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Celebrate PlayStation’s Fifteen Years With Infographics
Did you know that 33 percent of PlayStation gamers don’t eat while playing, and that seven percent won’t date non-gamers? Learn more fun facts and explore the history of the PlayStation brand in a pair new infographics direct from Sony. The PlayStation brand turns 15 today, and Sony is helping us celebrate with a pair…
By Mike Fahey Published September 9, 2010 -
Fifteen Years Of PlayStation Domination
Fifteen years ago Phillips, Sega, and 3DO were struggling to get North American consumers to accept CD-based gaming. On September 9, 1995, Sony came along and showed them how it’s done, changing the face of gaming as we knew it. Up until 1995, Sony’s major contribution to North American consumer electronics had been the Walkman,…
By Mike Fahey Published September 9, 2010 -
Playstation Name Checked in Presidential Childhood Obesity Graphic
The winner of best overall infographic for First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign includes the release and successes of the Playstation in its timeline charting the growth of childhood obesity. Found among the eleven significant dates are the 1995 release of the Playstation in the U.S. and the 2005 milestone when the console reached…
By Brian Crecente Published September 8, 2010 -
Checking Out Flight Control With The PS3 Move
Firemint’s ultra-popular iPhone game, Flight Control, is also Move compatible on the Playstation 3. I spent a bit of time with it and was delighted to see how fun and easy it was to quickly draw precise flight paths on the game’s top-down map of the landing strips. Controls were snappy, providing a bit of…
By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2010 -
ReviewsPlaystation Move Review: The Motion Controller Wars Start Now
The motion controller wars start now. In the four years since its launch, the Nintendo Wii has made motion-controlled gaming not just its dominion, but a hugely profitable business. But by the end of the year Nintendo will be back where they started, slugging away with two well-monied competitors for the hearts, the minds, the…
By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2010 -
What We Loved, What We Hated About the Playstation Move
Due out later this month, the Playstation Move promises to deliver the best of two worlds: The motion-sensing realism and casual fun of the Wii combined with raw muscle power and high-definition graphics of the Playstation 3. We’ve had the peripheral add-on in our offices for a little less than a week now, plenty of…
By Brian Crecente Published September 1, 2010 -
The History of Headshots, Gaming’s Favorite Act Of Unreal Violence
It may seem ghoulish to the outsider. It will seem essential to the gamer. One of the most popular things to do in video games is to aim for the head with a gun and fire. Who thought of that? And why do people like doing it so much? Why Headshots Make Some People Happy…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 30, 2010 -
What Do The Buttons On The PlayStation Controller Mean?
The buttons on PlayStation controllers have always been a bit of a mystery. Why those weird colours? Why those wacky shapes? PlayStation designer Teiyu Goto explains. Goto, who designed not only the PlayStation but the PS2 and PS3 as well, has told Japanese magazine Famitsu that it was all about keeping it simple. “That was…pretty…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 26, 2010 -
Heroes On The Move Gains Momentum
A Lombax, a raccoon, and an elf stumble into a nefarious plot the plunges them and their sidekicks into a tournament of champions in Heroes on the Move for the PlayStation 3. Stop me if you heard this one. Heroes on the Move isn’t quite like any other adventure you’ve been on featuring Jax and…
By Mike Fahey Published August 20, 2010 -
Sony Ordered To Pay 5 Million Yen To Former Company Inventor
Former Sony employee 58-year-old Hidehiro Kume invented a small optical pickup that is used to read and write discs in the PlayStation 2 and the original PlayStation. He didn’t feel Sony recognized his contributions, so he took it to court. A lower Japanese court rejected Kume’s claim he deserved compensation, but the Japanese high court…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 19, 2010 -
Sony: Motorstorm Apocalypse Will Prove 3D Gaming’s Worth
It took more than 100 years for the notion of 3D film-making to prove itself with the 2009 release of smash hit Avatar, and Sony believes that games like the Playstation 3’s Motorstorm Apocalypse and Killzone 3 will do the same for gaming. Mick Hocking, senior director for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Studio Liverpool, heads…
By Brian Crecente Published August 18, 2010 -
Playstation Move Demo Stations Set to Blanket the Country
Sony’s motion-sensing Playstation Move hits stores next month, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to have to wait a bit more than a month to check it out. Sony Computer Entertainment of America confirmed to Kotaku that they are gearing up for quite a marketing push, bringing the controller add-on for the Playstation 3 to…
By Brian Crecente Published August 12, 2010 -
CultureTotal Recall
Namco: Maker Of Games, Builder Of ROBOTS
During the early 1980s, Namco wasn’t only conquering arcades with games like Pac-Man. The company was doing something else. Something important. It was building robots. Namco made a handful of bots for the Japanese Science Foundation Musuem, including “Largo” the stamp robot. Kids would press Largo’s red nose and the robot would then stamp their…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 6, 2010 -
PlayStation Network Summer Sale Includes Some Amazing Deals
You’ve got a little less than a week left to buy games like GTA: Chinatown Wars, Fat Princess and PixelJunk Shooter for half price. The Playstation Network Summer Sale runs through Monday, Aug 9 in the U.S. and Canada. Here’s a break down of what you can get: PS3 Fat Princess – $7.49 sale; $14.99…
By Brian Crecente Published August 3, 2010 -
PlayStation Shot Glasses? PlayStation Underwear?
Sony has kicked off today the “PlayStation Logo Licensing Program”. Translation: you’ll soon start seeing all kinds of miscellaneous crap turn up sporting the PlayStation logo. The idea is that Sony wants to see the PlayStation brand and logo (as well as the iconic controller button symbols) appearing on all kinds of “lifestyle products”, which…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 27, 2010 -
In The Quest For The Best Resident Evil Controls, Motion Gets Another Turn
Does anyone know what the best way is to control a Resident Evil game anymore? At least Capcom keeps doling out options, including PlayStation 3 motion control, which I sampled this week. We’ve been hearing about motion control support for Resident Evil 5 since last year, and our own Brian Ashcraft played RE5 with Wii-like…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 23, 2010 -
Kevin Butler Responds To New Zealand Copycats
Hey, New Zealand TV, you can’t go ripping off a PlayStation ad and not expect Sony’s VP of Antipodean Beard Standards Kevin Butler to bring the thunder. The PlayStation mascot – or at least the guys who write the material for the actor who plays a PlayStation mascot – has responded to New Zealand’s TV3…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 22, 2010
