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What's Going On? Share The geek meltdown that began last night continues unabated this evening as Sony plods through its PlayStation quagmire, largely due to 2010 being mislabeled as a leap year. The ordeal started when clocks rolled over to March 1st and older (non-PS3 Slim) PlayStation owners began experiencing a myriad of bizarre and unfixable problems, including blocked access to the ...

DON'T WANT: Unreliable Blu-ray Player Samsung BD-P3600 Blu-Ray Player, $219 While the BD-P3600's spec sheet reads like a slam-dunk by any measure, a flurry of anecdotal stories about this player in particular -- from frequent system freezes and networking issues to total failure -- and a lot of Blu-ray players in general lead us to be extremely skeptical of the entire low-price market. Read ...

We've heard whispers of Netflix heading to other, non-Xbox 360 game consoles before, and now adding to the susurrous is a job listing from the company for Engineering Lead - Gaming Platforms. The description calls for someone familiar with the technical hurdles of current-gen consoles for building a small team to "rapidly prototype and iterate on a variety of platforms." Whether or not this ...

Yeah, we may be hardened cynics -- our cold, black hearts have closed off to all but the most extraordinary tech-related stories, and we don't talk about the triumph of the human spirit a lot, but PlayStation 3 forum user KitsuneYume has us stepping outside our usual box today. With the help of an engineer, he made an "adaptive controller" that allows him to game with the pros despite serious ...