Think PlayStation Downloads Are Insanely Slow? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

Sony has announced it is throttling PlayStation download speeds to preserve internet access in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns. The post Think PlayStation Downloads Are Insanely Slow? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet appeared first on CCN.com

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What You Can Expect from PlayStation’s Final 2019 State of Play (Hint: It Involves Resident Evil 3)

PlayStation unexpectedly announced one final State of Play for 2019, and Sony fans should expect news about the Resident Evil 3 remake. The post What You Can Expect from PlayStation’s Final 2019 State of Play (Hint: It Involves Resident Evil 3) appeared first on CCN.com

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Sony AI Could Do Amazing Things for PlayStation

Sony has announced Sony AI, its new R&D AI division. This new…

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Gamers Win. Nioh & Outlast 2 Are November’s Free PlayStation Plus Games

Sony announces November PlayStation Plus Free Games. Nioh and Outlast 2 are available to download from November 5. Sony’s excellent run of titles in recent times are helping boost the service’s subscriber base.

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PlayStation Studios Boss Picks Perfect Mic Drop Moment to Quit

Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced the unexpected departure of long-running Worldwide Studios chairman, Shawn Layden, bringing a close to a three-decade tenure at Sony that saw him take on a range of positions from communications assistant, head of SIE Japan to his most recent role as supremo of worldwide content.

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Sony PlayStation Hits’ Embarrassingly-Good Exclusives Roster Adds God of War

PlayStation announced today via the PlayStation.Blog portal that it is adding a cluster of new titles to the low-priced PlayStation Hits lineup starting Oct. 4. Exclusives Lead The Charge The new additions include PlayStation 4 exclusives God of War, Grand Turismo Sport, and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy propping up the notion that beyond showcasing the […] The post Sony PlayStation Hits’ Embarrassingly-Good Exclusives Roster Adds God of War appeared first on CCN.com

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The Last of Us Part II Media Event Hypes PlayStation's Most-Anticipated Game

After month's of radio silence, we've learned that developer Naughty Dog and Sony are hosting a The Last of Us Part II media event later this month. Gaming conference host extraordinaire Geoff Keighley of The Game Awards fame announced the news late yesterday in a Tweet showcasing what appears to be an invitation slip.

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Sony's 'Only on PlayStation Collection' Is a Stunning PS4 Victory Lap

Sony announced today the Only On PlayStation Collection, a carefully curated selection of what have been widely deemed the finest PS4 exclusives from the past few years. The Only On PlayStation Collection.

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Sony’s ‘Only on PlayStation Collection’ Is a Stunning PS4 Victory Lap

Sony announced today the Only On PlayStation Collection, a carefully curated selection of what have been widely deemed the finest PS4 exclusives from the past few years. The Only On PlayStation Collection.

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Sony Buzzkills Again in Misleading Ghost of Tsushima Trailer Tease

Earlier today, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced its lineup of titles set to take center stage at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show, which starts next week. Among expected games such as Kojima's Death Stranding and reboot of 90's classic MediEvil, is Sucker Punch Productions' highly-anticipated feudal Japan-set open-world action-adventure Ghost of Tsushima.

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Sony’s acquisition of Insomniac mirrors Microsoft’s aggressive expansion

Sony this week revealed it’d acquired Insomniac Games, its perennial partner studio and the developer of Spider-Man, Ratchet & Clank, and the Resistance series. Insomniac joins a conga line of game studios that have been acquired by the console makers in the last few years — indeed, it almost seems like a response to Microsoft’s vacuuming up studios left, right, and center.

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Crypto Banking Startup Bitwala Gets $14.5 Million USD Led by Sony Financial Ventures, NKB Group

Bitwala, a Bitcoin bank based in Germany, has recently announced that it was able to get $13 million EUR during its most recent funding round. The investments were led by Sony Financial Ventures, a Sony subsidiary, along with NKB GRoup and Global Brain.

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Europe bitcoin bank service Bitwala raises €13 million to accelerate growth

Europe bitcoin bank service Bitwala raises €13 million to accelerate growth » CryptoNinjas Bitwala, the German-headquartered crypto-first bank app servicing the European Economic Area, today announced it has raised an additional €13 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate growth and offer B2B accounts International investors led by Sony Financial Ventures and NKB Group are investing in the company to help fuel expansion.

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CHEAP: DAMN SON(Y), an A7 II camera for $898? Sign me the F up

Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Sony just announced the new and improved A7R IV, a beast of a full-frame camera with a 61-megapixel sensor.

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Google Reveals Key Details of its 4K 60fps Gaming Challenger Stadia

By CCN Markets:  Google Stadia will be the first open challenger to dominant Sony or Microsoft in years. Nintendo has always continued in the fringes, ever since its highs in the era of $70 Nintendo 64 games, while Microsoft and Sony have unwittingly built the modern gaming world’s online architecture.

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Apple Arcade gets some real gaming cred with PS4 & Xbox controller support

During its WWDC keynote yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that Apple‘s tvOS would now support third-party controllers such as the PS4‘s Dualshock and the Xbox One S gamepad. Later, game companies confirmed iOS 13 would also support said controllers — meaning Apple‘s upcoming game service, Arcade, just got a whole lot easier to play.

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PlayStation Team Shocked by Sony’s Game-Changing Deal with Microsoft

By CCN: According to Bloomberg sources, the PlayStation unit at Sony was as surprised as anyone when Sony and Microsoft announced a cloud gaming partnership. Sony has been working on its cloud gaming offering since 2012 but has only achieved limited success.

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Sony blindsides PS5 team with news of Microsoft partnership

The team-up announced last week between gaming’s eternal blood rivals, Microsoft and Sony, came as a surprise to many — including, apparently, Sony’s PlayStation team. Other industry whispers suggest that Nintendo might also be considering a team-up with Microsoft.

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Microsoft announces cloud gaming partnership with Sony

Microsoft and Sony, makers of the eternally-competing Xbox and PlayStation consoles, respectively, today announced they were partnering up to find “joint development of future cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure to support their respective game and content-streaming services.

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Canon shows it’s serious about full-frame mirrorless with the affordable EOS RP

It was just a few months ago that Canon introduced its first full-frame mirrorless camera, the EOS R. The company’s previous mirrorless cameras gave you little reason to choose them over one of its DSLRs, but the EOS R was a sign the company was finally ready to prioritize mirrorless technology.

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Sony’s made a Bluetooth turntable for burgeoning vinyl nerds

Vinyl is back and shows no signs of abating. Hell, according to a report from Buzzangle, vinyl sales in the US rose almost 12 percent between 2017 and 2018. This meant the format accounted for close to 14 percent of all physical music sales in America.

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Honor’s new View20 gets a 48MP rear camera and an under-screen selfie camera

Huawei’s Honor just fired a massive volley in the smartphone megapixel war. At an event in Hong Kong, the company announced its latest model — the Honor View20. This phone comes with a 48-megapixel rear-facing camera, and a selfie camera that’s embedded within the screen.

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Sony Develops ‘Contactless’ Hardware Wallet for Digital Assets

Sony has announced the development of a new type of cryptocurrency hardware wallet that uses its IC card technology. The Japanese conglomerate also said that it firmly believes in the potential for the commercialization and widespread adoption of blockchain technology.

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Sony Announces the Development of a Multi-Purpose Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet

Sony’s research and development division, dubbed Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc., announced on October 23, it has created a contactless IC card cryptocurrency hardware wallet. The Japanese tech giant utilizes its years of experience with contactless IC card technology, to develop a small and portable hardware wallet, which aims to improve usability and security compared to […] Sony Announces the Development of a Multi-Purpose Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet was originally found on [blokt] - Blockchain, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News.

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Sony Develops Contactless Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet

Sony Computer Science Laboratories, an arm of Sony Corporation, announced October 23, 2018, in a press release the development of a contactless IC card with the purpose of being used as a cryptocurrency hardware wallet.

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Sony Announces Work on Contactless Crypto Hardware Wallet using IC Smart Card Technology

Sony Announces Work on Unnamed Hardware Wallet to Interact with Bitcoin and Other Crypto Networks There are few bigger names in the technology industry than Sony, and when they decide that an endeavor is worth pursuing, like cryptocurrency, the world needs to take note.

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Sony has developed contactless crypto hardware wallet

On October 23, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL) announced it had created a contactless cryptocurrency hardware wallet. The device which is yet unnamed utilizes IC smart card technology popular in Japan to communicate with the Bitcoin (BTC) or other cryptocurrency network.

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Sony is Building a Blockchain-Enabled Rights Management System for Digital Content

Japanese technology giant Sony Corporation has announced the development of a rights management system for digital content that utilizes blockchain technology. The purpose is to create a more efficient way of managing and demonstrating ownership of copyright-related information for written works, the company said on Monday.

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Sony Develops Blockchain System for Digital Rights Management

Entertainment behemoth Sony Corporation announced Monday the development of a blockchain-based tool for the management of the rights to intellectual property such as music, videos, and written works.

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Sony partners with itself to manage content rights with blockchain

A partnership between the Sony Corporation, Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), and Sony Global Education has today announced the development of a “system for authenticating, sharing, and rights management of educational data.

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Sony will finally let you change your PlayStation ID

Sony officially announced that, after twelve years and countless user requests, it’s finally allowing users to change their PlayStation Network names. It’s opening the feature to the PlayStation Preview program so certain users can test it.

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You can now download PlayStation Now games directly to your PS4

Sony today announced PlayStation Now subscribers would be able to download their games in order to play them offline.  Up to now, if you wanted to play games on PlayStation Now, you’d have to stream them —  meaning you needed to be continuously online in order to make it work.

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PlayStation One Classic won’t fix the biggest problem with retro consoles

Sony today announced it was releasing the PlayStation One Classic later this year — the sixty millionth retro console so far (I’m guesstimating). You’d think, now that we’re so deep into this trend, we’d see a little innovation, or at least something other than a tiny hunk of plastic with a couple of emulated games on it.

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Sony announces limited edition ‘Amazing Red’ PS4 Pro bundle

Sony today announced a custom-edition PlayStation 4 that features a bright red exterior adorned with the logo of everyone’s favorite web-slinger. I’m not a fan of custom-edition consoles. I’d like to think that when I fork over upwards of $500 that the console I just bought is going to be, visually speaking, something I’ll have to live with for the next several years — until a new version takes its place.

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