Sony Entertainment revealed its financial report for the first quarter of 2014, which began in April and ended on June 30. The results were rather surprising, but perhaps not completely unexpected. The company’s revenue from games saw an increase of 95.7 percent compared to the first quarter of 2013. Sony’s Games and Network Services branch managed to generate no less than 257.5 billion ...
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PlayStation users react angrily to Sony preventing EA Access on their consoles
PlayStation users have reacted angrily to the news that Sony purposely chose not to collaborate with EA with their new game subscription service, EA Access. Gamers have spoken out on social media, website comments and forums such as NeoGAF to complain about the decision. They argue that the company should have let customers decide whether the service was worth using, ...
Read More »LittleBigPlanet 3 release date and pre-order bonuses announced
LittleBigPlanet 3 now has a release date. Sony has revealed that the latest instalment in the PlayStation exclusive series will hit store shelves November 18. It will be available for both the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4, making it the first LittleBigPlanet game to release on a next-generation console. The company also went on to reveal a number of pre-order ...
Read More »SHAREfactory update coming soon to the PS4, patch 1.75 already live
Sony Entertainment announced that an update to SHAREfactory will be arriving to the PS4 tomorrow. The update includes new features and improvements based on user feedback. Starting tomorrow, you will be able to add pictures captured in Photo Mode to your SHAREfactory clips. Photo Mode has been available for inFamous: Second Son for a while now, and it will also ...
Read More »Crytek admits to financial difficulty, says long term future secured
Crytek has released a statement to GI.Biz confirming that the company has been going through some financial problems. The publisher and developer though says that its short and long term future is now secured and that it has gone through a tough transition period. “Like the games industry as a whole, Crytek has been in a transitional phase,” reads the ...
Read More »PS4 update 1.75 finally adds 3D Blu-Ray support, Sony announces
PS4 owners rejoice! Sony officially announced that a new system software update is currently in the works and will be arriving sometime next week. This is great news considering that update 1.75 adds a feature that people were demanding for the longest time. Starting next week you will finally be able to watch Blu-Ray movies in 3D directly on your ...
Read More »Sony settles lawsuit over account information theft in 2011
Sony has settled a class action lawsuit that related to the outage of the PlayStation Network and the theft of account information from Sony in 2011. The settlement orders Sony to offer those who did not take part in the “Welcome Back” offer in May of 2011 are entitled to choose two of either a free game, a free theme ...
Read More »Sony Santa Monica reveals future plans and new logo
Sony Santa Monica Studio, best known for their work on Journey, The God of War series, and more recently The Order: 1886 has a new home now. A few days ago the studio showed us how the new location looks like and said that this place is being called The Reserve. They also revealed that this is where their next great ...
Read More »PS4 firmware update details expected to arrive “very soon”
Update: Sony posted the following Tweet a short while ago: PS4 system software update 1.74 is coming soon, improves stability of some software. — PlayStation (@PlayStation) July 22, 2014 Original story: We keep hearing news about how Microsoft pushes a new update every month for the Xbox One. Meanwhile, Sony seems to be taking its sweet time in doing the ...
Read More »Is this where God of War 4 is being developed?
Sony Santa Monica revealed the location where their “next great game” for PS4 will be developed. Judging by the picture they’ve tweeted, this studio is absolutely huge so we expect that all games developed there to be equally impressive. They didn’t say anything else about their upcoming great game, but given that the studio is most famous for working on ...
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