Tag: PlayStation
Sony adds online movies and TV rental to PlayStation 3
At the ongoing E3 conference, Sony revealed its answer to Xbox Live Video Marketplace, adding online movie sales and rental to PlayStation 3 consoles. And to help persuade people make the most of the service, the company also confirmed that from September, current 40GB consoles would have their storage upped to 80GB.
Sony relaunches long-awaited in-game XMB PS3 Firmware – this time 100% bork-free*
Sony has now launched a new version of its latest PS3 Firmware, 2.41, following the disastrous events of last week.
Sony withdraws latest PS3 Firmware
Following wide spread reports of serious problems with the latest PS3 Firmware, Sony has confirmed that the update has been pulled while it investigates the problem. It is believed that a error with the installation process has caused some consoles to seize up at the point of rebooting, following the install.
Sony shows PlayStation 3's Xbox Live-a-like firmware in action
Sony has released the following video to demonstrate all the things that the upcoming Firmware 2.40 update is going to enable. It’s everything that PS3 owners have spent the last year clamouring for, but Xbox 360 players will no doubt notice there’s a few distinct similarities between Sony’s ‘new’ features and all the stuff the Xbox 360 did the whole damn time.
Ubisoft calls for Sony to "go back to the drawing board" with the PlayStation Portable.
Games publisher, Ubisoft, has criticised Sony’s PlayStation Portable for its failure to keep pace with the Nintendo DS handheld. UK Managing Director Rob Cooper has said in a recent interview that PSP lacks direction and that Sony has over-complicated and over-priced the console…
Sony PlayStation 3 to become a dynamic in-game advertising platform
Sony Computer Entertainment America and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe have announced that a new dynamic in-game advertising system is being launched in order to harvest the rapidly growing in-game advertising market. Advertisement distribution company, IGA Worldwide, has been selected as its first partner though more are expected to follow…
Rumour: PS3 firmware 2.4 out this month
Could it be? Could it be true? Word on the old tech grapevine is that 18th June is the day to look out for when Sony release the latest update of the PS3 firmware…
Integrated YouTube coming to PS3 games
YouTube’s developers have revealed that the YouTube API has now been integrated with the Sony’s PlayStation 3.This means that future PS3 titles will be able to use an integrated system to upload game videos direct to the video hosting website for all to see…
DivX technology extended to PS3 game developers
DivX support has been on the PS3 for a good old while now. Combined with the DNLA media server networking and its excellent upscaling, the only way it could be better at supporting the scurvy arts is to include a copy of BitComet in the next firmware update.
Sony is presumably not just after DivX capabilities to simplify the process of watching illegally distributed video content (although we are extremely thankful for it) and so it’s high time that the technology was extended to further uses. To that end, DivX has just announced that the video encoding system is now available for PS3 game developers as well…
Sony declares PS3 victory in Europe
Speaking at Sony’s PlayStation Day event yesterday, SCEE’s David Reeves revealed that the PS3 has now outsold Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in Europe. This means that the console – which once laboured under a difficult and delayed launch, a killer price tag and a practically non-existent games line-up – has passed a very important milestone…
