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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…
By Brian Crecente Published February 24, 2009 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published February 24, 2009 -
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…
By Brian Crecente Published February 23, 2009 -
Italian Cruise Line Equips Fleet With PlayStations
Costa Cruises signed an agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment Italia to put PlayStation 2s and 3s aboard all of their ships by the end of 2009. Starting in June, Costa Cruise lines in Northern Europe and the Mediterranean will have an area called “PlayStation World” for passengers to play PS3s. There will also be PlayStations…
By AJ Glasser Published February 4, 2009 -
Atlus Bringing Persona And Growlanser To PSP
Atlus is bringing two “new” PSP games to Japan: Persona and Growlanser. One is a remake, and the other is a port. Persona is a “complete remake” of the 13 year-old PlayStation game. It has more save points, difficulty options, new cutscenes and the game balance adjustments. It will be out in Japan on April…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 4, 2009 -
Suspected U.S. Spy Paid By Russians in Cash-Stuffed Playstation Games
The son of convicted CIA spy, Harold Nicholson, is accused of selling national secrets to the Russians in return for cash that he snuck into the country stuffed in Playstation game cases. That’s really the only tie to gaming this bizarre espionage case, which now goes back more than ten years, has. But it’s intriguing…
By Brian Crecente Published January 30, 2009 -
Winter X Games Keeps Playstation Sponsor, Loses Many Others
Playstation, Oakley and Totino’s pizza rolls may still be sponsors at the Winter X Games in Aspen, but several other top sponsors have dropped out, including the Zune, The Aspen Times reports. “Given the economic environment out there, obviously we’re being impacted, like everyone else,” said ESPN executive Rick Alessandri. Among the sponsors to drop…
By Brian Crecente Published January 26, 2009 -
WipEout Stylists The Designers Republic Shuts Down
The UK design studio largely responsible for the identifiable visual style of Psygnosis’ WipEout series, The Designers Republic has shut its doors after more than two decades in business. Why? Money problems. The Designers Republic founder Ian Anderson tells the Creative Review that the studio, which handled visual work on titles like WipEout and WipEout…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 23, 2009 -
Sony To Cut 2,000 Employees, Kill TV Plants In Japan
Sony head honcho Howard Stringer will announce on Thursday plans to eliminate 2,000 full-time jobs and close two television manufacturing plants in the face of a projected $1.1 billion loss, reports Japan’s Nikkei Daily. Potentially more painful to Stringer is a reported plan to cut managerial and executive bonuses for the year. Nikkei reports that…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 21, 2009 -
Child Busker Plays Violin To Buy A Playstation
Here’s a cute story about a 9-year-old violist who’s been winning hearts at a busker festival in Australia all to earn enough cash to buy herself a Playstation. Carissa Lynch, of Kootingal, hit Tamworth’s buskers alley on Friday, earning $149 by Saturday afternoon. By Monday she had earned about $350. It sounds like she might…
By Brian Crecente Published January 20, 2009 -
Sony Nixes Playstation-Branded Phone
Sony refused to allow Sony Ericsson the use of its Playstation brand for a possible Playstation Portable phone during a pitch to the company’s board late last year, Mobile Today reports. Quoting sources close to the matter, the site says that the decision in December prompted a fallout between Sony and the mobile phone joint…
By Brian Crecente Published January 16, 2009 -
CES 09: Sony Testing PSP As Multimedia Remote At CES
Sony’s CES booth holds promise for the wi-fi connected multimedia hound: a PSP that acts as a software remote for networked audio streams. While experimental and not yet confirmed for release, the software looks cool. The PSP basically acts as a cheaper software remote for your Sony brand AV receiver. It would give users the…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 8, 2009 -
Jaffe: Gears of War 2 Versus God of War 3, PS3 Versus Wii
Famed Playstation developer David Jaffe may seem like an odd choice for guest developer for our in-game podcast about the Xbox 360’s Gears of War 2. We actually did invite Gears developer Cliff Bleszinski, but his handlers said he was too busy. But Jaffe certainly wasn’t some sort of alternate or sub, as the head…
By Brian Crecente Published December 31, 2008