Tag Archives: Sony

Gear Games News: Sony ‘Looking at UMD Solution’; Haven’t We Been Here Before?

Yesterday Kotaku noted (via Gamepolitics) that Sony is still looking at a plan to allow gamers with PSP games to re-buy those games on PSN for a ‘special price’, noting Sony: is still trying to figure out what it plans to do with consumers who own games on the UMD format as it heads towards [...]

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PlayStation 3 Video Service Review: DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket – The Beginning

The NFL Sunday Ticket service, originally launched in 1994, debuts on the PlayStation 3 for the first time.

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GD Quickie: PlayStation Terms and Policy Changes/Sony Entertainment Network Introduction

Name changes and new term agreements are in order as PlayStation®Network account owners will encounter the Sony Entertainment Network as well as a new Terms of Service and User Agreement (TOS).

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PlayStation 3 Game Review: L.A. Noire

Authentic chronicles, engaging investigations, and expertly captured characterizations combine into an impressive array in Rockstar’s L.A. Noire crime-themed action game.

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Sony Officially Announces The PRS-T1 Reader

Sony’s newest ebook reader is official! The specs appear to be as rumored, (6″ inch screen with a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels, pinch-to-zoom gesture support,  2GB internal memory (expandable), Wi-Fi and an included stylus) and the price is far better than the straight euro conversion, and will be clocking in for USA customers at [...]

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New Sony Reader Leaks: How Badly Do They WANT to Fail???

Big news if you’re a Sony fan! A Dutch site has leaked pictures and specifications of the new Sony Readers. (The same ones Sony has been denying were coming) They look…well, let’s check out the specs and then I’ll give my opinion. Translated from Google: Description The Sony PRS-T1 watching his brother looks on Mobile, [...]

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Dirt3 PlayStation 3 Game Review

An amazing, authentic racing experience featuring high content, rally racing, varying environments, great add-on content, and challenging gameplay.

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New Sony Reader Is Coming, but Does It Have What It Will Take to Be a Hit?

Rumors are pointing to a refreshed Sony Reader coming up soon! According to Teleread Sony is still trying to maintain a foothold in the increasingly competitive ebook world, but they’re going to need to be aggressive in key areas to break consumers from the NOOK/Kindle clutches. What can Sony do to improve this next round? [...]

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Sony Tries to Get in Shape for Selling Tablets, but Will You Buy its New Bod?

When Sony provided a sneak peek last week of the two new tablets it plans to launch later this year, it also offered a glimpse into the unspoken imperative it faces: Because it’s late to the game, trailing Apple by, um, years, and others, like Samsung, by months, its biggest hope to gain a toehold [...]

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Sony Vaio S-Series ‘Unplugged for a Day’: My ‘Hardcore Gaming’ Test

One of the big claims of the new Sony Vaio S-series laptop is that not only does it deliver great performance in a svelte package, but combined with the sheet battery can deliver up to 15 hours of usage between charges. That requires certain settings, and while I definitely plan to put it to the [...]

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Adventures in Customer Service: Just Sony Being Sony

The ups and downs of the whole Sony PSN hacking and outage have been discussed here and elsewhere in grueling detail … but now that it has been a month since the service came online you might wonder how things have changed at Sony – have they changed how they treat their customers, or are [...]

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Playstation Network Has You Covered, Offers a $1 Million Theft Insurance Policy to Every User

Image courtesy of digitaltrends I’m still not really sure how I feel about the Playstation Network being hacked – which we have covered here, here, here, here and here – but I can say that I’ll fully be accepting Playstation’s good-natured apology. Good service is hard to come by these days but Sony is all [...]

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In the Sea of Sameness- Sony Seeks to Swim to the Top

The consumer electronics world is a “sea of sameness”, and that’s not a good thing if you are an electronics company. “Sea of sameness” is the term that was used numerous times during a private briefing with the number of Sony’s executives. The issue is this: You walk into a box store such as Best [...]

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MWC: One Last Look at Mobile World Congress 2011

Beyond hamming it up with wandering oompah bands at Mobile World Congress, Helena and I managed to  get hands-on time with some of the new devices and technologies that will be causing a stir in 2011 and beyond! HTC’s New Android Devices HTC won me over with their lovely new ChaCha. After using the BlackBerry [...]

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MWC: Hands-On Photos with Sony’s Three New Experias

CES saw the release of the new Sony Ericsson Experia Arc, but tonight we got to see three new Experias: the neo, the pro and the long-awaited PLAY — the Playstation phone. Oh my. I had a chance to attend the press conference where these were introduced, and a moment to fondle all three. The [...]

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If you ask most ‘core’ gamers about the products Gameloft produces, chances are the words ‘shameless ripoffs’ will be uttered [...]

JVC HA-MR77X DJ-style Over-the-Ear Headphones Review

A few months ago we brought word that JVC had upgraded their headphone line. The new versions of their headphones [...]

Save Big on a Lifeproof Case for the iPhone 4S

Looking for a way to protect your iPhone 4S? Maybe you’re still early in your contract and want to protect [...]

Is Your Laptop As Flexible as Lenovo’s Yoga11S Convertible Ultrabook?

Lenovo’s Yoga 11S Ultrabook convertible laptop captured a good bit of attention at CES 2013. Now it is available directly [...]

2013 Acura RDX Graduates with Honors

Almost as if being handed its diploma and told to get a job, Acura has shed the frat-boy “hoodie” of [...]

High School Nation Becomes a Monster

I’m loving the Monster DNA headphones I reviewed last month. (Read the review.) They look good, sound good and are [...]