Video Games: Sony to Add Online Bells and Whistles for PlayStation 3
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New online capabilities are meant to allow gamers to share content they have created, Ã  la YouTube.
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Looking to jump-start sales of its PlayStation 3 game system, Sony has cut the price by $100, to $499, and plans to introduce a $599 package with a larger (80-gigabyte vs. 60-GB) hard drive and one game next month.
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Details of the chip designed to power Sony's PlayStation 3 console will be released on Monday.
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Nascent gaming website TVG is reporting that a Sony representative confirmed in-game Cross Media Bar access for PS3 at this week's CES.
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By RACHEL KONRAD  SAN FRANCISCO - Capitalizing on the popularity of social networks and online worlds, Sony will launch its own virtual universe and another 3-D game built almost entirely by players.
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Blog: What did Sony mean when the company said there would be no PlayStation 3 price cut?
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It's easy to praise the PlayStation 3 for its crisp graphics and multimedia capabilities: pretty much every PS3 video game features some of the best-looking visuals around.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) expects a sharp  increase in the number of games released for the PlayStation 3  this business year, in a move that should help the game  console&#39;s slumping sales, the Nikkei business daily quoted the  head of Sony&#39;s game division as saying in an interview.
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Sony says hundreds of games will be released for the PlayStation 3 this year, which should improve the game console's weak sales.
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Sony Corp. took another step to lure new customers for its high-end PlayStation3, saying it would sell a device to let users record live television that can be stored on the game console or transferred to the PlayStation Portable for later viewing.
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Also: Sony shows PSP add-ons, lowers PS3 pricing. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be used by scientists around the world to help understand diseases.
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Sony is betting its latest creation, PlayStation Home, will help to quell criticism that the console falls far behind its rivals in online  support. Executives for the company announced the service at the Game Developers Conference.
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The last few days rumors have been circulating that Sony was preparing to announce a new rumble-equipped controller for the PS3. As you may know, the current PS3 controllers don't shake, which we assume was because Sony got slapped with a lawsuit for alle
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The recent management changes in Sony Corp.'s video game division were needed to ensure the success of the new PlayStation 3 console, Sony President Ryoji Chubachi told a newspaper Friday.
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Tycho:  Last year's iteration of Tiger Woods had a fairly serious glitch in multiplayer, in that the game could not be played in multiplayer mode.  Or, it worked sometimes, but there was no way to know how or when - what combination of dances and burning herbs would right this aloof mechanism.  It was most likely the rush of new owners securing tee-times on simulated links, but after a week of trying to use the product without success I decided that I had better things to do than try and contextualize EA's grave miscalculations.    The few times we were able to jump on and actually get in there were the kind of epic, unadulterated "guy fun" one sees lionized in hilarious summer comedies.  Golf as a sport (and as a videogame) has the strong undercurrent of shared misery that one usually finds only in dive bars.  The recently released demo for this year's product - on both PSN and XBL, now - recalled those moments to us, independent of the rage that bookended each round of powerfully communal spirit lodge golf.  This year's product has a huge focus on Gamernet, a kind of user created content initiative that will hopefully see them approach the performance of their online infrastructure with more conviction.     GameFace, their face making thing, has seen a significant jump this year as well - it can take pictures from your console's camera and create actual face geometry, and I understand that photos can even be uploaded online and then brought down on the console for processing.  We were able to get some pretty good results with the earlier versions of the tool, but this is very much appreciated.  Of course, in the wrong hands, every tool is a weapon.     Ubisoft is now saying that Haze is an exclusive exclusive for the PS3, and not one of them timed or partial exclusives one might see in the lesser houses.  Truly monogamous games are rare these days, and this is certainly a surprise, but this thing has been hopping back and forth for months.  There was even a leaked document that showed this "exclusive" being released a week later for PC and 360, though all traces of the document were soon obliterated.  Assassin's Creed was (as you'll recall) a PS3 exclusive as well.  For a week, at any rate.        I'm really excited for Haze, but I'm not sure if that's a universally held belief.  The writer made a good impression on me at E3 several years ago, and Free Radical makes a good impression on me whenever they make a videogame.  It's also a four player co-op experience with a unique, asymmetrical multiplayer proposition that you've probably read about.  But, as with Bioshock, I'm really in it for the story - and, also like Bioshock, I think anything that limits its potential audience is a serious mistake.
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During Wednesday's keynote presentation, Sony's Phil Harrison mentioned that, while the finished version of Home for the PlayStation 3 would be available in fall of this year, there would be a beta of the program that would be made available in April. It looks like Sony's getting a bit of a head start on the process, however, since a new Web site opened up Thursday, advertising the impending release of the beta trial. Currently, it doesn't say much, but what it does say is this: