Tag archive for ‘Playstation’
Life With Playstation Delayed…Again
Life for Playstation has been delayed once again after Sony promised it to consumers by August. Touted as Sony’s all in one solution for news, weather and other functions such as music playback, gamers have been waiting anxiously for the free software from Sony. Noam Rimon, Sr. Development Manager for SCEA’s R&D department stated over [...]
Sony Contemplating Making PSN a Paid Service
TechRadar has noted in a recent survey – sent to some consumers by Sony Asia – that Sony asks the question as to whether PlayStation gamers would be prepared to pay a monthly fee for the online service. Sony currently offers access to its online service free of charge for all Playstation 3 owners, which [...]
Vidzone PS3 Music Streaming Service to launch in Europe
As part of Sony’s ongoing effort to extend the PS3′s horizons beyond that of a purely gaming device, SCEE CEO David Reeves announced the launch of the new Vidzone video and music on demand service for the PS3. The free service will debut in Europe in 2009 allowing users to pick from a list of [...]
Teenager Murdered Over Playstation Argument
A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death Wednesday night. Apparently, he was stabbed by his own brother after the two got into an argument over a video game. The fatal stabbing happened at the Parker Square Apartments in the 10300 block of Shady Lane in Texas, USA at about 4 p.m. Neighbors told 11 News [...]
Sony To Offer PS3 Greatest Hits
During the E3 keynote, Sony announced that they will be offering discounted PS3 “Greatest Hits” games, a popular tradition amongst video game developers. Each game will now cost only $29USD instead of the usual fourty to fifty. Resistance, MotorStorm, Warhawk, Call of Duty 3, Fight Night, NFS: Carbon, RSV, and Assassin’s Creed; Oblivion: Elder Scrolls, [...]
Sony Sells 10 Million PSP’s in Japan
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that the cumulative sell-in units of PSP handheld entertainment system (PSP-1000 and 2000 series) reached a total of 10 million units in Japan as of July 15, 2008. Since the launch on December 12th 2004 in Japan, PSP has evolved as an innovative handheld entertainment system, having a [...]
PSP Firmware 4.05 Released
The latest firmware for the PSP – version 4.05 was released yesterday and at first glance according to the release notes didn’t appear to offer anything tangible other than some new effects to the visual music player. However after an article appeared on the Playstation Knowledge Base, these were then amended to read as follows: New [...]
Playstation Store Update – July 10th
Looks like its time for the weekly Playstation 3 store update. Don’t even bother downloading the demo for the Chronicles of Narnia game (unless your a huge fan), as my searches have informed me that it pretty much has received bad reviews everywhere. Tom Clancy fans should be delighted at the free gift pack, and [...]
Africa’s Playstation War
A website named Toward Freedom has run a very interesting piece about a little-known ore called Coltan and the reprecussions the citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo endure to mine it. Coltan is used extensively in gadgets and other electronic devices in its refined form – a bluish-gray powder called tantalum, which is defined [...]
Sony Developing 4th Gen PS2 For India, Russia
Hot off the heels of our Sony Looks to Double Revenues in BRIC story, Sony is to introduce a new, slimmer PlayStation 2 hardware model to India and Europe by October 2008 – and is also nearing the launch of a localized version of its PS3 PlayStation Network for the Indian region. The Economic Times [...]
PlayStation Website Hacked
Hackers have reportedly infiltrated Sony’s U.S. PlayStation website in an attempt to gain credit card information from unsuspecting users. Sophos, a computer security and anti-virus company, claims hackers have inserted code into Sony’s SingStar Pop and God of War pages on the PlayStation site that display false messages telling users their computers have been infected [...]
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