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Last Guardian Executive Producer Quits. Goes Elsewhere.

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:20:00 EST

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Is Yoshifusa Hayama the latest Last Guardian casualty? The former Sony Computer Entertainment Vice President and Last Guardian executive producer has left the company. More »

The Last Guardian Creator Says He Remains Hard At Work on His Game

Brian Crecente — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:00:00 EST

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The Last Guardian creator Fumito Ueda took to Twitter earlier today to reassure fans that he is still hard at work on his game. More »

Report: The Last Guardian Creator Leaves Sony

Brian Crecente — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:40:00 EST

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The man behind beloved games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, and one of the lead developers of upcoming spiritual sequel The Last Guardian no longer works at Sony, according to a rumor reported by Eurogamer today. More »

More Beautiful Cel-Shading in This Gravity Rush Video

Max Abrams — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:40:00 EDT

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Gravity Rush is fast becoming the PlayStation Vita game to see at press events. More »

Lawsuit Says Sony Laid Off Security Workers Before PSN Cyberattack

Owen Good — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:00:00 EDT

A new lawsuit alleges that Sony fired workers in its network security operations two weeks before a cyberattack brought down the PlayStation Network. More »

Hacker Group Says It's Snagged Sony Computer Entertainment's Developer Code

Owen Good — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:51:56 EDT

The hacker collective Lulz Security isn't taking a break from its attacks on Sony simply because it's E3. This morning, via Twitter, Lulzsec bragged that it had compiled Sony Computer Entertainment's Developer Network source code. Earlier in the week Lulzsec went after Sony BMG and Sony Pictures, and broke into Nintendo USA's website. More »

Sony Exec to Testify Before Congress on PlayStation Breach

Owen Good — Sun, 29 May 2011 14:00:00 EDT

During the PlayStation Network outage, Sony was asked to appear before a U.S. House of Representatives committee to explain the situation. The company declined, sending an eight-page letter instead. Now it will go before Congress, when the president of Sony Network Entertainment visits a Tuesday hearing to answer questions. More »

Digital Pioneer Who Established Sony Computer Entertainment Dies At 81

Owen Good — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:00:00 EDT

Norio Ohga, the former chairman of Sony who, in 1993, established Sony Computer Entertainment and paved the way for the PlayStation, died Saturday morning in Tokyo. He was 81. More »

Killzone 3 is a Colorful, Wonderful, Enthusiastic Mess

Brian Crecente — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:00:00 EST

Killzone 3 is at its best when it's most unrecognizable. More »

Sony Computer Entertainment To Become SNEP (Temporarily)

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 EST

Starting on April 1 of this year, Sony's reorganization will take effect. Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai will head a new business group that brings together Sony's mobile electronics and personal computers. More »

Sony Details PSN Expansion To Other Products

Owen Good — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:40:00 EST

At CES 2010, Sony Computer Entertainment chief Kaz Hirai described long-anticipated plans to unify its PlayStation Network content offerings across its product line - including network enabled Blu-ray players, Sony televisions and PCs. More »

PSPgo Review: A Peek Into the Future of Gaming

Brian Crecente — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:00:00 EDT

Smaller, easier to use and completely devoid of a disc drive of any sort, the PSPgo is powered only by digital media, a brave step into the future of gaming. But is it a future in which we want to live? More »

Square-Enix: The Next Gaming Innovation Will Be Billing

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:00:57 EDT

The next breakthrough in games will involve how you pay for what you play, the president of Square-Enix said today. Yoichi Wada made the declaration during the traditional state of the industry Tokyo Game Show kick-off panel here in Tokyo. More »

Kaz Hirai Will Continue Playstation Leadership

Brian Crecente — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:00:00 EST

Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai will continue to oversee Playstation in his new role as the head of the Networked Products and Services Group. More »

Patapon 2 Helps You Keep Your Groove

Brian Crecente — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:30:00 EDT

In Patapon you controlled an assortment of highly stylized characters by tapping out music on the four face buttons of the Playstation Portable. I was a big fan of the game, but found over time that unless I gave it 100 percent of my attention I would often lose the beat. More »

Check Out Phil's Going-Away Present From Sony

Luke Plunkett — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:30:00 EDT

Phil Harrison didn't just work at Sony, the dude was Sony. Cut him and he'd bleed PlayStation. So when he upped and left for Atari earlier this year, there's no way all he was going to get was a pat on the back and a "thanks for your time". No, he was due something nice. Nicer than a gold watch, even. Something like this snazzy PlayStation-themed plaque, which SCE commissioned for him so he could hang it on his wall at Atari and remember the good old days, when he got to talk about games people actually gave a hoot about. More »

Last Guy Looks Simple, Sounds Fantastic

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:20:00 EDT

Here's a gameplay trailer for The Last Guy, due on the PSN at the end of the month (least, in Japan). They sure weren't fooling around when they said it was using Google Maps, whose services you use to lead the survivors of a zombie apocalypse to designated "safe zones". The whole thing looks nice and simple (which it will be, since it's going for under $5), but whatever, if that music makes it into the final game, this moves up a spot on our shiny white purchase board from "will buy" to "must buy". More »

New SCE Boss (ie Phil v2.0) Speaks

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:30:00 EDT

While I'm sure they do loads of important meeting-and-paperwork-related stuff in the office, from where we're sitting, the job of a corporate exec is simple: act as a corporate figurehead. Give us an idea of how your company's feeling, and where it's headed, from a bunch of quotes you deliver in an interview. So when new SCE boss Shuhei Yoshida - Phil Harrison's replacement atop Sony Computer Entertainment's Worldwide Studios - gave his first real interview, it was time to listen! Listen to him talk about getting SCE Japan, America and Europe on the same page, about how developers underestimated the PS3's multi-core architecture. More »

New Echocrome Screens Make Echocrome Look Hard

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:20:00 EDT

Either you've already played the Japanese demo or you're about to play the American one, doesn't matter, Echocrome's teaser levels make things look easy. Pedestrian. As though the dev team came up with a neat concept, but couldn't think of ways to really push it. Yeah, no, that's WRONG. Look at these new screens. These later, harder levels are built for one purpose: to take your mental ass, wine it, dine it, then kick it. More »

Siren Trailer Creeps The Hell Out Of My PS3

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:20:00 EDT

You know what? I hate Silent Hill. But loved the first Siren (or as it's known down here, Forbidden Siren). Don't know why. Critics may tell you otherwise, but you know better than to listen to critics. So, yeah, after watching this, am I excited about the prospect of a third time around (going straight past the much less-awesome second game), with the same old siren and blood but nice new graphics and sound? You bet I am. More »

The Phil Harrison Letters

Brian Crecente — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:00:34 EST

It's no secret that we're big fans of almost-former Sony Worldwide Studios head Phil Harrison. In fact, he, J Allard, Peter Moore and Reggie make up our video game exec dream team, a crusading force that we imagine takes to the streets at night to bludgeon criminals to death with their no-nonsense quotes and fierce scowls. More »

Sony Wants India (India Looks At Sony As 'Just A Friend')

Mark Wilson — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:00:42 EST

India, like many countries that aren't known as massive gaming markets now, has the potential to expand massively in the next few years. And SCE (Sony Computer Entertainment) is interested, planning to build multiple retail partnerships in India's top 20 cities. From SCE's Atindriya Bose:

The Indian gaming market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 78 per cent by 2010, and barely one per cent of the country's gaming potential has been tapped...However, we are still at a very nascent stage, even though there is a lot of potential for the industry.

It's tough to talk about the growth of video games in an area where they aren't a very large deal to begin with. But if we can be so forward as to offer Sony two words of encouragement: "SingStar Bollywood." More »

Indigo Prophecy Dev Working on Exclusive PS3 Title

Brian Crecente — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:20:39 EDT

Wow, this is quite a coupé. Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios have penned a deal with Quantic Dream (the team behind Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit) to collaborate on an exclusive Playstation 3 title. Personally I thought that Quantic Dream's 2005 adventure game was one of, if not the, best game of that year. More »

Kutaragi Officially Steps Down

Brian Crecente — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:08:09 EDT

The father of the Playstation officially stepped down today, ending an era that saw the launch of three consoles and Sony's entry into the gaming market. More »

Bloomberg: Sony Considering Bigger PS3

Brian Crecente — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:59:17 EDT

Bloomberg is reporting that Sony is considering introducing a new Playstation 3 with a bigger hard drive in the wake of killing off their 20GB model. More »

Ask Harrison A Question

Brian Crecente — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:00:49 EDT

Wow. Say what you will about Phil Harrison, president of Worldwide Studios for Sony, but the man certainly has some brass balls. Harrison has agreed to make a run through the Q&A gauntlet that is the Slashdot Ask series. More »

Lik-Sang: Sony Ousts Pregnant Women to the Streets...Eats Puppies Too

Brian Crecente — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:56:50 EDT

I just love this whole Lik-Sang, Sony thing. It's like the two companies are playing chicken with each other in a very public, and increasingly embarassing way. More »

Sony: Lik-Sang Just Bitter

Brian Crecente — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:03:12 EDT

I just love a corporate pissing match. More »

Sony Making Money, Video Games Losing It

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:29:00 EDT

Sony CEO Howard Stringer's job is safe for now. The company's sales rose 11 percent, and the company appears to be on the rebound. Massive cuts have been made, with 9,600 jobs, 9 factories and the Aibo getting the Stringer axe. More »

Ken Kutaragi Keynoting TGS with Humble Speech

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:22:15 EDT

Sony Computer Entertainment czar Ken Kutaragi will be delivering the keynote at this year's Tokyo Game Show on September 22nd. Kutaragi's speech will be titled "The next-generation as created by the PlayStation 3." And what idiot said Sony was arrogant? Geez... More »