Tag: ps3
iPlayer now working on PS3; just don't tell the Beeb
After the BBc’s iPlayer arrived on the Nintendo Wii last week, the corporation explained that a similar service hasn’t arrived on PS3 due to Sony attempting to “control the look, the feel and the experience” of the service…
Metal Gear Online beta test coming to Europe – next week. And free
Sony releases its revamped PlayStation Store next week, and there’ll be one quite HUGE surprise waiting to be downloaded – a free beta test version of Metal Gear Online.
Not to be confused with the imminent Metal Gear Solid 4, Metal Gear Online is an entirely new and separate game for PS3. It’s online. As you might have guessed. It’s entirely multiplayer. It’s going to get PS3 owners excited…
PS3 firmware upgrade 2.3 will give DTS-HD Master Audio support, hurrah!
It’s official – the PS3 is now the best Blu-ray player you could throw your money at, and one of the cheapest too, at £299.99.
Sony has just announced the PS3 now has DTS-HD Master Audio support, which is one of the highest resolution audio formats for films, with Dolby TrueHD being the only other contender. Support for that format, and DTS-HD High Resolution, will become available in the latest firmware upgrade, version 2.3, due out on April the 15th.
Most new Blu-ray players can output DTS-HD MA, however only a small amount of AV receivers can actually decode it. The popular (amongst audiophiles) format gives the user a 7.1 audio channel, which is as close as you’ll get to the original studio master. The update will output all 7.1 channels via HDMI,…
Ben Heck reveals the PlayStation 3 Portable
Ben Heck’s name has become pretty much the benchmark in console modding over the past couple of years. He’s done some amazing things with custom controller builds, but the console-laptop conversions grab the most attention and Heck’s latest unveiling, the PS3 laptop, proves that his internet fame is well earned…
Soon, iPhone and PS3 will be able to control one another
In a bizarre concoction, it turns out that the iPhone and the PlayStation 3 may soon be able to converse with and control one another, thanks to a new application from Netblender.
At its most basic level, the iPhone will be able to remote control Blu-ray disc playback on the PS3, but Denny Breitenfeld, Netblender’s CTO, says that it’s much more than that…
Stuck in the pits – Gran Turismo Mobile suffers another release date delay
I’m not sure how to break this gently, so I’m just going to say it. Grand Turismo Mobile will not be out before the end of the year…
Wii outsells PS3 by three-to-one in Japan during March
Latest sales figures for March show that Nintendo sold 265k Wiis in March, compared to Sony’s rather poor 81k PS3s. And the gap is widening – just last week, Sony sold slightly over 11,000 PlayStation3s in Japan, while Nintendo shifted nearly 49k Wiis.
Poor old Sony just can’t turn things around for PS3…
Sony gearing up to relaunch old-gen features on PS3 in US, Europe still waiting
Sony is bracing North America for the arrival of its bleeding edge new technology, the rumbling AND motion sensing DualShock 3 controller. The very notion was once thought so far beyond the realms of possibility that it must be an affront to God Himself. And so we were left to make do with the SIXAXIS, which detects motion only.
Then of course Nintendo create the Wii remote. Not only does it manage far more impressive feats of motion detecting, but it vibrates and it even has a speaker in it. Sony turned out be telling a few porky pies about combining SIXAXIS motion detection with old-school DualShock rumbling. Thus the DualShock3 was born…
PlayStation3 launches in South Korea – 50 people are very happy about that today
Sony launched its PlayStation3 console in South Korea over the weekend, hoping that the land of lunatic (“100 hours or DEATH!”) online RPG fans might take to its not-exactly-popular-anywhere-else new games system.
“Around 50” gamers queued for a PS3 in Seoul on launch morning, with Sony Asia boss …
Rockstar announces online Social Club for GTA IV
Thanks to Xbox Live’s Achievements, being able to keep track of your friend’s scores online is what we’ve come to expect from modern games. But with GTA IV being released on both PS3 and Xbox 360, each individual’s closed systems make it difficult to keep track of how your friends are doing if they own a different console. Therefore Rockstar has invented a work around – the Rockstar Social Club…
