Sony slashes forecast on PlayStation Vita
Adam Boyes is helping Sony embrace the new social, mobile, and online side of the game industry.
Beck joins deadmau5, I Am Robot and Proud, and Jim Guthrie in creating an original soundtrack for the upcoming PS3/PSVita platformer, Sound Shapes.
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Scott Rohde, vice president of Sony's Worldwide Studios, thinks that the PlayStation Vita has an advantage over the Nintendo's upcoming Wii U.
This fall, Sony will release a PlayStation Vita bundled with Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation and a PlayStation 3 bundled with Assassin’s Creed III.
“When you link [the Vita and the PlayStation games], you will unlock Connor’s tomahawk, an exclusive character …
This year's E3 is looking more notable for what we won't be seeing.
Imagine a mobile device with the graphical capabilities of an Xbox 360. Hardware developer Nvidia thinks that dream isn't too far off.
PlayStation Vita users will be able to make video calls for the first time thanks to the addition of Skype video communication.
For Sony, the deal will help the company demonstrate the non-gaming virtues of the Vita, which has been …
Handhelds continue to dominate the video game sales charts in Japan, and one handheld in particular. Driven by the release of a new exclusive title in Square Enix’s hit Kingdom Hearts series, the Nintendo 3DS had a very strong final …
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The Vita launch hype settled down quick, didn’t it? With the first batch of games out of the way, Unit 13 rocks up to the show with a surprising amount of confidence.
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Welcome to GamesBeat’s PlayStation Vita launch awards. Released on February 22 in North America, the Vita has already had a steady blend of critical acclaim and controversy, but who cares about all that? This feature is (mostly) about the games! …
In two of the three major video game markets (Japan and the U.S.), Nintendo has come out on top in first-week sales of handheld gaming systems with its DS and 3DS consoles. But Sony has performed better in Europe, where the last-generation PlayStation Portable and the recently released PlayStation Vita have outperformed both DS devices.
Check the infographic below to see how these four portables fared in first-week sales across the three territories, and for comparison's sake, see how eight major handheld platforms have sold in their lifetimes.
Sony said today that its PlayStation Vita gaming handheld has sold more than 1.2 million units worldwide. The Vita went on sale last week in the U.S. and Europe, and it has been on sale since December in Japan.
The …
Now that the staff has had a chance to put Sony’s new handheld device through its paces, what does it think?
Sebastian Haley, Reviews Editor
The more I play the PlayStation Vita, the less I like it. It’s unfortunate to …
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly when they’re mainly of interest to our game readers. The broader-interest posts will continue to run …
In this week’s VBWeekly, Jolie O’Dell walks us through first impressions of the Samsung Galaxy S II, the PlayStation Vita, and, in what turns out to be a blatant rip off, an iPhone game called Pokemon Yellow that is nothing …
Sony’s new PlayStation Vita handheld console will sell 12.4 million units globally this year, bringing in revenue of around $2.2 billion, according to research company Strategy Analytics.
This figure assumes a drop in price from $250 to $180 during 2012, …
I’m not much of a golfer. I had one stint at making it as the next Tiger Woods 10 years ago, but I was better at cutting the grass with the club than hitting the ball. The constant walking, the …
