If you still don’t know whether or not you will purchase PlayStation Vita, Sony’s next-generation portable handheld gaming console, then perhaps this rumor might make you think twice. Sony is reported to be planning to release an update that will enable the PlayStation Vita to gain remote PlayStation 3 functionality. This concept has been seen in the Nintendo...
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It’s not my fault, so it must be your fault. Actually, let’s say that it is no one’s fault. That, in a nutshell, seems to be the gist of the joint statement from Sony and Rockstar. They say that there have been a “very small number” of complaints and customer support enquiries about the PS3 overheating and turning itself off when people were playing L.A. Noire. First...
The Playstation Network has been down for nearly a month and the affects are widespread, not only are gamers voicing their frustrations online about the downtime but many are turning to other platforms to get their online fix. New research from Edge suggests that UK trade-ins of PS3 consoles are up to an all time high, not surprisingly the main catalyst behind this is...
The Playstation Network is entering its fifth day of downtime today with no clear indication on when the network will be back up, since our last update there has been another post on the official Playstation blog after confirming on Saturday that the PSN network was taken down due to an ‘external intrusion’. The new post again explains that the PSN and Qriocity services...
As we are sure you are aware the Playstation Network has been down since Wednesday and yesterday we were informed by way of the official Playstation blog that it could remain this way for up to 48 hours. Gamers all over the world waited for news that didn’t come yesterday and this morning we have a little more to share. This time it’s from Patrick Seybold,...
Some numbers just out from Sony state that the classic PlayStation 3 games console has now sold more than 50 million units all across the world. The PS Move controller which came out last year has also reached a decent level of sales, with 8 million being the figure reported. This news comes a few months after rival Microsoft reached the same level with their Xbox games...
The battle between Sony and hacker George Hotz, AKA Geohot, is still in full swing with the technology giant accusing him of fleeing the US in a bid to escape the legal charges they are trying to bring against him for hacking their PS3 firmware to allow people to download or use copied games and homebrew software. Sony filed complaints at the San Francisco courthouse...
Games developer Naughty Dog have teamed up with Sony to develop and supply an official website for the third incarnation of Uncharted entitled ‘Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception”, with the ability to pre-order the game nearly a full year before the game officially releases. The third game in the series will only be available on the PS3 and sees Nathan Drake continuing...
The chief engineer of the insanely popular Playstation Move has decided to up the ante by proclaiming that the Microsoft XBOX Kinect is a system is ‘not quite up to spec”. All of this comes at the same time that Sony releases their sales figures so far – 4.1 million units apparently. Anton Mikhailov revealed “We’re not necessarily against Kinect or against...
A couple of weeks ago we talked about Playstation 3 sales and whether the release of Gran Turismo 5 would help bolster sales on the run up to Christmas. Well it seems Sony believes that the launch of GT5 will drive PS3 sales. David Wilson, Head of PR at Sony UK, Said Gran Turismo 5 “will serve as a true driver of new console purchases” following “one of the strongest...