Update: The BBC has aired the show (videos below), during which it admitted that a number of the consoles it repaired for consumers have once again broken.
Tonight, the BBC Watchdog program will feature the PS3 and claim that Sony refuses to fix systems which suffer from the Yellow Light of Death (YLOD).
In response, Sony has issued a lengthy letter right back to...
Sony is set to launch an £82m pan-European marketing campaign for the PlayStation 3, firing the first advertising salvo against rivals Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox as consumers start to think about presents for Christmas 2009.
The TV element of the campaign, which has been developed by the TBWA agency, marks a departure from Sony's traditional tactic of often esoteric...
Update: Sony's Eric Lempel has now officially detailed PS3 Firmware 3.0!
Andrew House has just announced PS3 Firmware 3.0 at GamesCom. It’ll feature animated themes, a What’s New section and some other great interface changes.
There will also be direct links to various TV services on the XMB — for example, iPlayer in the UK. For those interested, the battery meter has been moved...
A US federal court has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m (£175m) for wilfully infringing on a patent by Canadian firm i4i, and has filed an injunction to prevent the sale of Word.
The patent relates to the use of XML, a mark-up language that allows formatting of text and makes files readable across different programs.
BBC’s Darren Waters, who works for the technology section of the bbc, said on his blog blog that he believes a game he was shown last year behind closed doors will be show this year.
To quote: “I’m also led to believe that a game I was shown more than a year ago now, and got me quite excited, might, just might, be unveiled at this E3,” he wrote on his blog.
Casual mini-games make for nice promotional gimmicks prior to the release of a real game, and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and SPIL GAMES have teamed up for one such inFamous mini-game.
Press Release: The inFAMOUS Official Mini-Game Launches Exclusively to SPIL Games' Portals
Experience Fierce Action in Official Mini-Game of Upcoming PLAYSTATION®3 Title