The PS3 has already had a 3D gaming upgrade. Now Sony says it’ll get firmware updates to add 3D Blu-ray playback in September, as well as 3D photo support later this year. Mick Hocking, a director at SCEE spilled the beans this morning, and while there’s no confirmed release date for the PS3 3D upgrade, he stressed that Sony was still focussing on games as the “killer content for 3D.”
To really fill a niche, Google Voice needs to provide one extra bit of crossover functionality. Right now it records up to three hours of phone calls to your Google Voice number, and it also transcribes up to a three minute long voicemail.
Dead Space 2 isn’t due for release until early next year but if you are desperate to get a fix of zero-G Necromorph-on-Engineer action, EA are releasing a short prequel game to keep you going.
Dead Space: Ignition is being developed by original Dead Space developer Visceral Games and partner Sumo Digital. Unlike the action/rpg style gameplay of the full game, Ignition is described as “an interactive comic-style story” featuring choose-your-own-adventure style puzzle solving as well as some twitchy arcade action.
The first publicly available iPhone 4 jailbreak hasn’t arrived yet but we’ve seen massive interest in cracking open Apple’s latest creation. But if you’re planning to go down the iPhone 4 jailbreak route, do you know the risks you could be running? Our iPhone 4 jailbreak opinion piece and yesterday’s story on the iPhone 4 jailbreak apps we want to see show just the upside but opening up iOS 4 on your iPhone 4 could come with a downside too…
Twitter for Blackberry is being rolled out as we speak, into Blackberry’s App World, after Twitter for iPhone was rolled out towards the end of May. During its beta stages a whole bunch of news features were added, which should make the interface and functionality much better.
The Sony Cyber-shot WX5 and Sony Cyber-shot TX9, the latest colourful compacts from the Japanese camera cobblers, will come packing the same 3D sweep panorama mode added to the Sony NEX-5 and Sony NEX-3 last week. It’s a clever feature but only works if you’ve also got a 3D TV and 3D specs. But the Sony Cyber-shot WX5 and Sony Cyber-shot TX9 have plenty of other specs to get excited about and we’ve rounded them up below…
YouTube’s mobile site looks to threaten its iPhone app, with a massive update that makes the site act more like an app, with HTML5 video support. YouTube has also incorporated search suggestions, playlists, favourites, like and unlike functionality, into the mobile site, and claims to be is really nippy.
Activision Blizzard is to force users of its gaming forums to sign in with their real-world names in an attempt to prevent bad behaviour and hate speech.
Anonymous trolls are the curse of many an internet forum but now World of Warcraft and StarCraft players will need to stand by their comments thanks to Activision Blizzard’s Real ID system. Real ID simply requires users to sign in to discussion forums using their real names, the theory being that while Thrunknor the Death Knight might be willing to use somewhat fruity and offensive language to diss his foes, plain old Kevin Smithers might feel a little more restrained.
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