PS3 1.8 firmware adds DVD upscaling & streaming video to PSP over internet
Update 1: It’s Thursday afternoon in HK, and the update is live! I’ll update this page again if there’s anything cool to talk about once I play around with it a bit (I wish I had some PS2 games around)
Ever since the PS3 launched, people were wondering when or if it would ever be [...]
Sony Losses and Nintendo Profits Both Huge
I wasn’t particularly surprised when I read about the financial reports for the last fiscal year from Sony and Nintendo. It’s quite obvious since over six months after their release dates, I still can’t find a Wii anywhere in Vancouver and there is dust about half an inch thick covering every PS3 I [...]
Play your hacked XBOX 360 online today and get BANNED~!
Microsoft has finally evened the odds. After so many months of people seemingly getting off ’scott-free’ playing pirated XBOX 360 games online, Microsoft has finally chosen this day to cut them off completely. If you have a modded system, and somehow think this gives you the right to play on XBOX Live among legit [...]
Using the PS3 SixAxis controller in Linux (in Bluetooth mode!)
The folks over at pabr.org have figured out how to get the PS3 SixAxis controller to work in Linux - in Bluetooth mode! In USB mode, the controller is a standard USB HID device, so it works fine as a basic controller in Linux already. But when Bluetooth is used, you get to make full [...]
XBOX 360 Spring 2007 update looks pretty good!
MGC News has posted a Youtube video of the Spring 2007 update for XBOX 360, apparently taken off of Gamespot (which has since pulled the video from their site)
The update, scheduled for release on May 7, will apparently add the following features:
Add up to 600 Windows Live Messenger contacts to your Friends List.
Text chat with [...]
XBOX 360 Elite - The new “Retard Edition”
So after months of speculation and purported spy shots, it’s finally admitted; the new Black XBOX 360 is for real. For months, people have been speculating about a new “Elite” XBOX 360 that will take care of a lot of advantages the PS3 had: Integrated HD-DVD, HDMI output, bigger hard drive, a cooler, quieter [...]
PS3 folding performance isn’t THAT great
Since the launch of Folding@Home for Playstation 3, people have been awestruck in its apparent performance advantage over PCs that cost up to 2 or 3 times as much as a PS3, and consumes more power.
However, this article at Ars Technica explains that not everything is as it seems. They point out that the PS3 [...]
