Sony’s game division has had its fair share of financial woes, with losses “arising from the strategic pricing of [the PlayStation 3] at points lower than its production costs and PS3-related inventory write downs” being blamed as recently as last October. However, the worst may be over. Japan’s Nikkei newspaper has credited Sony Computer Entertainment’s […]

After the original Guitar Hero came out, diehard fans had to settle for playing the same setlist over and over again for an entire year before new songs arrived in Guitar Hero II. Things have changed significantly for rhythm-game fans since then, given that Guitar Hero III and Rock Band have both supplemented their libraries […]

While there’s a good chance you’ll hear your favourite rock band’s music in a game these days, it isn’t every day that you get to go questing for the band in-game. That’s exactly what fans of the German fantasy-metal band Blind Guardian will get to do in the hack-and-slash action RPG Sacred 2, planned for […]

Yesterday, selected members of the gaming press were sent an invitation to register for this year’s E3 Media & Business Summit. The invitation offered a nontransferable registration to the 2008 event, which will return the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 15 to 17. It didn’t take long for visitors to notice that though Nintendo, […]

The Electronic Entertainment Expo has been in a serious state of flux in recent years. At the behest of many top publishers and hardware makers, the E3 Media & Business Summit organizer Entertainment Software Association said in July 2006 that it would be dramatically downsizing the annual trade show–reducing attendees from approximately 60,000 to a […]