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Sony Computer Entertainment said this week that it would release its virtual reality headset called project Morpheus in the first half of 2016, but said nothing about the price. According to Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony's Worldwide Studios, developing an affordable device was not the goal that Sony’s engineers had. …

Sony Computer Entertainment unveiled a new prototype of its code-named project Morpheus virtual reality headset at the Game Developers Conference. The new version of the device should improve user experience by enabling improved picture quality and tracking. In addition, Sony said that it will release its VR gear commercially in …

Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 continues to demonstrate incredible sales dynamics never seen before in the history of video game consoles. At the Game Developers Conference the platform holder revealed that cumulative sales of PS4 systems had surpassed 20 million units worldwide. As of the 1st of March, 2015, sales of …

Just several weeks after chief executive of Sony said that the company could sell off its money losing smartphone business unit, the head of the division denied such plan. According to him, the handset unit is very important for the company. “At the beginning of February there was speculation about …

Square Enix has announced that it will be bringing Dragon Quest Heroes to the US and Europe as a PlayStation 4 exclusive later this year, following the game's launch in Japan this week. Dragon Quest Heroes is actually a slight departure from the usual formula, being a spin-off title, rather than …

Sony's PlayStation 4 exclusive racing title, DriveClub was originally supposed to launch alongside the console, with a free version planned for those who have a PlayStation+ subscription. Unfortunately, the game was delayed and when it finally came out in October, it was one of the most broken games of 2014. …

Sony apparently has a four-hour long Project Morpheus event planned for the Games Developers Conference next month. The PlayStation VR headset will be shown off in detail on the 3rd of March, Sony will also be going over its future plans for virtual reality. It is likely that the headset …

Tim Sweeney, the founder of Epic Games and one of the best experts in computer graphics and video games in the world, believes that virtual reality will have dramatic influence on gaming. Moreover, rapid development of VR will mean that 10 years from now it will be impossible to distinguish …

Sony is doing a lot of restructuring at the moment in an effort to try to return to profitability. However, this might not be the answer. Sony is currently working on a new memory card that promises ‘premium sound' and as you would imagine, it's going to cost more than …

A new report from Strategy Analytics claims that the PlayStation 4 will maintain its strong lead over the Xbox One, outselling Microsoft's console by 40 per cent by 2019. The results of the study were released this week, predicting sales figures for both consoles over the next four years. According …

A while back Sony held a charity auction for the very first 20th Anniversary Edition PlayStation 4 console. The auction appeared to be a success with the winner bidding £85,000, unfortunately, he failed to pay up but Sony still kept its own promise and matched the winning bid in a …

Update: Following yesterday's story that Sony has abandoned the trademark for The Last Guardian, Sony has commented, saying that the game is in-fact still in development and the abandoned trademark listing was just an administrative error at PlayStation America. Original story: Sony unveiled The Last Guardian a number of years …

A few weeks have passed since Google took Google Glass development back behind closed doors but the wearable's failure to truly take off hasn't deterred Sony from launching its own pair of smart glasses, which will arrive on the 10th of March. The SmartEyeGlass as its called will launch in …

Sony unveiled The Last Guardian a number of years ago, initially as a PlayStation 3 exclusive. However, despite the long and troubled development cycle, the company has refused to announce its cancellation and has remained certain that it will come out eventually. Unfortunately, that may longer be true as Sony …

Perhaps, new generation game consoles are considerably less powerful than the majority of gaming PCs; perhaps, they are not going to stay on the market for a really long time, like their predecessors. But here is a fact: Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 are selling dramatically faster than …

In a move to help protect American online businesses and help them coordinate with US authorities, Obama has signed an executive order that will make federal agencies set up a way of sharing data between technicians in these businesses and federal agents. This information sharing will go both ways, with companies tipping …

An unofficial Android app has made it possible to use the PS4 Remote Play feature on non-Sony devices. Sony initially launched an official app bringing the functionality to Xperia devices but it looks like someone got a hold of it and unlocked its functionality. The unofficial PS4 remote play app …

Sony was originally supposed to announce its financial results today but due to last year's costly cyber attack on Sony Pictures servers, the company has had to issue a forecast for how it performed instead, showing that one of the biggest expenditures for Sony at the moment is dealing with …

A Netflix executive appears to be under the impression that Sony and Microsoft are planning to launch 4K video capable refreshes of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this year, around November on their two year anniversaries. Obviously we are talking about 4K video playback, 4K gaming is going to …

Sony has sold off Sony Online Entertainment to an investment management firm known as Columbus Nova. The developer will now be re-branded as Daybreak Game Company and will finally be able to make games for other platforms. SOE has been responsible for many multiplayer titles, including DC Universe, EverQuest, the …

Sony's Music Unlimited service won't be around much longer as the company has now teamed up with Spotify to bring PlayStation Music to the PlayStation Network this year- some time in the Spring to be exact. The new service will close down Sony's current Music streaming option on the 29th of March. …

A web-site has published the first images of what it claims to be the slim version of the PlayStation 4 video game console. The new console is code-named “Monolith” and is considerably smaller than the original PS4. Multiplayer.it has published photos of a laptop screen that displays an alleged internal …

The original 20th Anniversary Edition PlayStation 4 console has been auctioned off for just under $130,000 in Japan. The first of the 12,300 units was saved by Sony for a charity auction, which raised $129,000, Sony then matched this making for a total donation of $258,000 for a Japanese charity. …

Any movie based on the Dead Rising franchise of zombie slaying games, was going to have to be a bit tongue in cheek. If it was even remotely accurate, it would need to feature a drug called Zombex, zaney psychopaths that need to be overcome and near slapstick levels of zombie …

The Interview has now managed to generate more than $40 million from around 5.8 million purchases and rentals since the film's initial release. However, while the movie is still doing fairly well sales-wise, things are starting to taper off and slow down. The film made its initial $30 million within …

Sony has announced that it will be closing down all of its stores in Canada within the next six to eight weeks. From now on, Sony will be selling and supporting its products through a series of authorized retailers and its own online store. Sony confirmed the cost cutting move …

Part of the reason the US was so confident in accusing North Korea of being behind last year's attack against Sony, was because it had been invading the nation's computers since 2010, in an attempt to map out the rogue-state's digital defences and capabilities. Not enough was discovered that it …

If consoles don't work out then I suppose Sony could always get in to the Space exploration business as the CPU from the original PlayStation is currently powering a probe to Pluto. The old MIPS R3000 CPU was repurposed by NASA back in 2006 to monitor sensors, power thrusters and …

Samsung Electronics on Thursday said that it has begun mass production of 8Gb GDDR5 dynamic random access memory (DRAM) for graphics adapters and game consoles. The new chips will allow makers of graphics cards to build devices with 8GB of memory and will let Sony to simplify design of its PlayStation …

Dead Rising: Watchtower, is an upcoming live-action movie starring everyone's favourite secondary character actor, Rob Riggle, of 21 Jump Street and The Other Guys fame. He'll be playing the infamous photographer and zombie slayer, Frank West. Set to debut on Sony Pictures' Crackle streaming service, we now know that the movie …