Heroes Season 1 bundled with XBOX 360 HD-DVD
Microsoft and Universal have struck a deal to include the most highly sought-after exclusive HD-DVD titles with the XBOX 360’s HD-DVD addon - Heroes Season 1. This is a series that took the TV world by storm last year (and yours truly is one of the many who are addicted) and it’s not available [...]
XBOX 360 tops sales chart for once
As you just saw, Halo 3 sold pretty damn well in September, making more money than every other game on the Top 10 list combined. It also helped propel the 360 to the top of NDP’s September hardware sales charts, although not by as much as you might have expected:
Xbox 360 - 527.8K
Wii - 501K
Nintendo [...]
Upcoming PS3 firmware to add Blu-Ray Profile 1.1 - Picture in Picture playback
Update: The 2.10 firmware being released on December 19 will officially add Profile 1.1, so this rumor turns out to be true!
Sony VP of Advanced Technologies Don Eklund spoke at yesterday’s HDTV DisplaySearch conference in Universal City, California. During the panel discussion, Eklund mentioned that the Playstation 3 will be receiving a firmware update [...]
New 40GB PS3 confirmed for Europe at €400
And that just means that the rumored new model will be destined for the rest of the world, probably at the equivalent of $400 USD (and probably $450 in Canada, despite the fact that their dollar is worth as much as the US Dollar right now).
You’ll notice on the front that there are only two [...]
Sony releases PSP Custom Theme Converter for PC
Have you ever wanted to create your own theme for your PSP, but weren’t sure how to do it? Sony has made it a little easier by releasing this PC application (direct link to the file here) that allows you to compile a custom PSP theme using separate wallpaper and icon images.
It’s not exactly the [...]
Nintendo spends $17 million to uglify the world’s Wii Remotes
Yesterday, Nintendo announced that they intend to offer free Wii Remote covers to everyone who owns a Wii, and will be bundling them with future consoles. Their reasoning is that, I guess, people are still unable to keep a grip on the things. Actually I can attest to this; at a party this summer, some [...]
Rumor: Some Halo 3 XBOX 360’s are 65nm Falcons
More forum-rumors for you this fine day. According to this thread at the official XBOX forum, some (not all) of the Halo 3 Edition XBOX 360’s are actually shipping with cooler-running (and hopefully more reliable) 65nm Falcon processors. The first post tells you how to check if you have a 65nm processor in your [...]
