According to a report by Japanese website Impress.co.jp [as translated by Beyond3D.com] Sony has put the next PlayStation console development on hold in order to concentrate on the NGP [Playstation Portable 2]. Sony’s recently announced NGP has received a host of good press by gaming industry heads so it is no big surprise that Sony has high hopes for the handeld market.
Treyarch’s Community Manager, Josh Olin has spoken out ending their silence on the issue with Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Gamer’s Voice have sent out a press release stating that the organisation would like to see more such dialogue between developers and the gaming community.
“The status quo clearly isn’t sustainable; the industry needs to do more to engage with gamers on the issue of bugs in games and address the causes,” writes Gamer’s Voice.
Sony has issued subpoenas to Google and Twitter for various information related to accounts believed to be held by members of the fail0verflow hacking team. Hacking community site has got hold of documents which show the requests which aim to reveal if all of the relevant details of the case have been fully disclosed.
LG, the electronics giant, has issued a complaint to the US International Trade Commission which would see the importation and marketing of Sony’s PlayStation 3 to the US be banned. LG are arguing that Sony is allegedly infringing four separate patents relating to the playback of Blu-Ray discs.
“Lonely, pizza-obsessed gamers sitting alone in the dark playing video games for hours on end – isn’t that what everyone thinks? Truth or fiction?” ask Bigpoint who wanted to know, and so the game producers surveyed a total of 6,663 online gamers from around the world about their gaming habits and everyday life. During the Casual Connect from Feb. 8–10, 2011 in Hamburg, Germany, Bigpoint will unveil the final results of this survey.
Phil Stuart, the Creative director at a UK studio Preloaded, urged the audience at the World Of Love conference in London last week to “work with pirates,” reports GamesIndustryBiz. He believes the high risk of piracy can be used advantageously by online developers.
We’ve all read the ‘Halo made me shoot my neighbour’ or ‘GTA made me steal cars’ headlines, but here’s a doozy. Russia Today television news network has suggested that a popular ‘U.S.-made consumer videogame’ may have influenced the Jan. 24 suicide bombing attack on Domodedovo International Airport that killed 35 people and injured 180.
UK Nintendo Marketing manager, James Honeywell believes that the days of piracy running rampant are in the past. To support the theory in relation to the 3DS, Nintendo head David Yarton revealed to CVG that the upcoming 3DS contains the most sophisticated anti-piracy technology of any console in Nintendo history. Honeywell told CVG, “People are aware that video games, music and movies make massive contributions to…
I suppose the answer that most jaded South African gamers will have is it’s because we don’t matter. There, there chaps, we do. The bots that respond care enough to be able to differentiate what country you are from when responding to your queries about Xbox LIVE.
Unsurprisingly, some people were rather miffed that Breach hadn’t appeared on the South African marketplace, and one was prompted to write a letter asking a simple question. Why? He did go on to confuse the bot by asking who in SA was responsible for restricting the content in a geographic location. The response should be no surprise to you.
Online rights group, Electronic Frontier Foundation has spoken out regarding the ongoing Sony vs George Hotz saga contesting Sony’s pursuit of legal action against the hackers responsible for undoing PlayStation 3 security measures earlier this month.
According to GamesIndustryBiz, EEF state in an open letter that, “For years, EFF has been warning that the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act can be used to chill speech, particularly security research, because legitimate researchers will be afraid to publish their results lest they be accused of circumventing a technological protection measure.”
“We’ve also been concerned that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could be abused to try to make alleged contract violations into crimes. We’ve never been sorrier to be right. These two things are precisely what’s happening in Sony v. Hotz,” the group continued.