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UK PS3 sales hit 2 million
The Sony PSP handheld and PlayStation 3 console have both hit milestones in the UK The PS3 has now seen sales of over 2 million units in the country while PSP sales have passed the 3 million mark. The stats, as told to MCV by UK MD Ray Maguire, follow the news from Sony that [...]
PS3 to Support amBX Lighting and Effects
amBX ANNOUNCES TOOLS AND MIDDLEWARE LICENSE FOR PLAYSTATION®3 4th February 2009 – Redhill, UK – amBX today announced that it has concluded a Tools & Middleware License agreement for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) with Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI). Originally conceived and developed for the PC by a UK team within Philips Research, amBX is a technology [...]
PS3 price cut nearly here?
Analyst predicts that Sony will slash $100 off the price of 80GB machine this April Games analyst Michael Pachter has predicted that Sony will slash the price of the 80GB PS3 in North America from $399 to $299 this April. The news follows reports in the Japanese press claiming that Sony will report a $1.1bn [...]
Latest PS3 firmware update hits consoles
Sony has released the latest firmware update for the PlayStation 3 gaming console, updating some media capabilities. The update, version 2.60′s, “key feature is a new Photo Gallery application, which delivers a suite of tools for sorting through and displaying your digital photo collection. Digital pictures can be organized in groups according to various criteria, [...]
Sony Final Fantasy VII edition PS3
Final Fantasy is the game series that just won’t die. Like the Godfather Michael Corleone, everytime you are out they keep pulling you back in. The latest incarnation is the re-release of Advent Children, and Sony’s celebrating with another special edition console to celebrate it. The upgraded movie apparently features 30 extra minutes of animation [...]
Use Your PlayStation 3 DualShock/SixAxis Controllers On Your PC
Unlike Microsoft, Sony never bothered to make PC drivers for their PlayStation 3 controllers; but some Japanese programmer has bridged that fjord for you. This Geocities page (wait, what?) has the download links, and this forum has English instructions on how to get it working. It works in XP/Vista, and theoretically should work on Windows [...]
PS3 Factory Service Mode
Since the 2.5 update the PS3 has a Recovery menu with the following options: Restart System: Restarts the PLAYSTATION®3 System. Restore Default Settings: Reset all system settings back to default. Restore File System: Checks for corrupt/missing system files. Rebuild Database: Rebuilds the OS for the PLAYSTATION®3. Restore PS3 System: Fresh restore; Deletes everything and starts [...]
Xbox 360 shoved into a PS3 case
Last night we told you about the Wii winning the console wars this holiday season. The Xbox 360 did well too. But nobody wanted the poor PS3. There’s apparently at least one modder who the likes the PS3. The outside of it anyway. This modder shoved an Xbox 360 into a PS3 case. It wasn’t [...]
PS3 can’t compete against Wii, Xbox 360 this holiday season
This is hardly shocking news, but according to the Wall Street Journal, both Nintendo’s Wii and the Xbox 360 clobbered the PS3 in holiday sales. U.S. sales fell nine percent from this month last year. During the same period, sales doubled for the Wii and were up eight percent for the Xbox 360.
That’s what [...]