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Sony halved the price of their PS3 development kits in hopes of attracting more game makers. [GamesIndustry]

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Sony's Playstation Booth at the Games Convention is The Shit

Sony turned its Playstation booth into a bathroom for this year's Games Convention in Leipzig. So, dear Giz readers, captions please—the ruder the better. [Yahoo News via Spluch]

10:51 AM on Thu Aug 23 2007
By AddyDugdale
8,066 views, 86 comments

Latest by BigDanInTX: This is probably the greatest and yet the worst marketing thing I've seen. It's cool because you know everyone was a-buzz about it at the convention. However, from a product image, it does seem to be shooting itself more »

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Teen Buys PS2 on eBay, Receives Whole Heap of Cash Instead

A British teenager who bought a Sony PlayStation 2 on eBay for 95 ($194) got more than he bargained for when he opened the package. Instead of a shiny, happy gaming console, there was a whole heap of euros - 65,400 ($90,000) to be precise—stacked neatly inside. A spokesman for eBay said that the parcel's contents were "somewhat unusual," but that they would help the police in any way they could. More »

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9:25 AM on Wed Jul 18 2007
By AddyDugdale
151,643 views, 87 comments

Latest by Sternfan91: Sure...the parents screwed it up more »

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Rumor: Sony 80GB PS3 "Elite" Coming?

This is pretty interesting. Mikey M. at Kotaku got a hot tip that included this FCC doc for an 80GB PS3. Mikey puts on his professor spectacles, coughs, and gives his soliloquy.
A new PLAYSTATION 3 model (CECHE01) with an 80GB hard disk was listed as an additional inclusion to the original FCC grant. The two current model numbers CECHA01 and CECHB01 specify the 60GB and 20GB versions, respectively.

Could this be the basis for a marginally improved but wildly expensive and enticing PS3? If so, is it meant to compete with the Xbox 360 Elite? And, if so, why upgrade a machine that's already too expensive for most? More »

7:49 AM on Thu Mar 29 2007
By Brian Lam
6,440 views, 39 comments

Latest by n/a: @timsuha: Seriously dude take your fan boyism somewhere that cares. I've got all three systems and each system has qualities better than the other. I honestly don't see how people get your rocks off coming into a PS3 article and more »

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Breaking: PS3 Triples Folding At Home's Computing Power to Over 500 TFLOPS..PFLOPS in Spitting Range

This is freaking amazing. I was checking out some message boards last night at the Folding Forums at Stanford, a group that tracks the Folding at Home application. You know, that's the software that runs on Sony PS3 or PS2 gaming consoles, all linking up over the Internet and using their spare cycles to help the university process vast amounts of Alzheimers research data? To my astonishment, I discovered that a small legion of 13,000 PS3s running the Folding at Home app account for most of the computing power in the project, amounting to about 56 percent (PS3s = 316 measured TFLOPS) of the total. More »

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3:11 PM on Fri Mar 23 2007
By Brian Lam
5,217 views, 56 comments

Latest by fireemblem555: PS3 update 1.6 has folding at home automatically included, its just a matter of enabling it. i figure sony doesn't want another fiasco of making software run on ppls hardware that they don't know about. more »

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PS3 European Launch: A Continent Yawns and Continues Picking Its Nose

You've already heard about the free tellies and taxis over in London, well this is how the PS3 was welcomed in France - with a gallic shrug. Just 60 per cent of its 100,000 available units have been reserved, a smattering of press attended the official launch - and a pleasure boat coated with Xbox logos parked itself next to the Eiffel Tower for that all-important photo-op before chugging up and down the Seine. Yes, it was Microsoft who pulled out all the stops and got first dibs on what little press attention there was. More »

6:20 AM on Fri Mar 23 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
3,194 views, 18 comments

Latest by Troy_Powers: Still waiting on an article on how the PS3 just shattered sales records for home consoles in the UK. That's the kinda yawning and nose-picking that Sony wants! more »

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Extreme Envy: Free HDTVs for PS3 London Launch Attendees

And they STILL can't get a big line going. More »
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Reminder: Download the PS3's 1.6 Update and Folding @ Home App

IMG_7615WM.JPGHey there. Just a reminder for you PS3 owners: Now that you're home from work, go download the update version 1.6 that'll let you do many things, including save the world by running Folding @ Home. You know, it's that distributed computing project we showed you live screenshots and videos of last Thursday. I started running it today, and man, that shit makes the PS3 cook. What's cool is that you're gussying up your electricity bill in order to save mankind. That is, while you're not saving mankind in Resistance.
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12:55 AM on Fri Mar 23 2007
By Brian Lam
10,738 views, 19 comments

Latest by gc2488: Hmm, Stanford seems to have reduced by 22% the performance factor for PS3s in their calculation of TFLOPS contributed! I don't see any mention of this change in their news section. Now, each PS3 contributes 19.2 GFLOPS whereas before each more »

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Folding @ PS3 Update 1.6 Coming This Thursday

This Thursday, download the PS3's v1.6 update. You know, the update version 1.6, famous for channeling the super-console's spare floating-point power towards finding a cure for Alzheimer's. Get it, cheetoh-fingered gamers, and you can be a real hero, not just a guitar hero. The update also provides a remote play to those loser 20GB PS3s, updated background DLing, a split on-screen keyboard in the browser, but maybe most interestingly to Giz readers is the updated stack that allows use of Bluetooth keyboards and meeces. More »

9:46 PM on Tue Mar 20 2007
By Brian Lam
11,471 views, 10 comments

Latest by Troy_Powers: Worf, why would you use linux on the PS3 to watch a DVD instead of...just watching the dvd from the PS3 itself? more »

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Sony PS3 Hardware Rumors: HD Eyetoy Cam, Bluetooth Remote in Wild

Brian from Kotaku drops two PS3 hardware rumor gems on us. More »
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PS3 Greymarket Watch: Don't Buy Consoles at McDonalds

You may never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than Mos Eisley spaceport, but the virtual world of Craigslist runs a very close second. Example: A 27-year old San Jose man tries to buy a PlayStation 3 for $700 in the parking lot of a McDonalds. More »

4:45 PM on Tue Dec 12 2006
By Jason Chen
538 views, 22 comments

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In Brief: PS3 Scaling Problems on Old HDTVs

A lot of you are writing in wondering what the deal is with the PS3's scaling issues. Here's the straight shot. More »

4:32 PM on Fri Nov 24 2006
By Brian Lam
1,997 views, 17 comments

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PS3 is Rocky


The PS3. Everyone thinks its washed up. Too old to fight. Not prime time anymore. Maybe the PS3 just needs to travel the world. Do some soul searching. And find out what it's really fighting for. Go PS3. Go.–Brian Lam

12:37 PM on Thu Nov 23 2006
By Brian Lam
202 views, 8 comments

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Video of PS3 and PSP Dancing Over WiFi: Playstation's Remote Play Trivial


Here's a clip of the PS3 and PSP playing well together over WiFi. If you've forgotten, Remote Play is a mode on the PS3 that lets you use a PSP handheld as both a controller and a remote screen for the Playstation over WiFi. The thing is, all you can do is browse the net, which you can already do on the PSP. And you can hit up the vids, photos, and videos on the PS3. But not access the Blu ray discs. Too bad, streaming downsized Blu ray over WiFi would be pretty fantastic. More »

3:11 PM on Tue Nov 21 2006
By Brian Lam
11,748 views, 11 comments

Latest by sonygamer: Can I play my psp game on the 60gb ps3 console?Firmware on both consoles had been updated. more »

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The NY Times Drops a Steamer on the PS3

The New York Times has had a week to spend some time with the PS3, and boy howdy they sure don't like it. While they say it "certainly delivers gorgeous graphics," it doesn't look any better than the Xbox 360. And that's the nicest thing they say about it. More »

3:50 PM on Mon Nov 20 2006
By www.gizmodo.com
338 views, 40 comments

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PlayStation 3 Melee Watch: Rapists, Wii, and Smashing Edition

Jackholes come in threes, and that's no exception for the PS3 melee madness. Our jerkbag is a suspected rapist who escaped from a University of kentucky Hospital only to go to Best Buy in order to buy a PS3. People were suspicious when they saw a man who fit the escapee's description. The description: boxer shorts and tennis shoes. More »

7:47 PM on Fri Nov 17 2006
By Jason Chen
969 views, 35 comments

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PlayStation 3 Melee Watch: Riot Edition


The PlayStation 3 Mayhem reached UCLA-like proportions last night, as a Best Buy manager announced to 50 people that only 35 PS3 units were available. Ruh roh. More »

2:00 PM on Fri Nov 17 2006
By Jason Chen
442 views, 21 comments

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PlayStation 3 Melee Watch: Campers Get Violent

Oh my. People really, really want their PlayStation 3s. Just check out all the craziness going on today. More »

7:05 PM on Thu Nov 16 2006
By Jason Chen
687 views, 22 comments

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