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Sony settles PlayStation case
News Sony Computer Entertainment has decided to work with Connectix, a developer of software that helps PlayStation games run on PCs, rather than fight the company. Sony argued that because Virtual Game Station allowed PlayStation games to be played on...
[March 16, 2001, 8:22]
Sony sues PlayStation emulator firm
News The lawsuit seeks a temporary injunction against sales of Connectix's Virtual Game Station, according to the report.
[January 28, 1999, 16:38]
Linux-based PlayStation grid is no game
News A US research centre has clustered 70 Sony PlayStation 2 game consoles into a Linux supercomputer that ranks among the 500 most powerful in the world. NCSA's supercomputer runs on the Linux operating system which was included as part a Sony Linux...
[May 28, 2003, 8:52]
Lawsuit targets PS2 chip
News Electronics giants Sony and Toshiba have been sued in a patent dispute involving the main chip used by Sony's PlayStation 2 console. Sony has sold more than 60 million units of the PlayStation 2 worldwide, giving the company a broad lead in the...
[October 28, 2003, 9:05]
Report: PlayStation 2 to land Jan. 23
News Financial analyst Merrill Lynch predicts that the PlayStation 2 -- Sony's next-generation game console -- will hit Japanese shelves on Jan.at a hefty price of 45,000 yen (£238), according to a report published Friday.
[August 16, 1999, 11:53]
RealNetworks finds home in PlayStation 2
News Sony and RealNetworks will announce on Wednesday that they will be teaming up to bring streaming audio and video to Sony's PlayStation 2 gaming system. Sony will include RealNetwork's RealPlayer and RealJukebox software on hard drives that can be...
[May 16, 2001, 11:29]
PS2 can now be like TiVo too
News Sony's PlayStation 2 video game console will gain TiVo-like video functions with software to be announced Monday by two start-ups. David Cole, president of research firm DFC Intelligence, noted that Sony executives have talked about using the...
[September 17, 2002, 7:37]
PS2 production moves to China
News In a bid to trim costs, Sony plans to move the manufacturing of all its Playstation 2 gaming consoles to China by 2004. Currently, Japan accounts for about half of Sony's Playstation 2 output. In addition, he quelled rumours of an earlier-than...
[March 17, 2003, 9:53]
PlayStation 3 to get 'Yellowstone'
News Sony and Toshiba have licensed technology from Rambus that likely will be incorporated into a future version of the PlayStation game console. Both Yellowstone and Redwood would be used to enhance the broadband capabilities of "Cell," a complex...
[January 7, 2003, 8:06]
PlayStation 2 arrives in US
News The PlayStation video game console has been one of the most successful products in the history of consumer electronics, and Sony had planned to build on that success with its PlayStation 2. Will Xbox demolish Sony and PlayStation 2?
[October 26, 2000, 8:40]
Aussie court backtracks on mod chips
News Australia's Federal Court has overturned a decision it made last year legalising the use of modification chips in Sony PlayStation game consoles. A year ago, Federal Court Judge Justice Ronald Sackville ruled that the devices, which allow...
[July 31, 2003, 16:19]
PlayStation 3 may run on Linux
News Pop open the bonnet of the next-generation Sony PlayStation game console or a BMW 745i sedan and you may well see Linux inside, said a member of the group promoting the growth of the open-source operating system.
[April 2, 2003, 11:44]
Cell processor unveiled
News The chip will also power the next version of Sony's PlayStation game console, which is widely expected to be released late this year or early next year. The chip that will run the next version of the PlayStation will have nine processor cores and...
[February 8, 2005, 9:05]
Microsoft's Rare buy pits Xbox 2 against PS3
News Microsoft's purchase of UK games developer Rare will help the console maker to compete against Sony when the next-generation Xbox console goes up against the PlayStation 3, according to analysts. Unless the move starts a round of acquisitions now...
[September 25, 2002, 16:39]
Linux arrives for original PlayStation
News Following high demand for Sony's Japanese release of Linux for the PlayStation2 game console, another company has leapt into the fray: the Czech firm Blokman Trading, which has released an alpha version of the Linux 2.4 kernel for the original...
[June 1, 2001, 11:02]
Sony to sink £1bn into 'Cell' console chip
News More details about the highly secretive "Cell" processor -- set to power upcoming Sony consumer electronics such as PlayStation consoles -- emerged on Monday. Sony, together with PlayStation maker and sister company Sony Computer Entertainment...
[April 24, 2003, 7:31]
Sony-Connectix bout moves to next round
News Last Thursday, Sony's lawyers pulled one of two outstanding lawsuits it had begun against Connectix in San Francisco federal district court, both centred on Connectix's Virtual Game Station, a software package that allows Apple Macintosh computers...
[July 10, 2000, 10:03]
PS3 to play with Blu-ray
News Sony officials will use Blu-ray Disc technology in their next-generation console, most commonly referred to as the PlayStation 3. Sony said it will reveal more details on the PlayStation 3 at a premiere event in Japan on 31 March, 2005.
[August 6, 2004, 9:10]
Will PlayStation 2 rule the living room?
News Sony, an entertainment conglomerate, worries that a multi-faceted PlayStation might cannibalise sales for other units. Sony makes a lot of money selling audio-video components, so they have reason not to want to release DVD (in the PlayStation...
[March 4, 1999, 11:01]
News Burst: Sony stumbles on Playstation2 promise
News Sony Computer Entertainment admits that the PlayStation2 is not fully compatible with all current PlayStation software. Despite claims the forthcoming PlayStation2 would be backwards compatible with existing Playstation games, Sony has admitted...
[February 10, 2000, 12:19]
