09/01/2011, What’s the best way to sell an almost 5-year-old gaming console, that’s rumored to be replaced sometime soon, but still has some value today? You repackage it as a special limited-edition device of course! And that’s what the folks over at Sony are doing with the aging PlayStation 3. The company has just announced that it will be releasing the “PlayStation 3 NINOKUNI magical edition” for fans of the upcoming […]

06/14/2011, Sony might have suffered the worst hack attack in history on its PlayStation Network in late April, but that doesn’t mean it’s had much of an affect on its PlayStation 3 business. According to Industry Gamers (subscription required), PS3 sales are up 14 percent year-over-year boosted by a strong selection of software titles including first-party inFAMOUS 2. That’s great news because the PS3 is just more or less 4 million […]

04/15/2011, The PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Move motion controllers both hit significant milestones today. Sony announced that its “do-everything” PS3 video game console sold 50 million units worldwide as of the end of March. The PlayStation Move controller isn’t doing too shabby either. It moved over 8 million units worldwide as of earlier this month. Another 30 million and the PS3 will catch up to the Wii’s 80 million and counting […]

04/14/2011, How will Valve’s Portal 2 be different on PlayStation 3 as opposed to on the Xbox 360? For one thing, it’ll have built-in Steam support – the online social gaming network and digital distribution service that’s been a huge hit on the PC for many years. According to Valve, the PlayStation 3 copy of Portal 2 can link up your PlayStation Network account with your Steam account, enabling cross-platform portal […]

04/04/2011, Remember how everybody laughed at the PlayStation 3‘s poor sales? Remember know the Wii kicked the crap out of everybody with its waggle-riffic motion controls? Remember how Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was content at sitting in second place? Well, the 360 team in Redmond probably aren’t laughing maniacally anymore. According to Strategy Analytics’ research, the PS3 should have surpassed the Xbox 360 as of December last year. Their estimates put the […]

03/30/2011, Dum da da dum! As if there were enough video streaming services already, Sony’s Crackle video entertainment network is making the jump to the PlayStation 3. Free video always comes with a price and in this case as with most free digital goods, ads. Crackle is offering free streaming movies, TV and original content on the PlayStation 3 in addition to Sony Blu-ray players, Sony BRAVIA HDTVs with streaming Wi-Fi, […]

03/22/2011, The PlayStation blog released an interesting infographic today regarding the state of 3D and the PlayStation 3. According to the chart, there will be about 30 video games available in 3D by the end of this year, with notable titles including Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Killzone 3 and Socom 4. The PS3 isn’t only about the 3D games this year, but also about 3D movies and content. Of all the […]

02/08/2011, It looks like Sony doesn’t look too kindly upon the PlayStation 3 hacking community. They have promised that they will be going after anybody that posts links to PS3 jailbreak code that’s been floating around the internet. Sony has been reported to force Google to give up the IP addresses of commented or even viewed the YouTube video of renowned hacker, Geohot, explaining how the hack works. And it’s not only […]

02/01/2011, Sony’s latest update for the PlayStation might have brought some new features to the console, disabled existing jailbreaks, and increased the console’s security. But there have been reports that the update does more than that. Apparently the update now supports the loading of remote code the moment it logs into the PlayStation Network – similar to a rootkit. This new capability of the device can allow Sony alter code and […]

09/18/2009, Give the Playstation 3 controller to a master like Ben Heck and be intrigued by the results – although this time round we’re rather disappointed that this cannot launch a nuclear missile, it still comes with a unique way of playing with the controller. After all, Heck did have the intention “to make the shoulder buttons easier to get at”, and the end result looks rather weird. PS3 owners – […]