Sony has confirmed their presence at Gamescom next month in Cologne, Germany, by revealing the date and time for their Press Conference. Sony’s press conference will take place a day before the the event, on August 20th 2013 at 7pm CET / 6pm BST. The conference will take place at the Staatenhaus am Rheinpark in Cologne, and is expected to be live-streamed.
If you have lots of Gold trophies on your PSN account and want to own a piece of PlayStation history, Sony has just the thing for you. A new campaign from Sony lets you trade your Gold trophies for real-life items from Sony’s Greatness Awaits trailer. Every day, a new item will be put up for auction but the trophies will remain on your PSN account.
Sony has revealed that servers for several of Zipper Interactive’s games will be shutting down in the new year. Zipper Interactive were the developers behind games like SOCOM and MAG on the PS3, and Unit 13 on the PS Vita, and was shut down by Sony in March 2012. In the past, Sony has already shut down servers for a number legacy titles on the PS2 and PSP.
At this year’s Gamescom convention, running between 21st to 25th August, in Cologne, Germany, Sony will focus on the PS4 and it’s games line-up. The company is planning to show off brand new games for the upcoming console, adding to the games already announced at the PlayStation Meeting 2013 and E3 2013.
Sony’s E3 Press Conference is just a few hours away now, where the PS4 will finally be revealed to the world, with hopefully a firm global release date and pricing. The press conference will kick off at 2:00am BST / 3:00am CET, but the livestream will begin at 1:30am / 2:30am. You’ll be able to watch the at PlayStation.com, Ustream, PlayStation Home, Facebook or Google Plus.
Sony has announced that online servers for a number of games will be shutting down from this month, disabling the online portion of the listed games. The single-player sections will continue to work, but all online functionality will cease to stop working.
Sony has partially revealed the list of games you can expect to see at E3 this year, including PS4 titles DriveClub and Killzone: Shadow Fall, along with little heard-of title The Last Guardian, which has been MIA since it was announced. Obviously, the list isn’t complete as Sony will likely have a few new games hidden up its sleeves.
Sony have revealed their plans to live-steam their E3 Press Conference, where the PS4 will finally be revealed. In just over 10 days time, you’ll be able to watch Sony unveil the PS4 along with “the next chapter in the PlayStation story” from their E3 Live Stream website. In the UK and Europe, the Press Conference will take place at 2 AM on Tuesday, 11th June 2013.
Following the reveal of the Xbox One next-gen console today, Sony’s stock price has jumped over 9%, while Microsoft’s has dropped around 0.6%. Probably not the response Microsoft was hoping for, but the change in price suggests investors are more confident about Sony’s next-gen console, even though the console has yet to be revealed. The Xbox One is a powerful machine, with a similar specification to the PlayStation 4.
A new Sony patent has been discovered, dating back to 2011, which covers the detection of pirated games based on its loading times. The patent describes methods that can be used to detect if a game is pirated by measuring it’s average load time and comparing it to a central database. If the load times fall outside of the acceptable range, the game is blocked.
