Sony Computer Entertainment has acquired Sucker Punch, the studio behind titles like Infamous and Sly Cooper, the Tokyo-based game giant revealed today.
Sony revealed today that Sony Computer Entertainment of Europe honcho Andrew House is now the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment International. Kazuo Hirai is now SCEI’s Chairman. Corporate musical chairs, people! [PlayStation]
The hacker collective Lulz Security isn’t taking a break from its attacks on Sony simply because it’s E3. This morning, via Twitter, Lulzsec bragged that it had compiled Sony Computer Entertainment’s Developer Network source code. Earlier in the week Lulzsec went after Sony BMG and Sony Pictures, and broke into Nintendo USA’s website.
Norio Ohga, the former chairman of Sony who, in 1993, established Sony Computer Entertainment and paved the way for the PlayStation, died Saturday morning in Tokyo. He was 81.
This month, Japanese online retailer Rakuten.com decided the language that was used internally by the company would no longer be Japanese.
While Bungie’s new date is Activision, not Sony, it likely means PS3 games coming from the Halo people. As if noticing a hottie had just changed her Facebook status to “single”, Sony turned on the charm Thursday.
Your PlayStation 3 may become a reasonably priced, earthbound Satellite of Love, if Sony Computer Entertainment America’s patent application for a Mystery Science Theatre 3000-like interactive television becomes a real-life product.
Here are some booths set up by game companies at the PLAY Conference job fair. Based on their displays, who would you want to work for?
