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PS3 3D gaming due Summer 2010

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Feb 10th 2010 No Comments

Remember how we told you the Sony PS3 was compatible with the Blu-ray Disc Associations finalized 3D specification back in December 2009? If you've been wondering when exactly that 3D technology would actually arrive on the console, the answer is sometime this summer. Pocket-lint grabbed John Koller, director of hardware marketing for SCEA, and pestered him into confirming that Sony are currently developing 3D stereoscopic games that are scheduled to arrive alongside the company's 3D LCD HDTVs over summer 2010.

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Sony not making, but losing money on every PS3 sold

By Paul Fang on Saturday, Feb 6th 2010 No Comments

Playstation 3 sales have recently been on the rise, but nevertheless, the Wall Street Journal has determined that Sony is still losing money on every PS3 unit sold, even up until now.

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Hori Real Arcade Pro Premium VLX controller: huge, expensive, desirable

By Chris Davies on Friday, Feb 5th 2010 No Comments

Gamers who like their controllers to be big, beefy and unconcerned with how much of your space they monopolize should be eyeing up Hori’s new Real Arcade Pro Premium VLX arcade stick. Recognizing that many people secretly long for full-sized arcade cabinet hardware in their homes, Hori have slapped authentic Sanwa buttons and joystick into a board modelled on the Taito Vewlix layout.

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PS3 Sixaxis controller hooked up to N900, plays emulated SNES games

By Paul Fang on Friday, Feb 5th 2010 No Comments

With this hack, your Nokia N900 has just turned into a Super Nintendo console. A SNES that you can even use a PS3 controller to control.

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Sony may start charging for PSN?

By Paul Fang on Wednesday, Feb 3rd 2010 3 Comments

Well, we can all blame Hulu for starting the no-more-free content movement, now since Sony may also start charging users for access to the PSN service. This doesn’t exactly encourage me to get the new PS3 I was considering, Sony.

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Buffalo HD-AV500U2/SC and HD-CL500U2/SC PS3-certified 500GB hard-drives hit Japan

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Feb 3rd 2010 No Comments

Remember Sony’s PS3-compatible labelling for external hard-drives, which the company tipped was incoming at the Japanese Torne TV tuner launch? The first fruits of that scheme have now been revealed, in the shape of two Buffalo drives. The Buffalo HD-AV500U2/SC and HD-CL500U2/SC are each certified to play nicely with the new digital TV tuner, and each offer to boost PS3 storage by 500GB.

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PS3 finally hacked and jailbroken

By Paul Fang on Monday, Jan 25th 2010 No Comments

After three long years on the market, the Sony Playstation 3 has finally been hacked and jailbroken – of course, by none other than iPhone hacker George Hotz, aka Geohot. Hotz himself took five weeks to “crack open” the PS3, which he has documented on his blog, and his disfigured version of the PS3 is shown below.

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Wireless PS3 Portable mod [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jan 25th 2010 No Comments

Even in its most recent Slim incarnation, the PS3 doesn’t exactly lend itself to portable use. Rather than attempt to squeeze the whole console into a handheld form-factor, modder BronckartN took a more roundabout approach: his Wireless PS3 Portable is actually a display-equipped remote controller, meaning the console itself can stay put while you play it elsewhere.

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Video demo after the cut

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Sony Japan reveal “PS3 Compatible” HDD labelling scheme

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jan 25th 2010 No Comments

Sony Japan have announced their intention to start a “PS3 Compatible” labelling scheme, which would indicate which third-party external hard drives were compatible with the PlayStation 3 console. The news was revealed at a press demonstration of the company’s Torne digital TV tuner peripheral in Japan recently; the tuner can record footage directly to the PS3’s internal HDD, or to any of four simultaneously attached external drives.

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Sony PS3 Motion Controller “Arc” getting Fall 2010 global launch

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 20th 2010 No Comments

Sony Japan have announced more release details for their PS3 Motion Controller - which last we heard was to be known as the Arc. Don't expect a specific date to queue up outside your nearest retailer, however; the company are still hedging their bets and saying the Motion Controller will launch in fall 2010, across the North America, Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific regions.