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Sony filed a trademark application for "Let's Play"
"Let's play" videos are a hugely popular online genre in which gamers narrate their playthroughs of games that excite and challenge them. (more…)
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EA reveals the Xbox One sales total that Microsoft prefers not to
Microsoft long ago stopped saying how many XBox Ones it had sold, but figures released by Electronic Arts expose numbers far short of rival Sony's Playstation 4. On a financial call with reporters,...
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The Leica Q is the best fixed-lens compact camera
Craig Mod reports on six months in the field with the $4,000 Leica Q, a compact, fixed-lens camera for professionals and for amateurs who are very serious indeed. He loves it with an intensity that...
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Sony tries, fails to scrub Playstation 4 Slim photos off the net
When pictures of the forthcoming sleeker PlayStation 4 "Slim" showed up on Twitter and NeoGAF, no-one knew if they were the real deal. But when Sony started making noise and having the images...
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Not just crapgadgets: Sony's enterprise CCTV can be easily hacked by IoT...
The unprecedented denial-of-service attacks powered by the Mirai Internet of Things worm have harnessed crappy, no-name CCTVs, PVRs, and routers to launch unstoppable floods of internet noise, but...
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After 28 years, Sony resumes vinyl record production
Sony last pressed a vinyl record in 1989. And it'll be pressing them again by March 2018, reports The BBC, proof of the mainstream return of the ancient format—once again a billion-dollar business....
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Sony's new robot dog doubles down on DRM
It's been 15 years since Sony used the DMCA to shut down the community that had sprung up to extend the functionality of its Aibo robot dogs, threatening people with lawsuits and jailtime for...
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Sony is killing production of physical PS Vita games in 2019
Pour another one out for Sony's PlayStation Vita. Despite being a powerful, capable handheld that's great for a bit of fun on the go or as a companion to your PlayStation 3 or 4 when you're at home,...
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Buddhist funeral service for robot dogs
When Sony announced in 2014 that support was ending for Aibo, their pioneering line of robotic dogs, former Sony employee Nobuyuki Norimatsu launched A-Fun, a repair service in Japan, to take care of...
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Tom Hardy caught a real nasty bug in the latest trailer for Venom
Tom Hardy continues his tradition of playing comic book characters whose main power is mumbling in the latest trailer for Venom. It's a fun-filled 3:14 that extols the virtues of teamwork,...
View ArticleSony to retire PS Vita in 2019
We've come to the end of an era in portable gaming: according to Engadget, Sony has announced that they'll cease producing their handheld PS Vita in Japan, next year. At the 2018 Tokyo Game Show, Sony...
View ArticleIncoherence, multiplied: Sony announces nebulous "blockchain for DRM"
Sony -- whose most notorious DRM foray infected millions of computers with malware -- has announced an incoherent plan to use blockchain to make DRM work, somehow. Despite Engadget's inexplicable...
View ArticleSony won't let you post "crap recordings" of a few seconds of your own...
Back when Sony's fraudulent copyright claims resulted in a 47 second recording of pianist James Rhodes playing Bach, apologists argued that Sony and Youtube's copyright bots couldn't be expected to...
View ArticleSony's copyright bots remove a band's own release of its new video
The Sheffield-based experimental music act 65daysofstatic has a new album coming out in September, called "Replicr, 2019." Today, the band began its launch publicity by releasing a video from the...
View ArticleFacebook finally cuts 3rd-party 'friend data' access for Microsoft and Sony,...
Facebook is, at long last, cutting off access to 'friend data' for Microsoft and Sony, under the terms of its record $5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, announced today. Facebook's...
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High-frame rate analog HDTV from 1990
Among the most spectacularly unevenly-distributed futures was high-definition television. There were 737-line broadcasts in France more then 70 years ago, for example, and 1125 line tests in Japan in...
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Oh, boy, Sony greenlit another Spider-Man spin-off that no one asked for
Whenever I find out that Sony has greenlit yet another Spider-Man spin-off in their ill-conceived desire to create a Spider-Man-centric universe adjacent to the MCU, I'm reminded of that "fetch" scene...
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Sony's Kraven is no longer a villain or hunter
Sony won't stop releasing or greenlighting spinoffs related to Spider-Man in a desperate bid to destroy everything marketable about webhead. Earlier this month, Sony took notice of Morbius' popularity...
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PlayStation 5 jailbroken
Sony's PlayStation 5 game console has been jailbroken, meaning that users may soon be running their own software on it. Marco Cocomello: The most exciting part of the PS5 jailbreak comes at the end of...
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Sony financial report reveals a few choice details on upcoming games
Just yesterday, Sony released its fourth-quarter financial report. While it's full of all the dry corpo-speak and solid walls of numbers you may expect, two things in particular have managed to stick...
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The writer's strike has put Sony's many Spider-Man television projects on hold
According to Comic Book Resources, the writer's strike has caused Amazon to delay production on Sony's Spider-Man television shows. For comic fans that grew up in the last three decades fo the 20th...
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Microsoft and Sony sign agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation
Following the news of the undoubtedly monopoly-forming merger between Microsoft and Activision, Xbox head Phil Spencer has taken to Twitter to (try to) assuage concerns from industry competitors and...
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Sony officially unveils baffling "PlayStation Portal" handheld
After months of rumors and uninformative teasers, the odd handheld gaming device (which can't in good conscience be called a console) formerly known as "Project Q" has been officially announced as the...
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PS5 slim edition coming
Sony today announced the slim edition of its PlayStation 5 console, reducing its size by 30% and its weight by 18%. An ultra-HD Blu-ray drive, and a vertical stand—so it looks the way it does in the...
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PlayStation deleting TV shows that users already paid to "own"
Playstation users who purchased certain TV shows are about to find out they never really owned them at all, as they will soon be removed from their libraries. Link to an article in Kotaku here. The...
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This cartoon accurately depicts the frustrations of being a Helldiver
Helldivers 2 is a fantastic squad-based opportunity to repeatedly die while protecting Managed Democracy. This cartoon is super cute and accurately reflects a typical Helldiver mission that DOESN'T go...
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Helldivers 2's new enemy revealed: Sony
SWEET LIBERTY! The greatest threat to managed democracy has emerged: An announcement that all Helldivers must log in to the game via a Playstation account, which is unavailable due to region issues for...
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Helldivers 2 removed from Steam across much of the world, refunds given
The Starship Troopers-inspired game Helldivers 2 has been a big hit for Sony, but earlier this week it forced players to log in through the PlayStation network—even if they're playing on computer and...
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Sony backs off PlayStation Network login requirement for PC hit Helldivers 2
Helldivers 2 is the breakout game of 2024 on PC, but its publisher Sony sells game consoles, wants everyone playing it using PlayStation Network, and announced that it would require PC players to have...
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Reon Pocket 5: a wearable doohickey with a fan and a heater in it
Sony's Reon Pocket 5 is a wearable thermal device: a flat plastic contraption you can attach to your body to deal with excess heat or cold. The fan is much quieter than previous models, Sony claims,...
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