Helps PS3 be best-selling console. Lost Planet 2 has topped the Japan chart on PS3, shifting 85,000 units in a week. That performance helped Sony's flagship console outsell Wii by 19,075 units to 18,456, according to Media Create. Even the Xbox 360 version of Lost Planet 2 performed well, taking fifth place with 35,000 units sold. The game's similarities to Monster Hunter - co-op teamwork ...
(28 May 2010) Except Xbox 360. That goes up a little.
(28 May 2010) Super Mario Galaxy 2 Day One sales impressive.
IT'S HERE.. BUT WILL APPLE'S 'MAGICAL' NEW GADGET ROCK YOUR WORLD?
Sony give away free games
iFad? iGlad? or simply iSad?
When the PSPgo launched Sony gave away free copies of Gran Turismo. A few months later, Sony then upped the ante and gave away three games. According to MCV, Sony will soon be giving away a staggering 10 free game downloads with any shiny new system purchased.
Apple’s much-hyped touchscreen tablet device finally lands in the UK on Friday.
(26 May 2010) Signs several airline deals
Blazing is perhaps too strong a word
Spencer Dalziel THE INQUIRER If you believe anything on the Internet
No vendetta harboured against Sony
(21 May 2010) Tanks for the DLC
(21 May 2010) We speak to the men who know.
Sony's PS3 is best-selling console. EA's 2010 FIFA World Cup has made a fleeting appearance in the Japanese software chart this week. Media Create put the PS3 version in 10th with a total of 10,000 sales. The PSP version entered 20th; the Xbox 360 SKU didn't show at all. This week's (ending 16th May) top four was unchanged. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 (DS) was first with 126,000 sales; Metal ...
LONDON - Target Media has promoted Mary Bond to head of digital, as part of plans to grow its digital billings by 15% in the next year.
Combining creative tools and break-neck racing, ModNation could be the offspring of LittleBig- Planet and Mario Kart. The kart’s handling and destructive weaponry prove fun if not revolutionary; however, innovation is on offer via the boost system.
The eject button is an integral part of most game consoles. Without the eject button we wouldn't be able to get games back out of the machine again. So it's pretty important.
Follow us on... Share on... Who remembers the PlayStation One 'classic' Blasto ? Well, if developer Dylan Cuthbert had his way, we may see it again on the PlayStation Network.
Konami, Best Buy, and Sony Online Entertainment, have teamed up to bring PSP gamers and Metal Gear Solid fans a new contest where the grand prize is $10,000.
Dragon Age, Split/Second DLC for grabs. Today on the PlayStation Store you'll find a ModNation Racers demo for both PS3 and PSP. This is Sony's new "Play, Create, Share" game in which everything is customisable and cute. We liked it. There's another demo for PS3 in the shape of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11. Read more...
(18 May 2010) Premium PSN Service, redesigned XMB, PSP2...
Hardware specs also appear...
Sony’s new kart racing game ModNation Racers is attacking Nintendo’s illustrious Mario Kart series on two fronts.
If you’re a PlayStation 3 owner who wanted to get Lost Planet 2, you were probably a little jealous that 360 players get to play as Marcus and Dom from Gears of War in their version.
Back in the day, it would have been E3 time about now. Having taken in a bit of July in recent history, it’s in June this year. Getting to the point: it looks like there could be quite a lot of new hardware.
Classic PSP games for a tenner
Not too long ago we saw some upcoming PSP titles, including the next entry in the Hot Shots series, Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip. Not only did it have the great, casual sports feel that might fill the Mario Tennis-shaped void in the market, but it takes advantage of the PSP’s four player online functions.
Company "looking into future platforms". Sony CFO Bill Glaser has called PSP sales "a little bit of a disappointment" for the huge electronics company. He was speaking in a Sony earnings call this afternoon. His comments come after full-year FY2010 earnings (for the year ended 31st March) showed flagging PS2 and PSP sales. "PS2 is entering its 11th year this year, and it's amazing it is still ...
Follow us on... Share on... While all this hubbub is going on regarding LittleBigPlanet 2 , don't forget Sony's Cambridge studio that's working hard on making the PSP version as great as its PS3 counterpart.
Sony has finally begun making money on its PlayStation 3 console and expects its game business to turn a profit this year, the company said Thursday.
(13 May 2010) Flagship console sells 13 million units in fiscal year.
Sony to "aggressively launch" 3D this year. PlayStation 3 sales rose to 13 million units in the company's latest financial year, ended 31st March 2010, an increase of 3m units year-on-year. PSP sales, however, sagged from 14.1m to 9.9m. PS2 sales dropped from 7.9m to 7.3m. Sales of PS3 games rose to 115.3m units during up from 103.7m the previous year. In comparison, PSP titles were down to 44 ...
Sony no not comment on rumours and speculation
Sony recorded its second straight year of losses last year as sales fell 6.7 percent, but the company expects to return to profitability this year, it said Thursday.
First, we found out that Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker would carry ridiculous amounts of product placement - strange, for a title set during the '70s, but not out of the ordinary for the series.
Eurogamer speaks to the big players. Inspired partly by the Green Party's triumph in Eurogamer's home constituency of Brighton Pavilion, and more truthfully by Ubisoft's decision to ditch game manuals, we've been ringing round the games industry to learn what publishers and platform holders are doing to make their businesses more environmentally friendly. Ubisoft threw down the leafy gauntlet in ...
Alan Wake! LBP2! Independent developers! In scenes which can only be described as amazing, this week the Eurogamer.net Podcast is infiltrated by three special guests, who join host Tom Champion and irremovable mood-hoover Tom Bramwell to discuss the issues of the week and all sorts of other jazz. But who are these trailed-on-Twitter interlopers? They are indie developer Honeyslug, the studio ...
Now with 25 percent more Kratos
British consumers will have to pay far more than their US counterparts for Apple's new iPad, it has emerged.
(7 May 2010) Even the PlayStation 2.
Plus: free DLC promised shortly. Sony has announced plans to release a demo for the PSP version of ModNation Racers. "In this demo we included a couple of our favourite tracks, some familiar Mods and their karts, and of course, a sneak peek of our amazing Track Studio," wrote producer Vernon Mollette on the PlayStation blog. "To start you off we dropped in eight Elite and Pre-made Mods and their ...
Nintendo is looking at the business model of Amazon’s Kindle as it considers the future for its portable consoles, the company’s president said on Friday.
A couple months ago, speculation ran wild about Spartans Stand Tall , a "secret" website that was revealed when God of War III players earned a Platinum Trophy, and which featured nothing but animated rain and a strange, circular meter in the shape of a Spartan shield.
Sony to compete directly with retailers
Ready At Dawn's latest PSP game. Sony has announced a second PSP God of War game called Ghost of Sparta. Chains of Olympus developer Ready At Dawn returns to do the honours and plans a release "later this year". The story will be a prequel "of sorts" and pick up where God of War left off. In Ghost of Sparta, Kratos will have to brave his past to rid his mind of nightmares that torment him. The ...
(4 May 2010) Football fever strikes the high street.
PS3 and PSP pack-ins spotted. Information posted on Amazon's German site points to new PS3 and PSP bundles packed with build-your-own-kart-racer ModNation Racers. The listings, which went up over the weekend, show a 250GB PS3 Slim bundle retailing for 314.99 (about £273) and a PSP Slim and Lite bundle coming in at 152.99 (about £132). Surprisingly, both systems are listed as available for ...
Whether you’re looking for horsepower-perfect simulations or futuristic car-combat, 2010 is already set to be the year of great racers.
PSP edges out DS for top spot. Japan's love affair with portable gaming systems continues as the PSP and Nintendo DS topped the regional sales charts for the week ending April 25. Media Create reports Sony's PSP barely edged out the Nintendo DS is total weekly sales, selling 30,302 units to Nintendo's 30,105. The slight majority of total DS sales took the form of the larger DSi LL, which sold 16 ...