More CEO news, this time being Kaz Hirai- who has been moved up the chain to President and CEO of Sony.

Deep Silver and SCEE announced today that Dead Island will invade PlayStation Home.

SCEI CEO and Ridge Racer enthusiast Kaz Hirai has stepped aside to usher in a new era for the company.

More news from the UK games industry has hit our inbox this morning, with the news that the removal of tax relief for the UK games industry could cause both Activision Blizzard and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to think much more carefully about investing in the UK games economy.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe are desperately trying to kickstart sales of the PSP Go by offering ten free games to anyone who purchases a PSP Go from the 9th of June. The promo is available to anyone who purchased a PSP Go after April 1 as well, however. The offer will last for “a limited time.” US readers will be able to get 3 free games.

The Heavy Rain demo that likely kept Sony and Quantic Dream developers tossing and turning at night, as they tried to find the right mix of gameplay that best summed up what the game is about, has finally received a release date confirmation of February 11th on the EU PlayStation Store. Mike Kebby, a member [...]

Does anyone remember the GameDaily “Epic Fail: Games that will Probably Suck” list, because I sure as hell do. In fact, I probably went a little overboard in my response to their calling LittleBigPlanet a “glorified version of PowerPoint” with a future full of “crap content”. Well, I guess that old PowerPoint presentation finally won [...]

A trusted source has let Ripten in on some information regarding the status of several high profile Sony titles on the horizon, so I thought it would be a good idea for me to take a break from my LittleBigPlanet fun-fest and fill you all in.

Many of us believed that the recent delay of Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet was meant to allow for a recall, reprinting, and redistribution of the game after what some deemed to be offensive lyrics were brought to the attention of Sony. While this may still be the case, it is also possible that the move to [...]

After reading about the suspiciously low Metacritic user score of 6.3 for Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet, I decided to dig into the story a little deeper. For those unfamiliar with the situation, allow me to fill you in.

Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet is proving that little is not only the new big (as the mini billboard shown above cleverly states), it’s also the new entrepreneurial cash cow. While early copies of the game have been selling on Ebay for upwards of $150, the demand for everything Sackboy doesn’t end there. Miniature LittleBigPlanet billboards (which [...]

LittleBigResistance: Delay of Sackboy The recent controversy surrounding Sony’s decision to delay the release of LittleBigPlanet, over a Qur’an reference made in one of the tracks, has many gamers flexing their memory muscle in an attempt to illustrate a double standard. The belief is that Sony’s 2006 decision to essentially ignore the Church of England’s [...]

Remember Eight Days?  Sony London’s cover shooter that was making waves in 2005?  Come early 2008 we believed the game was entering full production. Come mid-2008, the game was cancelled and later replaced with…EyePet. Now all that’s left of Eight Days is the lost development footage found floating on youtube.

It appears that you will have the opportunity to earn a few bucks via the sale of your user-created LittleBigPlanet content — assuming the stuff you create actually sells. David Reeves, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, was quoted saying: “What we’re trying to do with LittleBigPlanet is almost iTunes meets eBay in the sense [...]

Although Guerilla Game’s love child has been delayed until 2009, most likely to avoid big name titles like Resistance 2 and Gears of War 2, SCEE’s Playstation day brought us the rare treat of real Killzone 2 gameplay footage.