Entries in 'home' (54)
Grimes wants 'an Xbox in every home'
Xbox UK’s new retail sales and marketing boss says the 360 has a lot more mileage left in it.
'Handheld games consoles are doomed'
Gamesbrief analyst Nicholas Lovell believes dedicated handhelds are doomed and that PlayStation Home is the games sector’s ‘unsung hero’ in an entertaining and at times controversial speech at London Games ...
PlayStation Home redesign goes live
Sony’s games-centric redesign of PS3 virtual world PlayStation Home has gone live today.
Free FPS on the way for PlayStation Home
Discussing its upcoming shift of focus for PlayStation Home, the platform holder has demoed a couple of the new titles heading to the service.
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PlayStation Home to become social games hub
It’s never had the credit it deserved for its success, but Sony has nonetheless decided to revisit its PlayStation Home concept with a brand new redesign.
Wii dominates the living room
More than half of US Wii owners keep their console in the living room.
PlayStation Home hits 19m downloads
Sony has announced that the number of PS3 owners who have downloaded and booted up PlayStation Home at least once has reached 19m.
PlayStation Home - 2 years on
Sony's PlayStation Home is two years old. That's a success in itself, but perhaps the service's biggest accomplishment is how successfully it has overcome the initial cynicism and flourished into ...
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Sony scraps PSP's PlayStation Room
Having announced in September last year that it was developing a portable version of PS3 Home for PSP users, Sony has now confirmed that it has scrapped the project.
Miyamoto: Our ’09 games weren’t fun enough
Games, at the most basic level, are meant to be fun – and industry legend and head of Nintendo development Shigeru Miyamoto has admitted that the company’s games output last ...
Koller: We’re focusing on 3D in the home
With 3D gaming still in its infancy, Nintendo’s surprise announcement of the 3DS yesterday marks a surprise new direction for the technology – and it’s one that has failed to ...
GAME unveils PS Home Moonbase
UK High Street chain will this Thursday (March 18th) become the first retailer to launch an online presence in Sony’s PlayStation Home, MCV can reveal.
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PlayStation Home surpasses 12m users
PlayStation Home director Jack Buser has announced that Sony’s virtual world now boasts a userbase of more than 12 million PS3 owners.
No premium Mii clothes, vows Nintendo
Though the differences between Nintendo’s Miis and both Xbox Avatars and PS3 Home are numerous, perhaps the most conspicuous separator is the fact that while Sony and Microsoft have looked ...
US: Star Wars invades PS Home
As is demonstrated by the premium price of the lightsaber prop on the Xbox Live Avatar marketplace, Star Wars has an unusual command over its followers’ wallets – so the ...
Home is a “sticky experience”
Despite widespread scepticism concerning Sony’s virtual world Home, the service continues to track record user levels and is making a profit for the platform holder, PSN boss Peter Dille has ...
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Xbox Live Game Room revealed
One of the more surprising announcements to emerge from CES 2010 was Microsoft’s reveal of what it is calling Xbox Live Game Room – a virtual meeting place for friends ...
PSP's PlayStation Home named Room
Sony has used the Tokyo Game Show to unveil PlayStation Room, a downsized version of the PS3 virtual social space Home. While details about the service are sparse, Room is ...
PS3 nears 25 milllion worldwide sales
Sony has announced the PS3 is approaching worldwide sales of 25 million unites.
Sales and losses down at Sega
Japanese developer and publisher Sega has announced mixed results for the quarter ending June 30th 2009, with the period bringing a decrease in the firm’s operating losses – but also ...
French publisher Bowls into UK
Focus Home Interactive has set its sights on snaring share as a publisher in the UK games market with its action sports title, Blood Bowl.
PS3 Home return rate under 30%
Speaking at the Develop Conference, Sony’ Peter Edwards revealed that the return rate for PlayStation Home stands somewhere between 25-30 per cent, meaning that over 70 per cent of those ...
Home to be “essential for all PS3 games”
PlayStation Home stands to become “an essential component for all PS3 games”, according to the service’s director.
Casual-orientated EA Sports Complex arrives on Home
EA’s long-awaited Sports Complex has gone live on Sony’s PlayStation Home service, brining with it a number of multiplayer casual titles.
Rabbids get standalone Wii title
After three successful tie-ups with long-standing games favourite Rayman, French publisher Ubisoft is to let the Rabbids branch out later this year with a brand new standalone title making its ...
