Splinter Cell: Conviction Looks Badass

I’m a huge fan of the Splinter Cell games. Even though he’s a bit of a poor shot, there are few men (real or fictional) that are as badass as protagonist Sam Fisher. He ranks right up there with Jack Bauer and Chuck Norris (and way above Vin Diesel). If you [...]

PS3 can now play Blu-Ray movies at 720p, thanks to 1.8 (it’s official)

Naturally, this 1.8 system update just keeps getting better and better. We told you about the 1.8 features that everyone knows about, we told you about the feature that nobody expected. We told you about some wacky workarounds that the 1.8 update introduces, allowing streaming media from your PC to your PSP.
We were getting [...]

PS3 1.8 firmware already streams Windows media to your PSP

The 1.8 firmware saga continues! Everyone is waiting anxiously for the 2.0 update, but to be honest, this update has been fun to play around with!
First, we learned that when the PSP gets its update next month, the PS3 will stream media to it anywhere you have an internet connection. Good news, but there’s [...]

PS3 1.8 firmware streams music, photos, and video from Vista

When I woke up this morning, I spotted a PR release from Sony regarding their upcoming 1.8 firmware update. The thing that stood out about this update was that it would allow streaming media to a PSP over the internet. I wrote about that immediately, but until the next firmware arrives for the PSP, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]