Sony has announced a brand-new PlayStation credit card for the US that lets gamers earn points on their everyday purchases and PlayStation Store items. Revealed in partnership with Capital One, the Visa card comes with a number of benefits, including a $50 PlayStation Store code after the first purchase, pre-sale …
Read More »PlayStation VR is getting a minor hardware update
The US PlayStation blog confirms the update but it might not be the improvement users were expecting.
Read More »Handheld gaming is not a ‘huge market opportunity’ says Sony
Sony CEO Andrew House voiced his concerns about the potential of handheld gaming outside of Asia during the Tokyo Game Show last week, Bloomberg reports. We have not seen that as being a huge market opportunity,” he said, specifically referring to handheld consoles’ potential outside of Asia. He admitted though …
Read More »Nintendo’s US TV ad spend was higher than PlayStation and Xbox in August
Nintendo spent the most amount of money on US gaming industry TV ad spend in August, according to new figures from real-time TV ad measurement company iSpot.tv (via GamesBeat), spending an estimated $4.5m. The platform holder aired 14 adverts over 1,600 times, collecting around 230.6m impressions. The biggest ad was …
Read More »Sega and Warwickshire County Council join up with Ukie’s Digital Schoolhouse programme
The programme, powered by PlayStation, started on September 1st 2014 and continues to grow wiith new partners
Read More »Opinion: Social Life
Nintendo is closing down another of its social experiments, Miiverse. It’s the latest in a long history of abandoned social functions in both home console and handhelds. Jem Alexander ponders whether any social gimmicks can cross console generations and, if so, which
Read More »PlayStation sales rose 5.4% in Q1, but operating income dropped by 59.7%
Sony released its Q1 fiscal year 2017 results this morning and sales from its game and network services division rose 5.4 per cent year-on-year to 348.1bn. This was due to an increase in PS4 software sales and PS VR sales, but its growth was offset by the impact of the …
Read More »Sony to raise PS Plus subscription price in Europe
From August 31st, subscriptions will increase by £10 to £50 per year in UK - an increase of 25 per cent
Read More »PSVR over 1million sales says Sony’s Shawn Layden
Interview with Time magazine provides updated figure from the 900,000 in February
Read More »PlayStation to support London Pride 2017 festival
Announcement on twitter with the tag line 'For All The Players'
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