Madden NFL, PlayStation Network, PlayStation Home, and more.

Posted: August 4th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: , , | No Comments »

PlayStation 3 news from around the web:

The Beautiful Anatomy of A Video Game Controller [Art] on Kotaku
# art What lies beneath the plastic skin of your PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 controllers? If concept artist Mads Peitersen was designing the gamepads we play with, they’d be bony, fleshy living things…

The PS3 Bundle Best Buy Tried To Keep Secret [Madden Nfl 11] on Kotaku
# maddennfl11 If you’re finally ready to jump into PlayStation 3 ownership and plan on doing so with a copy of Madden NFL 11, wait for the bundle. That previously leaked package (perhaps a…

PlayStation 3 Destroyed In A Fire Looks Like This [PS3] on Kotaku
# ps3 Reader Eric tells us his home caught on fire and, in it, his PlayStation 3. Happily, Eric fared well enough that he was able to snap photos of his post-inferno PlayStation and send them our…

A Modern Warfare 2 Single-Player Demo Appears [Demo] on Kotaku
# demo In case you’ve been trying to decide whether or not to buy Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for the past nine months, Activision has released a single-player demo on the PlayStation Network and…

A Wretched Hive Of Scum And Villainy For PlayStation Home [Playstation Home] on Kotaku
# playstationhome Sony celebrates the 30th anniversary of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in PlayStation Home this Thursday with a faithful rendition of an iconic Star Wars location that did not…

Who’s That Flying Coming to PSP, PS3 [PSP] on Kotaku
# psp Who’s that Flying?! is a Playstation minis game described as a side-scrolling shooter meets tower defense (with courtroom drama and intrigue!) doused in sheer awesomeness… AND THEN SET ON…


BioShock, LittleBigPlanet, PlayStation Store, and more.

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PlayStation 3 news from around the web:

Office Chart for a week off on dead air space
For all the nerds who are marveling, like me, at Red Dead Redemption: here’s a different kind of office chart….. Braid (various) Marathon (Mac) Goldeneye (N64) Elite (BBC Micro) Cave Story (various) Ico (PS2) Red Dead Redemption (PS3) Zelda…

Bioshock 2 Limited Edition Playstation3 Game 2K for $49.99 Shipped at Newegg.com on Dealhack
Get Bioshock 2 Limited Edition Playstation3 Game 2K for $99.99 – $50.00 instant discount = $49.99 Shipped at Newegg.com.  PS3 version is available here XBox 360 version is here Limited time offer.   © 2010 Shopping…

NEWS: Weekly PlayStation Store update has LBP, Modern Warfare 2 demo on Strategy Informer RSS News Feed
No longer exclusive to PlayStation Plus – LittleBigPlanet can now be downloaded digitally to PS3, and inFamous now gets a trial version on PSN. <br /> <br />Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s Cliffhanger demo is available as well. There’s a…

MOVIE: Create (PS3) on Strategy Informer RSS News Feed
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PREVIEW: Killzone 3 (PS3) on Strategy Informer RSS News Feed
Strategy Informer gets locked and loaded for a preview of Killzone 3.

SCREENSHOT: Mortal Kombat (PS3) on Strategy Informer RSS News Feed
The newest chapter of the iconic fight franchise marks a triumphant return to the series’ mature presentation and a reinvention of its classic 2D fighting mechanic. Driven by an all new graphics engine, the fan favorite Fatality is back and presented…


PhysX, PlayStation Network, and more.

Posted: August 4th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: , | No Comments »

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Gamestudio/A8 released on DevMaster.net
Gamestudio/A8 is the next generation of world’s easiest development system for interactive 2D and 3D applications on Windows PCs. The portal renderer of the new developed A8 engine supports up to 200,000 3D objects per level. The engine uses nVidia…

3D Rad v7.02b Now Supports PhysX Box Primitives on DevMaster.net
The August 2010 release of 3D Rad, besides bringing several new features for v6.49, includes version 7.02 (beta) of 3D Rad! This v7 update introduces PhysX support for all rigid-body-based objects and all objects based on scanning and ray casting…

Shorty wanna PlayStation on XXL
Earlier today I consulted Google Images for a picture to illustrate a post I had “written” about how Young Buck’s children no longer have a PlayStation, and I found an extremely teh ghey picture someone put together of The Game and…

Creators Club Communiqué 57 on XNA Game Studio Team Blog
Salut, Creators! This week several members of Team XNA got to attend Casual Connect in Seattle. This conference gathers experts in the casual gaming field with the goal of sharing insights and experience. Our own superstar space brain, Michael…


PlayStation Network and more.

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Latest firmware update for Playstation 3 accidentally bricks consoles (but only if you upgraded … on VR-Zone Articles
vr-zone.com -  Just when you thought that Sony’s recent firmware update to disable the console’s ‘Other OS’ feature could not have been more controversial, out comes the company with yet another firmware update which is reportedly…

WD TV Live Plus: Western Digital’s Latest Media Player Reviewed on AnandTech Article Channel
The last few years have seen a large number of digital content sources becoming easily accessible to end consumers. Digital content providers such as Netflix have recently been expanding their service to be compatibile with game consoles like the…

NBA Jam coming to 360 and PS3 (if you buy NBA Elite) on Ars Technica
The upcoming remake of the classic arcade game NBA Jam has, up until this point, been exclusive to the Wii. Now EA has revealed that the game is indeed coming to both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as a downloadable title, but there’s catch: it’s…


Dragon Age: Origins, Street Fighter IV, Final Fantasy XIII, and more.

Posted: April 26th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

PlayStation 3 news from around the web:

Report: New PS3 Makes Console Cheaper To Run, Build [Sony] on Kotaku
# sony Sony has apparently released an updated model of the PlayStation 3, code-named CECH-2100A, which makes the console both cheaper to run (for you) and cheaper to manufacture (for Sony). …

Hydrophobia will come to PS3, says developer on Joystiq
Podcast GameHounds spoke with Rob Hewson, Pete Jones and Deborah Jones of Dark Energy Digital in its latest episode to discuss the upcoming downloadable “episodic” shooter, Hydrophobia . Announced as an XBLA exclusive , it appears that …

Become Iron Man with new flying game on PlayStation Home on Joystiq
This may be the greatest thing to ever happen to PlayStation Home ever . To promote the upcoming Iron Man 2 movie , Paramount Pictures and Audi have partnered up to create a brand new Iron Man-themed mini-game, exclusively for PlayStation Home….

This Wednesday: Tecmo Bowl Throwback touches down on XBLA on Joystiq
Our burning desire for a renovated version of timeless basketball classic NBA Jam won’t be sated until the remake drops on Wii later this year. However, our similar jones for a new old football title will be catered to this Wednesday with…

PS3 Dragon Age players report crashing with Firmware 3.30 on Joystiq
What’s the next feature to be removed from the PS3 through a firmware update? According to some posters on the Bioware forums , it’s the ability to play Dragon Age: Origins . Several users have reported frequent crashes or freezes while playing…

Split/Second demo now on Xbox Live, races to PSN May 11 on Joystiq
The just-released Split/Second demo, now available on Xbox Live to all Gold subscribers, teaches you the most important thing about driving a race car through America: how to dodge massive explosions. One in 253 race car drivers meets their…

Newest PS3 SKU has updated, cheaper RSX innards on Joystiq
Japanese tech site PocketNews recently — for reasons unbeknownst to us — cracked open the smooth, colorless shell of the new CECH-2100A model of the PlayStation. What did they find inside? Candy. So much candy . They also found a smaller, more…

Ubisoft holds top UK sales spot with Conviction on Joystiq
Despite sales for Splinter Cell: Conviction and Just Dance slipping 46 and 31 percent, respectively, the two Ubisoft titles maintained their dominant positions on the UK all-formats chart for a second week in a row . The top three didn’t…

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Remote Play, PlayStation Network, and more.

Posted: April 26th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: , | No Comments »

PlayStation 3 news from around the web:

The New Guts of the PlayStation 3 [PS3] on Gizmodo
# ps3 This is the latest motherboard of the latest PS3 Slim. And thanks to those two silver squares in the middle, it’s less power-hungry and more profitable (err, potentially profitable) than ever…

PS3 Remote Play Soon To Be On Sony VAIO Laptops [Playstation3] on Gizmodo
# playstation3 PS3 firmware updates have been in the headlines recently thanks to the OtherOS uninstall , but there was also that attractive 3D gaming business too . It’s not all bad at…

“Avatar” Breaks Sales Records on Blu-ray and DVD on Mashable!
Avatar wasn’t just a huge success at the box office ; the film is quickly setting records on home video as well. Since its release on April 22, Avatar has managed to move more than 6.7 million DVD and Blu-ray discs in North America alone….


PlayStation Network and more.

Posted: April 24th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: | No Comments »

PlayStation 3 news from around the web:

4 Reasons the iPhone Is a (Video)Game Changer on Mashable!
When it comes to innovation and accessibility, the iPhone , iPad and iPod touch are collectively the most exciting gaming platform since the early 90s. Who would have thought a cell phone would become the most diverse and innovative video game…


PlayStation Network, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent, and more.

Posted: April 24th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: , | No Comments »

PlayStation 3 news from around the web:

Unreal hormones: males treat games as social competitions on digg.com: Stories / Gaming / Popular
The next time your girlfriend, wife, or mother complains about all the time you spend playing PS3 or online games, you can tell her that your attraction to video games may actually be a by-product of evolution. In terms of hormone levels, multiplayer…

The Playstation Network is under attack on digg.com: Stories / Gaming / Popular
Numerous PSN users have been reporting that scammers have infiltrated the Playstation Network and are stealing users account details.

SkyJump Las Vegas: 855-foot ‘controlled free-fall’ at 40mph on Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
If you’ve ever been to Las Vegas you’ll probably be familiar with Stratosphere, the 1,149-foot-tall hotel and casino that towers above the famous Strip. If you’re the adventurous type, you’d also know there’s some fun to be had at the top in the form…

Ubisoft kills the printed game manual on Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
It might not exactly be a revolutionary idea, but we think Ubisoft should be commended for announcing it is doing its bit for the environment by eliminating paper game manuals for its PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 video games. The paper numbers will be…


Remote Play, MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, PhysX, and more.

Posted: April 24th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

PlayStation 3 news from around the web:

PS3 firmware 3.30 sneaks in remote play from PC, bitstream audio options on Engadget HD
Additional trophy sorting and 3D gaming readiness should have been enough to satisfy and PS3 owner after the latest v3.30 system update (hey, at least it didn’t take anything away this time) but there’s a couple other surprises in store. If…

PlayStation 3’s 3D implementation explained, may require upscaling and reduction in detail to work on Engadget HD
It was only a couple of days ago that Sony flicked the switch on 3D compatibility for the PS3 — albeit without retail games that can yet exploit it — so what better time to dig into the nitty gritty details of the company’s implementation of the…

MLB.tv will be even more realistic than MLB: The Show on the PS3 (video) on Engadget HD
Just in case you didn’t have enough ways to watch baseball, MLB.tv is coming to the PlayStation 3. Already on the Roku streamer (if it’s working yet ), Boxee and even the iPad , there’s no word on any PS3 specific features or interface tweaks,…

Engadget HD Podcast 189 – 04.20.2010 on Engadget HD
This week was packed with HD news, from digital delivery and the rental wars to just what’s holding up 3D movies. We still found time to wonder what PlayReady support from Samsung could bring to the table, and why CableCARD devices still cost so…

Hybrid PhysX Mod v1.03 Released on Madshrimps News RSS Feed
This mod will enable hardware PhysX support for NVIDIA GPU, when non-NVIDIA GPU is used as a primary display device. http://www.ngohq.com/graphic-cards/1…d-v1-03-a.html

Modern Warfare 2’s Stimulus Package hitting Steam May 4 on Joystiq
We know PC gamers probably got their hackles up when Modern Warfare 2 ’s first batch of new content, the ” Stimulus Package ,” was given a release date on the PS3, but not their platform of choice. Don’t fret, folks — the game’s Steam listing…

Capcom apologizes for unannounced Final Fight: Double Impact DRM on Joystiq
Capcom has sent over a response to the revelation of Final Fight: Double Impact ’s DRM , which requires that a user be signed into PSN to play it, even in single-player. The publisher apologized to fans — not for the restriction, but for not…

Rock Band Weekly: Busted, Flyleaf, Silverchair on Joystiq
Next week’s Rock Band DLC contains three random singles and no track packs. With that said, Harmonix has already prepared for the backlash against this next update. Developer “HMXHenry” has posted a forum note to all the “Chicken Littles out…


PlayStation 3 system software, Just Cause 2, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, and more.

Posted: April 24th, 2010 | Author: Rex | Filed under: PS3 | Tags: , , , | No Comments »

PlayStation 3 news from around the web:

Who Knew?: N-64 Is Actually A Koala’s Face on Geekologie – Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
They say a picture’s worth a thousand words , and based on the image a reader just sent me, those words are “this is my penis” 250 times. Thanks for that, guy. “Right-click, save as” aside, this is photographic evidence Nintendo designed the …

PS3 firmware 3.30 released, preps consoles for 3D games on TechSpot
Sony has introduced a mandatory PlayStation 3 System Software Update (version 3.30, if you’re keeping track) adding several new features, such as changes to the trophy system and preparations for 3D gaming.

News: Just Cause 2 DLC this month and next on Eurogamer
Two packs add planes and weapons. Square Enix has announced plans to release a pair of downloadable add-ons for Just Cause 2 – one at the end of April and another at the end of May. …

News: Ubisoft dates football game for May on Eurogamer
PC Forgotten Sands trickles to June. Ubisoft’s first attempt at a football game, Pure Football, will be released on 28th May. This PC, PS3 and Xbox…

News: Deep Silver reveals Pure-alike Nail’d on Eurogamer
Made by Call of Juarez dev Techland. Deep Silver has revealed Pure-alike racing game Nail’d for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Call of Juarez developer…

News: Japan not keen on No More Heroes on Eurogamer
PS3/360 remake struggles in slow week. Japan hasn’t gone wild for Grasshopper’s PS3 and Xbox 360 adaptations of No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise. …

News: Sony launches VidZone TV on PS3 on Eurogamer
Over 100 channels of sorted music. Sony has unleashed VidZone TV on PlayStation 3. This offers over 100 pre-programmed, telly-style music channels…

News: Free MAG add-on next week on Eurogamer
Sniper Rifles! Light Armour! There’s brand new and free content headed to gargantuan PS3 online shooter MAG next week. Arriving Thursday, 29th…

News: Lost Planet 2 multiplayer demo on PSN on Eurogamer
Plus: After Burner! Lead and Gold! The Lost Planet 2 multiplayer demo is on PlayStation Network today and allows 16 of you to kill each other in various ways and for various reasons. Jolly…