In 2009, Sony's PlayStation Portable will host brand-new games in the "Rock Band," "MotorStorm," "LittleBigPlanet" and "Assassin's Creed" franchises, the company announced today at their annual Destination PlayStation conference. "Rock Band Unplugged," a PSP exclusive from MTV Games, will use the PSP's Wi-Fi connection to access an in-game store for downloadable content. But don't expect to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 8, 2009
As we already knew, keynote presenters love to rifle out numbers. If all you want are the facts (and numbers) from the Sony's CES 2009 presentation, than this is the article for you.
Continue reading...Thursday, January 8, 2009
Speaking to a crowd of Sony faithful and journalists at CES 2009, Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai offered up some numbers for the whimsical and woefully under-selling "LittleBigPlanet." It seems that, since its launch, the game has sold 1.3 million copies worldwide, which have been used to create 300k levels (which feature a total [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Sony sure is doing everything in their power to make LBP take off like it should. First, the little SackBoys are the focal point of PlayStation’s Christmas cards, and now LBP is getting some holiday-themed items. Tis the season, after all. Thursday, Sony will release the first level pack for LBP. (They’ve already been releasing costume [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 13, 2008
Today, I was dismayed to learn that one of the best and most innovative games of the year, Valkyria Chronicles, is performing awfully in the American market. 33,000 units sold in the first month of release for the PS3’s only must-buy RPG title, and the most innovative strategy game in years? For shame, gamers. (It's [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 9, 2008
When a couple of sites posted leaked images of Street Fighter Sackboys last week, Sony tried to quiet the fanboy chatter (and preserve their big reveal) by asking everyone to pull the images. But come on, Sony, we knew they were coming! Now, a little after a week later, Sony finally admitted they were on [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 3, 2008
As you probably already know, I love LittleBigPlanet, but I hate the way Sony has treated the user content post launch. Moderations are still being handed out left and right for no particular reason (in some cases), and no one knows what’s going on. Thankfully, in a new weekly LBP Q&A posted on the PlayStation [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
On May 8th, 2006 -- the day Kaz Hirai formally announced the PlayStation 3's release -- the main concern on prospective buyers' minds was price. Two and a half years later, that hasn't changed; Blu-ray player aside, the low-end PS3 still costs 1.5 times the price of a comprable Xbox 360, and it seems Sony [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 16, 2008
Since its launch, LittleBigPlanet has seen quite a bit of back-and-forth fighting between Sony and LBP creators. First, dozens of popular LBP player-created levels vanish; later, Sony explains they have rules, and those levels violated their rule numero dos: no using copyrighted material. Of course, that whole issue could spawn entire discussions on its own, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
Though more than one CEO has cited an October retail slowdown in recent investor conference calls, such a slowdown happily does not seem to have afflicted the U.S. video game industry sales as a whole. Today, the NPD reports that game industry sales actually increased 18% year-over-year to $1.31 billion. The biggest winner, as usual, was [...]
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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