A lot to answer for. Remarkable and original entertainment achievements such as Gears of War. Absolutely all of the predictable, generic shit Microsoft had in development specifically for American teenagers and nobody else.
Either that or someone screwed up Samsung’s PowerPoint presentation…
IF you care at all about gaming, no doubt I'm about to offend most of you at least a little. It's inevitable. A round-up of my best games of 2006 is guaranteed not to include the one you've spent all year playing to death - it's the nature of the beast.
What took it so long? Comment According to recent headlines, Sony is somehow going to challenge Apple iTunes with a film download service straight for the PSP. Instead those headlines should have asked why it has taken so long.…
Tom: Kristan's been off work a bit, so I've been organising all this [waves arms around]. One of my solemn duties has been to revisit as many of the top 50 games as possible and see if I feel like commenting on them.
IT'S sales time and for some of us that means gadgets. If nobody got you that gizmo or electronic toy you wanted for Christmas, you'll just have to get it yourself.
It’s Christmas, so time for our traditional look back at what we played in the past year. What’s our tradition? Not doing a bloody great big list, that’s what. We’re not E4, you know.
Think the PSP is struggling? Think again. Sony has told MCV that it is confident of selling one million units in the UK before the end of the year, safely securing its place as the second best-selling console of 2006.
Software company Makayama announces the availability of ‘Mobile TV Center’. This innovative software lets you watch TV shows on 550 mobile devices, such as Pocket PC, iPod, Palm, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and other major brand cellphones, PSP, portable media players and even on TomTom.
Sony is planning to add a few more PSone games to the PlayStation 3's online store tomorrow in Japan, giving owners of the next-gen console the chance to pay 525 yen and play things like R-Types and Dino Crisis on their, er, PSPs.
Sony's own Phil Harrison has promised LocoRoco will return, despite the PSP-only blob-'em-up being not quite the DS defeating smash hit the company was hoping for.
Sony is preparing a digital video download service for PSP, enabling owners of the handheld to download movies to their PCs before transferring them to PSP for mobile viewage, according to a newspaper report.
MCV are reporting that Sony has plans to provide a service allowing PSP owners to download movies to their PC for transfer to their PSP.
A Sony spokesperson has told GamesIndustry.biz that the latest rumours to emerge regarding a definitive PS3 release date, firmware updates and day one add-ons are "pure speculation".
MAKER OF exploding batteries, Sony, is planning to release an online video download service next year.
Is the PSP the future of handheld movie viewing after all?
Hot on the heels of Microsoft’s entry into the movie download market, Sony is looking to launch a similar service for its handheld PSP next year.
Sony is in talks with Amazon.com, MovieLink and CinemaNow to offer PSP users movies for digital download, with the service due to launch early next year.
Sony plans to launch an online video download service next year, according to reports in both the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal.
2006-12-18 09:08:37 London shares gain in early deals, Tate & Lyle slips after pricing news
Sony plans to launch an online video download service next year, according to reports in both the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal newspapers.
Two newspapers report that Sony will begin offering movie downloads for PCs and PlayStation Portables in Q1 2007
TOKYO (XFN-ASIA) - Sony will offer a video download service in the first quarter of 2007 for its PlayStation Portable (PSP) game device, the Financial Times reported in its online edition.
Sony is to gatecrash the fledgling market in handheld devices to play downloaded video content early next year when it launches a service for the PlayStation Portable.
Sony is to gatecrash the fledgling market in handheld devices to play downloaded video content early next year when it launches a service for the PlayStation Portable.
SONY HAS been outed by bloggers who have discovered the maker of exploding batteries has been running a fake PSP fan site.
A substantial update to PlayStation 3's firmware will finally give the console's XMB (cross media bar) the ability to multitask, Phil Harrison has revealed to attendees of a recent Sony seminar.
Details on new PS3 firmware update here
Sony's 'Brand Space' pics, plus full details on new PS3 firmware update inside
PSP site is "busted". If you would like to comment on this article, then you must be logged in! Dragon Quest 9 killed all things PSP, probably PS3 as well.
Sony has admitted that a brilliantly terrible marketing blog masquerading as the personal website of two semi-literate youngsters is in fact a brilliantly terrible marketing blog masquerading as the personal website of two semi-literate youngsters.
Sony Computer Entertainment America has admitted that a blog purporting to be the work of real life PSP fans was in fact part of a marketing campaign designed to promote the handheld in the run-up to Christmas.
Northamptonshire, UK: November 2006 – Oxygen Games is proud to announce a new extreme sports title; Snocross2: Featuring Blair Morgan.
CVG.com is reporting that Sony's Playstation 3 may be delayed till September 2007 due to on going shortages. Quoting an 'insider source', Computer and Video Games they said Sony, despite claims to the contrary are still suffering part shortages and will likely do so for some time.
CHERTSEY, UK – 13 December 2006 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company, today announced an agreement to publish Sony Online Entertainment’s Untold Legends™ Dark Kingdom™ for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system for PAL territories across Europe.
SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (December 12th, 2006) – SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA Europe, Ltd. today announced they will be releasing Alien Syndrome™, a fast-paced action-RPG set in a stunningly imaginative sci-fi universe.
GameSetWatch has posted an interesting article about what always was the inevitable demise of Sony's UMD format for it's PSP handheld console.
Both Sony and Microsoft are currently searching for new PR agencies, following a bout of musical chairs in the vitally important sector.
The representation agency for directors Hornet has formed an alliance with the production company Passion Pictures, with Passion exclusively representing the US-based company's directors in Europe.
The London crowds lap up the Wii
The London crowds lap up the Wii
PSP game Tekken: Dark Resurrection could become available for download for PlayStation 3, a move that would really up the ante for online distribution of games.
Thursday 7 December 2006 PSP game Tekken: Dark Resurrection could become available for download for PlayStation 3, a move that would really up the ante for online distribution of games.
Sony has released another compulsory update for PlayStation 3, bringing the system software up to version 1.30.
FreeStyle Games released its first title this year, the PSP and PS2 title B-Boy. A hip-hop dance game, the title managed to genuinely and creatively represent a culture that has previously been mined by the games industry for its violent associations and thumping soundtracks.
Kate Bevan: The only woman who would buy pink gadgets is Paris Hilton - and who wants to be like her?
You see, titles are always a lot harder to retain than they are to claim the first time round. The original FM for PSP was so welcome to those of us who dreamed of playing SI's unsurpassed masterpiece on the move - without lugging a glorified typewriter around - that we forgave its shortcomings.
Available now, for the PSP at least...
With some restrictions. If you would like to comment on this article, then you must be logged in! Old games are the new new games!
Sony has started to offer PSone games as downloads on its PS3 Store, although you can only play them on the PSP at the moment.
Football Manager, the UK’s fastest selling PC game of last year, is available on the Sony PSP and is absolutely jam packed with over 100 new features, making it even an more addictive experience than ever before.
PlayStation Portable has helped deliver console-style experiences to previously uncharted locations: up mountains, on the train, over there a bit, next to a tree I expect. But on the back of a motorbike?
North American PSP owners can now get hold of the first batch of original PlayStation games for download. The files are downloaded to the PlayStation 3, and then transferred to the PSP via a USB cable. Files range in size from 157 to 535 megabytes.
Hurrah for David Jaffe! Not only did he make the excellent God of War, but he also drinks like a fish and then shouts at his PR minders when he's being interviewed at the Playboy Mansion.
Pricing confusion begins four months out from release. Well, at least it isn't launch day.
ONCE AGAIN it's been an interesting week for all gamers, regardless of your platform of choice. Wii The Nintendo Wii had the most eventful week with the launch of the Wii in its native territory of Japan, coming quickly after news that NOA had sold over 600,000 consoles in the US.
So yeah, it’s almost the same game as on the home console, and it is in every sense, a very technical title.
“I just fucked up my game on the PSP, it wasn’t any good. It’s true… I’m just a B-Level developer, I know that.”
ANYONE hoping to get this year's most-hyped console this Christmas has been warned they face disappointment after pre-order stocks sold out well in advance of the release date.
ANYONE hoping to get this year's most-hyped console this Christmas has been warned they face disappointment after pre-order stocks sold out well in advance of the release date.
The best games for Christmas, sorted by age range.
Electronic Arts boss Larry Probst has said that Sony should consider slashing the price of PSP and introducing a new, smaller model in order to boost sales.
Sony and Polyphony Digital have scrapped plans for a boxed version of Gran Turismo HD for PS3 and now plan to release a GT demo on the PlayStation Store for a limited time instead.
Due out this month in Japan. If you would like to comment on this article, then you must be logged in! Well that turned out to be a big fat load of nothing...