Sony apologises over violent game
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Sony apologises for using Manchester cathedral as a backdrop to one of its violent games.
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Sony missed out on potential sales from MP3 players and other gadgets because it was overly proprietary about music and entertainment content, the head of Sony Corp.'s video-game unit acknowledged Thursday.-The Washington Post
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A video game banned in Britain and Ireland and facing restricted sales in the United States due to its violent content was a fine piece of art, the game's publisher said on Wednesday.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on Tuesday  it had pulled a Dutch billboard advertising campaign for the  new white version of its PlayStation Portable video game player  and apologized to anyone offended by the ad, which critics  dubbed racist.
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Sony Corp. is removing a chip from the  European version of its new PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console, a  move that cuts costs but means users cannot play some of their  old games.
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Blog: The recent stories like this one out of the Sony camp are becoming pathetic at best.  The company who formerly touted its dominance over the video game industry is left touting a 50,000 unit sale for March and a sales lead "for every week, except for the
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Jan. 31--TOKYO -- Sony Corp. expects losses in its game division to  expand by 20-40 billion yen from last October's estimate of a 200 billion yen  loss for the 2006 business year ending in March, company officials said  Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - The Church of England is calling on Sony Computer Entertainment to apologize for using one of its churches as the scene for a gory firefight in its PlayStation 3 game "Resistance -- Fall of Man." The game includes a digital rendering of the inside of England's Manchester Cathedral, which was first constructed in 1215. The church is also asking Sony to remove the cathedral from the game, and to make a donation to people working with victims of gun crime in Manchester, a city that has its share of gun violence. The church will allow the use of its cathedral for certain entertainment purposes so long as permission is granted first. For example, production companies can film inside the church so long as the church approves of the projects, said David Marshall, director of communications for Manchester Cathedral. Sony did not ask permission, according to Marshall. "We think it's the first time a sacred space has been digitally captured and recreated for a game such as this," Marshall said. A Sony spokesman said on Monday that the company would contact the church. Marshall said the church had contacted Sony on Friday and would also be sending the company a letter. A clip of the scene in question is posted on YouTube.com, where the player is seen shooting throughout the interior of the church. Sony's Web site for the game , which is supposed to only be viewed by those over 18 years old, warns of "strong language and images of violence." Â
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Entertainment giant Sony has apologised to the Church of England for featuring a prominent British cathedral in a violent video game, a spokesman for the church said Friday.
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Sony issued a public apology Friday for a violent video game that features a bloody shootout inside an Anglican cathedral, but it did not address the Church of England's demands that the company withdraw the game.
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On Tuesday, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) announced that it had banned the sale of Manhunt 2, a video game produced by Rockstar Games.
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British censors on Tuesday banned a  video game for the first time in 10 years, rejecting  U.S.-published &quot;Manhunt 2&quot; for what they described as an  unrelenting focus on sadism and brutal slaying.
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A video game based on the "Law and Order" TV series has been pulled off British shelves after the mother of a murdered toddler spotted an image of her son in the game, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Wednesday.
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The Church of England is calling on Sony Computer Entertainment to apologize for using one of its churches as the scene for a gory firefight in its PlayStation 3 game "Resistance -- Fall of Man."
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Video game publisher Take-Two  Interactive Software Inc.  said on Thursday it has  suspended plans to sell "Manhunt 2" after the title was slapped  with restrictive ratings for its extreme violence.
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The Church of England on Saturday threatened legal action against Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp. for using a cathedral as a backdrop in a violent computer game.
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Sony confirms that the $500 version of its PlayStation 3 won't be able to play Blu-ray movies at their full resolution. From the Game|Life blog.