Archive for February, 2006

PS3 All in wonder

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

In a recent Business Week article, Kenji Hall writes that PS3 might possibly confuse the audience with too many features. Sony’s super-packed PS3, which will debut in the summer of 2006 in Japan and the fall of 2006 U.S, will come with Blu-Ray drive, wireless feature, latest CPU called the “CELL”, on-line capability, and many […]

PS3 announcements at GDC

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Phil Harrison, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, is preparing to make a keynote speech at this year’s Game Developer’s Conference, set to take place at the San Jose Convention Center on March 22nd at 10:30 am.
The title of the keynote will be “PlayStation 3: Beyond the Box.” According to Sony representatives, the […]

PS3 Online HUB

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Sony will offer an online gaming service for the Playstation 3, similar to Xbox Live. Well-placed industry sources have confirmed that the PS3 will have an online service, which is currently being referred to as Playstation HUB, according to Next Generation.
The sources said that Playstation HUB would be a ’subscriber service’, support Sony’s Playstation Portable […]

Playstation 3 Launch date delayed

Friday, February 17th, 2006

The release of the Playstation 3 is being delayed due to the threat of piracy, Sony has announced.
At the Taipei Game Show, the managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment Asia, Mr Tetsuhiko Yasuda, told reporters of Japanese news outlet Mainichi
that Sony would not launch the PS3 until it could handle the troubles posed by counterfeiters.
“We […]

PS3 Games pre order

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Gamestop and EBGames have started preordering video games for the coming PS3 console. Both retailers are preordering for $59.99 and have a shipping date of October 1st 2006 except for the long awaited Metal Gear Solid 4 who has a date of December 1st 2006.
This is very good news because it means that Sony […]

PS3 Launch September 2006

Friday, February 17th, 2006

News site ‘Next Generation’ is reporting that Sony will announce an online service called PlayStation HUB in the next few weeks, and that Japan and the US will see a September release for the PlayStation 3.
The site claims that “well-placed industry sources” have said there will be an online service similar to Xbox Live, […]

Call of Duty & Spider-Man for PS3

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Updated job listings are, once again, giving indications of new developments for Sony’s PlayStation 3.
The job positions of Programmer, Tools Programmer and Graphics Programmer are for Treyarch Development Studio, and are needed for two Activision-published games, specifically Spider-Man and Call of Duty.
Although it is well known that Activision is involved with these two […]