Archive for January, 2009

Circuit City EoL: all remaining stores to be liquidated

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Surprised? NOT I! I r teh glads. Circuit City announced today it will liquidate all remaining 567 US stores after failing to find a buyer or figure out a refinancing deal, reports the AP. The nation's second-largest electronics retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late last year, at the time ...

SpikeTV’s ‘08 VGAs Viewership Down <26% of ’07’s

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

HaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaHAHAHahhhahaha. Oh. Sorry - I meant that it's too bad that SpikeTV's "blinded by how much cash we can get by whoring out" executive team is getting EXACTLY WHAT THE DESERVE. Hopefully the VGA's will die a horrible FAST death. The Nielsen ratings are in, and they are not something to ...

What Ever Happened to TG-16 on the PS3?

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Kutaragi originally announced TG16 and Genesis downloads for PS3 at the Tokyo Game Show in 2006. What happened to that? Just another lie! Hell, Sega denied it the NEXT DAY and we never heard ANYTHING from Hudson or NEC about TG-16. File this one under "unfounded claims" Source HERE @ Tired of Sony ...

Sony Publicly Questions Value of Rival “Consoles”

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Beat that horse! Sony wants to re-demonstrate that they are STILL delusional, do NOT live on this planet, and as such they definitely do not care about earthling's common sense. While Microsoft recently pointed out that it is outselling the PS3 by more than eight million units worldwide, Sony has retaliated ...

Non-Sony News: Why Sega doesn’t care when Sonic sucks

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Before I was a rabid common sense analyst of Sony's gaming division I was the same for Sega. See what happened to THEM?!? Here's some "what I saw coming" concerning Sega that you can bank on for Sony in the next 10 years. Boss Rush was an anonymous blog, currently deleted, ...

MS “will not be using Home”. Sony Tries Again to ‘Up’ it’s Image

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Sony's pathetic, aren't they? They'll say anything and DO almost anything to make themselves look cool. They overcompensate in every aspect of their business - most noticibly advertising - and this is no exception. Reference THIS story from Jan.2, 2009. Microsoft will not be using Home as a tool for virtual meetings," ...

EGM’s Last Edition to be January 2009. RIP

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

It happened yesterday, Tuesday January 6th. the 1up network (which made EGM crap) got sold off by Ziff Davis to UGO Entertainment which has already scrapped the magazine and their respective podcasts and other internet media. This is, of course what happens when money becomes the motivation for the people in ...

King Of Fighters XII Trailer. Sit before you watch. Seriously.

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Thanks Kotaku! P.s. Clicking on the link above and downloading the HD version if your PC can handle it.... MUCH recommended. Unrelated to Sony, well YEAH but this is ARCADE news man. ARCADE NEWS. When was the last time you saw THAT?!!!?! Of course they'll port to consoles, but this is an ...

Sony’s Year End Tokyo Stock Exchange Ranking

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Oh noes! Here is the 2008 year end Tokyo Stock Exchange market cap ranking: 1. Toyota Motors: 10.160 trillion yen 2. NTT Docomo: 7.915 trillion yen 3. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group: 6.5109 trillion yen 4. Nintendo: 4.7813 trillion yen (US$52,732,987,757.80) 5. Tokyo Electric: 4.586 trillion yen 6. Takeda Pharmaceutical Company: 3.7823 trillion yen 7. Canon: 3.6945 trillion yen 8. ...

Sony Offering Big Companies Meeting Space in Home. WTF?!

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Holy geez batman. The creative minds at Sony apparently think that teleconferencing, webconferencing, and video conferencing aren't enough in the "green" movement. Apparently they think that using Home will reduce travel and thus, reduce carbon emissions. D.u.m.b. Sony and Advanced Workplace Associates file this madness: Microsoft and Ernst and Young ...