Day 1 Digital proves Sony cares about digital distribution (analysis)

Sony is finally making good use of digital distribution on the PlayStation Network (PSN) with the PSN Day 1 Digital service

GamesBeat Giveaways: You could win a signed copy of The Art of Journey

Enter for your chance to win a copy of The Art of Journey signed by thatgamecompany's Jenova Chen and artist Matt Nava!

See The Art of Journey with the game’s artwork, score, and augmented reality

The Art of Journey will provide owners with tons of unseen art, the full musical score, and augmented reality from the acclaimed PSN title

Coming to consoles: Dig deep and build high in the exploration game Terraria

The PC game Terraria is headed to XBLA and PSN in early 2013.

FBI cuffs LulzSec hacker connected to Sony Pictures breach

Twenty-year-old Raynaldo Rivera may spend the next 15 years of his life in jail if he is found guilty of hacking into Sony Pictures. The FBI arrested the alleged LulzSec hacker in Arizona yesterday.

The Walking Dead crawls back with new episode and Golden Joystick nomination

Telltale Games' The Walking Dead earns a Golden Joystick nomination as another chapter of the story unfolds.

Papo & Yo creates a toybox of a city with a fractured foundation (review)

Minority Media's debut game, Papo & Yo, is an exotic trip into an imaginative but fundamentally unsteady world.

Know thine enemy? Hacker George “Geohot” Hotz met with Sony engineers

Sony has gotten a lot of knocks for the way it handled the PlayStation 3 jailbreak, the subsequent dealings with the hacker involved, the hacking of the PlayStation Network, and the resulting six-week disruption of the network last year.

But …

PlayStation Network to go down for maintenance on Monday

Sony said today that the PlayStation Network will go down for scheduled maintenance on Monday, starting at 6 a.m. Pacific time.

The maintenance will last approximately 13 hours, ending around 7 p.m. Pacific time on Monday. During that time, players …

The Tester season 3 hits PlayStation Network tomorrow

Season 3 of Sony’s online-only reality show The Tester premieres tomorrow, Feb. 7  on the PlayStation Network.

The show features a cast of 12 hopefuls who want to work in the game industry competing in a variety of challenges, many …

European Playstation Network store broken following maintenance (updated)

Following scheduled maintenance last week, the Playstation Network store in Europe, Australia and New Zealand is no longer working for many users. The problem, reported widely across the European Playstation forums, is that no content can be downloaded from the …

PSN to get new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 maps on Feb. 28

Video game publisher Activision has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3′s content season for Call of Duty Elite members on the PlayStation Network will kick off on February 28 with the release of two new multiplayer maps, Liberation …

PlayStation Network to be down for maintenance most of Thursday

Sony has announced on its European PlayStation forums that PlayStation Network (PSN) will be down for maintenance through most of Thursday, Feb. 2. Based on the announcement, it seems the outage will only affect European PSN users, but we’ve reached …

Sonic CD blasts onto console and mobile today

Sega of America has announced that Sonic CD is now available across a multitude of platforms today. Originally released in 1993 for the Sega CD, this version of Sonic CD  comes boasting both the Japanese and US soundtracks, and the …

EA finally starts issuing Battlefield 1943 vouchers to PS3 gamers

After experiencing high level of backlash, including a lawsuit filed against the company,  Electronic Arts has finally responded to public pressure by delivering the extra content promised to Playstation 3 owners of Battlefield 3.

“There have been some misunderstandings around …

10 great PlayStation Network games under $5

With Apple and Android now dominating the mobile gaming market with their low price model, it is worth noting that there are also some budget priced bargains to be found on the Playstation Network Store. I have been trawling through …

PlayStation Network to be down for scheduled maintenance for full day

Sony’s game division announced today  that the PlayStation Network will undergo scheduled maintenance tomorrow for a full day.

As a result, the service will be down from 8am to 10pm PST on Nov. 17. According to Patrick Seybold, spokesman for …