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Opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act—SOPA—is spreading from the world of the Internet to the worlds of big business and politics, and a quiet update to the list of companies and organizations willing to put their names down as supporters of SOPA reveals the proposed legislation is losing supporters. Along with domain registrar GoDaddy—which kicked off a firestorm of backlash for its SOPA support before doing an… Read More

Sony announced that it has acquired acclaimed game studio Sucker Punch, who most recently has successfully built the Infamous franchise on Playstation 3. Sucker Punch was previously independent, but having worked exclusively on Playstation games for the last decade, Sucker Punch seems like a good addition. “We've enjoyed an incredible relationship with Sony that has allowed us to combine our creative design capabilities with their… Read More

Sony continues to reel after an April network breach led to the company's PlayStation Network, Qriocity and Sony Online Entertainment services being taken offline for a month. While time is the only thing that will restore consumer confidence in the end, some staffing changes were inevitable. It has now been confirmed that Kazuo Hirai, the company's video games president and CEO, will be moving up to corporate ladder in September to… Read More

Sony's beleaguered PlayStation Network will be switched back on in Asia on May 28, the BBC reports. The region is the last to allow Sony to resume its PSN after a series of hacker attacks left 100 million users exposed to identity theft. Limited restoration of the PSN began in most of the world on May 14, 15 and 16 after a complete shutdown of the PSN, Qirocity services, and Sony Computer Entertainment, on April 20, due to the security… Read More

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News flash: Despite what you may have heard (e.g. game industry sales are up 54% year-to-date, PlayStation Home will r0x0r your world, etc.), truthfully, it’s been pretty slow lately in the interactive entertainment biz. Or rather, it has at retail, with software publishers loathe to ship next-generation titles which cost $15 million to make and must sell 500,000 copies on average to break even during this period, traditionally a slow… Read More

Sony Computer Entertainment has released God of War II, the follow-up game to its best-selling God of War violent first-person action game. Set in the milieu of Greek mythology, God of War II invites players to once again take on the role of Spartan warrior Kratos as he journeys to far reaches of the known earth, battles mythical terrors like Cerberus, the Gryphon, the Cyclops, Colossus, and many more, in his quest to become the new God of… Read More

Sony Computer Entertainment unveiled today at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco "Home," a new online user community which lets users create their own avatars for use in exploring a real-time virtual community. This service is designed for use with the PlayStation 3 and will be available as a free download this fall. Home, explained Sony, will let PlayStation 3 owners "interact, communicate, join online… Read More

Sony Computer Entertainment and Immersion Corporation have agreed to settle their patent dispute over so-called "rumble" vibtration technology built into video game controllers and have announced plans to work together to bring the technology back to PlayStation products. Rumble technology is much-loved by gamers, and adds to a game's realism by shaking and vibrating a game controller as a direct result of on-screen actions… Read More

In comments to Reuters, Jack Tretton, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, maintains that his company is on track to ship two million PlayStation 3 systems to North America by the end of March, 2007. Tretton further asserts that shortages of the company's latest gaming console should be completely over by May. According to Tretton, Sony's high-end gaming console is still out of stock in some markets,… Read More

Sony Computer Entertainment is the mothership of the PlayStation 3 armada, so one might d think the company would be able to stay on message behind its Blu-ray equipped, pricey new next-generation game console. But that's not always the case: today, the company announced the North American release of Level-5's Rogue Galaxy, an epic action role-playing space adventure with an engrossing storyline, more than 100 hours of gameplay,… Read More

Sony Computer Entertainment announced today that Ken Kutaragi, widely known as the “Father of the PlayStation,” is leaving his day-to-day role running the Sony games unit. Kutaragi will remain on as chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment and also become its chairman; however, his role as President of Sony Computer Entertainment will be handed over to Kaz Hirai, currently head of Sony Computer Entertainment America.… Read More

“Not only was Kutaragi passed over for the Welshman who had overseen Sony's music and movie businesses. He also lost his seat on Sony's board, though he still runs Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.,the company's game subsidiary. It appears the 54-year-old Kutaragi's outspoken nature, in a corporate culture that's oiled by consensus, may be to blame. Independent and shockingly frank by Japanese standards,… 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

“Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), Sony's gaming unit, said it would appeal the decision by a California federal court in the patent infringement case. For the time being, Sony will keep selling PlayStations as the order