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Article | 18/08/2010 Sony and Yahoo!7 bring new IPTV service to PS3
The IPTV market in Australia has increased yet again with a Sony Computer Entertainment Australia and Yahoo!7 partnership to provide PS3 console users...
Article | 20/07/2010 Sony: The PS3 can do 3D 1080p, but probably shouldn't
The PS3 can do 3D 1080p, but it probably shouldn't. That's what Sony's telling 3D developers, anyway, in what amounts to an unofficial cap trotted out...
Article | 7/07/2010 White is the new black for Sony's updated PS3
Microsoft just flipped its bevel-edged, cream-colored Xbox 360 to piano black, and now Sony's shifting its matte-sable slimline PS3 into the ivory zon...
Article | 29/06/2010 PS3 update will add PlayStation Plus, Facebook integration
Sony's monolithic cell-powered console is getting a new software update via firmware that's planning to bring some significant additions and tweaks to...
Article | 16/06/2010 Valve apologizes for Sony-bashing, announces Portal 2 for PS3
Valve's super-secret E3 surprise turns out to be a bit of crow-munching in the form of Portal 2, its geometry-bending shooter, for Sony's PlayStation ...
Article | 11/06/2010 Sony launches 3D TVs, gaming
Sony's plans for 3D entertainment begin coming together on Thursday as the company kicks off sales of 3D televisions and begins offering 3D games for ...
Article | 18/05/2010 PlayStation 3 owners to get movie download service
From 1am on Thursday, Australian PlayStation 3 owners will be able to rent or buy 600 movies using the PlayStation Network. The video-on-demand servic...
Article | 13/05/2010 PlayStation 3 OS changes affect Air Force
Late last year, we brought you a story reporting that the U.S. Air Force commissioned a $2 million purchase for thousands of PlayStation 3 consoles in...
Article | 30/04/2010 Hey Sony, don't mess with Linux, says PS3 lawsuit
When Sony nerfed Linux support for the PS3 in early April, we knew it was only a matter of time before someone pulled a pack of lawyers out of their p...
Article | 8/04/2010 PS3 firmware 3.21 rolls out, causes drama and a hack
The Linux-eliminating PlayStation 3 firmware update that many originally hoped was an April Fools' Day joke rolled out on the first of this month. Pla...
Article | 9/03/2010 Sony to begin worldwide 3D TV launch in June
Sony will begin selling 3D TVs in Japan on June 10 and worldwide at about the same time, it said Tuesday. A firmware upgrade to its PlayStation 3 cons...
Article | 3/03/2010 Sony blames leap year glitch for PlayStation troubles
Sony has restored service to the PlayStation Network by resolving a glitch in the internal clock of some PlayStation 3 consoles that recognized 2010 a...
Article | 2/03/2010 Teen hacker admits crashing PlayStation site
A 17-year-old honors student from Pennsylvania admitted to crashing Sony's PlayStation site after being banned for cheating in SOCOM U.S. Navy Seals. ...
Article | 2/03/2010 Leave your PlayStation 3 off or else, warns Sony
It's probably just a 24 hour bug, but you'll want to leave your glitchy PS3s off in the meantime, just in case, says Sony.
Article | 27/01/2010 iPhone hacker cracks the PlayStation 3
Up to this point, just about every gaming console--from the Xbox 360 to the Nintendo DS--has been hacked in some way, usually to allow it to play pira...