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Metal Gear Online Shutting Down June 12 Metal Gear Online Shutting Down June 12
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Metal Gear Solid 4 launched almost four years ago to critical acclaim for its film-like presentation and expertly realized gameplay. There was another component to the game that didn’t get talked about as much, but was still popular with hardcore …

Twisted Metal Brings Car Combat To The PlayStation 3 Twisted Metal Brings Car Combat To The PlayStation 3
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Sony has released the ultimate Valentine’s Day gift to PlayStation gamers everywhere – Twisted Metal. For those that need an introduction to Twisted Metal, it’s the car combat game that defined the PlayStation and was first unleashed upon the world …

Steam Details Extent Of Hacking Attack, Backup File Was Stolen Steam Details Extent Of Hacking Attack, Backup File Was Stolen

You may remember late last year that Steam, Valve’s digital distribution platform, was hacked and taken down for a while. The extent of the damage wasn’t exactly known until now. On Friday, Gabe Newell took to Steam to tell users …

BioShock Infinite Parties Like It’s 1999 BioShock Infinite Parties Like It’s 1999

A common complaint of BioShock is that it wasn’t System Shock 2. Irrational Games is changing that with BioShock Infinite. Irrational Games revealed a new mode for BioShock Infinite today – the fittingly titled “1999 mode.” The new mode is …

New Report Shows Top Holiday Gadget Complaints New Report Shows Top Holiday Gadget Complaints

FixYa, a website specializing in troubleshooting Q&A for electronic devices, has released a report showing the top problems people had with their gadgets over the 2011 holiday season. The data from the FixMas Holiday Report was gathered by examining the …

Diablo III Kind Of Announced For Consoles Diablo III Kind Of Announced For Consoles

Diablo III may be, once and for all, coming to consoles. Cue gasps from the PC community. Now, I’m going to file this one under all but confirmed because it’s not actually confirmed yet, but a fan on twitter asked …

Anonymous To Target PSN Over Sony’s SOPA Support Anonymous To Target PSN Over Sony’s SOPA Support
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After rebounding from a blunder-filled start to 2011, the PlayStation 3 network, as well as the buzz around the system (and the company) died down to the point where it was acceptable to be a PS3 owner once again. However, …

PlayStation 3 Drops Price, How Will Xbox Respond? PlayStation 3 Drops Price, How Will Xbox Respond?
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As Sony’s goodwill tour concerning its PlayStation 3 console continues, a significant price drop for the machine–especially the 320 gig model–has gone largely unnoticed, or at least, it’s been strangely ignored by the gamer crowd. Perhaps only responding to negative …

Sony Promises Full Return of PlayStation Network by End of Week Sony Promises Full Return of PlayStation Network by End of Week
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It’s been a long, hard road for Sony and its Playstation Network, but finally, the light at the end of the tunnel might actually become an attainable destination instead of a rumor. That’s right, Sony is once again promising a …

The PlayStation 3 Battles Are Continuing Quite Nicely
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The war between PlayStation 3 owners/hackers and Sony is moving along just fine, thanks. Hackers want the freedom to alter their consoles how they see fit, and Sony sees that as a declaration of the intention to pirate software and …

Sony Targets PS3 Hackers With Anti-Piracy Legal Team
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Sony continues to arm itself as they are pulling out all the stops in order to combat what they view as piracy across the PlayStation 3 platform.

PS3 Fanboys Stand Up for Sony

Sony released a statement concerning their recent PS3 hacking issues, and while the content was about what you’d expect, the PS3 fans showed support for the decision by offering 15 pages of “here-here” comments.

Sony Shares Jailbreak Code Via Twitter
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Perhaps “laughing stock” is too strong a term here, but after Sony’s strong-arm tactics concerning jailbroken PlayStation 3s — tactics that were upheld via a misguided ruling — the fact that they tweeted the jailbreak code in question, accidentally or no, perhaps it fits.

The First Rule of PS3 Hacking is Don’t Talk About PS3 Hacking
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Normally, when you buy an item from a store, and complete the purchase by leaving the premises with the item you purchased, the transaction is over.  If you want to take your new item home and, well, do whatever you’d like with it, you’re free to do so; and if you’d like to discuss your exploits, you can  do that, too.

As long as you don’t own a PlayStation 3.

Netflix Adds Search to the Playstation 3 Version

Netflix announced today that it has added search capabilities to its service on the Sony Playstation 3. This is part of a software upgrade from the company.

Hulu Plus Makes It To PS3

Although a fair number of people have hooked computers up to televisions, and a few folks might be willing to stare at their monitors for hours on end, a new development should help Hulu reach a much larger crowd.  Hulu’s now available through the PS3.

A couple of quick notes regarding the current state of things: only PS3 Plus subscribers are allowed access to Hulu Plus (meaning there are two fees involved), and this is still considered a "limited preview," so even among PS3 Plus subscribers, not everyone will be allowed to participate.

Nintendo Wii Leader In Hardware Sales For July
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U.S. video game sales increased 28 percent in July from a year ago, with continued solid demand for Nintendo’s Wii console, research firm NPD said.

Sales of video game hardware, software and accessories reached $1.19 billion in July, with software sales increasing 41 percent and hardware sales growing 17 percent.

EA Estimates Put PS3 Ahead Of Xbox

Onlookers have to wonder whether Microsoft will succeed in its attempted takeover of Yahoo.  There are also the market shares of Vista and Internet Explorer to consider.  Still, the latest news involves game consoles, and on that front, Electronic Arts predicts that the Playstation 3, and not Microsoft’s Xbox 360, will win in 2008.

Microsoft Execs Bash Sony

Microsoft has fired another shot in its ongoing battle with Sony and the upcoming Playstation 3. Xbox UK boss Neil Thompson and Europe boss Chris Lewis made comments in an interview attacking the Japanese corporation’s choice to build its Blu-Ray DVD technology into the platform.