In the end, there will be only chaos. But for now, you can feast your eyes on Sony's latest, greatest rendition of the God of War.
Continue reading...Friday, February 13, 2009
As of January, Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) has sold 50 million units worldwide. First launched in Japan in 2004 (with subsequent release in North America in 2005), the PSP was the first handheld to implement an optical Universal Media Disc (UMD) format. There are currently over 2,000 titles available on UMD worldwide, and an additional [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 12, 2009
Pop quiz: What's the only thing the Sony PlayStation 3 has going for it that competitors can't copy? That's right: the Blu-ray disc, Sony's triumphant HD video distribution platform. Problem is, though Blu-ray has proven to be an adequate solution for transporting HD movies, its 50GB of capacity doesn't lend much to games that are designed [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 9, 2009
The days when you can just reach into your television screen, like Willy Wonka, and pull a delicious object into your living room -- those days are still far away. And while 3D printers have made leaps and bounds in recent years, they still aren't a cost-effective way to render the ones and zeroes from [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 21, 2009
"Remote Play," "Life with PlayStation," "PlayStation Home," all are lovely features when considering their low, low price of free -- but our time is valuable as well, and none of PlayStation Network's free applications have been interesting, capable or accessible enough to divert PS3 owners' attention from the fact that the $50-a-year Xbox LIVE just [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Whatever detractors may say about the $400 entry fee, there's no question that the PlayStation 3 is a powerful multimedia center. Sure, it's no TiVo, but it's much less bloated than your Windows desktop, and houses hardware that can play back the latest movies and rip high-quality music with ease. Tomorrow, Sony will hopefully make the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 15, 2009
Yesterday, the NPD told us the video game industry isn't as recession-proof as we'd like to think -- but today, the NPD numbers show that at least one company is still raking in the cash in North America. 2.15 million Wii consoles. 3.04 million DS handhelds. 1.46 million bundled Wiimotes, 999,000 Balance Boards, and 979,000 Wii [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 15, 2009
Slow and steady wins the race, but it also helps if Santa is on your side. Though projections have long placed "Grand Theft Auto IV" as the game to beat -- between PS3 and Xbox 360, it sold approximately 5.18 million copies in the United States this year -- it seems that Nintendo's "Wii Play" [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 15, 2009
Today, Google debuts "YouTube for Television," a new website accessible only from your Nintendo Wii and Sony PS3, that has exactly one function: make YouTube videos easier to view and browse on a full-size television screen. And to that end, Google has mostly succeeded. We tried out "YouTube for Television" today on both the NetFront and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 14, 2009
At CES 2009, Sony wowed with spectacular stereoscopic 3D gaming prototypes -- and then disappointed when they revealed there were no plans to bring the technology to market. Why? An anonymous source says that's because snazzy as it is, this particular method of producing stereo 3D is out of date.
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