Sony PS3 Slim $299.99 preorders being taken by Kmart
Since Kmart jumped the gun this morning and updated their site to tease the upcoming Sony PS3 Slim, we’ve been eagerly hitting their link in the hope that the preorder page might show up. Sure enough,...
View ArticleSony Finally Gets Around to Officially Announcing Slim PlayStation 3
Well, it’s “been rumored“, it’s been “teased“, and there’s even been “a little bit of a pre-order situation going on over at Kmart,” but up until now, Sony has been all but against the thought of a...
View ArticleSony slimline PlayStation 3: all the details you need
The Sony PS3 Slim is finally upon us, and we’ve been gathering up all the information you might need in order to choose between the newly-discounted current models or hold off until the new version...
View ArticleSony PlayStation 3 Slim stand gets pictured
If you decided that the Sony PlayStation 3 slim will still take up to much space when horizontal, and that the vertical stand is a must, then this is what your $24 will get you. If we’re honest, we...
View ArticleSony PS3 Slim gets new, faster 45nm Cell CPU
Sony’s latest PS3 may be slimmer, smaller and quieter than its predecessor, but its real surprise may be lurking inside. The company has apparently updated their Cell processor built on 45nm processes...
View ArticleAmazon Limits Number of PS3 Slim Consoles Per Household
So, Sony announced the PlayStation 3 Slim yesterday, and while we’re sure you read about it, and are clamoring to get one, Amazon wants you to hold your horses. While they have the console up for...
View ArticlePS3 Slim never getting PS2 game support confirms Sony
Sony have confirmed that the PS3 Slim will never get PlayStation 2 backward compatibility. According to Sony’s director of hardware marketing, John Koller, PS2 compatibility is “not coming back, so...
View ArticleSlashGear Week in Review – Week 34 2009
Here we go again with another week in review for your perusal. A mystery Android-powered MID tipped up this week looking very much like those renderings of the Apple tablet to my eyes. It’s cool to see...
View ArticleSony PS3 Slim still sold at a loss; Motion-controller coming spring 2010
Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kazuo “Kaz” Hirai has confirmed that the company will continue to lose money on each of the $299 PS3 Slim consoles they sell, together with revealing that Sony’s...
View ArticleSony PS3 Slim Being Sold Early to Those Who Look Hard Enough
So, we’ll admit that that title may be a bit misleading. Why? Because it looks like people aren’t having to look that hard at all to find a few random (or perhaps not too random) pieces of Sony’s new...
View ArticleSony PS3 Slim teardowns splay new console’s guts [Video]
With Sony’s PS3 Slim showing up for sale all over, and word from the company themselves that retailers have been given the green light to begin swapping cash for consoles, it’s only right and fair that...
View ArticleMicrosoft Xbox 360 Gets More Rumors About Those Price Adjustments
When announcements are imminent, or even weeks away, it gets to the point where every day seems to be filled with he-said she-said shenanigans, and no company is left out in this process. Especially...
View ArticleSony PSP Go Torn Asunder and Inspected
Tearing down gadgets isn’t new. In fact, The PSP Go’s bigger brethren just went through the same thing. There’s plenty of reasons to do these things to new pieces of tech, but most of it revolves...
View ArticleMicrosoft Xbox 360 Makes Appearance on Amazon Germany
It’s looking more and more like online retailers are letting the ball slip on these kinds of things; or maybe it’s crafty marketing by the manufacturers, to get people enticed by early leaks and what...
View ArticleSony Slim PlayStation 3 Could See 250GB Upgrade As Early As Next Month
Who’s tired of official announcements? Well, we’re not, but let’s shake some things up with a bit of a leak, what do you say? Well, not so much a leak, as a rumor. A rumor from a mole. So you know just...
View ArticleSpawn Labs HD-720: remote console gaming on your PC [Video]
Spawn Labs have announced their HD-720 remote gaming adapter, and from the sound of it they’re trying to do to console games what Slingbox did for TV. The HD-720 hooks up to your console – both Xbox...
View ArticleNext-gen Wii in 2011 suggests Square Enix chief
Nintendo regularly quash Wii HD rumors, but they keep on coming back. Latest to reignite the speculation is none other than Square Enix chief Yoichi Wada, who has stuck his neck out and suggested 2011...
View ArticleNetflix eyeing other consoles, Blu-ray players, HDTVs; iPhone in future
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has confirmed that the company does not see its movie streaming service as remaining exclusively locked to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console, and that one day they envisage access...
View Article250GB PS3 Slim bundles tipped in Norwegian leak
Sony may have denied the existence of any imminent 250GB PS3 Slim bundles, but obviously nobody told retailer GameStop in Norway. According to an apparent leak from their inventory system, several...
View Article1m PS3 Slim consoles sold; new 250GB version for Japan
Sony’s PS3 Slim may have only been on sale for three weeks – the compact console arrived on September 1st – but they’ve already shifted one million units worldwide. The PS3 Slim simultaneously hit...
View ArticleSony PS3 Motion Controller coming Spring 2010
Sony have come clean with some more details regarding its upcoming Motion Controller, while Joystiq managed to snap a shot of the movement-tracking peripheral at the company’s Tokyo Game Show keynote....
View ArticleSony 250GB PlayStation 3 arriving in US on November 3rd
It’s not just the Japanese getting some 250GB PlayStation3 love; Sony US have announced that there’s a 250GB version of the PS3 Slim incoming for their gamers too. The 250GB PS3 Slim will land on...
View ArticlePS3 Slim and PSP Go set to hit Malaysia on Halloween
We have been enjoying the new cheaper PS3 Slim in the US and other countries for a while now. In fact we are already looking forward to the 250GB PS3 Slim coming stateside next month. In Malaysia,...
View ArticleSony stage BRAVIA/PS3 crash test in bizarre promo [Video]
I’d love to have been a fly on the wall at Sony Australia when they came up with this one. ”Guys, it’s a worldwide recession, we need a promotion to keep people buying the PS3 and BRAVIA HDTVs. I...
View ArticleNetflix movie streaming hits PS3 in November
Remember all the furore back in August, when Microsoft announced they’d locked up Netflix movie streaming for the Xbox 360 and basically told us it was an “exclusive” partnership? Well, that...
View ArticleSony PS3 Slim flirted with SSDs or network storage
If you want to know where Sony are going next with their PlayStation line, you could do worse than examining some of the decisions they made regarding the recent PS3 Slim refresh. According to a...
View ArticleSony PS3 250GB hits Japan February 18
Sony Japan may have released the first PS3 with a 250GB hard-drive – in the shape of the Final Fantasy XIII limited edition back in September 2009 – but until now they’ve not had a mainstream version;...
View ArticleNew PS3 hardware coming, profits looming?
It wasn’t so long ago that the PS3 went from the original “fat” console to the new slim version. The slim version took up less space, which was a good thing. Reports are coming in now that the PS3 is...
View ArticleGioteck In2Link module adds new connectivity to PS3 Slim
I just mentioned that Gioteck was getting set to offer its cool looking MX-1 remote control in the US for the PS3. I mentioned that you needed some sort of IR receiver to be able to control the PS3...
View ArticleJapan to get blue PS3 in November along with Gran Turismo 5
Here in the US you can buy cool blue controllers for the PS3, but we are stuck with plain black color for our PS3s. Gamers over in Japan will get a cool Blue PS3 that matches those blue controllers we...
View ArticleLatest PS3 Firmware is Broken by PSJailbreak
Oh you hackers. The folks over at PSJailbreak start the week strong by announcing their positive break into PS3 firmware 3.42, 3.50, and they say any future firmware versions the peeps at Sony have to...
View ArticlePortal 2 for PS3 to Come with Free Mac and PC Version
We’re not sure about the Xbox 360 version yet, and it doesn’t appear that the PC version will come with any extra functionality to it, but the Playstation 3 version of one of the most...
View ArticleRumor: Sony Considering “Hack Proof” PS3
Possibly in response to the leak of “Killzone 3″ a few weeks ago, Sony may be considering a hack-proof PS3. According to an anonymous souce cited by Everything HQ, “Sony are already deep into plans of...
View ArticlePlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Modded into One Console
It wasn’t a matter of IF it were going to happen, it was much more a matter of WHEN – and that time is now – a single box with two of the top gaming systems in the world running in and out of it,...
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