“Massive Sequel” revealed next month - March 13, 2010 by Robert Strick Jnr.

According to Official PlayStation Magazine, a “Massive Sequel” will be announced in next month’s issue. Luckily, OPM has revealed a significant clue. The “Massive Sequel” is a racing game that may challenge GT5’s racing crown.

Straight from OPM, “We’ve seen a top-secret driving game that may threaten GT5’s racing crown. More next month – be excited.”

What it could it be? Could it be Motorstorm 3, Need For Speed, or Burnout?

Stay tuned for more information.

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GDC: More PlayStation Move Details - March 11, 2010 by Robert Strick Jnr.

Sony’s motion controller, PlayStation Move was formally announced today, and with it details are beginning to slowly surface. PlayStation Move will indeed launch this fall and with it, the support of over thirty-six publishers.

The list can be found after the break.

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PlayStation 2 is 10 years old today - March 4, 2010 by Jens Erik Vaaler

Happy birthday, PS2! Ten years ago today, Sony launched the PlayStation 2 in Japan. The console launched on October 26 and November 24 respectively in the same year.

Since then the PS2 has become the best-selling console of al time, selling over 140 million units. The best selling PS2 game of all time ended up being Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

So let’s all join together and celebrate the PS2! Good times

Chavez says PlayStation is “poison” - January 18, 2010 by Jens Erik Vaaler

Yay, more controvery! From, you guess it, another politician. This time it’s Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ turn on the soapbox. Apparently Sony’s PlayStation console is “poison” that will lead children down the capitalist “road to hell”.

In Chavez’ weekly radio-TV show “Alo Presidente”, he asked Venezuelan manufacturers to make “educational” toys and dolls in order to replace more capitalistic counterparts like the Barbie doll.

Chavez has already bashed Nintendo for promoting “selfishness, individualism and violence”, but decided to take on Sony as well.

“Those games they call ‘PlayStation’ are poison. Some games teach you to kill. They once put my face on a game, ‘you’ve got to find Chavez to kill him.’”

He went on to say that any game that “bomb cities or just throw bombs,” are sold by capitalist countries to sow violence so they can “later sell weapons”. The games also “promote the need for cigarettes, drugs and alcohol so they can sell them. That’s capitalism, the road to hell,” he added.

Wow… I love the bombastic and uninformed.

Uncharted 2 takes over largest game store in UK - November 2, 2009 by Michael O'Connor

When we weren’t busy eyeing up Sony’s impressive booth at the Bullring Centre in Birmingham, England, another impressive show of force by Sony caught our eye – Nathan Drake is making his face known in style!

Take a look for yourself.

It’s rather impressive.

Uncharted 2 takes over largest game store in UK

The GameStation store in the Bullring Centre is the largest games store in the UK (in terms of floor space), and Sony clearly hasn’t wasted any time in getting Nathan Drake’s face out there where people will see it.

Sony and PlayStation takes over UK retail - November 2, 2009 by Michael O'Connor

The console industry is a huge and competitive market, Sony aren’t sitting on their laurels, and they’ve taken the fight to the Bull Ring.

The Bullring Centre in Birmingham, England, is one of the largest shopping centres in Europe. Imagine our surprise when we pop into the centre, only to see Sony had come out in full force to promote the PlayStation name to the public, with a truly impressive display.

A bird's eye view of one of the most recognisable symbols in gaming today. It's certainly a smart way to make people take notice of your brand logo!

A bird's eye view of one of the most recognisable symbols in gaming today. It's certainly a smart way to make people take notice of your brand logo!

The giant PlayStation logo above was only the start.

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Microsoft sued over Xbox Live - July 2, 2009 by Jon Shire

Microsoft sued over Xbox Live

Back in 1994, two men by the name of Peter Hochstein and Jeffery Tenenbaum patented a method for playing computer games over a centralised network. In 2004, they raised a case against Sony and Microsoft, believing that their patent was being infringed with PS2’s online system, and Xbox Live.

Finally, after five years, the case is starting to get going… If Microsoft lets it.

You see while most of the time these lawsuits are just people trying to make a quick buck, this one seams legit. Legit enough for Sony to settle out of court for an unpublished sum. Microsoft, on the other hand, despite being entirely able to drop a truck load of high-priced lawyers on the case, is in fact choosing to do anything they possibly can to delay it getting to court.

This has come down to tricks that should fit on a schoolyard, rather than a court of law. They held the case up for weeks in February because of a single typo, and gave the suing parties over 140,000 documents… without an index. Just two examples which are not making Microsoft shine in this particular case.

You will want to follow this, as any result in court could potentially effect the Live service completely.

If you want to read up on the case, please click here, here and here.

E3 2009: PSP Go! details annouced - June 2, 2009 by Jens Erik Vaaler

The PSP Go!, a.k.a. “Worst kept secret of E3″ was detailed during Sony’s press conference this morning and it sounds like a pretty sweet little machine.

The Go! is 50% smaller and 40% lighter than the original PSP and features a new 16 gig internal memory, the possibility to plug in M2 memory card, and no UMD port. To quote Kaz Karai: “The PSP Go! is made for the difital lifestyle”, and also features internal WiFi and Bluetooth

Sony also made sure to mention that the PSP Go! is not replacing the original PSP, and all PSP games will now be distributed both digitally and in retail.

The PSP Go! will launch on October 1 all over the world and is going to cost 249 dollars and euros.

Wolfman joins DCU Online - January 30, 2009 by Jens Erik Vaaler

Comic book legend Marv Wolfman, the man behind Crisis on Infinite Earths, has been added to the writing staff of SOE’s MMO; DC Universe Online. Wolfman is also known for creating the vampire hunter Blade.

Wolfman will be expanding on Geoff Johns’ storylines.

Sony certainly knows where the talent lies and Wolfman will make a great addition to the team.

Full story at BigDownload

Original WipEout designers shut down - January 27, 2009 by Michael O'Connor

Original WipEout designers shut down

It’s a sad day for the PlayStation Generation… The Designers Republic, the design firm responsible for inventing the legendary, stylish look of the original WipEout game, unfortunately closed its doors earlier today.

A story which appeared on design magazine Creative Review’s blog confirmed the closure.

“We’d lost a couple of clients, didn’t win a couple of pitches, got a tax bill which should have been sorted out and wasn’t and a major client who didn’t pay the money they owed us”, explained company founder Ian Anderson, “in themselves any of those things would have been fine but when they come all at once there’s not much you can do.”

The studio’s staff of nine has unfortunately been made redundant. Anderson has vowed to be back though, and with the mark this company left on gaming culture and designers in general, we wish them the best in their future endeavours and can only hope they return to us soon.

Home in 10 days? No comment from Sony - December 8, 2008 by Jens Erik Vaaler

A Times Online report yesterday claimed that PlayStation Home’s open beta would launch in ten days, but a representative from Sony refuses to confirm or deny the claims.

“We’re not commenting on that story, I’m afraid,” said the representative, which in rumour-speak is a usually a definite “yes, it’s true”.

While the piece said the open beta would launch by December 17, Sony’s official statement is still that the app’s release would happen before the end of 2008.

“Playstation Addiction” hospitalizes boy - November 20, 2008 by Dawn Wilkins

Get this: doctors in Italy diagnosed a 13 year old with “Playstation Addiction”. The kid, Lorenzo Amato, was originally thought to have suffered a stroke or a severe brain disorder by the doctors after the father brought him in.

This was concluded because of symptoms of lack of speech and lack of comprehension of his surroundings.

Later, when the doctors discovered that Lorenzo had completed a Playstation marathon, they declared it an addiction to the console.

“They eventually managed to take care of him once they understood that this was a strange kind of mental detachment connected to his Playstation,” said local politician Antonio Buccoliero who’d conversed with the doctors.

Saying that “If I even think about it I want to throw up,” Lorenzo instructed his father to discard of the system.

I bet I’m not the only bemoaning the loss of the console and wondering what’s in the head of some kids these days.

Capcom biggest selling games of all time - November 12, 2008 by Michael O'Connor

Here comes a new challenger...

Capcom has just posted up a sales list of the top 42 best selling games it’s ever published in its long and illustrious history as a games publisher and developer.

Not surprisingly, Street Fighter II takes the gold on the list with 6.3 million units sold. Following shortly behind in second and third are Resident Evil 2 and Street Fighter II Turbo, will 4.96 million and 4.1 million sales respectively.

Hit the jump to see the top ten for yourself.

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Games ‘N Goblins 02 – Megaman 9 - October 31, 2008 by Dustin

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Games and Goblins returns for its second (most frustrating) episode. The game this week is Megaman 9 on Xbox 360. Keiji Inafune returns to the original Megaman series to bring us one of the hardest games you’ll ever play.

Megaman 9 follows in the footsteps of its predecessors, requiring trial and error and repeated play to learn patterns. That being said, you get to see the frustration most will experience on their first time through. Sadly we couldn’t even make it past the mini-bosses.

It may not seem it from watching, but Megaman 9 firmly earns it place somewhere in the hardest games of all time list. If beating the game wasn’t enough the in game achievements are pure torture to complete.

If you are ready to truly test your metal as a hardcore gamer, pick up Megaman 9 on the WiiWare Channel, PSN, and the XBLA.

Click Here for the video.

Mega Man 9 hits Xbox Live Arcade - October 1, 2008 by Dustin

MegaMan 9 was released for the XBLA less than 1 hour ago.

It will cost you 800 Microsoft points, and LOTS of frustration. For the ones without a 360, you can also get it on the Wii (1000 Wii Points) and the Playstation 3 ($10).

Get your “retro” game on.

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