3D gaming hasn’t been particularly compelling. From its disastrous Virtual Boy debut to the thus far lackluster 3DS, the technology hasn’t broken through novelty. Still, the industry keeps revisiting the idea as if there’s something magical there that hasn’t quite been tapped. Sony announced at E3 today that they may have finally hit on something [...]

Now that Frankensony has replaced PSN’s abnormal brain and commanded it to live again, it’s time for presents! Today marks the launch of the Customer Appreciation Program, better known as Sony’s desperate plea for you to return to PSN. You probably recall that it’s a pretty sweet deal, but I thought a table would be [...]

With Playstation Network just over a fortnight down, Sony has actually revealed some plans for what they plan to do about the security breach. The announcement spans the company’s plan to protect its users, and about time too. The full article is posted on the Playstation Blog. The protection plan will be provided by a [...]

The Wii’s $6 profit margin suddenly doesn’t seem so amazing because Sony has cut the PS3′s manufacturing costs by about $250. Evidently investors were impressed, because the software and hardware giant’s market value rose by over a percent once the announcement had been made.

Although Sony has not yet announced a corresponding price drop, it’s not unreasonable to hope the console will fall into the $400 range.

With the advent of the Xbox 360′s NXE dashboard interface, a bizarre corporate game of telephone resulted in Sony’s intellectual property (films from its subsidiary, Columbia Pictures) being sold on competitor Microsoft’s online service (via NetFlix). In a move that could be uncharitably characterized as a childish tantrum, Sony last week delisted its Columbia Pictures films from the service.

This week, however, Sony has changed its mind and decided to do business again with NetFlix. Although it might be possible to explain away the sudden withdrawal without appealing to financial skullduggery, the sudden and rapid reinstatement of the titles is a bit suspicious.

Sly Cooper may be the only stealth game that balances challenge against failure gracefully enough to keep the pace quick and the gameplay fun. A modestly kludgey control scheme and some graphical slowdown keep the gameplay experience from flowing perfectly smoothly, but the game delivers an otherwise polished experience.

Things aren’t looking good for HD-DVD in the format war. After the format was abandoned by Warner Brothers, New Line, and HBO, and raelegated to the sale bin at Amazon, Variety is reporting that Universal’s agreement to exclusively back HD-DVD has expired.

While this isn’t strictly video gaming news, Sony has historically tried to position the PS3 as a multimedia presentation device rather than as a simple game console. If Sony manages to position Blu-Ray as the dominant video format, it could prove a boon to PS3 sales in much the same way that the rise of DVD aided the PS2.

It’s been said before, but don’t count Sony’s black box out of the console race until the generation has ended.

Well, it looks like Nintendo and Sony (but not Microsoft) are getting sued over their controller interfaces. This time, the patent dispute appears to be about the way the wireless devices are sorted by their broadcast identification tag.

The games industry has a long proud history of lawsuits over IP, both hardware and software related, though this particular one evokes memories of the fight over haptic feedback in Sony’s DualShock Controllers.

Maybe it’s just because they’ve been so high profile in gaming news, but it feels like controllers make easy targets for patent suits. They share so many common traits that winning a patent suit against one console developer implies that you can win the same suit against all three. Low hanging fruit, perhaps?