Update: The store update is now live! Oh dear. This week’s highly anticipated PlayStation Store update, which includes the first issue of Qore and a bevy of downloadable PS3 titles, has been postponed. The content wasn’t up when we first posted our weekly update article, but we figured it would all drop within the hour. Didn’t happen! Hours have passed, […]

Over at the official SOCOM website, community manager David Brothers has announced that Sony is planning to kick off a public beta test for upcoming PlayStation 3 title SOCOM: Confrontation later this summer. According to Brothers, access to the beta will be granted to subscribers of Sony’s forthcoming Qore service, which essentially is an online magazine that offers exclusive game […]

In proof that the last-gen PlayStation 2 is still alive and kicking, Sony today announced that it will release an all-new limited edition Cinnabar Red colored PS2 model on July 3 in Japan. Priced at 16,000 yen, the package will include one slim PS2 unit coupled with an integrated power supply and DualShock 2 controller.

There wasn’t a whole lot to choose from on the PlayStation Store last week. This week? Simply pathetic. And that’s putting it lightly. Aside from the usual round of Rock Band downloadable content, this week’s offerings consist of game videos, movie trailers, and wallpaper. Nothing playable whatsoever. While it’s fully understandable that Sony can’t please us content-wise each week, at […]

According to Jim Cordeira over at Gaming-Age, the long-awaited firmware 2.4 update for PlayStation 3 will hit later this summer, complete with a universal friends list and in-game XMB functionality. While Sony has yet to comment, it’s no secret that a major firmware release is due out soon. Back in March, SCEE UK head Ray Maguire made mention of 2.4, […]

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan today announced that the Japanese userbase of its online PlayStation Network service topped one million accounts, as of May 26. At least 400,000 users in the region access the PS Store each month, according to internal data. That’s close to one-fifth of the entire PS3 install base in Japan. PLAYSTATION Network Announcement [SCEJ]

Sony today announced that it has teamed up with Electronic Arts to release a limited-edition Madden NFL 09 PSP bundle in time for the game’s debut on August 12. Priced at an MSRP of $199.99, the bundle will consist of a special edition Metallic Blue PSP unit, a copy of Madden NFL 09, an NFL UMD video, a voucher to […]

Sony Computer Entertainment is none too thrilled over the fact that online retailer King of Swords is selling an unofficial replica of the Beretta M92F gun featured in PlayStation 3 title Uncharted. According to a company spokesperson, they will be taking “appropriate” measures against the website very soon: The Drake’s Gun is not licensed or in any way sanctioned by […]

As part of its 2008 Gamers Day event, Sony Computer Entertainment America just sent over three all-new screenshots from Insomniac’s action packed first-person-shooter Resistance 2. Slated for a November release exclusively on PlayStation 3, the game will boast an eight player online co-op campaign and 60-player online head-to-head multiplayer. Resistance 2 Screenshots

A new PlayStation 3 firmware is now available for download via Network Update. No, this update doesn’t bring any fancy features like in-game XMB. Firmware 2.35 simply improves the stability of certain PS3 titles, according to PSN director Eric Lempel. The list of titles affected by the update went unnamed, but Lempel did note that it has nothing to due […]

Kumi Yuasa, associate producer for the perspective-bending PlayStation Network title echochrome, has revealed that twenty all-new user-created challenges will be playable through the game’s freeform mode sometime later this this month. Yuasa didn’t mention a concrete date, but did say that the levels would launch “between May 15 and May 21.” Players will need to set their difficulty level to […]

In terms of global hardware sales, the PSP was Sony’s top performer for fiscal 2007. According to a recently released financial report, the handheld shifted 13.89 million units, up from 9.53 million units the previous year. The PS2 managed to push 13.73 million units during the same time period, with the PS3 moving 9.24 million units, as detailed in our […]

According to Sony’s Q4 earnings announcement for the 2007 fiscal year, the company expects to sell ten million PlayStation 3 units throughout fiscal 2008, which began on April 1 and ends March 31, 2009. Comparatively, Sony pushed 9.24 million units in the previous fiscal year. Despite outpacing PS3 sales for the second year in a row, the company expects PS2 […]

Those seeking an official hard-case solution for their PSP Slim are in luck. Sony will release the PSP-2000 Traveler Case in North America later this month. The case comes equipped with storage space for a single PSP Slim, along with extra room for a pair of Memory Stick Pro Duos and UMD discs. According to online retailer Amazon, the peripheral […]

Nintendo and Microsoft? Sure, they’re big names in the console gaming market, no doubt. But they aren’t Sony’s only competitors. Not by a long shot. The PlayStation 3 is competing against the entire entertainment space, according to outspoken company president Kaz Hirai: I think that PS3, PS2 and PSP are all entertainment platforms so I feel that our competition is […]

Mere weeks after the release of Monster Hunter 2nd G and the PSP is still managing to maintain its clear dominance in the weekly Japanese sales charts, according to data from marketing research firm Media Create. For the week ending May 4, the PSP edged past the 100,000 mark in unit sales. Its rival, the Nintendo’s DS, sold 52,542 units […]

Sony sent out a release today celebrating the fact that its critically-acclaimed Gran Turismo series has shipped 50 million units worldwide. The impressive feat was achieved on April 30, 2008, ten years and four months following the series’ initial 1997 debut on PSOne. Looking at the worldwide sales numbers, Gran Turismo 3 A-spec shipped 14.89 million copies, making it the […]

The rare and memorable first installment in Konami’s long-running Suikoden RPG series may make an appearance on PSN in the near future, according to the ESRB. A search on the ESRB’s always-handy website reveals that the title was recently given an E rating for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. However, at the snail-paced rate that Sony is adding PSOne classics […]

So, why was PlayStation Home delayed? Sure, we know Sony desperately needed more time to improve the service, but that’s a rather vague reason. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss David Reeves has elaborated on why they chose to delay Home, revealing that the decision was made due to a lack of focus towards gamers, and more of a focus towards […]

Slowly but surely, the PlayStation 3 is coming into its own with the release of high-profile titles such as Gran Turismo 5: Prologue and Uncharted, but let’s fast-forward to early last year. Back then Sony’s console wasn’t doing so well. The PS3 was being subjected to a great deal of negative press for its high price point and how difficult […]