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Xperia Play To Release In March, 50 Launch Titles Confirmed

After months of speculation and first confirmation of the existence of the device at last week’s Superbowl, Sony Ericsson has confirmed it’ll launch Xperia Play in March. Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg showed off the phone in front of journalists at a press conference in Barcelona during the Mobile World Congress. It’ll be the “world’s [...]

PS3 Sales Getting Close To Xbox 360 Sales

Sony’s PS3 has sold 6.7 million units in the last three months which sums the total PS3 sales to 47.9 million units, whereas its arch rival the Xbox 360 stands at 50 million units so far. Although the sales are 0.2% less than last year’s Q4, but it has still reached Sony’s sales predictions. Read more [...]

Sony’s PSP2 Revealed Publicly, Coming This Holiday 2011

Sony has just shown off its ‘PSP2′ at the PlayStation Meeting event in Japan, which is codenamed as NGP (Next Generation Portable). It has Dual analogue sticks, Six Axis controls, Front and rear cameras, A five inch OLED screen capable of displaying 16 million colours and the Six Axis motion control capability, Touch pad on [...]

PS3 3.56 Firmware Update Now Live

Sony has released the 3.56 firmware update for the PlayStation 3, which will effectively invalidate homebrew software and combat piracy. Read more here.

PSP2 To Have Similar CPU And GPU Of Apple’s Next-Gen iPhone And iPad

Sources close to French site 01.net have handed it some information on Sony’s PSP2, based on the handheld’s development kit, and the specs claim the portable will be using almost the same CPU & GPU combination as the rumored next iteration of iPad and iPhone. Read more here.

New Consoles In 2013? Crytek Says Yes

Because of Sony and Microsoft’s move into the motion controls market, analysts have said that we might not see the next set of video game consoles until 2014, but if you were to ask Crytek, the developer would give you a much sooner date than the aforesaid. That’s according to Crytek boss, Cevat Yerli, speaking [...]

PSP2 “As Powerful As The PS3″ Confirms Codemasters CEO

There’s been a lot of news about the poorly-kept-secret that is the PSP2, with leaks and specs and even some (supposed) images floating around, as well as a rumor that the system could be as powerful as the PS3. Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens sat down with Eurogamer at the Nintendo 3DS event in Amsterdam last [...]

Is PSP2 As Powerful As PS3?

If the rumours are correct, Sony will lift the lid on PSP2 – arguably the industry’s worst kept secret – later this week in Japan. And Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has further fuelled speculation by telling Eurogamer that suggestions the console is as powerful as PS3 are “true”. Read more here.

Crytek: No Other Engine Can Match CryEngine 3

Crytek has boasted that no other current game engine has the grunt to power a game like Crysis 2, and that CryEngine 3 could be used to build “pretty much any other game” from the studio’s competitors. Read more here.

Nintendo: 3DS Targeting Hardcore Gamers At Launch

Nintendo has said that 3DS and its software launch line-up are targeted at core gamers, a group it’s “absolutely” not planning on ignoring in the future. Read more here.

PSP2 Will Have 3G Connectivity And A Very Fancy Screen

Sony is widely expected to formally unveil the PlayStation Portable 2 later this week, but ahead of this a major Japanese newspaper has spilled the beans on some of the new handheld’s specs and capabilities. Among them include a 3G connection and an OLED screen. Read more here.

Gamespot Reveals Its Impressions Of Nintendo’s 3DS

Gamespot has revealed their likes and dislike about the 3DS in two separate videos. They have queued up their likes and dislikes of the 3DS from the events in Holland and North America. They also showed their views about the latest 3DS news and games. Read more here.

PSP2 To Be Revealed During Sony’s PlayStation Meeting In Japan

Another report is claiming Sony’s to unveil PlayStation Portable 2 during its Tokyo press event on January 27 , according to Andriasang, and the event has been confirmed by an analyst as being called “PlayStation Meeting”. Read more here.

Sony To Implement PC-Style Serial Key System For PS3

A source close to PS3-sense is claiming Sony will introduce a serial key system for PS3 games, like the one already in place with PC games. According to the site’s source, this is Sony’s way of closing the backdoor to its system, which was blown wide open by hacker GeoHot earlier this month. Read more [...]