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PS4 launches November and will cost US$429 [rumour]

By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
02.20.13 | 1 Comment

Reliable sources, Kotaku has them. According to the site, Sony’s Playstation 4 will launch State-side November 2013 for US$429 and US$529, depending on internal memory size but as rumours go, this is a doozy. While pricing is still up in the air, the sources seem pretty confident about the above-mentioned prices. ...

Tags: 20 Feb, Launch, New York, next gen console, Playstation, PS4
Details leak for PlayStation 4, codename ‘Orbis’

By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
04.02.12 | Comments Off

Despite no official news from Sony, PlayStation 4 rumours have spread like a bad virus across the internet. Gearburn.com rounds up the various factoids regarding Sony’s PlayStation 4. Codename: Orbis The likelihood of the PS4 being dubbed “Orbis” is low. This is the working title of the PS4 according to this report ...

Tags: Orbis, Playstation, PS4, Sony
PS Vita will land in Japan before Christmas

By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
09.16.11 | Comments Off

Handheld gamers rejoice. The Playstation Vita will be released on the 17th of December in Japan. Sony’s anticipated handheld gaming machine and the successor to the PSP will go on sale for 24,980 yen (US$325) for the Wi-Fi version and 29,980 (US$390) for the 3G model. The announcement was made ...

Tags: Playstation, PS Vita, PS3, Sony, Xbox
PlayStation gets $50 pre-Xmas price cut

By Staff Reporter
08.17.11 | 1 Comment

Sony is slashing the price of its PlayStation 3 game console across North America, Europe and in Japan, the company said today, as it looks to spur demand ahead of the year-end shopping season. Sony Computer Entertainment cut the price Wednesday for 160-gigabyte PS3 from US$299 to US$249 in North America ...

Tags: Playstation, Sony
No PlayStation Vita for Xmas stocking

By Staff Reporter
08.05.11 | 1 Comment

The much-anticipated new generation of Sony's PlayStation handheld gaming console, Vita, will not hit shops outside of Japan until well after the all-important festive season shopping stampede. So scratch that one from your letter to Father Christmas. It will go on sale by the end of this year in Sony's home ...

Tags: console, gaming, Playstation, Sony, vita
Sony drops $20-mil into games for PlayStation Network

By Staff Reporter
07.15.11 | 1 Comment

Sony Computer Entertainment America has revealed a plan to invest $20 million in unique games tailored exclusively for PlayStation Network (PSN). The money will be distributed during the coming three years to Sony affiliated studios as well as to independent game makers chosen for backing by a "Pub Fund" the ...

Tags: Games, Playstation, playstation network, Sony
Rockstar gets brooding and intense with LA Noire

By Steven Norris: Gearburn Editor
06.15.11 | 1 Comment

Review: LA Noire - Detective Phelps cuts a sharp figure in the neon light of Los Angeles. Hunched over the scene of a brutal crime, he pensively inspects each inch of a rusted pipe, stained with the blood of an unknown assailant. Music swells in the background, the crime scene ...

Tags: game, gaming, LA Noire, Playstation, Rockstar, Xbox
PlayStation Network up and down again

By Staff Reporter
05.20.11 | Comments Off

Sony’s efforts to revive its PlayStation Network (PSN) have stumbled after the firm discovered a flaw hackers could exploit when it came to resetting passwords. Sony temporarily disabled PSN and its Qriocity music streaming password reset pages to fix a vulnerability in a system that was just regaining its footing after ...

Tags: hacker, Playstation, playstation network, qriocity, Sony
PlayStation network only back up by June

By Roger Hislop
05.09.11 | 2 Comments

Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services are still down, and full service will probably only by restored by 31st May, says a Bloomberg report. Quoting Shigenori Yoshida, a spokesperson in Tokyo, Sony is uncertain when it can resume the services. After a major hack between the 17th and 19th April, ...

Tags: anonymous, data theft, george hotz, hack, Playstation, playstation network, qriocity, Sony
How the Nintendo Wii ruined gaming

By Zaid Kriel
01.10.11 | 12 Comments

Left, right, up and down and side-to-side, now stretch. Now that Sony's PlayStation Move and Microsoft's Xbox Kinect are out and on sale alongside the Wii, I can guarantee in millions of homes across the globe, bodies are in motion. The gaming future is here. And what a bothersome future ...

Tags: gaming, Microsoft, Nintendo, Playstation, Sony, wii, XBox Kinect

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