Eager horror fans who just picked up Dead Space will find a couple extra goodies of the non-scary kind when they pop the disc into their system. At least on the PS3 version, you get two Blu-ray Disc icons under the Game XMB — one for Dead Space of course, but surprisingly also one for [...]

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Eager horror fans who just picked up Dead Space will find a couple extra goodies of the non-scary kind when they pop the disc into their system. At least on the PS3 version, you get two Blu-ray Disc icons under the Game XMB — one for Dead Space of course, but surprisingly also one for [...]

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And here you thought we’d escaped TGS without this rumorang whizzing by again. Oh no, we most certainly did not (duck!). “We’re actively looking into a [Metal Gear Solid 4] release for the Xbox 360,” a Konami rep told Japanese investment research firm Morningstar for a TGS report [...]

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They say in space, no one can hear you scream. Luckily, here on earth, they’ll hear you loud and clear if you win this cache of Dead Space goodies. But this is no ordinary Joyswag giveaway, folks. Oh no, you’re gonna have to work for this one. [...]

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Last month ExtremeTech completed their yearly-ish overhaul of their Bang for the Buck PC Build guide to present gamers with a formula for building a rig that will perform without breaking their budget. Though we missed it at the time, we thought those of you considering a PC upgrade in time for the holidays would [...]

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And here you thought we’d escaped TGS without this rumorang whizzing by again. Oh no, we most certainly did not (duck!). “We’re actively looking into a [Metal Gear Solid 4] release for the Xbox 360,” a Konami rep told Japanese investment research firm Morningstar for a TGS report [...]

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Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Joyswag

They say in space, no one can hear you scream. Luckily, here on earth, they’ll hear you loud and clear if you win this cache of Dead Space goodies. But this is no ordinary Joyswag giveaway, folks. Oh no, you’re gonna have to work for this one. [...]

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2K Marin programmer Jake Etgeton confirms that the PS3 version of BioShock will feature new interactive load screens and graphical enhancements due to the use of Blu-ray and the ability to install data on the PS3 hard drive

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2K Marin programmer Jake Etgeton confirms that the PS3 version of BioShock will feature new interactive load screens and graphical enhancements due to the use of Blu-ray and the ability to install data on the PS3 hard drive

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The latest word from Tokyo Game Show 2008 is that only the first batch of Final Fantasy Advent Children: Complete releases will include the Final Fantasy XIII demo as a bonus. That means that if you want any chance at all to play the demo, you’ll probably want to pre-order the Blu-Ray movie from various [...]

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Well, here we go again. Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg, talking to slightly-interest party Major Nelson, says he’s never seen such a “tremendous shift” in developer loyalty, and he means from Sony and to Microsoft. Guess we couldn’t expect him to keep from smack talking after the Tekken 6 news earlier this week.
“We’ve come a long way… [...]

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If you have a silver (free) Xbox Live account, you won’t be able to stream movies from Netflix account when the “New Xbox Experience” drops this fall.
Netflix is such a casual service and a paid subscription is already required for Xbox users to access the service through their 360. But a paid Xbox Live Gold [...]

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The online movie rental service Netflix has announced today that it will begin charging extra for Blu-ray DVD rentals. In an e-mail sent out to members today, the rental giant said that since Blu-ray is a more expensive product to stock, the company will begin charging an extra $1 per month (plus tax) for access [...]

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The PS3 has firmly entrenched itself as not only a games console, but a fully fledged multimedia device.
It features blu-ray, media streaming, a web browser and image viewing and printing.
Now, with PlayTV, the PS3 adds television to its repertoire. Sony could easily have released a simple TV tuner with only the [...]

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The PS3 has firmly entrenched itself as not only a games console, but a fully fledged multimedia device.
It features blu-ray, media streaming, a web browser and image viewing and printing.
Now, with PlayTV, the PS3 adds television to its repertoire. Sony could easily have released a simple TV tuner with only the [...]

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Konami Digital Entertainment announced today that a limited edition of the highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will be exclusive to video game retailer GameStop. The Limited Edition will sell for a whopping $84.99 and come packed with exclusive artwork by Kojima Productions illustrator Yoji Shinkawa, an additional [...]

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A survey of 10 Australian retail chains who operate over 2,000 stores revealed that the XBox 360 is on the down low with the majority of the chains seeing their gaming growth coming from the PS3 and the Nintendo Wii. This survey was conducted by ChannelNews and Smarthouse and the results [...]

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This isn’t really a surprise, I just don’t think this Blu-ray thing will go forward just now if ever, here is a statement from Microsoft denying such a drive for the 360.“No. Lite-On is not manufacturing Blu-ray drives for Xbox 360. As we have stated, games are what are driving consumers to purchase game [...]

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If indeed this does happen, a Blu-ray Xbox 360, it will have to be sold at a loss, while the current DVD drive costs Microsoft around US$18-20 the manufacturing costs of Blu-Ray drives is in the region of US$95-100.
Even if Microsoft were to up their Blu-ray model price it would still have to [...]

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Nokia is sponsoring a contest for Xbox Live where you can design a Live theme, you can go to my360theme.com and register and upload your theme and get a chance to win some prizes.
All submited themes must pass an “internal quality review” before the rest of the world can see your work, this is a [...]

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Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will be available in both retail and download versions, the Playstation Network version (downloadable) will be 1,9GB in size. Not a heavy download at this day and age, in order for Sony to deliver the game with only 1,9GB they do not include in the download the cinematics for the game, [...]

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Microsoft has ruled out for the time being any external peripherals for Xbox 360, while Sony celebrates Blu-ray beating HD-DVD to the ground, Microsoft continues on with their quest for the downloadable content market which according to Chris Lewis, Microsoft’s european head honcho is the way to go.
“We never wanted to force consumers down any [...]

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In a recent interview to next-gen.biz Aaron Greenberg Xbox 360 group product manager sheds a little light on whats going on with Xbox 360 and fires a couple shots at Sony. Here are some excerpts of this interesting interview.
“I can tell you that we’re not currently in talks with Sony or the Blu-ray disc [...]

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Playstation network users will have the game available March 27th, the game will cost £24,99, If you want the Blu-ray disc version you will have to wait one day as that version only hits retail shelves a day later and will cost the same.
On the 28th a PS3 bundle with Gran Turismo 5 Prologue will [...]

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It seems Microsoft will support the Blu-ray format now that HD-DVD is officially buried. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer speaking at the Mix 08 conference said “We’ve already been working on, for example, in Windows, device driver support for Blu-ray drives and the like. I think the world moves on, Toshiba has moved on. [...]

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The Gran Turismo series always had great cars, and the next installment og the game won’t let your down, here is the list revealed by Sony of the 71 cars present in gran Turismo 5 Prologue.

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Europe is getting two PS3 bundles, one of them is for movie fans and for Sony to rejoice over the victory in the hd format war, the Blu-ray bundle consists of a 40GB Ps3 and 3 movies, Casino Royale, Spiderman 3 and 300, it will be launched March 19th.

The second bundle is for the racing fans as it [...]

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