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For very many years Electronic Arts were the biggest game publisher on earth. They have an income of billions every year and they employ thousands of people all around the globe. EA are very important indeed for the video games industry. But they are no longer undisputed number one. The marriage of Vivendi and Activision, [...]

Me no speakum hackese, but it sounds like the guy who gave us the iPhone jailbreak claims to have finally hacked the PlayStation 3.
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Without specifying how (and explaining it to me would be like reading Siddhartha to a dog, in Klingon), George Hotz says he pulled it off after five weeks [...]

Sony today released a number of new screens for upcoming brawler God of War III. Swords and angry men feature prominently.
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The game, sure to be one of the biggest of the year on the PlayStation 3, will be out in March.

It’s been a big day for Sony at Gamescom today, so let’s close it out with some screenshots that feature neither a PS3 console nor a PSP. Just a cat. And his little robot buddy.

At Konami’s E3 Booth yesterday I got my first chance to play the video game adaptation of the smash hit horror film series Saw, leaving me questioning the limits of my violence tolerance.
What Is It?
Saw bridges the gap between the first two Saw movies, placing the player in the role of Danny Glover’s character, [...]

One of the most experimental concepts shown at E3 thus far, and yet another game quietly announced but not explicitly mentioned by Sony: a PSP followup to Jun Fujiki’s Echochome, the Escher-esque PS3/PSN downloadable in which wireframe artist models traversed impossible constructions using tricks of perspective to bridge gaps and open paths.
This time, as the [...]

One of the many exclusive PlayStation Network downloadables not specifically called out by Sony in its Tuesday conference: Gravity Crash, a new shooter from UK dev Just Add Water that mashes Geometry Wars-esque retro-vector style with twitchy dual stick shooting, and, more importantly, includes a full level editor to let players create and share their [...]

David Cage’s collective output at Quantic Dream have always been nothing if not massively ambitious: from the wide open world of his PC/Dreamcast debut Omikron to the multi-camera cinematic perspective and directly user-controlled actions of PC/Xbox 360’s Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, with both just undercut from being true masterworks by tiny details.
The jarring quick-time event sequences that [...]

GamersConsoleNetwork scored a big scoop this morning, pulling the first images of the PSP Go (running LittleBigPlanet) out of the latest edition of Qore, which apparently went live early.
On top of that, someone managed to film the video and place it on YouTube. That’s below (bad audio)

In the video:
• Grand Turismo, LittleBigPlanet, Jak & Daxter [...]

After nearly four years in operation, the machines now greatly outnumber the players and The Matrix Online is no longer necessary.
July 31st is the day the machines finally triumph. Sony Online Entertainment has held on to The Matrix Online for far longer than we ever expected they would, but as producer Dan Myers puts it, [...]