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Playstation PR Heavy Rain Promo Almost Really Cool

2:00PM Seamus Byrne | We received some flyers in the mail today. One was about a missing boy. Another a private investigator for hire. Plus the card for an FBI agent. All seemed connected to the Origami Killer… so I called the number. More »

Italian Teen Stabs Father Over FIFA 2009

4:40AM Mike Fahey | An Italian man giving video game advice to his son Sunday evening was repaid with a 15-inch kitchen knife to the neck. A 46-year-old storekeeper identified as Fabrizio R. was watching his 16-year-old son, Mario, play EA’s FIFA 2009 on the PlayStation Sunday evening. According to reports, the father began giving his son advice on how to play the game better, which led to an argument between the two. In response, Fabrizio turned off the PlayStation in the middle of Mario’s game. That’s when Mario got up, went into the kitchen, grabbed a 15-inch knife, and then returned to the living room, stabbing his father in the neck. He then returned to the kitchen to clean up, according to Fabrizio’s wife, identified as Monica B., who discussed the incident with Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera. “I saw Mario come back into the room, he seemed calm, he went to the sink and I noticed him washing a knife,” Monica told the newspaper. “Then my husband came into the room with a hand round his neck, dripping blood.” Fabrizio was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, and hospital officials say he will recover from the wound. After washing off the knife, Mario went to his bedroom, making no attempts to resist arrest when the police arrived. According to RIA Novosti, he is currently being held at a juvenile detention facility while police continue their investigation. With the father surviving the viscous attack and the son safely in police custody, we can on to the message woven into this story. Sometimes video games have nothing to do with how violent we can be. “Mario is obsessed. He’s forever playing on his PlayStation, and we bought him FIFA 2009 because we didn’t want him playing violent games,” his mother told Il Corriere. Italian teen stabs father in PlayStation row [Reuters Africa]

Sony Takes On CES 2010: This Time It’s Personal!!!

11:00AM Brian Crecente | Join us as we sit in on Sony’s Consumer Electronics Show presentation today live in Las Vegas. Join in the chatter and see if Sony brought any bombs or mega bombs with them to the Strip. More »

Iraqi Kidnap Victim Subjected To PlayStation

6:30AM Mike Fahey | British hostage Peter Moore will soon be returning to the UK from Iraq, after spending the last six months of his two-and-a-half year period of captivity with only satellite television, a laptop, and a PlayStation to keep him occupied. More »

Sony Trimming More Costs From PlayStation Division

6:00PM Luke Plunkett | 2009 wasn’t the best year for Sony, at least financially. So the Japanese company is looking to trim a little more of its overheads, specifically with the way PlayStation games are distributed. More »

When Can We Expect Rival Schools On PSN Or XBLA? “Never”

12:00PM Brian Ashcraft | That’s a long time, never. When asked when school-yard fighting game Rival Schools would be appearing on the PlayStation Network, Capcom spokesperson Chris Svensson replied. More »

The Making And Death Of Pac-Man Ghost Zone

12:00PM Michael McWhertor | Namco’s Pac-Man Ghost Zone never made it to retail, never saw the inside of the more than 100 million original PlayStations that Sony eventually sold over the console’s lifespan. But it was playable, at least by a select group. More »

Happy 15th Birthday, PlayStation!

10:00PM Luke Plunkett | It all began 15 years ago today. On December 3, 1994, Sony released the PlayStation in Japan. The rest, as they say, is history. More »

A Holiday Message From The Society Against PlayStation

9:30AM Mike Fahey | The recent batch of PlayStation 3 ads hearkens back to a simpler time, when all you needed to market your console was a little song, some puppets and a stick. More »