Gamer patience begins to wear thin as retailers report increased trade-ins of PS3 consoles for Xbox 360s.
The ongoing PlayStation Network outage is beginning to have an effect on the high street, Edge can reveal.
Our sources indicate a growing trend of PS3 consoles being traded in for cash or Xbox 360s, slumping sales of PSN points cards and a shift in the ratio of multiplatform game sales and pre-orders away from PS3.
Censorship organisations could move to an advisory capacity in light of increasingly global market, the VSC tells us.
Google now seeing 400,000 activations every day and a billion app installs every 60 days.
The Android operating system has been activated on more than 100 million devices worldwide, according to Google.
The firm's director of product management, Hugo Barra, revealed the news at the Google I/O event in San Francisco yesterday. The milestone has been reached with the support of 36 hardware manufacturers and 215 network operators.
Mick Hocking to look back on the first year of 3D gaming for PlayStation 3 in Brighton next month.
Sony Computer Entertainment's Mick Hocking is to give a keynote address at next month's Develop In Brighton, in which he will look back at the first year of 3D gaming on PlayStation 3.
Hocking heads up Sony's worldwide studios sterescopic 3D team, and is vice president of the studio group which encompasses London Studio, Evolution Studios, Studio Liverpool and Big Big Studios.
Hear pop oddball's new album before release in GagaVille.
Facebook gaming king Zynga has announced a partnership with pop star Lady Gaga to promote the launch of her new album, Born This Way.
As part of the deal, Zynga is to create a specially themed farm, GagaVille, within its Facebook game FarmVille. Players will be able to hear songs from the upcoming album, and $25 game cards, available at US retailer Best Buy, will come with a download code for the album when released.
Format: PC
Release: Out now
Publisher: Alientrap Games
Developer: Alientrap Games
You are stranded on a gorgeous but deeply inhospitable world, and it is trying to kill you. Capsized is a return to the lonely science fiction of gaming's youth, a connective tissue stretching from 2D adventures like Another World and Metroid to early FPSes, particularly Doom. Though happy to declare itself a retro title, Alientrap's action-platformer is very much its own game - and an excellent one at that.
PC tools, allowing creation of singleplayer and co-op maps and more besides, now available on Steam.
Valve has released mod tools for the PC version of Portal 2.
The beta version of the Portal 2 Authoring Tools are now available to all owners of the PC version to download for free from the Tools section of Valve's digital distribution platform, Steam.
$15 fee gives access to beta throughout the remainder of development and a copy of the final game.
Chris Hecker, the independent developer of the PC espionage game SpyParty, is now accepting signups for the game's beta.
In a post on the game's website, Hecker invites users to sign up, with applicants asked to pay $15 for access to the beta, giving full access to the game throughout SpyParty's development, with all players guaranteed a full copy of the finished game.
CD Projekt "trusting users" and absolutely not working around draconian Australian censorship.
Digital distribution service Good Old Games (GOG) has announced that it is doing away with IP address checks to determine a user's location for purchases and downloads.
In a press release, GOG said it was relaxing its location controls to avoid inconvenience to users, but a far more likely explanation is the imminent release of The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings.
Sony still unable to give exact date for online service's return.
Sony has posted its latest update on its efforts to restore the PlayStation Network, admitting the service will not return for "at least a few more days."
In a brief statement on the PlayStation Blog, senior director of corporate communications and social media Patrick Seybold wrote: "I know you all want to know exactly when the services will be restored. At this time, I can't give you an exact date, as it will likely be at least a few more days.
Highlights from our community, featuring a discussion on programming in schools.
Following David Braben’s announcement of Raspberry Pi, the $25 dollar computer that non-profit organisation Raspberry Pi Foundation hopes will get children into programming, a discussion on our Facebook page explored the need for development education at school level.
Snaps up "certain assets" from mobile developer Sapus Media, Zynga's thirteenth acquisition in a year.
Social gaming titan has announced its thirteenth acquisition in twelve months, having picked up "certain assets" from mobile developer Sapus Media.
As part of the deal Ricardo Quesada and Rolando Abarca, key members of the open-source iOS development framework cocos2d, have joined the FarmVille firm. The engine has been used by the likes of Atari, ngmoco and Zynga itself.
Recognises need to release expansions more quickly after losing 500,000 subscribers in three months.
Blizzard has admitted it needs to speed up development of expansions for World Of Warcraft to arrest a continuing slide in subscription rates.
Personnel now able to access simulation software in the field through web browsers.
The Unity development framework, and Unity web player, have been certified by the US Army and Air Force for use on their secure networks, Unity Technologies has announced.
As a result, Unity can now be used to create and deploy a variety of simulation software covering task management, situational and cultural awereness, medical trainers and other serious games.
Posts slender profit thanks to software sales in Japan; Enslaved sales improve too.
Namco Bandai has released a positive set of results for the fiscal year ending March 31, returning to profit - just - after reporting heavy losses this time last year.
Net income was ¥1.84 billion ($22.9 million), a slender return but a dramatic improvement on the firm's performance the year before, when it was hit with a loss of ¥29.9 billion ($370.5 million).
Nintendo, Sony and the movie industry say 3D is the future, but are they pushing a potentially obsolete technology?
Promises "a suite of services and content plan that will unite and ignite the community", at a cost.
Activision has said that the next entry in the Call Of Duty series will sport an "unprecedented online universe", promising that the Beachhead platform will "set a new standard" for the series – to those willing to pay for it.
Adds PayPal as a billing option and support for new disc format; Avatar Kinect also coming this month.
Microsoft is preparing to roll out an Xbox 360 dashboard update this month, according to reports.
Joystiq was passed an internal memo by a Microsoft tech support employee that says the update will be released in stages from May 19 to May 30 "to ensure a high quality deployment."
Digital revenues up $100 million thanks largely to record-setting Black Ops map pack.
Activision has posted a positive set of results for the three months to March 31, with profits rising 32 per cent year on year to $381 million.
The publisher’s net revenue rose to $1.45 billion, an increase of 10.7 per cent on the same period last year. Sales of games for PS3 and Xbox 360 make up more than half of that figure, accounting for 23.6 and 27.3 per cent of the total respectively.
Admits lost revenue could reach millions of dollars; downtime renders Bionic Commando unplayable.
Chris Svensson, Capcom Entertainment’s corporate officer and senior vice president, has said the continuing unavailability of PlayStation Network is costing the firm “hundreds of thousands, of not millions” in lost revenue.
Praises Sony’s identity protection scheme, but maintains customers should have been notified earlier.
Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut senator who took SCEA president Jack Tretton to task over the amount of time it took Sony to notify its consumers of the PSN breach, has welcomed the firm’s initial response as a “strong first step.”
Almost half of staff to be let go after Microsoft moves Codename: Kingdoms development to Frankfurt.
Crysis 2 developer Crytek is to lay off between 30 and 35 members of the 80 staff currently employed at its Budapest studio, according to reports.
Capcom legend reveals risk-averse management rejected both as prototypes, but he made them anyway.
Keiji Inafune, former head of development at Capcom, has revealed that Capcom management initially rejected Dead Rising and Lost Planet – but he kept making them anyway.
According to a Famitsu report – translated by Andriasang – Inafune's comments came during a creative leadership seminar he gave at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, where he passed on advice learned from his 24 years at Capcom.
Format: 360
Release: Out Now
Publisher: Iridium Studios
Developer: Iridium Studios
One glance at your inventory will remind you that Sequence is special. Nestled in your bag are a Flail, three Dead Batteries, a Stripper, and a Comedy Club. According to the game, the Flail is favored among epileptics.