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Monday, Oct 27
PS3 Snags Exclusive SmackDown VS. Raw 2009 CE
AGOURA HILLS, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—THQ Inc. (NASDAQ:THQI) and JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAKK) today announced details of the WWE® SmackDown® vs. Raw® 2009 collector’s edition. Exclusively for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, the collector’s edition is now avai...
Thursday, Sep 25
PlayStation Store Update: Credit Cards At The Ready
This is it, ladies and gentlemen. This is the week that we've all been waiting for as PlayStation 3 owners. The Made of Honor Blu-ray trailer has finally been added to the PlayStation Store, giving us all the opportunity to bask in the light of Patrick Dempsey's brightly shining smile at 1080...
Tuesday, Sep 16
The 100 Retailer Pop Quiz - What Gaming Console Should We Buy?
Quotes: "If he never had a video game system before he might like the Wii." Pros: Cons: Cons: PS3 / Xbox 360 - 1%: If it's going in the family room, get a PS3 for Blu-ray. If it's going into a bedroom, get an Xbox 360. Apparently teens don't need private Blu-ray players.
Monday, Jun 9
Robbie Bach On That Blu-ray Xbox 360 Rumor
You've heard the rumor: Microsoft will be announcing a Blu-ray Xbox 360 on Monday morning at 10am KT (Kotaku Time). Apparently Microsoft is gunning to upstage the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Check out what Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division President Robbie Ba...
Friday, May 9
My PlayStation 2.5
The ultimate irony here is that right next to my PlayStation 3 sits my launch Xbox 360, it's glowing green light mocking my plight. Truly I must live in some sort of bizarro world when the world's most unreliable video game console lasts longer than what I often considered the most solid piec...
Tuesday, May 6
Men In Black Becomes First International BD-Live Title
This release follows the recent Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0 software update for PLAYSTATION®3 (Version 2.20), which made the PS3™ the first Profile 2.0 Blu-ray player available on the market. BD-Live titles are compatible with the latest Profile 2.0 BD players. These models also support Blu-r...
Friday, Jan 4
Warner Bros. Goes Blu-ray Only, Format War Lingers On
In response to consumer demand, Warner Bros. Entertainment will release its high-definition DVD titles exclusively in the Blu-ray disc format beginning later this year, it was announced today by Barry Meyer, Chairman & CEO, Warner Bros. and Kevin Tsujihara, President, Warner Bro...
Friday, Nov 16
Variety Not That Impressed By Super Mario Galaxy
KidU wrote: "The format was "video game". So comparing one type of video game to another type of video game is fair." So it's fair to give a DVD bad reviews because it looks worse than Bluray, because the format is "movie." It's also fair to give a Bluray bad reviews, because it looked better in th...
Saturday, Nov 10
Sony Boss Says Blu-ray/HD-DVD War At A "Stalemate"
Mrmoo2002: You mean using a blue laser like it already does? Look, Blu-Ray went with higher single-layer capacity, but the sacrafices were that it reads and writes slower than DVD or HD-DVD, it can't fit as many layers, and it's easier to damage the data layer.
Monday, Nov 5
The Simpsons Go Hollywood [The Simpsons]
I had just attended the Walt Disney Home Entertainment Blu-ray Disc launch party for Pixar's Cars over at Social Hollywood on Sunset Strip and EA actually attracted more star power and had a much better organized event than even that Hollywood studio. But not everyone was impressed with t...
Friday, Nov 2
Who's Going to Lose: HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, or You? [PS3]
According to those in the Blu-ray Disc camp, the writing's on the wall for rival HD-DV, the only thing that seems to be keeping the format alive is Microsoft. With Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment exclusively supporting the format (Warner...
Wednesday, Apr 11
OPM UK Gets Monthly Blu-Ray
As the disc develops, Future fully intends to support the advanced capabilities of the PlayStation® 3 (PS3) and the Blu-ray media, delivering multimedia content and unique user-generated content. The disc will also include Hi-Definition (HD) game and movie trailers. Official PlaySt...
Friday, Mar 30
Multi-Tap: A Week In Comments
Sony Working On PS3 "Elite" Model? January, 2009: Microsoft and Sony release competing $1,000 systems that each hold five games at once, can support the new 1620p standard, and have 500GB of HD space. A 'Moscow On The Hudson' video game!
Tuesday, Mar 20
PS3 1.6 Firmware Details Confirmed
The new firmware, which hits the U.S. on Thursday, will come with the coolio Folding@home program, support for Bluetooth mice and keyboards, a new full QWERTY on-screen keyboard, web browsing zoom, the ability to choose whether a disc should start automatically when you insert it into th...
Thursday, Feb 8
20 Questions With Phil Harrison At DICE
PlayStation 3 shipped with content that delivered a pretty compelling online experience. Resistance 40-player multiplayer on day one was amazing. Thanks, Ted. Motorstorm is shipping in the next few weeks and someone has said that twelve player races in Motorstorm is as much fun as humans...
Friday, Jan 12
Multi-Tap: A Week In Comments
For the optimum picture, you want a 720p TV. (Not that they're easy to find... as most of them are actually 1366x768, aka WXGA... which, as far as I know, is only output by the 360, via the VGA cable - not a single HDDVD/Bluray player or HDTV network actually uses this resolution!) Outputting 720p to a...
Thursday, Feb 16
Sony Verifies PS3 1080p and BluRay
So, tell us, do you see your future in high definition? Good luck! I will be more likely to purchase a PlayStation 3 because of the HD functionality I will get more use out of my HDTV once I have a PlayStation 3 I m not immediately interested in the HD features of the PlayStation 3
