The Sony Playstation Vita has many tasty tricks up its sleeve, including 3G connectivity for web browsing and, of course, multiplayer gaming at your nearest bus stop. Today, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that its officially partnered with Vodafone to provide such on-the-fly online gaming, with a cheeky added bonus to 3G PS Vita customers also on the cards. Read more
There are rumours that Sony plans to slash the price of the PS3 to around £199, with some retailers likely to offer the console as low as £179. Can the Xbox 360 compete?
What’s the secret of the PS3 Slim’s skinny build? It’s down to more than rejigging the odd semi-conductor and improving the power supply, you know. IBM has revealed that the console is packing a brand new Cell processor too. We already know it’s more efficient that the original, and get this: it could well be faster too!
UPDATE: False alarm, peeps. Activision has since issued a retraction, stating that Tony Hawk: Ride will NOT be an Xbox 360 exclusive and WILL be coming to PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. Crossed wires at Activision are believed to be the cause of the confusion.
Tony Hawk: Ride is shaping up to be an exciting reboot to Mr Hawk’s tired old skating franchise. As we mentioned before it packs a brand new board peripheral that could seriously one-up the EA’s new skateboarding king, Skate. THR originally stated that Tony Hawk: Ride is due to launch on PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii, but in the UK, there’s a troubling rumour that Microsoft may be negotiating an exclusivity deal to boost its 2009 line-up.
The PS4 and Xbox 720 may not have had any kind of official nod yet, but you can be sure that Sony and Microsoft are already hard at work on them, and with that in mind, speculation is already running rife over what might be inside them and what kind of power they’ll provide.
New technology, dubbed Holographic Optical Media has been kicking up a fuss lately, offering 100 times the storage of a DVD, but at very low cost. Will it be inside the next generation of games consoles? Read on to find out why it could be.
The Sony PS3 console is to get a serious price cut, with Sony announcing this “in the next couple of days”. The savings will come because Sony is introducing a version of the PS3 without its Blu-ray disc drive. At least, that’s what Mike Hickey, analyst at Janco Partners believes.
If you’re reading this, you presumably haven’t heard that GTA IV: The Lost and Damned expansion is out right now, waiting to be downloaded for 1600 Microsoft points. Better hop to it. But what are you going to do while you wait for the 1.78GB expansion to arrive? Dress up your Avatar like a biker, of course. A raft of new leather-themed Avatar clothes has just hit NXE.
Xbox 360 is leading the PS3 in Europe, according to Microsoft – and it reckons it has the figures to prove it. The data comes from GfK Chart-Track, which estimates the Xbox 360 has sold approximately one million units more than PS3, and stands at odds with the claims Sony was making in May last year.
