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Sega has announced its official video game of the London Olympic Games will release on June 2012 with Kinect and PlayStation Move support. Also planned for PC, London 2012 is set to include 30 Olympic events including Keirin (Cycling) at the Velodrome, 10m Synchronised Platform (Diving) at the Aquatics Centre and Trampoline at North Greenwich …

Sony has revealed Ape Escape for PS3, which supports PlayStation Move. Laugh, we nearly vomited. Developed by Sony Worldwide Studios’ Japan Studio, Ape Escape “combines exciting colourful action” and “hilarious monkey humour with a host of new features for PS3 – including full compatibility with the PlayStation Move motion controller,” Sony says. Ape Escape sees …

It looks like Sony will detail plans for official PlayStation Move PC support at GDC at the end of the month. A listing for a presentation by SCEA’s lead in the Game Systems team in Developer Support John McCutchan, outlines a new project that will allow hobbyists to meddle with the Move on their PC. …

2K has confirmed that Top Spin 4 will be Move compatible but will not support Kinect, according to reports. The more eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that the game’s box art for PlayStation 3, released yesterday, featured the Move logo but the Xbox 360 equivalent made no mention of motion control features for Kinect. …

With the new breed of motion control filling the stop-gap left by where we would once expect a new console cycle, analysts have expressed their delight at the festive performance of both PlayStation Move and Xbox 360 Kinect. “Among all the analysts, I was the most bullish, forecasting five to six million in sell through …

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe chief Andrew House reckons Microsoft will struggle to develop a broad range of games for Kinect. While Move can work with any genre, he feels Microsoft’s camera-only motion control solution has “limitations”, as Sony found out with EyeToy. “We learnt from that experience that there are limitations around a camera-only solution. …

From tomorrow you’ll be able to experience Kinect functionality via the PlayStation Network. Well, kind of. That’s if developer Virtual Air Guitar Company’s Kung Fu Live lives up to expectations. The PSN beat ‘em up uses body tracking tech through the PlayStation Eye to achieve similar results to Microsoft’s Kinect, the developer chirped, whilst noting …

Mark Stanley, GM of Latin America for SCEA, has said the success of the PlayStation Move motion controller has “greatly exceeded expectations”. “We’re actually continuing to catch up on filling the pipeline with product, as we are in the U.S. and worldwide because demand has greatly exceeded our expectations,” he told Industry Gamers. Sony confirmed …

It’s the cutthroat world of PR in action. Sony has released a history of EyeToy video today in which it details the limitations its researchers found with body-only motion control. Yes – the day before Kinect launches in US. Coincidence? Psh, yeah right. Sony’s senior researcher Richard Marks says: “With EyeToy we really wanted to …

Sony Computer Entertainment R&D guru Dr. Richard Marks isn’t a big fan of the type of controller-free experience Kinect offers. “I totally agree that there is this magical feeling with using your hands to select something,” Marks told the New York Times as part of a Kinect feature. “But that feeling wears off pretty quickly, …

Sony has confirmed it sold “somewhere in the region of 1.5 million” PlayStation Move controllers in Europe alone in its first month on sale. SCEE boss Andrew House told Bloomberg that Move has seen “very significant sales in the first month since launch, somewhere in the region of 1.5 million units for the new controller …

LittleBigPlanet 2 will ship with a 10-level demo for PlayStation Move support, Media Molecule has confirmed. The developer’s community manager James Spafford explained: “With the main game there will be an extra game – possibly on another disc, maybe on the same disk – that will contain 10-ish levels that demonstrate how Move could work …

Sony’s PlayStation Move front man Kevin Butler is putting the Move through its paces by moving in with an American family for 90 days – whether they agree to it or not. In the first episode of this advert/reality TV hybrid the VP of Blu-ray Superiority effortlessly invades the families home and sets up camp, …

Sony has cheekily admitted that it will never be able – or perhaps have the inclination – to spend the same amount on pushing PlayStation as Microsoft does on Xbox. The news comes as MS launches its most expensive ever marketing campaign for a single game with Halo: Reach. Meanwhile, Sony’s UK team is set …

Kevin Butler is already a Sony legend. But his latest, Move inspired movie has hit the intermaweb and it’s just awesome. Wanna see a granddad punch a boy in the face*? A bowl of cheese puffs go flying? Kevin himself wearing a horned Viking helmet and chowing on handheld chicken? You’ve come to the right …