PlayStation

Report: The PS Vita Is Powered By Samsung

According to Japan’s Semiconductor Industry News, Samsung is manufacturing the 45 nanometer processor that will power the PS Vita’s central processing unit.


July 28, 2011
PlayStation

PS3 Sales Down, But The PS2 Lives On!

Some strange news out of Sony’s latest financial earnings release: sales of the PlayStation 3 are down, while sales of the PlayStation 2 are steady and the PSP is making a late-life comeback!


PlayStation

A Walkthrough Of The Ico And Shadow Of The Colossus HD Remakes

Kotaku AU

Game Trailers has a couple of walkthrough vids of the upcoming Ico/Shadow of the Colossus HD remakes and they are both looking incredible. Personally, since I always felt that Shadow of the Colossus was just a step too far for the PS2 hardware, I can’t wait to replay one of my favourite games of all time with a solid framerate!


July 27, 2011
PlayStation

Risk Of Ignored Excellence Threatens PlayStation Vita

It used to matter whether a portable video game machine could fit in your pocket. The Game Boy was a brick, but you could get in your jacket pocket. The Atari Lynx was a small log, but ridiculous ads on TV showed it too could fit in a coat — probably as well as a smuggled carton of milk, if they were being honest.


July 23, 2011
News

Poor Americans Are Gamers, Too

In case you didn’t know, there are poor gamers. Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation has published a report on what it means to be poor in America today. According to the report, households living in poverty have many modern amenities including air conditioning, cable TV and video game consoles.


July 16, 2011
PlayStation

Why Sony And Microsoft Teaming Up On Their Next Console Makes A Lot Of Sense

Microsoft has trouble making hardware. Sony has trouble running online services. What if the next Xbox and the next PlayStation are one and the same?


July 15, 2011
PlayStation

Sony Exec Calls PSN Hack ‘A Great Experience,’ Quickly Clarifies Himself

Losing the entire PlayStation Network service for 23 days and its online marketplace for more than a month is not many people’s idea of a good time. Nor is it Tim Schaff’s, though the Sony Network Entertainment boss called it “a great experience,” at a forum before, as the politicians say, he revised and extended his remarks.


July 7, 2011
News

Man Deploys ‘Madden Defence’ To Beat Murder Rap

A man on trial in North Carolina for killing his pregnant fiancée says he could not have been the killer, and is using a screen capture from a game of Madden NFL as his alibi.


July 6, 2011
News

Chinese Consoles Invade India

Video games are hot in India right now, but don’t expect to see many of these gamers on Xbox Live or Playstation Network anytime soon.


July 5, 2011
PlayStation

Meet The Man Who Owns Every PS2 Game Ever Made!

Kotaku AU

I’m not much of a collector of games, but I’ve seen a fair few collections in my time. Absolutely nothing – nothing – compares to this. PlayStation enthusiast Ahans76 is apparently the only gamer in the world with a complete collection of every single NTSC PlayStation 2 game ever made.