Quality Control in Tech Today
If you haven’t seen it around the blogosphere and news websites copying around, Jorge Brouwer is filing a class action lawsuit for 5 million dollars against Microsoft for negligent hardware design in the Xbox 360. His copies of Madden and Gears of War were scratched from normal use in his Xbox.
Not only is [...]
David Reeves thinks PS3 will rule by March ‘08
I’m still waiting for Jack Tretton to mail me my $8400 and I’m rather sure the guys from Penny Arcade haven’t received their $13200 either. Now another Sony exec is back making outrageous claims. David Reeves, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe declared that the PS3 “will be far and away the [...]
Sound the alarms! Nintendo Wii has been hacked!
Uh oh, things are looking grim for Nintendo; CVG is reporting that hackers have found a security hole in the Flash Player of the Wii Browser, opening up the console to run unsigned code. Of course everyone says they want to run homebrew apps on it, but you know what is really going to [...]
Slim PSP high-res pics and details
Okay, so we’ve all seen the press conference, and we’ve seen the shakycam pictures taken by livebloggers. Now that Sony has released official PR photos, let’s take a closer look at them (click for high-res):
First of all, we know the specs: 19% slimmer, 33% lighter. As far as width and height though, it’s identical to [...]
Old PSP model being discontinued as well
From the “well DUH” file comes news that the new slim(mer) thin(ner) model of the PSP will not be sitting along side the old bulky version when it hits stores this September. I figured as much; game-bundles of the new model were announced at E3 with an MSRP of $199, so it only [...]
PS3 60GB IS going for good - but not for a few months
Yesterday we tried to go into rumor-control mode, as people were citing a European Sony exec saying that the lowered-priced 60GB console will be gone forever once current stock runs out. He said that this would happen within 3 weeks, which is what set off red flags for me.
People have been scrambling trying to [...]
Rumor Control: Microsoft didn’t admit anything
Yesterday, an Australian business site reported on Microsoft’s warranty extension story and conference call (about 4 days after it happened; see our report here). Okay, so they were a bit late. What is a site to do when they report on a story so late? Make something up! As you know, the story is [...]
