As the first of several updates to our dead PS3 Blu-ray drive community project from last week, our PS3 Devs have identified what they believe to be the root cause of drive failures associated with the recent updates in PS3 Firmware v3.00/v3.01.
We suspect that the 3.00 and 3.01 PS3 Firmware updates, which contain the BD firmware patch file BDPT_FIRMWARE_PACKAGE_306R.PKG, is the main contributing factor to...
Update: If you possess one of these bricked PS3 drives, please see HERE.
Additionally, GameSpot has reported of two gamers (one from Texas, the other Iowa) who also are suing Sony over these very issues.
A man from Florida has filed a law-suit against Sony over their recent PS3 3.0 Firmware update. The suit alleges that the Firmware update caused his PS3, like several others,...
When the "DLC" Costume Packs were announced for Street Fighter IV, gamers were irked to see something as basic and standard in fighting games as unlockable costumes being sold to them.
Adding onto the annoyance was that the suspected "DLC" only weighed in at 124 k/b leaving many to suspect Capcom was charging for content already on the disc.
The NY Times recently ran an article about a General Electric science and research team and their findings of storage capacity in the medium of holography.
This isn’t particularly new news, given that holography has been around for ages. However, what it is new about these findings is that they can use holographic optical media to maintain data storage equivalent to 100 standard DVDs.
Update: It seems fixed now, the "This site may harm your computer." appears to be removed from the majority of Web sites.
Well at 1:55am on a Sunday in Australia, I went on google to search my local newspapers Web site, strangely I noticed that the site had been listed as harmful.
Scrolling down the page revealed that every other page was also listed as harmful....
A former IGN and Ziff Davis gaming journalist reportedly killed himself and his wife last month.
According to reports, Jason Montes actually called a friend to say he had shot his wife and was planning to shoot himself before carrying out his grim actions.
To quote: Jason Montes, 33, of Sacramento was found dead by police at the home of his estranged wife in Concord,...
After the secret source code for its then-unreleased shooter Half Life 2 showed up on file sharing services in 2003, game-maker Valve Software cooked up an elaborate ruse with the FBI targeting the German hacker suspected in the leak, even setting up a fake job interview in an effort to lure him to the United States for arrest.
Here's the public presentation of Heavy Rain for the PlayStation 3 made by its Producer at Micromania Games Show 2008 in Paris.
- In this demo, the player takes the role of a young journalist who is investigating on several girls' disappearances, she goes to a house of a former taxi driver who is suspected of killing these women. In this presentation, the Producer of the...
Logic-Sunrise has shared the results of their investigation into the screen issues with the latest edition PSP-3000 consoles.
They took out a microscope in order to test the difference between the screens as follows:
On PSP-3000 and newest PSP-3004, Everyone get a "bad screen" (scanline effect). But what happen on these screens ? in fact we get a microscope, and we...