Sony has announced on its European forums that maintenance time has been scheduled for the PlayStation Network this Thursday, February 2, from 2PM GMT until 8AM Friday morning. If the maintenance carries over to the US (and it usually does), it’ll start at 6AM PST Thursday until midnight PST, or 9AM to 3AM for those [...]
Konami has appointed Shinji Hirano as its new president of Europe. Hirano was most recently president of the US business, and now overseas all European operations from headquarters in Germany. “I am proud and delighted to have been given this challenge,” offered Shinji Hirano. “I am keen to support the diversity the European territories offer, [...]
Sony has confirmed that pricing for Vita download codes will be around 10 per cent less than physical media versions of the same games, at least in the US and Japan. A US shopper noticed prices on a Best Buy pre-order machine in the US were slightly lower than he had been expecting, posting a [...]
Unlike its unflinching US equivalents, News Corp-owned Sky TV is readying its service for availability via broadband, rather than solely through traditional cable box delivery. The company announced plans today to bring a mixed on-demand/pay-per-month streaming service to the UK in the coming months — a move we’ve yet to see made on this side [...]
Sony is offering a discount for game-starved shut-ins with PlayStation Vitas, Shacknews has confirmed. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, since Sony has been talking about doing such a thing for months now, and has followed a similar pricing scheme — favoring downloads — in Japan. There’s no exact indication of how much you’ll save [...]
For those wondering if PlayStation Vita owners in the US will get a discounted price for purchasing the digital releases of their games as compared to boxed retail copies (as in Japan), it looks as though that may indeed be the case. An intrepid Destructoid reader was browsing through their local Best Buy store and [...]
Rising Star Games, UK publisher of Japanese franchises such as Harvest Moon and No More Heroes, is making a foray into US publishing, MCV reports. Rising Star has opened an office in California and plans to release its first title, Cave’s Akai Katana, on Xbox 360 in Q2 2012. We’ve watched with bitter jealousy as [...]
Still on the fence on whether or not you’ll be getting Kid Icarus: Uprising for 3DS when it’s released this March? The fact that it comes with a stand not enough for you? How about a free download of the original NES classic, all gussied up in three dimensions? Gamers who pre-order at GameStop, Best [...]
Future Publishing US eliminated 19 jobs today as part of overall changes taking place at the company. None of its brands, which include Nintendo Power, PlayStation: The Official Magazine, OXM and @Gamer, will be discontinued. “Future US is currently working to reposition itself in the marketplace to transform the company from an old school publisher [...]
Speaking to reporters in Osaka after Nintendo’s earnings release today, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata offered the most specific information about the Wii U’s various international release windows yet — revealing that they’re all roughly similar. According to Reuters, Iwata said that the console will be released in the US, Europe, Australia, and Japan “for the [...]