Last year at E3, Kojima Productions revealed that they were working on a live-action Metal Gear Solid film. The updated news from late last week, is that Sony Pictures will be heading up the film. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo last year, Konami revealed that work had begun on a…
…remake of King Kong in HD-DVD format. The rival offering, the Blu-Ray equipped Sony PlayStation 3 console, launches a week earlier on March 23. Microsoft said 40 movie titles would be available here on its release, including 15 from main HD-DVD studio backer Universal. Launch titles will include Van Helsing,…
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe today finally announced the confirmed release date for Australia, 23rd March 2007, squashing all rumours of another delay that was widely circulated online. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe today announced that PlayStation 3 will be launched in the PAL territories of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and…
Microsoft and Nintendo were scrambling for the top position in Christmas 2006. With Sony languishing in the shadows till March 2007, who would emerge on top as the console/handheld of choice? Nintendo, of course… According to Nintendo Australia, the Nintendo Wii and DS Lite dominated the market comprehensively- In the…
In yet another high profile patent case, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are being sued by Texan firm Fenner Investments over alleged infringement of technology used in game controllers. The patent for a ‘Low-Voltage Joystick Port Interface’ describes an analogue stick which outputs to a digital signal and is found in…
…battle with the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, but Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Interactive Entertainment Peter Moore, has confirmed that the device will indeed be able to play video games by July 2008. According to Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at JupiterResearch, the Zune has not been able to really…
Sony is in talks with Amazon.com, MovieLink and CinemaNow to offer PSP users movies for digital download, with the service due to launch early next year. Movies will be downloaded to a PC and then transferred onto a memory stick, according to a report from the Financial Times. The move…
Just this week, Sony and SanDisk announced a new flash stick that can store a whopping 32 GB – larger than some hard drives and barely the size of a small child’s finger. But even Sony’s new drive – and everything like it – might be obsolesced in the next…
Microsoft expects to have shipped more than 10 million Xbox 360 video game consoles to retailers by the end of calendar 2006. The Xbox 360 debuted in November 2005, roughly a year ahead of machines from rivals Sony and Nintendo. “This holiday, we expect to have sold in excess of…
A music player that sends signals through the human body, without wires, Bluetooth, or other conventional transmission technologies could be on the horizon. Sony has found a way to transmit radio signals through a wearer’s body to earphones that convert the signals back to sound. Sony applied for a patent…
Sony Computer Entertainment has created an official backwards compatibility checklist site for looking up the compatibility status on PlayStation and PlayStation 2 titles. Rather than printing a flat list of 8,000 or so titles, Sony has created a search engine that allows you to look up any PSone or PS2…
Nintendo has just launched their new Wii console to much fanfare in North America, with some eager fans even camping out to get their hands on a Wii first. After Sony’s recent launch of their own console, the PlayStation 3, it will be interesting to see which console comes out…