This question is for all you PS3 owners out there: How would you like to watch a movie streamed directly from Netflix via your PS3? Well, starting next month... you'll be able to do just that.
Will you stream movies to your PS3 from Netflix? Let us know.
News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Miller sat down with Fox Business in a video interview from a tech conference, and talked about MySpace’s future, among other things. The interview can be viewed here:
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has just announced the release of In-game Advertising Measurement Guidelines. The IAB’s proposed new guidelines cover dynamic, in-game advertisements that appear in PC or console-based games and:
At the E3 Expo today, it was announced that Facebook and Twitter integration would be coming to Xbox. I guess MySpace gets left behind here too. Liveblogging the event, Daniel Terdiman of CNET writes:
Finally, Xbox Live members will now be able to interact with both Facebook and Twitter through their consoles. They'll be able to share photos with Facebook friends via Xbox Live, and be able to see their lists of Xbox Live and Facebook friends simultaneously.
As Blockbuster.com continues its struggle to compete with the much more popular Netflix movie rental service, the company is starting an online video game rental offering to compliment its movie offering.
This was announced a while back, but today's announcement puts a date to its launch - June 30. It will start in Cleveland, but is planned to go nationwide by the end of the year. The Cleveland pilot test will be open to all Blockbuster Total Access and Blockbuster By Mail subscribers.
Microsoft executives are busy laying off thousands, hiring thousands, releasing Windows 7, and checking the blogs for the latest rumors from Apple. They are also busy acquiring companies—well, one company at least. On Thursday, Microsoft announced its acquisition of a small company named Big Park.
CyWee is a Chinese company that was founded about a year and a half ago. They create both hardware and software, and most recently have announced the CyWee Z. The CyWee Z at first glance will probably make you think about a Wiimote, the controller for the Nintendo Wii gaming console. You would not be far off. The CyWee Z can be used with a PC by plugging it into a wireless USB key, and then basically using it to navigate like you would with a Wiimote.
Amazon has purchased Reflexive Entertainment, a computer game developer based in Lake Forest, California, founded 11 years ago. Apart from actually developing games for PCs, Macs, and even the XBox 360, they own the popular site Reflexive Arcade, which offers downloads of PC games and Mac games, as well as online web games.
Microsoft filed a patent application several years ago for the censoring of real-time audio streams, and that patent has now been granted. In other words, Microsoft has patented live "bleeping". The patent abstract says:
A rumor is going around that Google is going to buy Valve, the creators of the hugely popular game Half Life. The rumor, which started with the Inquirer, claims "well placed sources" told the publication Google will buy Valve "any second now".