Sony's next-generation portable gaming console will be hitting the US and the rest of the world on February 22. The rest of the world, that is, except for Japan. That will be the flagship country for the device, which is set to go on sale there on December 17. The handheld was originally slated to be available in the US for the all-important holiday shopping season but the earthquake and tsunami that hit Ja ...

Sony will manage to get its newest gaming handheld out by the end of the year, despite earlier concerns raised by this year's earthquake and tsunami. The company announced today that it will sell the Playstation Vita in Japan on December 17, barely scraping by in time for the big holiday rush. Among the games confirmed for launch is the fighting title Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom. As many as 26 games will be ...

The ongoing saga of Sony's massive data hack continues, and not in a good way for Sony. The company now admits some personal data did not have any encryption, meaning all it took was back-door access to user files - which is what happened in this case - to get unfettered user information. However, it asserts, credit card data was fully encrypted. "The entire credit card table was encrypted and we have no ev ...

After four days of outage, PlayStation has said that external hackers are responsible - but the prime suspect, Anonymous, has denied all knowledge and says Sony itself is probably to blame. The company shut down the PlayStation Network last week, hitting more than 70 million gamers worldwide. In a blog, senior director of corporate communications Patrick Seybold says that the problems were caused by an 'ext ...

Anyone hoping to get a last-minute surprise with Sony's "PlayStation phone" at the Consumer Electronics show will be sorely disappointed. CES. It's the world's launching pad for everything cool and noteworthy in the technology industry. But Sony seems to already have enough on its plate as it is, so it will not be showing off a PlayStation-centric mobile phone as many had hoped. The PlayStation Phone, which ...

The PS3's online service is completely free. So how does it make money? It doesn't. But now, thanks to some new decisions from Sony, it may actually be able to start turning a profit. Microsoft is easily able to make its online service profitable because it charges everyone who wants to play online games a hefty fee of $60 per year. PS3 players get the same feature for free. But Sony needs to pay for those ...

Tens of thousands of early Windows Phone 7 adopters are enjoying connectivity with their Xbox Live account, but that's going to seem like small potatoes when Sony delivers PlayStation integration to millions of existing smartphone owners. The PlayStation app is going to revolutionize the mobile game space. At least, that's what Sony hopes. In this world of iPhone and Android gaming, it only makes sense for ...

As rumors of an upcoming "PlayStation phone" hit a fever pitch, there's now a new video posted online that shows a clear, succinct look at the device in action. It looks pretty complete, so the question is when this phone will actually come out. Just a couple days ago, a video of the phone went online, but it was extremely blurry and far away, so no one really got a good look at it. This one is completely d ...

It is certainly a strong holiday season for gaming, and the new motion controllers are right at the front of it all. Microsoft just announced it has sold 2.5 million Kinect cameras for the Xbox 360, and now Sony is touting its latest number for the PlayStation Move - 4.1 million. The timing surely is not a coincidence, as Sony and Microsoft are in an all-out war for holiday sales and to prove to developers ...

Rumors of a PlayStation-branded smartphone from Sony Ericsson have appeared to reach a fever pitch, as the company's mobile division head has come forward with a cryptic message to all but confirm the existence of the project. "There's a lot of smoke, and I tell you there must be a fire somewhere," said Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Nordberg is referring to al ...