PlayStation

Remembering Final Fantasy VIII

PopMatters recently posted an extremely in-depth look back at Final Fantasy VIII, exploring the themes, emotions, and insight into human behavior that make one of the most neglected entries in the franchise great. Final Fantasy VIII was light-years ahead of VII both graphically and in terms of complexity, and perhaps that’s the reason the game…

Sony Prepares An Army of Playstation Evangelists

Earlier this year Sony began quietly readying an army of evangelists to take to the front lines of the escalating console wars. The Experience Playstation Now program had a “beta test” of sorts earlier this month, with Sony employees well-versed in the ins and outs of the Playstation Portable and Playstation 3 setting up temporary…

European PlayStation Blog Open For Business

Poor Europe. Americans have long been spoiled with up-to-the-minute PlayStation info straight from the horse’s mouth, in the form of the PlayStation.Blog, while Europeans got…Three Speech. Yuck. Today, that changes! Yes, Three Speech’s final post has been to announce that the PlayStation Europe Blog opens for business today, having first been announced last month. It’s…

Game Controllers That Clean Your Filthy Hands

You know those shaped soaps at your mother’s house that no one is allowed to actually use? Here’s our version, courtesy of Etsy seller Digitalsoaps. Digitalsoaps offers our favorite video game weapons, lovingly recreated in the form of scented soap products. Take the green Xbox 360 controller above. Scented with Mountain Dew, it’s the most…

Klonoa Wii-make Challenge Preview: Yep, It’s Challenging

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is a classic PlayStation adventure game remade for the Wii that’s entirely true to the original in content, color and even voice actors. The only new things in the game are bonus stages and challenge levels to extend gameplay for hardcore fans that have likely outgrown the difficulty level of the…

SCEE: Sony PSP Line-Up Hasn’t Met Expectations

David Reeves, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, picked an odd place to make his farewell speech: Capcom’s annual press event. “After 15 memorable years, I’m going to retire at the end of this month,” said Reeves. “It has been a true pleasure working at Playstation, pushing the boundaries of the gaming industry.” Reeves said…

inFamous Engineer Talks Trophies And Stunts

Sucker Punch software engineer Chris Heidorn stopped by the PlayStation Blog today to discuss the trophies to unlock and stunts to perform in their upcoming superhero game inFamous. Chris goes into great detail about the stunts included in the game, which are sequences of events and combinations of powers used to kill the enemy creatively.…

Edge Explores The Genesis Of The PlayStation

The history of Sony’s original PlayStation is largely well known to gamers, born of a disagreement with Nintendo, who it once partnered with to provide a CD-ROM drive for the Super Nintendo. That disagreement, which reportedly infuriated Sony president Norio Ohga, let to a transition in power. Edge explores the birth of the console that…

So Long Three Speech, Hello PlayStation Blog

Europeans with a hankering for PlayStation news tailored to their continent of choice should say their goodbyes to the officially unofficial Three Speech blog. It’s going the way of the dinosaur. Three Speech will be replaced by a new, shiny European PlayStation blog, one we presume will be a lot like the one we’ve been…

Sony To Release “Clothes, Toys, Stationery, Housewares & Gifts”

Video game merch is nothing new. It’s been with us since the dawn of, well, video games. But in a quest for more cash money (and brand awareness), Sony Europe will be going merch mad. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe have employed a company called Target Entertainment, who will be acting as “consumer product licensing agent”…

Man Stabs Mother of His Children “Hooked” On PlayStation

Malcolm Palmer stabbed the mother of his three children and partner of 30 years after having to sleep on the sofa so she could play Grand Theft Auto on a plasma TV in their bedroom. That, and the 62-year-old Palmer, who is a retired Heathrow airport employee, had become convinced his 46-year-old partner Carol Cannom…

PlayStation Moving Into The Cloud?

Sony may be the latest company to explore the hot topic of cloud computing, the off-loading of software and services to remote servers, based on recent trademark filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has registered a trademark for “PS Cloud,” protecting it against it against all manner of video…

Snapshot: Kellindo With Monae Blow Up At Blow Up

Siren Janelle Monae crushed the Sony Blow Up party last night with a short set at 1015. Much fog, singing, guitar and drums.

PixelJunk Eden Encore, New Resistance 2 Content At GDC

Next week’s Game Developers Conference is going to be packed with hands-on, presentations and even a little news. Over at the Playstation Bloggers Lounge, Sony has set up a number of interviews for some of their upcoming and current titles. Q-Games founder and president Dylan Cuthbert will be on hand to talk about PixelJunk Eden…

Rumor: More Details On The Next PSP

According to unnamed developers, Sony is readying a new iteration of its PlayStation Portable. Whether you call it the PSP 2 or PSP-4000, the rumored new version sounds like the most radical change to date. That’s because it’s going to drop the battery-draining, bulk-adding UMD drive, according to word from Acclaim chief creative officer David…

Kaz Hirai Will Continue Playstation Leadership

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. Earlier this morning Sony announced a major restructuring of their company, with Sony CEO Howard Stringer being named president of the company and the formation of two new groups within…

PlayStation Boss Heading New Sony Division

Major changes are going down at Sony. President Ryoji Chubachi is stepping down, and Sony CEO Howard Stringer will take over Chubachi’s role as president. The company’s PlayStation boss has a new role, too. Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai will head a new business group that brings together Sony’s mobile electronics and personal computers.…

Sony: Record Growth and Momentum for Playstation in 09

Sony Computer Entertainment remains confident in their approach and strategy for “another record year of growth and momentum” for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3, SCEA CEO and president Jack Tretton said. Talking to a gathering of retailers and developers at the annual Destination PlayStation event, Tretton called 2009’s line up of games for both…

PlayStation Gets Its Own Skin Disorder

Just when you think things are beginning to look up for Sony, the PlayStation goes and gets its very own skin disorder: PlayStation palmar hidradenitis. The new skin condition springs from the case of a 12-year-old girl, treated in a Swiss hospital for intensely painful sores on the palms of her hands. The doctors examining…

Sony Takes Over Movie Theater, Opens Playstation Playroom

A Playstation playroom will be just one of the Sony plugs at a new movie theater opening in a LA suburb this week. The Muvico Entertainment-run theater in The Oaks shopping center will use Sony’s 4K SXRD digital projectors in the theaters, 16 Sony LCD televisions at the snackbars and have a bank of Playstation…