Tag: PLAYSTATION3

We're not sure what it is about pizza chains that have put them at the forefront of food ordering technology, but Domino's, The Hut, and Papa John's are in a constant arms race for electronic pizza ordering superiority. Domino's has its online Pizza Tracker, and a partnership with TiVo, while the newly christened The Hut lets you place orders via text message, Facebook, and an iPhone App. Papa ...

The rumor that we wrote about this morning has proven to be true; Sony's PlayStation 3 Slim is hitting stores in September with its thinner, sleeker design. As far as features go, Engadget reports that the console is the same, but takes up 32-percent less space. It's more eco-friendly, too, consuming 34-percent less power. More importantly, it's a lot sexier, with laptop-like curves and arched ...

In gaming, there are online games and off, with the latter group of logged-off games largely becoming a relic of earlier, simpler times. Then, in the online realm, there are massively complex multiplayer games and games which are, well, somewhat less massive. First-person shooters, like Quake, tend to be smaller online affairs, rarely playable with more than 32 gamers. That may all change with ...

Since the introduction of the Nintendo Wii and its continuously phenomenal financial success, rumors of similarly motion-controlled add-ons for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have repeatedly found their ways online. The latest news, coming from a tipster supposedly in the know, says that Microsoft will enter the motion arena not with a remote-like device such as that found on the Wii, but ...

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 ...

Think the worst your kids are exposed to in online gaming services like the Playstation Network is profanity? Think again. It seems that even the console gaming world is not safe for children anymore. Our friends at Joystiq recently caught wind of a 24-year old Sommerset, Kentucky man who has been arrested and charged with three felonies after he allegedly convinced an 11-year-old girl in ...

Sure, there's already TVs and devices out there ready to bring the YouTube experience directly to your living room, but yesterday YouTube launched a page just for browser-enabled living room devices (the PlayStation 3 and Wii) to browse on a TV screen. Point your console to www.youtube.com/tv for the new page, those limited by their PC's can check out the video embedded after the break for a ...

Considering the way that the Wii flew off shelves last month, this next item probably won't come as a shock to anyone. According to the Wall Street Journal, both Nintendo's console and the Xbox 360 trounced the PlayStation 3 in holiday sales, with U.S. sales falling nine percent from this month last year. During this same period, sales doubled for the Wii and rose eight percent for the Xbox 360. ...

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/playstation/PlayStation_Home_launching_globally_tomorrow_December_11th'; We knew it was coming this month, now we have the day: tomorrow. Yup, PlayStation Home will launch globally on December 11th. The 3D virtual on-line community is like 'Second Life,' only with the risk of rootkit. Hot. All kidding aside, the new service gives PS3 owners a customizable place ...

We know you aren't going to believe it 'til you see it, but SCEA has confirmed to our brethren at Joystiq that PlayStation Home will hit the US market before 2009 dawns. In the words of PS Home director Jack Buser: "We've been saying it will launch by the end of calendar year 2008, and that's getting very, very close." He continued by affirming that "launch is imminent," but stopped short of ...

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 ...

'Little Big Planet' What it is: 'LittleBigPlanet' is rather unlike anything else you've experienced on a video game console. It's Sony's hope to bring alternative gamers to the PlayStation 3 (PS3) this holiday season, and is a wonderfully charming game to boot. From a purely gameplay perspective, it's an evolution of the fairly standard side-view run-and-jump style games (like the old 'Super ...

It's fair to say that behind electing the next president of the United States, playing the living hell out of 'LittleBigPlanet' (LBP) is the number two thing on our collective agenda. In case you've been living under a rock -- or perhaps your Xbox 360 -- for the past year, LBP is Sony's long-awaited platformer/game creator/awesomeness generator, and it just came out for PlayStation 3 this week. ...

'Little Big Planet,' a new highly customizable platform game for the PlayStation 3, is garnering attention -- for all the right and wrong reasons. Initial reviews and reaction to the game have been very positive, but the game has also drawn attention for a potentially offensive song on its soundtrack that contains phrases from the Qur'an. Sony was alerted to the potential problem by a Muslim ...

Over the weekend, while you slept away your work week, only to wake for the occasional bowl of Frosted Flakes, students at New York City's Parsons School of Design slaved away for 24 continuous hours with the upcoming PlayStation3 game, 'LittleBigPlanet.' The challenge -- put to them by Sony's marketing department -- was to create a level from scratch, using the game's extensive object and ...