4w ago - Following up on yesterday's rumors, Microsoft officially unveiled their XBox One next-generation console as part of XBox Reveal today.

Below are all the XBox One reveal details, (via Wired among various others with some XBox One Internal / Disassembly Teardown Pictures) as follows:

XBox One will enhance Skype and TV features with a Skype component, but will also also include specialized TV functionality with the guide being dubbed “Intelligent TV” and allow users to switch between shows and channels using voice recognition alongside swapping from playing games to TV. The XBox One will also power on when users say “XBox On” revealing the contents of the dashboard as well.

A Microsoft Support Tweet states the following: "No fee, correct - and they just got that information wrong. As soon as we saw, we contacted them...

22w ago - Following up on his previous revision, this weekend PlayStation 3 homebrew developer deneo24 of NGU has once again updated PS_Unban v0.2.1 with a new PS3 console ID for 3.55 / 4.21 / 4.30 CFW users.

Download: PS_Unban for 3.55 CFW / PS_Unban for 4.21 / 4.30 CFW (Password: DeneoNGU) / PS_Unban v0.4 4.21-4.30 PKG / PS_Unban v0.4 3.55 PKG / PS_Unban for 3.55 CFW (Jan 22 - Deneo) / PS_Unban for 4.21 / 4.30 CFW (Jan 22 - Deneo) / PS_Unban for 3.55 / 4.21 / 4.30 CFW via go4 / PS_Unban for 4.21+ CFW by anonymous / PS_Unban...

23w ago - Following up on the previous revision, today deneo24 of NGU has made available PS_Unban v0.2.1 fixed, which includes a new PS3 console ID for 3.55, 4.21 and 4.30 CFW users followed by v0.3 below.

Download: PS_Unban v0.2.1 for 3.55 / PS_Unban v0.2.1 for 4.21 / 4.30 / PS_Unban v0.2.1 for 4.21 / 4.30 (Mirror) / PS_Unban v0.2.1 for 4.21 / 4.30 Blackscreen Fix (ONLY IF YOU HAVE BLACKSCREEN WITH ORIGINAL) - Downloads Password: DeneoNGU / PS_Unban v0.3 (3.55-4.21/4.30 CFW) by deneo24 (Mirror) / PS_Unban v0.3 (3.55 Version) / PS_Unban v0.3 (3.55 Version) (Mirror) / PS_Unban v0.3 Rebug v4.21 / Rogero v4.30 Compatibility Fixed / PS_Unban v0.3 Rebug v4.21 / Rogero V4.30 Compatibility Fixed (Mirror) / PS_Unban...

63w ago - Sony Senior Director Jack Buser of PlayStation Digital Platforms has announced today that the PS3 is the first console to offer Amazon Prime Instant Video to users with details below!

To quote: Hi again, PlayStation community. I'm here to bring some good news today: Amazon Instant Video is available now on PlayStation Network, making the PS3 the first and only video game console to offer the service!

Head on over to the TV/Video Services category of the XMB, where you can download and install the new Amazon Instant Video app (19MB) right now for free. Once you launch the app, you'll have instant access to thousands of streaming and downloadable movies and TV shows for rental or purchase.

There are more than 120,000 commercial-free movies and TV shows for rental or purchase, including new releases, classic favorites, major TV shows, full seasons and even new episodes of some of your favorite TV shows the day after they air.

Many of the DVD and Blu-Ray titles on Amazon.com are also offered on Amazon Instant Video available through this new app.

If you're an Amazon Prime member (I am!), you'll also be able to watch as many of the more than 17,000 Prime Instant Videos as you can handle, at no additional cost. If you're not yet an Amazon Prime member, you can sign...

68w ago - Following up on our previous article, today Kotaku (linked above) reports that according to inside sources Sony may be ditching the Cell Processor for the PlayStation 4 console.

Below are the details, to quote: "The PlayStation 4 will not use Sony's Cell processor nor any possible successor to the vaunted chipset that was introduced to the world through the PlayStation 3, gaming industry sources tell Kotaku.

What we're hearing from sources follow a Forbes rumor last week that chip-maker AMD would make the graphics chip for a PS4, a shift from the PS3's use of a graphics chip from AMD rival Nvidia.

The abandonment of the Cell architecture would thrill the many game developers who have struggled with the complex chipset, but it could also be viewed as the admission of a mistake.

Cell was the pet project of PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, who dreamed that the chip- a "Power Processing Element" married to eight "Synergistic Processing Elements"- would make the PS3 the most impressive gaming console ever. He spoke of a home equipped with multiple devices that were powered by Cell, all of them linking to each other to increase the computational power driving any...