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PS3 Music Peripherals Will Be Compatible With Everything

So many music games, and so many adorable fake plastic instruments! Between Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, and Rock Revolution, gamers can soon expect their living rooms to become a veritable Guitar Center of gaming accessories, losing precious floor space to three separate sets of guitars, drum kits, and a maddening tangle of [...]

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E3 2008: Misc. Musings a.k.a. Day One Wrap-Up

It’s Wednesday morning in beautiful Los Angeles, California — home of the 2008 E3 Media and Business Summit — and your beloved GameCyte staffers have now accumulated a combined total of eight hours of sleep. We’ve already hit the pavement to bring you more E3 coverage; but before we lose ourselves entirely in the flood [...]

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E3 2008: Sony Announces $30 PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits Program

Sony’s LittleBigPlanet demonstration showed off more than Sony statistics at the company’s E3 2008 press conference Tuesday; it also revealed Sony’s brand-new Greatest Hits discount program for PlayStation 3 titles. Starting “later this year,” a variety of the “best” Sony titles will be made available at the $30 price point. While it’s currently uncertain which criteria [...]

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E3 2008: Sony’s TV and Movie Service is Live Right Now

Kaz Hirai reminded us about it last month, but SCEA President Jack Tretton confirmed it this morning, at Sony’s 2008 E3 Press Briefing: TV shows and movies are now available for purchase and rental via the PlayStation Store. Speaking to an eager crowd about upcoming features of the PlayStation Network, Tretton revealed that the new video [...]

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E3 2008: PS3 + 80GB = $400 USD

It wasn’t the first or last big announcement at Sony’s E3 2008 Press Conference this morning, but it was the one we least expected. Taking the stage for the umpteenth time at downtown LA’s Shrine Auditorium, CEO Jack Tretton announced that “starting in September,” Sony will begin selling an 80GB PS3 package for $400.

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E3 2008: Day Zero Wrap-Up

Technically, the 2008 E3 Media & Business Summit doesn’t even start until today, Tuesday, July 15th. Yet, here we’ve been, all through Monday, braving the sweltering Los Angeles heat to bring you the first wave of news and promises. GameCyte will be here for the duration, checking in on all your favorites, bringing you updates from [...]

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Straight From the Horse’s Mouth: More Insight From the Corporate Sphere

It is said that you should never look a gift horse in the mouth — but if you choose to get your news from the same equine orifice, you might want to check the animal’s pedigree. That’s what GameSetWatch did in November 2006, when it noticed that PlayStation-friendly blog ThreeSpeech was a “semi-official” media outlet, and [...]

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Straight From the Horse’s Mouth: Sponsored Sites That Trump Traditional Journalism

Aside from the occasional, unintentional leak, publicists basically control games journalism as we know it today. They can’t tell us how to think or stop us from criticizing their games, but to a large degree, they determine who gets what and goes where when they please. How?

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GameSpyte Lyte: We’ll Love Ya, Tomorrow

Hello, friends, and thanks for briefly wondering what the hell GameSpyte is before scrolling past. If we’ve helped you to capture even a fragment of your youthful curiosity, then we’re happy. Today, we’ll be gazing into our liquid crystal displays for a look at what the future will hold for gamers — and perhaps the [...]

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Playstation Corporate Strategy Updated… or Downgraded?

Sony PlayStation boss Kazuo Hirai did a funny thing this morning — after telling a Tokyo audience of investors and businessmen that the PlayStation 3’s success solidly stems from positioning the device “first and foremost as a gaming platform,” he spent the rest of his presentation at the Sony Group Corporate Strategy Update explaining how [...]

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