The game known as the Super Smash Bros of the Sony world is coming soon, and now not just for the PlayStation 3. It's PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, and if that name wasn't long enough for you, try PlayStation Vita All-Stars Battle Royale on for size! This game has been tipped by several domain name registries and a job listing that have popped up this week in the wake of the excitement that the intitial title provided.
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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale coming to PS Vita next
White PlayStation Vita hitting Japan in June
Black isn’t cool. You know what’s really cool? White. We’ve seen the pale color infect just about every gadget known to man, and now the PlayStation Vita will be the latest to be blessed with an all white exterior. For now it seems to be heading just to Japan, and you can expect to pay a pretty penny for the privilege. When it goes on sale in June, the WiFi version will cost ¥24,980 (~$313) while the 3G version will be ¥29,980 (~$375).
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Sony apparently thinking about expanded PlayStation Plus service
Sony is trying to figure out how to make its premium PlayStation Plus service more appealing to gamers. The company has recently sent out a survey that hints at ideas that it is thinking about with regard to new features that might one day be added to the PlayStation Plus package. Of course, nothing is confirmed but at this point Sony is trying to increase its subscriber base as much as possible.
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PlayStation partners with Major League Gaming
Sony's PlayStation division will be partnering with the leader in competitive gaming for a new round of video game battling platform known as the MLG Spring Fighting Arena. Claiming that there are "thousands of dollars on the line," Sony said the PS3 will be the official console used in the new Major League Gaming battle royales. The games that will be included are Mortal Kombat and SoulCalibur V.
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Sony officially announces PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
We posted not long ago about Sony's plans to launch a game called PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. At the time, the game hadn't been officially announced, but that has changed now with the official announcement that the game is in the works. Sony says the video game will be a four player fighting game influenced by some of the best PlayStation themes and characters ever.
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BlackBerry PlayBook gets fully working PlayStation emulator
If Angry Birds Space doesn’t satisfy your BlackBerry PlayBook gaming needs, how about original PlayStation games? An enterprising developer on the Crackberry forums has created a PlayStation emulator for the PlayBook, allowing you to play a myriad of 1994 games on the 7-inch tablet. It’s still a work in progress, so some games may fail to load, but hey: it’s PlayStation on your tablet.
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Sony registers website for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
It looks like Sony is really gearing up to finally bring its own version of Super Smash Bros to the throngs of Sony fans that would love nothing more than to have Ratchet, Jak, Nathan Drake, and random chimera and Hot Shots Golf characters duke it out. Or something like that. Who knows what characters Sony will choose, but there's no doubt that such an experience is long overdue.
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Sony releases PlayStation Suite SDK open beta
Sony has released the PlayStation Suite Developer Program open beta, as promised, enabling coders to create games for the PS Vita, PlayStation-certified phones and tablets, and more. Available for PC only, the PlayStation Suite SDK 0.98 includes the PC Suite Studio and UI Composer for creating interfaces that take advantage of physical and touchscreen controls, as well as a simulator for testing out your handiwork.
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Sony’s ‘The Tester’ winner speaks out
Sony has just posted a follow-up interview with the winner of its most recent season of The Tester, a reality show that was built around gamers competing to get a job as a video game tester. The victor this time around is Will Santiago, and Sony is giving viewers a look into what it feels like to come out on top in the grueling eight-challenge competition, and what he is looking forward to in his new job.
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SlashGear Weekly Wrap-Up: April 7, 2012
Happy Saturday, everyone. Hopefully you're enjoying your holiday weekend, and if you have some spare time, why not get caught up on what made news this week? For you gamers out there, PlayStation Orbis processing specs leak. And we have to mention this - Google Project Glass smart glasses revealed. We also got a look at what is rumored to be a picture of Google’s Nexus tablet, though it’s probably bogus.
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Sony PlayStation Orbis processing specs leak
Details on the processing specs of Sony's PlayStation 3 successor, rumored to be codenamed Orbis, have been leaked by IGN, citing sources familiar with the company's plans. The custom chips to be used in the next-gen console are based on AMD's A8-3850 APU and Radeon HD 7670 GPU, combining the performance of both integrated and discrete graphics processors.
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E3 to reveal PlayStation 4 ‘same day’ as Xbox 720
This week we've got several sources speaking on what will be happening later this year when the two titans of console: Sony and Microsoft, go head to head with reveals of their next-generation gaming systems. One source speaking with vg247 this morning about the situation is noting that fans "should be watching the timing of next year’s E3 keynotes, and who’s going to go first.” Meanwhile our own source corroborates this possibility saying that the keynotes revealing these next two systems "may be happening on the same day."
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