Tag archive: SCEA

Tech giant Sony issued a statement earlier this week confirming that production on its PSP Go handheld gaming device had ceased and the product had been discontinued. The statement was issued to a Japanese website, but many assumed that it applied to the worldwide availability of the hardware. Well… it turns out now that this is not the case. Sony Computer Entertainment America will be “continuing production of PSP Go in North… Read More

The bitter war Sony has waged against PS3 hacker George “Geohot” Hotz has finally come to a close. According to the PlayStation blog, the company decided weeks ago to settle out of court with its now infamous enemy. “Sony is glad to put this litigation behind us,” SCEA general counsel for the SCEA Riley Russell said. “Our motivation for bringing this litigation was to protect our intellectual property and our consumers. We believe this… Read More

The fight between Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) and famous jailbreak hacker George Hotz (aka GeoHot) continued this week, reports CNet. But this time, the jabs came from Hotz's camp. According to court papers published on Groklaw.net, Hotz's legal team, led by attorney Stewart Kellar, filed numerous motions on Friday that argue that the lawsuit against Hotz should be dropped altogether. The first reason given by… Read More

According to new court documents Sony has filed, infamous PS3 hacker George “Geohot” Hotz has fled the country. As we recently reported, Sony was granted access to Hotz’s PayPal records and through this data was able to determine that the alleged PS3 jailbreaker is hunkering down in South America. The document states that “Hotz is now in South America, an excuse for why he will not immediately provide components of his hard drives as requested…… Read More

Have you ever wanted to have a cameo in a video game as a survivor of an alien invasion? Sure, who hasn’t! Well now you can make your dreams a reality, as Insomniac Games and SCEA have decided to hold a contest. Fans can head over to the official contest site and upload a picture of themselves in “Resistance style battle (or looking like they have just survived one)”. Props are encouraged, and the contest runs until March 11, 2011, so act… Read More

Things are not going well for the human resistance.  America has fallen, and the Chimera are moving in to wipe out a human refugee camp in Haven, Oklahoma.  Things look bleak, and the end seems to be just a matter of time. That cheerful thought is among the first that will go through your head when you fire up Resistance 3, and begin the fight for survival of the human race. Resistance 3 takes place four years after the events of Resistance 2,… Read More

CES isn't much of a video game show, but a few of the major publishers are highlighting their unique titles this  year. At its booth, Sony has an interesting demo of its upcoming post-apocalyptic shooter for the PS3, Killzone 3. Motion haters brace yourself because the demo is played entirely with the PlayStation Move controller and a special new gun peripheral called the PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter. As a fan of the Wii, I was… Read More

It is hard to claim that Gran Turismo 5 is “worth the wait”. After all, could any video game be worth a four year wait? In the time since GT5 was originally supposed to be released, Microsoft has released two Forza games, several arcade racers like Burnout and Need for Speed have hit the market, and several others like Project Gotham have been there to fill the void. It was a more primitive time, where we savages did not even know… Read More

“Technical issues during a hardware launch are nothing new, but with a machine as delicate as PSP, reports of problems are more rampant. The most common complaint is a “dead pixel,” which appears ona screen in a variety of forms (red, blue, green, white spots, dark spots). Jump on any message board and you'll find posts littered with personal accounts of anywhere from one to 25 or more deadpixels appearing on brand-new… Read More

SCEA has issued a statement reaffirming that the company is on track to launch the PSP on schedule, responding to comments from analyst P.J. McNealy who argued that technical and business problems could cause the launch of the device to slip. McNealy issued a memo to that effect yesterday, arguing that the March 2005 launch date for the platform in North America looked likely to slip on the grounds of both third-party publisher… Read More