6 Jan

Bombay Playstation Experience

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Gamers in Bombay have a little bit of fun coming their way this weekend, as Sony is hosting a 48-hour gaming experience in Phoenix Mills, from 1pm – 9pm on both Saturday and Sunday. The entry is completely free for anyone interested and it sounds like it should be a lot of fun – the [...]

29 Nov

FIFA Interactive World Cup 2009

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Milestone Interactive got in touch with us recently and let us know that the FIFA Interactive World Cup for FIFA 09 on the PS3, is starting today in Delhi, and will continue in other parts of the nation, with Pune and Bangalore seeing games on the 6th and 7th of December, and Bombay on the [...]

25 Nov

No PS3 price cut, says Sony

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When a source for D+PAD reported on Sony’s “competitive” new pricing for the PS3 from March 2009, it sounded too good to be true. However, when it comes to Sony Computer Entertainment, you can bet it is. First, in response to the future price cuts, SCEE sent a statement to the online magazine, which read: [...]

19 Oct

LittleBigPlanet Qur’an Update

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Update: It seems the song is question is one Tapha Niang, sung by Muslim African artist Toumani Diabate and released about two years ago as part of Boulevard De L’independence. The quotations themselves have also been identified: ‘kollo nafsin tha’iqatol mawt’: ‘Every soul shall have the taste of death’ ‘kollo man alaiha fan’: ‘All that [...]

19 Sep

Sony Computer Entertainment sees India as key development hub

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Speaking to Develop as part of our focus on Asian territories, SCEE’s country manager for India Atindriya Bose has said that the region’s talent will soon see it play a part in many international studios’ development plans.Atindriya Bose, country manager for India of SCEE, said on Thursday said, The competence and the state of readiness [...]

22 Aug

Disappointments of Leipzig GC 2008

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by Ravi Sinha The Games Conference 2008 at Leipzig will be an event to remember… and in true expo disappointment fashion, one to loathe. For every hopeful announcement, there were at least one or two others that went morality hunting. At least one of the Sony-oriented announcements, concerning the release of several of AAA titles [...]

21 Aug

Sony veers off course off at Leipzig

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Is the Leipzig Games Conference supposed to be the real E3 of this year? Already so many big announcements have been made, many more than that excuse of a games convention we had this past July that it’s nothing short of embarrassing. The showcase of gameplay from Heavy Rain: The Casting (from the makers of [...]

4 Jul

PS-2 to be out by Diwali

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Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) will be launching the fourth version of Playstation-2 (PS-2) by Diwali this year. This will simultaneously be released in the European and Indian markets, said SCE country manager (playstation) Atindriya Bose to ET. The higher-end version promises to be slimer, sleeker and more suave in its looks. There will be no [...]

21 Apr

Hanuman on the PS2

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Aurona Technologies, a member of Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd. has announced that it will develop a video game based on Hanuman for the PS2 platform. The game will be developed in partnership with Sony Entertainment. Commenting on the agreement, Jim Ryan, co-chief operating officer of SCEE said, “We are committing significant resources to growing the [...]

25 Mar

Patapon: Drum and play God

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by ess-cee Think Patapon, and the immediate mental jump is to LocoRoco – the visual style, the adorably cute characters and the gleeful singing and shouting as the tumble about happily… Beyond that though, Patapon is nothing like LocoRoco, though that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Patapon is really a lot of different genres meshed [...]