Posts tagged metreon 
Tecmo announces new game announcement
Tecmo recently invited us to its upcoming new game announcement, taking place on March 24th. According to the invite, this will be the greatest "_____" game ever. Logic tells us that the new game announcement will be a continuation of one of Tecmo's franchises. Could this be the greatest Dead or A...
PlayStation 'flagship store' no more
Just as Microsoft is changing your "device-buying experience" across the United States and opening a slew of stores, Sony is closing their main spot. Infamous for hosting PS2, PSP and PS3 launch events in the past, the Metreon Shopping Complex has hosted America's only Sony Playstation Store as we...
Live in LA? You could join an Insomniac Games studio tour
Lucky Californians. Looks like you'll be able to attend not one, but two Insomniac-sponsored Resistance 2 events. First is the now-standard midnight launch party. The real-world PlayStation Store at the San Francisco Metreon will feature Ted Price and the Insomniac gang giving away swag, autograph...
Valkyria Chronicles event in San Francisco this Friday
Sega and Sony will be holding a pre-release event for Valkyria Chronicles this Friday, Sept. 26, in San Francisco. The shindig will take place in the PlayStation Store at the Metreon between 5-9PM. Attendees will be able to play a demo of the strategy-action RPG a month before that same demo is ma...
Valkyria Chronicles coming to San Francisco this Friday
Although the game doesn't officially release until November, Sega is throwing a Valkyria Chronicles party in San Francisco's Metreon store. The venue, made famous for its real-world PlayStation Store, will be host to Sega producer Ryutaro Nonaka. An exclusive community Q&A will be held at the ...
Pictures from the Crisis Core launch event
Ryoga Vee was kind enough to take pictures during the Crisis Core launch event in San Francisco. Unfortunately, the cosplayers stayed home, with nary an over-dramatic hairdo to be seen. Thanks to these two for dressing up and making us proud. According to Ryoga, the premiere was an "inflated eve...
Square Enix to hold Crisis Core launch event at Metreon
San Francisco's Metreon store will host the official Crisis Core launch event next Tuesday. Expect legions of Square Enix fans to cosplay as their favorite Final Fantasy VII character as they line up to purchase this hotly anticipated PSP exclusive. The Metreon is located at 101 4th St in San Fran...
Star Wars Battlefront launch party in SF next week
If you're in the San Francisco metro area, you may want to head to the Sony Metreon for the Star Wars Battlefront launch party. The festivities start next Tuesday at 6PM. LucasArts is promising tons of prizes, such as the Han Solo carbonite case -- free for the first 200 people that purchase the n...
Join the Final Fantasy 20th anniversary party
Get your cosplay gear ready, folks. A Final Fantasy party is heading to the PlayStation Store at the Metreon in San Francisco. The date? Tuesday, June 26th. The time? 6PM. According to the press release, "the event will commemorate 20 years of devotion, dedication and passion from the greatest fan...
Console launch lines and "shortages," explained
During a recent class in Operations and Information Management (taught in first year of the Wharton MBA program), professor Senthil Veeraraghavan dove into a mini case study on Sony's PlayStation and PSP products in order to demonstrate best practices in production capacity management around the l...
