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PS Jailbreak Found Illegal by Australian Courts
The day has come and it seems the injunction against PS Jailbreak has not been lifted, but continued until further notice, and that the distributor, China Sun Trading Limited must turn over all stock intended for suppliers in Australia. Justice Dodds-Streeton has ordered that PS Jailbreak may not be imported, distributed to another person, offered to the public, provided for another [...]
160GB and 320GB PS3 SKUs Announced at Gamescom
This fall, we’re introducing two new models of the PS3 system– a 320GB PS3 system, which will be included in the PS3 Sports Champions Move bundle; as well as a 160GB PS3 system, which will be available as a standalone. These new higher capacity models will continue to offer the same advanced features and functions of [...]
Mass Effect 2 announced for PS3 in Jan 2011
After months of rumor and speculation, EA confirmed today at Gamescom that Bioware’s critically acclaimed, sci-fi RPG, Mass Effect 2, would finally be making it’s way to Sony’s Playstation 3 console. The PS3 version of the title will also include addiotional content, although details of the content have yet to be confirmed.
Channel 4 looking to bring 4oD to Sony PlayStation 3 and Apple iPad
Channel 4 are currently negotiating with Sony to bring a version of their popular video on demand service to the PS3 games console; they are also developing a similar app for Apple’s iPad. Channel 4 hope to follow in the iPlayer’s footsteps, the BBC’s own video on demand service which has been a huge hit [...]
Year over year PS3 sales more than double for quarter
Sony announced today in their first quarter FY 2010 report that sales of their Playstation 3 console doubled, jumping over 110% versus the same quarter the year prior. PS3 sales for the 3 month period ending June 30, 2010 totalled 2.4 million consoles versus 1.1 million for the same quarter 2009. This takes Sony’s PS3 [...]
PlayStation Move E3 Hands On: Precision Perfection?
Sony’s PlayStation Move motion-tracking “wands” may lack a killer app, but they don’t miss a gesture. Where my time with Microsoft’s body-mapping Kinect camera revealed an experience premised on somewhat laggy, clearly casual-angled motion-tracking, playing with Sony’s Move wands and smaller propulsion-oriented sub-controller was like upgrading to high fidelity. My first demo, a rail-style shooter unimaginatively [...]
Sony Keynote Hits & Misses
Just like that, we’re all out of E3 conferences. Sony and Nintendo both had impressive showings that really put Microsoft to shame, but it shouldn’t be too difficult to figure out which conference we’ll be putting our focus on. I expected to have quite a few more misses, if only because I was nervous about [...]
PS3 quarterly market share jumps to 31 percent
According to new figures from Strategy Analytics, the Sony PlayStation 3 has seen its quarterly global sales market share jump to 31 percent, a large gap up from 18 percent in the same period in 2009. For the Q1 2010, the Nintendo Wii had 49 percent market share, the PS3 had 31 percent and the Xbox 360 had the remaining [...]
Sony to coders: For Move, don’t rehash Wii failures
Note to developers planning to make games for Sony’s PlayStation Move controller: don’t even try to rehash your past titles for the Wii. Speaking in an interview with Gamasutra, Sony’s senior vice president of publisher relations, Rob Dyer, told the publication that when it comes to motion gaming, some titles work, and some just don’t. And his company [...]