Tag: Sony
Sony confirmed Zipper Interactive Studios is closing up shop
Today Sony confirmed that Seattle-based studio Zipper Interactive has closed its doors for good. GameInformer was given an official statement by the company:
"Sony Computer Entertainment can confirm the closure of Zipper Interactive, a Seattle-based internal game development studio that has been part of the global development operation of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios (SCE WWS)."
"Zipper has completed all work...
Namco Bandai new teaser site points to PlayStation Action Adventure
Namco Bandai has launched a new teaser website for an up-coming video game, showing little more than a cross, some symbols and writing in Japanese. While there aren't any clues about the game itself, the symbols and in fact the PlayStation face buttons. The writing translates to "action adventure", according to Andriasang.
Basically, this new Namco Bandai game is an...
PlayStation Norway is up to something unexplored
A weird photo has been posted on Sony PlayStation Norway’s Facebook page, showing renowned Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen with the word “uutforsket” covering his face. In English, “uutforsket” translates to "Unexplored".
Alongside this picture, a Sony-owned website, uutforsket.no, was also went online. Right now there is nothing there apart from a big map. some very Uncharted-like music, and tomorrows date. What ever this...
A list of tips and tricks for the Playstation Vita
Sony has posted on its official blog a list of nine useful tips and tricks for all of you who went out there and bought a new PS Vita. The list covers pretty much anything, from how to move your game and app bubbles around, how to take snap screenshots while gaming, and even how to make your old PSP...
Santa Monica Studios are helping out The Last Guardian
Since The Last Guardian is having a bit of trouble with its development process, Sony has decided to aid Team Ico and has announced that the internal studio Sony Santa Monica (God of War) has joined the game's development team.
In an interview with Wired, worldwide studio head Shuhei Yoshida admitted that the rumors of The Last Guardian developer Team...
PS Vita Supports 274 PSP games at launch
Sony is about to launch the PS Vita on February 22 and with it an extra 26 retail and digital games. Those lucky ones who are going to buy the PS Vita will discover that there is a long list of previous PSP games (that some of them you might still have as UMDs) and minis that will be...
The Last Guardian is still alive, progress slow and difficult
The Last Guardian, Team Ico's next big project, has been off the radar for quite some time now (three years or so), and a lot of people seem to wonder when the game is coming out, or even still in development. In an interview of 1UP ony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida promised fans The Last Guardian is still...
Rumor: God of War IV brings online co-op to the series
According to PSM3, the yet unannounced forth installment in the God of War franchise will feature online co-op - a first in the series. The magazine claims that the series' protagonist Kratos and his dead brother Deimos team up to escape the afterlife together (It seems Kratos does that a lot).
The full rumor, straight from the magazine (thanks to Sillegamer),...
VGA 2011: First trailer for the post apocalyptic The Last of Us
Sony has officially confirmed the The Last of Us, the next game from Uncharted developers Naughty Dog, is set for an 2012 release. The game is set in a post fungal apocalypse america, the survivors must fight for their lives against those infected with the strange fungus.
The first trailer for the game, shown during the 2011 VGAs, features a...
Sony presents – Socom Pro
Remember the code that arrived with new copies of Bad Company 2? The code which gave all those who bought a first-hand copy of the game a map pack (already on the disc)? The map pack which cost money to those who bought a used copy of the game? This is something EA have begun doing with a portion...