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Move Gets Bundled with Tiger Woods, Brings Sexy Back
Friday, July 8th, 2011

Despite the blow to his career from putting a few too many holes, and an underwhelming performance after returning to golf, the Tiger Woods name still holds a prestigious position in the sports video game industry. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters, while putting less emphasis on the Tiger Woods name, was still a [...]

Collector Has Entire PS2 Library… Sealed
Friday, July 8th, 2011

Video gaming, especially to the hearts and minds of the enthusiastic readers of this site, is more than just a pastime but a hobby. Veteran gamers likely have a few, maybe several hundreds of titles for their favorite console of choice, such as the PlayStation 2 of the last generation. However, one PS2 connoisseur took [...]

Sony Most Valued Brand In Asia
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

The Sony Corporation is one of the biggest consumer electronics in Asia, beating out others in the same category, like Toshiba, Hitachi, Sharp, and many other world renowned companies. While Sony has had a rather rough time lately, especially in the States, recent events on the eastern hemisphere have not significantly blunted the Sony brand.  [...]

PlayStation Release Horizon – Week of July 4, 2011
Monday, July 4th, 2011

Happy Independence Day to all of our American readers! In honor of the Fourth of July, PlayStation LifeStyle is excited to report what’s in the US horizon for the week. In addition to a whopping one release, the real highlights of the week are fireworks. All jokes aside, all around the nation, the people of [...]

Xbox Executive ‘Not Sure’ About PS Vita Success
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Competition, especially in the gaming industry amongst the three platform holders, is like a rivalry amongst buddies. Whether it’s the recent motion controller wars and other hardware to even the network services, the big three are always taking friendly jabs at one another. The release of new hardware is always a time where the corporations [...]

OnLive Looking to Rain Cloud Gaming on PS3
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

As of late, cloud computing has been garnering a metric ton of attention in the world of computers, business productivity, and even gaming thanks to a new service called OnLive. While OnLive has gained a decent following in the realm of PC gaming, the service is looking to expand beyond its current offerings onto devices [...]

PlayStation Release Horizon – Week of June 27, 2011
Monday, June 27th, 2011

While summer time action movies are consistently releasing to the box offices, this season’s gaming selection has been just as dry as the outdoors. One possibility may be that movies are more preferably accessible during vacation time than video games are. However, the fact of the matter is that a gamer’s got to game regardless [...]

Sucker Punch Hiring for New PS3 Title
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Sucker Punch Productions, the former developers of the Sly Cooper series, released their latest title, inFamous 2, in the middle of E3 2011. While the title is looking to be a critical success in terms of reception, the Bellevue, Washington-based studio appears to be hard at work in preparations for their next project. 

PS Vita Video Shows Social Experience
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

The PlayStation Vita is, without a doubt, pushing the boundaries of the portable gaming realm more so than any of its casual and core competition. From social gaming connectivity to bleeding-edge hardware, the PS Vita is clearly the way to go for those that are interesting in portable gaming and, slowly but surely, the Sony [...]

PS Vita To Support Microsoft’s Skype
Monday, June 20th, 2011

Without question, it is clear to consumers and developers alike that the PlayStation Vita hardware allows for just about anything in terms of not only gaming but also connectivity, and when the original announcement of the NGP revealed that the successor to the PSP would host front and rear-facing cameras and support 3G, we could [...]

PlayStation Release Horizon – Week of June 20, 2011
Monday, June 20th, 2011

Welcome back to another PlayStation Release Horizon. This week, PS3 gamers have a decent selection of titles to choose from, ranging from casual kids games to the hardcore mature titles. While the list is not sized up to compare to pre-Christmas, it is definitely more than we would expect from the summer season. This week, [...]

PlayStation Becomes Top 10 ‘Liked’ Brand on Facebook
Friday, June 17th, 2011

Regardless of what country you live in, chances are that you’ve heard of a little website called Facebook. Boasting over 500 million active members with reports claiming the social networking site drives more traffic than even Google, Facebook has effectively become a platform for brands and services to reach their consumers and, with the great [...]

Black Ops Annihilation DLC Announced, PS3 Wont Get it Just Yet
Friday, June 17th, 2011

Activision and Treyarch have announced the third DLC pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Redbox Joins the Battle this Week with Video Game Rentals
Friday, June 17th, 2011

Beginning with movies, the appeal of renting movies met itself with an immense amount of success given the accomplishments achieved by rental companies such as Blockbuster and Netflix. Following up on this model, the video game market was brought in with services like GameFly, and this week gamers will have another attractive method of renting movies.

Two Million and Counting Sign Up for Call of Duty: Elite Beta
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

While the initial announcement of the subscription-based Call of Duty: Elite may have been met with mixed reaction, the general consensus is that Activision has a hit on their hands. Two weeks after the launch of the beta for the upcoming service, the publisher is already able to boast some impressive figures in the short [...]