Posts Tagged ‘digital’

80’S ICON COREY HAIM DEAD AT 38 [REST IN PEACE]

The star of classical drive-in theatre such as Silver Bullet, Lucas, and The Lost Boys, as well as Digital Pictures’ Double Switch for the PC, Sega CD, and Saturn, actress Corey Haim died currently at the age of 38. More

PLAYSTATION STORE UPDATE: JUST BECAUSE [NORTH AMERICA]

500x playstation store north ame PlayStation Store Update: Just Because [North America]This week’s North American PlayStation Store refurbish is a great week to both reconnoitre yourself with Avalanche Studios’ Just Cause 2, one of 3 brand brand brand brand new demos, and to catch up on prior PlayStation Network releases.

While the PlayStation 3 offerings competence be a small slim, the PSP height is swimming in brand brand brand brand new releases, together with the digital download versions of Dante’s Inferno, Lunar: Silver Star Harmony and a quintet of brand brand brand brand new PSP minis.

Peruse this week’s brand brand brand brand new PS3 and PSP downloadables below.

REPORT: SONY TO LAUNCH NEW PLAYSTATION SMART PHONE IN 2010 [SONY]

500x psp smartphone Report: Sony To Launch New PlayStation Smart Phone In 2010 [Sony]The Wall Street Journal reports which Sony will recover a brand new intelligent phone “capable of downloading and personification PlayStation games” after this year, as well as a aspirant to Apple’s iPad which might additionally fool around PSone titles.

The Journal records which the strange PlayStation -playing intelligent phone is being grown by Sony and mobile handset manufacturer Sony Ericsson. That’s a story which we’ve listened copiousness of times prior to in assorted incarnations, but with disappearing PSP sales, a cool accepting to the digital download-only PSPgo, and augmenting foe from iPhone and iPod gaming, the timing sounds logical.

EA CUTS DEAL TO PUBLISH SHANK, DEATHSPANK [EA PARTNERS]

500x deathspank graveyard screen 03042010 EA Cuts Deal To Publish Shank, Deathspank [Ea Partners] Electronic Arts now voiced a understanding with the developers of Shank and Deathspank to move the downloadable games to mixed platforms.

The edition deals have been partial of agreements which Klei and Hothead Games not prolonged ago sealed with EA Partners. While no specific recover dates have nonetheless been announced, Shank will be entrance to the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this summer, and the stream understanding includes bringing Deathspank to the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2010.

Both Deathspank and Shank were showcased at final year’s Penny Arcade Expo and Shank is now a finalist for “Excellence in Visual Art” at this year’s Independent Games Festival.

MY 10 YEARS WITH THE PLAYSTATION 2 [HAPPY BIRTHDAY PS2]

500x ps2 My 10 Years With The PlayStation 2 [Happy Birthday PS2] On Mar 4, 2000, Sony unleashed the inheritor to their extravagantly successful PlayStation on an gullible world. Ten years after I’ve still got PlayStation 2 games on preorder. And to think I didn’t even caring until 2002.

In 1999, I was still brand brand brand brand brand new to the internet video diversion press business, but which was okay, as it was still brand brand brand brand brand new to itself. I bending up with an outfit called Videogamers.com (now very, unequivocally defunct) the year before, especially given I lived in Atlanta, home of E3 1998.

SONIC & SEGA ALL-STARS RACING REVIEW: REMASTER SYSTEM [REVIEW]

500x sonic all stars review Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing Review: Remaster System [Review]Sega and developer Sumo take a gash at kart racing with Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, a possibility for Sega characters good and small to, for a small reason, get together and solve their disproportion in go kart competitions.

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing is Mario Kart for the gamer which aligned itself with Sega in the former adversary with Nintendo, a brightly colored, elementary colonnade foe horse which follows the gameplay of long-running Mario-starring array closely. All-Stars Racing taps in to twenty-five years value of Sega memories for a high-speed racing diversion that’s complicated on both Sonic the Hedgehog and the some-more problematic mascot who couldn’t reason his own opposite the almighty Mario. The diversion facilities 20-plus characters of varying laxity and dual dozen Sega themed marks on which to foe them.

P2P USE DOWN, BUT 24M FEWER PEOPLE BOUGHT MUSIC IN ‘09 VS ‘07


thumb creditcard ars thumb 230x130 12300 f P2P use down, but 24M fewer people bought music in 09 vs 07

The series of song buyers in the universe tight in 2009 compared to only dual years prior, according to marketplace investigate organisation NPD Group. Speaking at the Digital Music Forum: East discussion in New York this week, NPD researcher Russ Crupnick pronounced which the series of people shopping any kind of music—CD or online—dropped by twenty-four million in in between 2007 and 2009. Still, sum spending per user was up over which same duration of time and P2P make make make use of of of was down, definition the attention still has hope.