Despite Sony Corp.’s CEO Howard Stinger calling the high-definition battle a simple matter of prestige, the Blu-ray Disc Association wasted little time in announcing yet another sales milestone.
Thanks the frenzy of buyers during the Black Friday shopping period, total Blu-ray Disc player sales have reached 2.7 million units in North America. The number, of course, […]
Epic has completed its race to the finish line, pushing the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3 out in time for the holidays.
“We got news last night that Unreal Tournament 3 has been approved by SCEA and has been released to North American manufacturing,” said Epic VP Mark Rein on the company forums. Though […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sony Corp will launch a cheaper model of its PlayStation 3 in the United States, hoping to attract more buyers as it goes up against rival game consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo this holiday. The company also cut the price of its highest-capacity model by about 17 percent. The new version of […]
It’s official: Halo 3 is done. Two weeks after developer Bungie Studios announced that “99.9 percent” of work on the game was complete, publisher Microsoft Game Studios announced today that the eagerly awaited sci-fi shooter has gone gold. Rated M for Mature, the Xbox 360 exclusive is available in three versions: the $59.99 regular edition, […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The creator of classic computer game “Doom,” id Software, unveiled on Friday its eagerly anticipated next game, “Rage,” in which players fight an oppressive government in a post-apocalyptic world. The new game will be released for computers running either Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Windows or Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O: Quote, […]
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s Wii game console outsold Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 by the ratio of over 4 to 1 in Japan in July, game magazine publisher Enterbrain said on Friday. Nintendo sold 396,752 units of the Wii in the five weeks ended July 29, compared with 91,987 units of the PS3.
The PS3, […]
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. did not slash the price of the PlayStation 3 game console in Europe and PAL regions, following price reduction in the
USA, causing some criticism from its fans. However, the European chief of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. said that once the current stock is sold out in the U.S. there will be […]
San Jose (CA) – Immersion on Thursday reported its most profitable quarter yet, largely due to a payment from Sony that resulted from infringing on Immersion’s Touch Sense patents. Integrating a vibrating feature into the Playstation controller ended up to be a very expensive adventure for Sony.
Immersion said that its operating income for the first […]
It didn’t take too long to Sony Computer Entertainment officially revealed the next-generation equivalent of the original EyeToy aimed at PS2 software. The new hardware version drops the toy factor, adds USB 2.0 and is simply dubbed the PlayStation Eye, scheduled for a summer release.
“With the release of PlayStation Eye we will be able to […]
Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity more than double in the last month thanks to the addition of idle processor cycles from hundreds of thousands of PlayStation 3 consoles.
Total computing power of the system is now at around 700T Flops (floating point operations per second), with nearly 400T Flops of that […]