Bryce Harper, the 19-year old top ranked baseball phenom, will make has long awaited major league debut today for the Washington Nationals against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium.  Harper, the top prospect in the majors as ranked by Baseball America the last two seasons, will play left field and bat seventh. Harper was called up from Class AAA Syracuse Friday after the injury bug hit Mike Morse and Ryan Zimmerman. We caught up with Bryce before the season to talk about his experience thus far as a professional and his love of video games in this exclusive video interview.

Baseball season is almost upon us once again, with spring training games in full swing and big-league players ready to step up.  With that, Sony’s also hitting the plate a month out with its latest diamond-running sim, MLB 12: The Show.  As in previous years, it really knows its authenticity, and inserts it into every frame of the game, from the crack of the bat to the mad scramble around bases, with players making crack decisions about stealing bases or running for home.  But they’ve been doing that for the past few years.  Does anything really stand out to make this year’s game different?  Yep, but not all of it is for the positive.

Sony’s MLB 12 The Show franchise has been and continues to be the market leading and most realistic baseball title of this console generation and the number-one rated sports video game over the past four years. Sony had both the PS Vita and PlayStation 3 versions of the new game on display at CES 2012 in Las Vegas. Now the game maker has unveiled the new cover featuring Adrian Gonzalez. The first overall pick by the Florida Marlins in the 2000 MLB Draft, Gonzalez has ascended to the top of his sport, both on the field and at the plate. He is a four-time All-Star (2008-2011), three-time Rawlings Gold Glove winner (2008, 2009, 2011), and 2011 Silver Slugger Award winner. Check out both versions of the new game in the exclusive videos below.

LAS VEGAS – Sony had a larger than usual gaming arcade at its massive booth at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012) this year. One of the big games showcased across PlayStation 3 and PS Vita was MLB 12 The Show, which hits stores on March 6, 2012, just in time for MLB Spring Training.  MLB 12 has been and continues to be the market leading and highest ranked officially licensed baseball title of this console generation (according to MetaCritic.com) and the number-one rated sports video game over the past four years (according to GameRankings.com), delivering true-to-life gameplay, authentic franchise and season modes, and incredible detail not found in any other sports game.  The new game builds on what has been delivered in previous franchise releases, adding compelling features that bring unparalleled innovation and polish to the sports genre. The developer provides an exclusive walkthrough of the new game in the video below.

Sony is slowly but surely expanding their PlayStation Network to a variety of users, introducing movies, TV shows, streaming services like Netflix and Hulu Plus and great sports channels like MLB.TV and NHL GameCenter Live.  Today it took an even bigger step by announcing DirecTV's NFL Sunday Ticket as an available service this fall to all PSN users.  It's looking like a pretty sweet deal for football fans, but there are things that need to be taken under consideration.

When it comes to upgrading to a 3D home entertainment center for your gaming room, the new Vizio 65-inch Theater 3D Razor LED LCD HDTV is the way to go. In fact, a leading Sony game developer who’s tested all the 3D TVs on the market with their bestselling 3D game franchise said this Vizio is the one to buy. The 3D TV employs passive 3D technology, which means you can use the same glasses you wear at the movie theater. The co-founder of the company talks about this new 3D TV in this exclusive video interview from CE Week in New York below.

The New York Yankees are one of those teams, like the Dallas Cowboys, that you either love, or love to hate. But for most of his career, Derek Jeter has been the one guy most people liked. In fact, he was on the cover of 2K Sports MLB 2K5, 2K6 and 2K7 for just that reason. These days, with his poor batting average pulling down the team and his recent decision to skip the MLB All-Star Game in Phoenix (along with most of the other big names in baseball), he’s become the subject of negative press. Jeter talks about his earlier days, when playing video games was a bigger part of his life, in this exclusive interview.

Sony Corporation and Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) announced that Sony Network Entertainment International (SNEI, the company) will today begin a phased restoration by region of PlayStation Network and Qriocity Services.  The phased restoration will be on a country by country basis beginning in the Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Middle East. The first phase of restored services for these countries and regions will include: sign-in for PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, including the resetting of passwords; restoration of online game-play across PS3 and PSP; 'Friends' category on PS3, including Friends List, chat functionality, trophy comparison, etc.; and PlayStation Home. The end result is that gamers will be able to play online games like Crysis 2 after a month-long interruption of service.

Just in time for the first pitch on opening day of Major League Baseball, Electronic Arts has returned to the baseball diamond for the first time in years. EA Sports has launched World Series Superstars, a free-to-play baseball game for Facebook, that is licensed by MLB Advanced Media and the MLB Players Association.  EA hasn’t released an MLB game since 2005 with MVP Baseball 06, although it did release two NCAA Baseball games after 2K Sports shut out the sports giant with an exclusive third-party license that will expire in 2012. Minnesota Twins slugger Joe Mauer talks about video games in this exclusive video interview.

Just in time for spring training and opening day, Sony Computer Entertainment America is taking gamers out to the ballpark with the  release of the #1 selling and rated baseball video game this generation, MLB 11 The Show.  Gracing the cover of this year's installment of the market leading Major League Baseball franchise is a familiar face -- 3-time Gold Glove winner, 2-time Silver Slugger, 3-time American League (AL) batting champion, 2009 American League Most Valuable Player (MVP), and MLB 10 The Show cover athlete, Joe Mauer, All-Star catcher for the Minnesota Twins. Sony walks us through the new 3D PlayStation 3 game in this exclusive video from GDC 2011.

A new report from Research and Markets finds that television manufacturers are viewing 3D developments as the next big thing for the 3D TV industry, and expect it to boost sales and interest as much as color TVs did to black and white entertainment decades ago. The 3D TV market size is expected to grow to more than $100 billion by the end of 2014 as more big games from companies like Sony Computer Entertainment, including MLB 11: The Show, Killzone 3 and Motorstorm Apocalypse hit the gaming space. Hollywood is also increasing the number of Blu-ray 3Ds based on big movies like Disney’s Alice in Wonderland 3D, Sony Pictures’ Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D and Weinstein’s Piranha 3D. And CES 2011 once again focused on 3D TVs like the 92-inch Mitsubishi in the video below.

LAS VEGAS -- Full-resolution high-definition 3D transmission via a premium TV service provider became a reality at this year's 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2011). Verizon and Panasonic, a leader in Full HD 3D technology, streamed Full HD 3D, currently the highest-possible resolution of 3D video, via Verizon's 100 percent fiber-optic FiOS TV service.