Sony announced last week it plans to release new firmware for its PlayStation 3 video game console. The new update will expose new capabilities in the PS3’s Blu-ray Disc player.
The free update for PS3 users in North America was to be posted by the weekend. Blu-ray Disc is the heir apparent to the crown […]
Introduction
The Plasma Television screen is one of the most exciting consumer electronics and Home Theater products to debut in the past decade. Plasma Screens are literally changing the shape of television, from the familiar CRT-type TV that has been around for 50 years, to a sleek, nearly flat display that can hang on a wall.
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Perhaps this can be considered a lesson for game developers eager to deliver tomorrow’s game technology today: Crysis hit the PC market with an exoskeleton-enhanced thud. The critically praised — but processing intensive — title sold a disappointing 86,633 units in the States following its Nov. 13 release.
Holding hands with Crysis is Epic’s Unreal Tournament […]
Thanks to Black Friday and the holiday buying season, the video games industry experienced blistering sales during November.
Nintendo walked away as the big dog, selling a record number of hardware units. The Nintendo DS handheld sold an astonishing 1.53 million units – 653,000 of them during Black Friday week. The Wii likely sold out its […]
Unit sales and price point seem to have a direct correlation in this generation’s console race. After cutting the price of its 80GB PlayStation 3 to $499 and introducing a 40GB model at $399 in November, Sony experienced a significant uptick in sales of its high-tech hardware. Nintendo’s $249 Wii, which has been the cheapest […]
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 […]
Just shy of its one year launch anniversary, the PlayStation 3’s system firmware has jumped a full version number. New features in version 2.0 include remote play, unlimited playlists, more Xross Media Bar customization and more.
Those with PSPs can make use of the improvements to the Remote Play linkage between the handheld and the PS3. […]
Kaz Hirai has come to the Tokyo Game Show bearing good news indeed: Sony’s finally putting out a SIXAXIS with rumble, the DualShock 3. The controller will look exactly like the SIXAXIS, and is going to be hitting Japan this November, and North America and Europe in spring 2008. A few games in development have […]
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 […]
SANTA MONICA, Calif.–Today, the E3 Media & Business Summit wound down in Santa Monica, with at least one exhibitor having already packed up and left the show floor at Barker Hangar. However, this morning saw the biggest controversy of the show heat up, with a maelstrom of confusion surrounding the $499 price drop of the […]