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Team Ico Join Nordic Game 2008

Team Ico, the masterminds behind the astonishing Ico (obviously) and Shadow of the Colossus have joined the Nordic Game 2008 special event lineup, says QJ.net.

Wal-Mart phasing out HD DVD to support Blu-ray exclusively

It appears that the US’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has just announced that it’s Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores across the country will be carrying Blu-ray products exclusively, and will phase out the lose commercially popular HD DVD format.

UK PS3 sales reach a milestone

Being an accountant for SCE over the last year or so must have been pretty tough. In all honesty PS3 sales straight out of the blocks were alright, but not stellar. However, slow but steady seems to be working and the furrowed brows over in Sony HQ may well be a little less wrinkled at […]

Japan Gets Silver PS3

It has been confirmed that Japan will get a silver PlayStation 3, as though the standard black and recent white wasn’t good enough.

Sony gives away PS3s to 28,000 Australians

Don’t consider packing your bags and applying for citizenship in Australia just yet; the deal is already over. But for a limited time in the land down other, those who picked themselves up a Bravia LCD television were treated to their own free PS3. The scheme was so successful that Sony managed to give […]

PAL PS3’s to Outnumber 360’s by End of Summer

Sony claim that PAL (Europe) PS3’s will outnumber 360’s by the end of summer.
“In terms of installed base in some of our major markets, such as France, Spain, Germany, Italy, plus some distributor territories in smaller markets like Switzerland, our current cumulative installed base is now higher than that of the Xbox 360, ” said […]

Sony Halves Price of Development Software

News hit us this week that Sony has halved the price of the software development kit that designers use to make games for its PlayStation 3.
If you, like the rest of the game industry thought Sony had no cards left, you were wrong! They certainly saved this one up their sleeve and a few […]

PS3 Outsells XBox 360 10:1 in Japan

According to the latest Media Create sales charts, the Sony PlayStation 3 has taken the number 3 spot in top consoles sales in Japan beating out both the Wii and the Xbox 360.

PS3 Sales Surge

Sales of Sony Corp’s PlayStation 3 have surged in both the North American and Japanese markets following the release of the firm’s new 40GB console, which retails for a substantially lower price point compared to earlier models.

Sony denies 40GB has high failure rate

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) can categorically deny that there is a 40% failure rate on the newly release 40GB PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3) as has been reported on a Dutch website. Having launched in October, the 40GB PS3 has encountered the same industry leading, very low failure rates, comparable to the low level failure rates […]

Xbox 360 Could be ‘Distant Third’ by 2009

According to a series of recent reports by the research group DFC Intelligence, the game industry is poised to see enormous overall growth in 2009, just in time for the Xbox 360 to slip to a distant third place in the console race.

Jack Thompson Argues With Take-Two Via Email

In his valiant efforts to keep people safe from having fun, Jack Thompson has once again criticized game publisher Take-Two. Naturally, the game that’s upsetting him is Manhunt 2. This time, however, Thompson isn’t attacking the game directly, but instead he is protesting the online distribution of Manhunt2,

Sony wants to sell 3.65 million PS3 by the of March in Europe

The Japanese electronics company Sony set itself for its play console PS3 ambitious paragraph goals for Europe: “we want to remove to at the end of March the installed basis of the PS3 from at present 1.35 on five million units”, said David Reeves, European boss of Sony computer Entertainment at the edge of […]

Sony glad Nintendo is Broadening Market

At Leipzig, SCEE President David Reeves stated that he thinks market expansion is a wonderful driving force in the gaming industry. Market expansion builds and broadens the market for the casual market. He stated, “We’re very happy Nintendo broadened the market to where we have never gone. But Sony is going places where EA […]