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Sony’s S2 PlayStation Tablet Looks Familiar

Sony’s S1 tablet looks like a beautiful piece of gear. We’re really digging the tapered, magazine-like edge to it. The S2, though? With the dual screens and touch interface? It looks like a fan mock-up of a 3DS Lite, albeit a very pretty one.

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2011

Check out the First Trailer for Sony’s New PlayStation Tablets

Here’s the debut trailer for Sony’s new pair of PlayStation-certified tablet computers, the S1 and S2

By Luke Plunkett Published April 26, 2011

Sony’s New PlayStation Tablet is a Sexy Beast

Today in Tokyo, Sony revealed that its latest PlayStation hardware, the 9.4 inch Sony S1. It’s the first tablet that is (officially) capable of playing PlayStation games, such as PlayStation 1 games or Sony-approved titles for mobile platforms. It is the first Sony tablet to carry the “PlayStation Certified” logo. The S1 is slated for…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 26, 2011

The Human Who Sleeps On PlayStation Magazines

Under Twitter user Bros’ mattress, there is a treasure trove of magazines – fifteen years of Dengeki PlayStation magazines to be exact. Bros started with the September 27, 1996 issue and hasn’t looked back. Bros has looked under the bed, though. In an age when paper is becoming increasingly meaningless, it’s comforting to note that…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 25, 2011

Digital Pioneer Who Established Sony Computer Entertainment Dies At 81

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. Ohga’s digital media vision had far reaching impact, not just for his company but for all electronics manufacturers. In video games, Sony and Nintendo had been…

By Owen Good Published April 23, 2011

It’s Time For Chrono Trigger To Become A PSone Classic

Looks like the enhanced PlayStation port of Square Enix’s seminal role-playing game Chrono Trigger is bound for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. The ESRB has just rated Chrono Trigger for those platforms, so expect the update of that JRPG favorite to show up as a PSone Classic on a PlayStation Store near you soon.

By Michael McWhertor Published April 22, 2011

How One Man Stopped Square-Enix From Letting Gamers Kill Yahweh

The attempt to include overt references to Judeo-Christian figures in the classic role-playing game Xenogears caused a few translators to quit — they feared a violent backlash — and prompted a change in the name of the game’s final boss, according to one of the people who brought the game to America. On this week’s…

By Drew Cohen Published April 22, 2011

Robbing A Convenience Store With A PlayStation Controller Is Doing It Wrong

A St. Petersburg, Florida man tried—and failed miserably—to rob a convenience store by subjecting the clerk to the business end of a PlayStation controller, reports Bay 9 News. His mistake? By performing said robbery in the presence of “a police officer who walked into the store in the middle of the robbery,” according to police.…

By Michael McWhertor Published April 19, 2011

Sony Bigwig Trash Talks Nintendo 3DS and Hurts Our Feelings

During an interview with Fortune Magazine, SCEA’s charming CEO Jack Tretton discussed the company’s business strategies…and then indulged in some nasty smack talk. “If you’re really going to sustain technology for a decade, you have to be cutting edge when you launch a platform,” Tretton explains to the business mag. Reasonable enough. But the Playstaion…

By Drew Cohen Published April 8, 2011

How the Playstation Helped Shape the Most Interesting iPad Game of the Year

It all started with a song, an instrumental created with a Playstation by Canadian musician Jim Guthrie, it seems. Speaking to NOW Magazine, Guthrie explains how he went from days creating music for Three Gut Records to working with a team of five on what would become iPad gaming darling Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery –…

By Brian Crecente Published April 4, 2011

CultureTotal Recall

The Joys Of A Console’s First Moments

Know what I tend to remember consoles by? Not their games, or controllers, or even hardware casings. I usually remember them for their boot-up jingles. As silly as that sounds, those first few seconds of animation and music really set the tone for what the platform holder hopes is to come, and more than any…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2011

PS3 Hacker Flees the Long Arm of Sony for South American Freedom

The saga of George “geohot” Hotz continues, hurtling deeper into absurdity with each growing unit of acceleration. He fought the law and lost—a judge demanded he hand over his PS3-hack relevant hard drives. His answer? I’m out, bitches. According to a court document filed by Sony in its noble, interminable battle to prevent people from…

By Sam Biddle Published March 23, 2011

Read The Humble Beginnings of Grand Theft Auto From 16 Years Ago

Grand Theft Auto, the controversial and violent video game series that has sold in excess of 100 million units, began its life as a simple design document in 1995, back when the game was still known as Race’n’Chase. Reading that design doc isn’t nearly as much fun as playing a Grand Theft Auto game, but…

By Michael McWhertor Published March 21, 2011

Kevin Butler, as You’ve Never Seen Him Before (NSFW)

Cat’s out of the bag, folks. Kevin Butler is not really PlayStation’s vice president of everything from First Person Shooter Relations to Rumor Confirmation. He is, in fact, the actor Jerry Lambert, who played quite the cringe-inducing straight man in the most recent episode of Showtime’s “Shameless” on Monday. KB, under the auspices of being…

By Owen Good Published March 18, 2011

PlayStation’s Top U.S. Exec Cleans Up Pro Poker Tour Event

That, folks, is a 10-6 unsuited. In poker jargon, that hand is known as “garbage.” But for Jack Tretton, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, they were the winning cards at a pro-am poker event earlier this week. Tretton was one of several executives entered in the World Poker Tour’s Silicon Valley Poker Challenge,…

By Owen Good Published March 18, 2011

An Arcade For Squatters Living In An Abandoned Skyscraper

There are 2,500 people living in The Centro Financiero Confinanzas, an unfinished skyscraper in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. Despite being essentially squatters, they still have somewhere to play video games. The building, despite being incomplete, isn’t just a home to those 2,500 souls. It’s a city unto itself, complete with bars, dentists, stores and…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 16, 2011

Put The PSN In Your Pocket With An Official PlayStation App

Microsoft and Nintendo do not, for various reasons, want to release official applications on the iPhone or Android platforms. Sony, thankfully, has no such qualms. This is the Official PlayStation App, which has been available since January for Sony fans living in Europe. It’s only this week become available in Australia, though (Australia being an…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 15, 2011

Vagrant Story Brings A Riot To The PlayStation Store This Week

This week, PlayStation 3 owners in North America will be able to enjoy one of the greatest role-playing games of the PlayStation generation: Vagrant Story coming to the PlayStation Store as a “PSone Classic.” For those of you who haven’t played this SquareSoft great, Vagrant Story is a fantastic mix of dungeon crawling, puzzle-solving, rhythmic…

By Michael McWhertor Published February 28, 2011

Xenogears, A PlayStation Great, Becomes A PSone Classic

Well, we can’t say we didn’t see it coming, but the arrival of PlayStation role-playing game classic Xenogears as a downloadable PSone Classic is still welcome news. The official PlayStation.blog heralds the release of Square Enix’s turn-based RPG on the North American PlayStation Store tomorrow.

By Michael McWhertor Published February 21, 2011

Hey, Whatever Happened to Marcus, the PSP Mascot?

A Sony executive recently declared that Marcus Rivers, the smartass ‘tween flack for the PSP who debuted at E3 last year, delivered “positive sales effects,” for the handheld. Near as I can tell, that’s the first anyone’s heard of the little twerp in more than four months. Marcus still anchors the front of Sony’s official…

By Owen Good Published February 19, 2011