gameplayer.com.au - 5/8/2009
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How has it come to this?
techon.nikkeibp.co.jp - 5/10/2009
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techon.nikkeibp.co.jp —
Sir Howard Stringer never sits still long enough
to warm his chair; as the spearhead of Sony's...
business, he is constantly in motion in Japan, the US, Europe and elsewhere. Originally a journalist, he joined Sony Corp of Japan 11 years ago and was ...
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[NEA Interview] Sony Chairman, CEO Howard Stringer -- ...
playstationlifestyle.net - 5/15/2009
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playstationlifestyle.net —
If you haven’t made good on Sony’s offer
for a free Chamber Apartment, you should hop into...
Home and get it while the getting is good! The Chamber Apartment will only be available until may 21st. If you thought that was the only freebie Sony was dishing out for Home, then you are not very observant.
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Sony Giving Away MORE Home Freebies
playstationlifestyle.net - 5/6/2009
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playstationlifestyle.net —
In a surprise announcement from a very recent
Sony event in Sydney, Australia, Sony Computer Entertainment announced...
that they signed a deal with Atari and will be publishing the upcoming Ghostbusters videogame.
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Ghostbusters Now a PlayStation Exclusive
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Why Exclusives are Feeding the Hate
GoNintendo —
... a specific platform was going to give you an experience you couldn’t get anywhere else, that was a great thing. Nowadays, that feeling seems to be few and far between. Plenty of Nintendo fans don’t want the exclusives that the Big N is making, and third parties are putting together deals that make limited-time exclusives out of games that were originally multiplatform. For instance, the Ghostbusters situation has people really up in arms. What’s happening to the world of exclusives? Article here (thanks AusGamer!) Posted May 8th, 2009 at 12:54 pm | ...
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Blue's News —
... Be they better or worse, each genre has its benchmark. So our reviewer plays, possibly scribbling some notes longhand or taking into a dictaphone as they go. The problem with game reviewing is that you cannot enjoy the game. I know some journalists who advocate playing a game twice, once for fun and a second time with a critic's eye. Yet again we fall back to the time factor and the lack of a conclusion. MMOs are by their very natural continuous and changing with no real ending. Gameplayer - Why Exclusives are Feeding the Hate . For the PlayStation faithful to get so passionate ...
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