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May 7th, 2021
On May 7th, 1946, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded ’Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo’, the company that would later become Sony. After its beginnings making tape recorders and transistor radios, it rapidly expanded into myriad industries. From its ‘My First Sony’ range to early cameraphones, virtual reality headsets to Digital Audio Tapes, Sony has always tried new things, with varying degrees of success. On the company’s 75th anniversary, we’ve put together a series of articles about our experiences with some of its more interesting and unusual products.
The Sony Ericsson K750i was a marvel in its day and, even now, sixteen years later, stands as a key step on the path to the era of smartphone photography. The candybar phone was one of the first to come with a proper camera, packing two whole megapixels of power inside its body. Sony, who was (and still is) master of the point-and-shoot, had managed to cram a modest point-and-shoot into a handset only slightly big
The games industry moves pretty fast, and there s a tendency for all involved to look constantly to what s next without so much worrying about what came before. That said, even an industry so entrenched in the now can learn from its past. So to refresh our collective memory and perhaps offer some perspective on our field s history, GamesIndustry.biz runs this monthly feature highlighting happenings in gaming from exactly a decade ago.
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It didn t seem like a big deal at first. After all, outages on various gaming networks are semi-common to this day, and the PlayStation Network of 2011 was not exactly known for reliability. The timing was unfortunate, coming right on the heels of anticipated PS3 releases like Portal 2 and SOCOM 4: US Navy SEALs, but frustrated gamers could no doubt find something else to do, get a good night s sleep, and give those games online functionality another shot the next day.
The games industry moves pretty fast, and there s a tendency for all involved to look constantly to what s next without so much worrying about what came before. That said, even an industry so entrenched in the now can learn from its past. So to refresh our collective memory and perhaps offer some perspective on our field s history, GamesIndustry.biz runs this monthly feature highlighting happenings in gaming from exactly a decade ago.
Good News for Developers Who Love Bad News
February of 2011 was a rough month for game developers who put stock in the opinions of their well-known peers.
In a round-up article with some big-name developers sharing their thoughts on the shift to digital distribution, Gaikai co-founder David Perry warned of harder times for developers making small games.