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PS Vita sells 600,000 in the West – Brings total to 1.2 Million

Approximately 600,000 PS Vita systems have been sold to gamers in the west since its release last week. With a bit of a rough start, Sony still managed to sell 578,812 units in Japan as of February 19, and add the estimated 600,000 sold in Latin and North America, Europe and Australia brings the total to 1.2 million. Software sales for the PS Vita have also topped two million worldwide. SCE president Andrew ...

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Sony Announces the 2012 PSN Gamers’ Choice Awards Nominees

Sony announced today the nominees for the 2012 PSN Gamers’ Choice Awards, honoring a lineup of downloadable games released last year on the Playstation Network. Playstation fans can vote for their favorite titles in 10 categories tomorrow in the Playstation Store and receive a free Gamers’ Choice Awards XMB theme for each vote. The winning games will be announced on March 6, 2012, and those games will be di ...

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Sony may have picked the right time to release the Vita in the US

Sony’s Playstation Vita sales in Japan have declined for three weeks running. The Vita started its launch week with 321,407 units sold, 72,479 in week 2, and now sitting at 42,648 sold in week 3. With nearing a half million sold, the Vita isn’t performing as bad as you may think. Remember, Japan’s economy has seen better days. The Playstation Vita will be launched in North America on February 22, 2012, and ...

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GRT #18 A Little Live Action Never Hurt Anybody

Solespring and JaeKuro are back again for another episode of Gamer's Round Table, where they talk about some of the week's news. As usual, their typical hijinks and quirky jokes ensue. The topics for today are: Battlefield 3's beta and future Steve Jobs Sony's "Long Live Play" Ad Microsoft's future updates (lack of) Superman version of Arkham City Click Here to download this episode   Things we Mention ...

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Could Every Multiplayer Game Require an Online Pass Next Generation?

An Online Pass is a redeemable code that grants a consumer of a new game access to the multiplayer mode or other online modes of that title. The system is also a way for publishers and developers to make money from the used game market, which they normally didn‘t see at all. I can understand the use of this system because it is every studio’s right to earn as much money as they can from their own intellectu ...

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Sony Entertainment Network: Online Services Unified

Kazuo Hirai revealed the unification of  Sony’s online services for music, video, and games at the IFA trade show in Berlin. The new service will be called the SEN (Sony Entertainment Network) and the Qriocity name have been dropped from the music and video services and are now simply called Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited. Sony plans on integrating the SEN across a variety of their products, and third ...

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