside it capable of producing a heating or cooling effect in a player’s hands. One example of how this could be used, according to the patent, is when a player continually fires an automatic gun; the weapon becomes hot, as depicted by the
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Last month we reported news that actor Jerry Lambert (best known for his role as Sony’s spokesperson, Kevin Butler) had appeared in an advert with a Nintendo Wii. It was a strange sight but a funny one at that. Sony however don’t appear to have seen the humour in it, launching a lawsuit against Bridgestone and Lambert’s production company Wildcat
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It has been reported that Sony Studio Liverpool has been closed. Founded in 1984 as Psygnosis the developer is responsible for the much loved Wipeout series as well as my favourite the Destruction Derby series. Originally rumoured on GR Arcade forums the news has since been confirmed with a lead audio designer for Sony tweeting the news stating, “End of
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Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has admitted for the first time that Sony has been struggling at convincing some publishers to commit to the PlayStation Vita. In an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine Yoshida told them, “We’re having a more difficult time than we had anticipated in terms of getting support from third-party publishers, but that’s our job. We
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EyeToy Kama Sutra could have been a real thing on the Sony PlayStation 2 according to SCE producer Pete Smith. “There was a genuine pitch from a developer who pitched EyeToy Kama Sutra,” he explained. “Seriously, this was a genuine pitch. “So, the guy is going to me, ‘there’s an outline on the screen with the EyeToy’ [and] I’m like,
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According to an IGN reader, a survey created by Sony points toward the existence of a Vita installment for Gran Turismo. Adam Latham received said survey which read, “You told us earlier how interested you would be in buying the PS Vita version of the latest Gran Turismo game,” the survey reads. “Knowing that you might be able to get a
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Believe it or not but E3 is not that far off. In fact it’s just a mere 48 days until the biggest date in every gamer’s calendar arrives and already we’re seeing plenty of hints, teases and announcements for the show. From Mario and Pikmin to new consoles and more. Now though we have some concrete information on when these
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