Following his talk at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival last week, which addressed Sony's commitment to 3D, we caught up with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe senior vice president Ray Maguire to discuss how the company intends to attract developers, the importance of avoiding 3D for 3D's sake and what Sony's wide reach can offer PS3 owners.
How significant is Sony's advantage in the 3D marketplace?
Following Apple’s confirmation that its social gaming service Game Center will launch next week, mobile game multiplayer tech-maker Aurora Feint has announced the upcoming release of PlayTime, a new infrastructure enabling real-time multiplayer with voice chat across iOS and Android devices.
Blitz Games Studios’ licensable middleware, BlitzTech, now features full functionality for Xbox 360’s Kinect and PS3’s Move.
Though the bulk of my career as a journalist was spent covering consumer technology, my bosses at Newsweek were kind enough to let me try my hand at other subjects, namely movies and music. As such, I got to see up close how other entertainment industries present themselves to the world. My most formative such experience was the MTV Video Music Awards, which I attended in 1996 and 1997.
A PS3 firmware update allowing users to watch Blu-ray movies in stereoscopic 3D will be launched next month, Sony said at the IFA trade show last night.
While a release date wasn’t specified, Sony CEO Howard Stringer said that Spider-Man 3, Avatar and Green Hornet will all be available in 3D Blu-ray format in the future, as will Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and Michael Jackson's This Is It.
Future PS3 updates will enable playback of 3D YouTube videos and PlayTV broadcasts, the company said.
Sony has announced that a new cloud-based digital music service is in the works for the company’s network-enabled devices, including PS3, Bravia TVs, VAIO computers and Blu-ray players.
Music Unlimited will give users access to millions of songs, with one single account and without the need to manage digital files, the company said at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.
LucasArts has confirmed that it has let an unspecified number of staff go as it looks “to better address the needs” of its internal development studio.
