Playstation 3 80GB’s PS2 backwards compatibility sucks

We’ve hinted at it in the past, that removing the Emotion Engine chip from the 80GB (and future) Playstation 3 consoles would ruin backwards compatibility with many Playstation 2 games. Without it, the console runs these games via a software emulator. You may not even care about this feature if you no longer play [...]

Rumor: Another PS3 price drop; 40GB version at $399

Today’s rumor once again involves the PS3. Most of the previous PS3 rumors we posted ended up being true, which makes this one particularly interesting. This one comes from Ars, which suggests that this holiday season (once the $499 60GB version is sold out), the 80GB will receive a $100 price cut, taking over [...]

All remaining 60GB Playstation 3’s are in stores now

In July, we told you that once Sony sold out of their stock of 60GB PS3’s, that they would not be shipping any more to stores. We speculated that this would happen in “a few months”.
A few months later, and here we are; and Sony is confirming that they are fresh out of 60 GB [...]

Valve’s ‘The Orange Box’ - What I’m looking forward to most

The Orange Box is finally set to release early October this year. Sure, it mostly just has Half-Life 2 games and expansions, which are great if you are a hardcore HL fan — but even then you probably already downloaded and bought them on Steam. The game that’s interesting in this box [...]

Prototype: The Next Big Game?

There are plenty of serious games coming out in the next month or so and even more awesomeness being released by the end of this year. I eagerly await Bioshock and it won’t be long before Crysis is available (so everyone will have an excuse to buy a DX10 video card). But what [...]

Hot Shots Golf 5 - Someone had to think of this eventually…

Mark this day on your calenders, people. It’s the end of the world.
No, really. I’m sure all the signs of the apocalypse are present and accounted for. False prophets, famine, war, people making videos looking up the skirts of virtual characters in a golf game? Yep, it’s getting close.
I saw this [...]

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 [...]