Today Sony Executive Vice President Kazuo Hirai announced that an 'iTunes' style online entertainment service will be coming in early 2010.

Sony plans to launch the new online service to distribute movies, music, books and other content to the PS3, network-capable Bravia TVs, Blu-ray players, ebooks and others in a bid to add value to its hardware.

To quote: "Sony...

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Update: As expected, according to FinancialPost.com Microsoft stated, to quote: "Piracy is illegal and modifying an XBox 360 is a violation of the XBox Live Terms of Use. Microsoft is well within its legal rights to ban these users from XBox Live."

Today IncGamers.com (linked above) have reported that Abington IP, a law firm specializing in consumer class actions, has started an...

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Today Sony Social Media Senior Specialist Chris Morell has shared a behind-the-scenes video with the God of War Collection PS3 developer, as follows:

One day. That’s all there’s left to wait until you’ll be slashing it up with your Blades of Chaos, soaking up orbs and hording Trophies like nobody’s business in God of War Collection.

So to get you riled up while...

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The 'father' of Sony's PlayStation Ken Kutaragi has announced the launch of a new Cyber company today, with the business based in Tokyo.

The firm works in Internet services, however, it is not yet detailed how it may overlap into the videogame industry.

To quote: "The former chairman and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Ken Kutaragi, has established a new company in...

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Today Creat Studios Director of Business Development Scott Hyman has announced that Bubble Trubble PSP Mini is coming to Sony's PlaySTation Network this week.

To quote: This is Scott Hyman, Director of Business Development at Creat Studios along with Jason Benham, Producer and Creator of Bubble Trubble, our new PSP Mini game. Bubble Trubble will be available for download on the...

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Earlier this year we reported that the Entertainment Software Association of Canada was seeking to jail pirates and target mod-chips.

Today, the ESA has praised the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and York Police Service for a recent raid on retailers selling pirated software at Pacific Mall in Markham, Ontario.

To quote: After a two month investigation, authorities seized...

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While most companies are in the business of combating software piracy these days, RedLynx CEO Tero Virtala admitted that his company leaked a version of the PC motorcycle game Trials 2 on the same day that the game was commercially available.

However, the 'leaked' version did not include the online leaderboards which they believe is key to the title... so the plan was to get people...

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Today Epic Games has announced the launch of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), a free edition of Unreal Engine 3 that provides community access to the award-winning toolset.

Anyone can start working with the Unreal Engine 3 toolset by downloading the UDK at UDK.com, where detailed product features, technical documentation, commercial licensing terms, support resources and more...

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The rumor over the weekend has now been officially confirmed, Netflix is indeed coming soon to Sony's PS3 console!

To quote from Netflix VP of Corporate Communications Steve Swasey on the PlayStation Blog:

Attention, PlayStation 3 owners: want to watch a movie streamed instantly from Netflix via your PS3? I’ve got terrific news for you; very soon you’ll be able to do...

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Update: The rumor is now officially confirmed by NetFlix.

We already know of Netflix's plans to stream to Sony Bravia TV Sets, and in the past both a survey and CNET have hinted that Netflix may be coming to Sony's PlayStation 3 console.

Today, according to the Associated Press, Netflix stocks are riding high after management announced they'll soon be extending their "watch instantly" Internet...

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