Speculation that Sony is working with Android for a PSP phone increases after this job posting is found.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Acquire, famous for games like Tenchu and Octopath Traveler, becomes KADOKAWA subsidiary. Can this mean a revival for beloved series?
I would kill to have a Way of the Samurai game with a huge budget and modern tech... The first game was one of my greatest joys on PS2 back in the day. And I really hope From Software will do something with Tenchu... I hate that they're just sitting on the IP like it doesn't even exist.
Tenchu would be superb in this day and age. Ninja and samurai games are hot right now and more is better.
Final Fantasy 7 has come back under the spotlight thanks to the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, but is it worth replaying the original?
Very much so. Graphically it's dated but the story and the gameplay haven't aged a day. It's still one of my all time favourite RPGs and for me is better than Remake in some ways.
It's coming, baby.
Senior Server Engineer
Job Type:
Permanent
Salary/Rate:
Dependant on experence
Date Posted:
15/09/2010
Department:
Online Technology Group
Location:
Soho, London
Responsibilities:
The main responsibilities of the role are as follows:
• Participate in design review of applications and services. Come up with design best practices for building operational effectiveness in applications early in design.
• Identify the need for automation in processes and automate them if feasible.
• Identify the need for tools that help in Operations and implement them.
• Help game teams with development of distributed and networked applications and services when required.
• Plan reusable performance benchmark tests for applications and services.
• Recommend what works how, when and where and what does not work how, when and where when it comes to applications or services performance.
• Help troubleshoot issues at different levels of architecture - kernel, network, applications/services.
Requirements:
The candidate must have these qualities or experiences:
• Communication skills are essential in this customer facing role.
• Strong experience in developing distributed networked applications that make use of protocols such as TCP, UDP, and HTTP.
• Extensive knowledge of Linux.
• Strong skills in more than one of the following: Perl, Bash/ksh, Python, Ruby.
• Exposure to live application hosting.
• Strong understanding of database performance and tuning.
• Experience in using software design patterns, data structures, algorithms.
• Programming Experience in C/C++ and/or Java.
• Ability to manage oneself across multiple streams of work.
• Experience automating tests and tasks.
Highly desirable:
• BS or MS in Computer Science.
• Experience of working as a core developer.
• Experience in design and development of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
• Experience with cloud hosting, such as Amazon Web Services.
• Experience in mobile development, specifically Android is a plus.
• Knowledge/experience of online gaming.
sounds very intresting, and clowd's listed.
@drewboy704 just buy an unlocked one if need be.
Soo is that means we will get a psp2 phone or the old psp phone??? Both ways can't wait for it
Android biggest weakness is gaming and with this phone I guess it will only be a matter of time till android is the most poplar smartphones os in the world
i don't want psp2 to go into that direction,it's dumb, focus on gaming.
Sony and Google alliance....CONFIRMED.