All Posts Tagged With: "Playstation 3"

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PlayStation 3 Firmware 1.9 Released - Emoticons And Wallpapers

Sony has just released firmware 1.90 for the PlayStation 3 in Japan. It is expected to be available for download for American and Canadian PS3 owners within the next couple of days.
So what is new and fixed?
The firmware contains primarily minor fixes and cosmetic improvements, but emoticon and wallpaper-lovers rejoice! You can now personalise [...]

25Jul2007 | Dennis Bjørn Petersen | 3 comments | Continued
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Sony Drops Playstation 3 Price By $100

Sony have finally admitted that they made a big mistake when setting the price of the Playstation 3 and have just dropped the price by $100 in the US to boost sales, as it is currently been out-sold by both the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. However, even a $100 price cut will mean [...]

10Jul2007 | Everton | 6 comments | Continued
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FIFA Soccer 2008 - Ronaldinho Turns Into Wii Character

Ronaldinho, will become the first professional football player to appear as a customized character exclusively for the Nintendo Wii.
The Wii-exclusive Ronaldinho will host a game mode designed and created exclusively for Wii called Footii Party with Ronaldinho. With this mode, Fifa 08 introduces unique party games - including Table Football and Shoot [...]

7Jul2007 | Dennis Bjørn Petersen | 6 comments | Continued
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FIFA Soccer 2008 - Who Will Be On The Cover?

Every year it’s the same. Who will we see on the cover of FIFA Soccer/Football this year?
*UPDATE*: The FIFA 08 covers for FIFA 08 Spain, FIFA 08 Germany, FIFA 08 USA, FIFA 08 Poland and FIFA 08 UK are published. You can see the FIFA 08 covers here.
I’ve previously covered the announcement of FIFA [...]

20Jun2007 | Dennis Bjørn Petersen | 50 comments | Continued
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Microsoft Says Xbox 1 Graphics Are Better Than A Wii

Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s entertainment division, said in an eWeek interview that the Nintendo Wii’s graphics are worse than on the Xbox 1, which is now over 5 years old:
“The video graphics on it aren’t very strong; the box itself is kind of underpowered; it doesn’t play DVDs; there are a lot of down-line [...]

12May2007 | Everton | 6 comments | Continued
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PS3 Vs Xbox 360: Which Has Better Graphics?

I had one of my friends over on Sunday to check out my new PS3 and we decided that the Playstation 3 definitely had a lot of potential and probably had better graphics than the Xbox 360. The rest of my Ghost Recon ’squad’ is coming round on Sunday for an all-night session, so [...]

3Apr2007 | Everton | 139 comments | Continued
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Playstation 3s Banned From UK Prisons

I read yesterday a story on ITV News saying that PS3s had been banned from UK prisons. I was expecting to see that the reason was because the UK was finally getting tough on crime, but according to Home Secretary John Reid the ban was put in place because:
“The Sony PlayStation 3 was barred [...]

31Mar2007 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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How Much Electricity Does Folding@Home Consume?

I’ve been wondering this week just how much electricity my PS3 consumes when it is running Folding@Home.  It gets so hot, I’ve assumed it must be using up a lot of juice. I decided not to stress myself out about as it’s all for a good cause.
However, IGN have actually worked it out [...]

30Mar2007 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Automatic HDMI Switch for $170

IOGear have launched an automatic HDMI switch for £170 in the US. Mikael thinks this is expensive, but I don’t think it’s too bad given that a standard switch costs twice that in the UK. This could be the answer to my current problem where I only have one HDMI input on [...]

29Mar2007 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
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Playstation 3 Launch Sales Break Records In UK

It looks like we’ve got a real battle on our hands in the UK to be the number one games console. The PlayStation 3 console has broken UK sales records with more than 165,000 machines sold in the first two days of release. This compares to 71,000 for the Xbox 360, and 105,000 [...]

28Mar2007 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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