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The PSN Outage Should Last Until May 31st

Sony is performing the old salt-in-the-wound trick by informing Bloomberg that the PSN/Quoricity outage should last another 22 days with an expected return date of May 31. This came from an interview...

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Sony Ericsson Xperia Play To Hit Verizon's Shelves May 26

Like many of you, I have loved playing games on my phone ever since I got my first Nokia handset that came pre-loaded with Snake. Since then, mobile gaming has reached an entirely new level, and then...

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The PSN Network Is Back

Sony just announced that the Playstation Network is back up for almost everyone. People in Japan, Hong Kong, and Korea are, sadly, still SOL. If you’re having trouble logging in, its because everyone...

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Japan Gets Three New PSP Value Packs Next Month

The PS Vita is coming relatively soon, but Sony Japan today announced [JP] something nice for all users still in need of a PSP: a total of three new PSP value packs. The bundles will include a PSP in...

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Shake-up At Sony: PlayStation Inventor Retires, Kaz Hirai Becomes Chairman Of...

Following the security breach in the PlayStation network in April (77 million PlayStation Network user accounts were compromised), Sony saw a radical management reshuffle in its gaming division, Sony...

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Japan Last Country To Resume All PlayStation Network Services On Wednesday

It took them a while, but Sony today announced [JP] that they will fully restore all PlayStation Network services plus streaming media-on-demand service Qriocity in Japan this Wednesday. Sony’s home...

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Sony’s Playstation Vita To Hit Japan On December 17

Sony is currently holding a press conference in Tokyo where the company said that the Playstation Vita, its new handheld console, will hit stores in Japan on December 17, just in time for the holidays...

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Sony Will Offer 28 Titles When The Vita Launches In Japan (Full List)

Apart from fixing the Japan release date for the Playstation Vita (December 17) today, Sony also announced [press release in English] the handheld’s full launch line-up for its home market: a total of...

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Sony Japan Prices First Playstation Vita Games

The launch of Sony’s new handheld console Vita in Japan is just two months away (December 17), so it’s about time big S made some official announcements regarding software prices. In a nut shell, the...

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Sony Reports Massive Hack Attempt On Networks: 93,000 Accounts Affected Globally

Sony is suffering from yet another hack attempt on its networks. But this time, the company seems to be better prepared, and apparently all credit card information is safe. Philip Reitinger, Sony’s...

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Sony Opens Up The PlayStation Store To Tablet S Owners

Owners of the Tablet S from Sony: listen up because your Android-powered slab of glass just became that much more fun. The PlayStation Store for PS-certified devices has officially gone live, with 10...

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Review: The Playstation 3D Display Lets You Bring All Of Your Friends

Features: 24-inch 1080p 3D Display 240Hz Refresh Rate Includes One Game, HDMI Cable, And One Pair Of 3D Glasses Supports Dual-Player Gaming, Each Player Sees a Different Screen MSRP: $499 Pros:...

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Sony Shares Holiday Sales Numbers For The PlayStation

Sony Computer Entertainment reported some solid sales numbers for its various PlayStation systems for the past holiday season today. Sony says that they moved a total of 6.5 million PlayStation...

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Back To Basics: Sony Appoints Kazuo Hirai, Ousts Stringer

If there’s been one complaint my contacts inside large CE companies have had, career-wise, it’s been the inability to rise far in the hierarchy. While there are clear exceptions to this rule, the...

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Review: The Playstation Vita, Sony’s Portable Powerhouse

Features: 5-inch (16:9), 960 x 544 OLED screen Front and rear capacitive touchscreens Dual joysticks WiFi and 3G Wireless Broadband support MSRP: $249 (Wi-Fi Only)/$299 (Wi-Fi/3G) Pros: Beautiful,...

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LTE BlackBerry PlayBook Coming This Year, Says RIM CEO

RIM is keeping the PlayBook party going. While speaking at a BlackBerry World breakfast with RIM CEO Thorsten Heins stated the company plans to launch an LTE-enabled PlayBook by the end of the year....

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The Fall TV Lineup May Include Apple Dominating Gaming

What I’m about to say is undoubtedly going to piss some of you off. And that’s fine. Because in a few years, I’ll be right and you’ll look silly. While everyone is focused on the next generation video...

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The New, New PlayStation: Watch The 2013 Sony PlayStation Meeting Live At 6pm...

Join us live at the 2013 PlayStation Meeting where Sony will hopefully unveil what’s next for their iconic gaming console. The event runs from 6pm Eastern/3pm Pacific and I’ll be posting images and...

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Sony Officially Unveils The PlayStation 4: X86 CPU And 8GB Memory, But About...

Sony had an event today and as expected, it introduced the PlayStation 4. The next-gen platform is designed to shift focus from the living room to the gamer, Sony said, and overall, PlayStation’s...

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PS4 Is Sony’s Last Stand, And It’s Wasting It On A Tired Strategy That...

Sony’s PlayStation 4 made its grand debut today in a presentation with all the theatrical flair to be expected from an electronics company that’s also a media company that’s also a producer and...

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