5 hours ago in Technology & Software - What are Sony's top brass looking forward to from the PlayStation family in 2009? Console exclusives, naturally. And "making money." While the PS3 gets 'em all hot and bothered, the PSP is, at best, remembered. Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony ...

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5 hours ago in Technology & Software - Despite reports to the contrary, Microsoft says that it won't be using the PlayStation Home service to hold virtual meetings. It has all the virtual meeting solutions it needs, thank you very much, Sony. Microsoft reps tell CVG that a report from ...

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8 hours ago in Technology & Software - The latest issue of PlayStation: The Official Magazine touts the "world exclusive review" of Killzone 2 for the PlayStation 3. What did the officially sanctioned mag think of Guerrilla Games' highly anticipated first-person shooter? Unsurprisingly, ...

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3 days ago in Technology & Software - The perfect complement to ION's Drum Rocker kit, dreamGEAR has unveiled the WarBeast wireless guitar controller for PlayStation 3 and PS2. It's compatible with Rock Band, Guitar Hero, and Rock Revolution games and features a removable faceplate for ...

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3 days ago in Technology & Software - Role-playing game White Knight Chronicles has been the focus of much attention for its perception as a great white hope for the PlayStation 3 in Japan. It is from Level 5, after all. You know Level 5, developers of the best selling Professor Layton ...

tags: playstation 3, level 5, only in japan, ps3, sales, software, white knight chronicles

3 days ago in Technology & Software - What does 2009 have in store for the PlayStation Network? At the very least, two more PixelJunk games. At most? Maybe three! Q-Games founder Dylan Cuthbert briefly outlined his company's 2009 plans for the series. He writes on the official U.S. ...

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3 days ago in Technology & Software - Sometimes it's easy to lose perspective amidst marketing. Case in point: Nielsen measured that gamers, on whole, spent 31% of their time on the PS2 in 2008 (more than the Xbox 360 and Wii combined). The other interesting, though not necessarily ...

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4 days ago in Technology & Software - This year we've seen the PS3's Cell processor pitch in and help break the petaflop barrier, exploit a major security hole in SSL encryption and enable adolescent hijinks on PlayStation Home. Obviously, this is one serious piece of kit. According to ...

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5 days ago in Technology & Software - Former PlayStation exclusive series Way of the Samurai is making the platform jump. Publisher Spike announced its intentions to bring Way of the Samurai 3 to the Xbox 360 in February. Originally released on the PlayStation 3 in November, Way of the ...

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5 days ago in Technology & Software - The new book The Race For a New Game Machine, by two IBM engineers, details how ridiculous the design process was when IBM was making Sony's PS3 cell chip. Microsoft basically got a free ride. The WSJ pulls out facts like IBM employees trying to ...

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5 days ago in Technology & Software - It really makes me wonder what sorts of people Sony feels purchased the PlayStation 3 system this year when they feel they have to post a video tutorial explaining how to surf the web. While the first couple of tutorials presented as an ...

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5 days ago in Technology & Software - The PlayStation 3 was instrumental in the efforts of an international team of security experts to successfully hack VeriSign's SSL website security scheme, and it only took 200 consoles to do it. I'll try not to get too technical here, mainly ...

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5 days ago in Technology & Software - Famed Playstation developer David Jaffe may seem like an odd choice for guest developer for our in-game podcast about the Xbox 360's Gears of War 2. We actually did invite Gears developer Cliff Bleszinski, but his handlers said he was too busy. ...

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5 days ago in Technology & Software - If you were planning on buying a Blu-ray movie and game from Amazon anyway, you can score a free PS3 Blu-ray remote ($20 value) with the code "PS3BDREM" at checkout. Not bad. [Amazon via Dealnews] ...

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6 days ago in Technology & Software - The BBC lined up a panel of gaming dignitaries to mull over the best of 2008 and expectations for 2009, they tapped into gaming culture with the help of Peter Molyneux, Will Wright, and... Fatal1ty? That's right, Pro Gaming's former top dog ...

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6 days ago in Technology & Software - Between the juvenile delinquent hordes of PlayStation Home and some lackluster holiday figures, the PlayStation has been sort of a bummer lately, for reasons that have nothing to do with its raison d'etre -- gaming. That doesn't mean that the ...

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6 days ago in Technology & Software - Like the Xbox 360 library, but prefer the PlayStation 3's aesthetic and higher asking price? Why not put your 360 inside your PS3? "Because that would be stupid," you say? Please. The so-called PS360 doesn't care about "logic" or "necessity," its ...

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6 days ago in Technology & Software - Using a cluster of 200 PS3s, an international group of researchers have crafted a "skeleton key" digital certificate that can perfectly impersonate any website on the internet. The weak point that allows the technique to work—which researchers ...

tags: ps3, crack, cryptography, hack, internet, playstation 3, security, ssl, verisign

6 days ago in Technology & Software - Like Gmail, there's a good chance that PlayStation Home will remain in beta indefinitely, says Home director Jack Buser in this week's Kotaku podcast. Anyone really surprised by that? [Kotaku] ...

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6 days ago in Technology & Software - It's not been good month for Sony. Layoffs, poor holiday sales for the PS3 and a wee bit of hacking over at PlayStation Home surely have the electronics giant hungry for some good press, which has made the newest PR kerfuffle over at the nascent ...

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