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PS3 users have been supporting the research on Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Cancer at a rate of 3,000 new users per day, says SCEI. The Folding@home project aims to understand protein folding and misfolding, and how these are related to diseases and forms of cancer. Since partnering with SCEI, we have …

The Xbox 360’s Xbox Originals service, which allows gamers to download full Xbox games on their console, is set for a boost next week with the arrival of three new titles. EA’s trigger-happy FPS Black will be joined by Tecmo’s pseudo-sequel Ninja Gaiden Black and 2K Games’ Sid Meier’s Pirates …

Gaming has supposedly got a race war going on thanks to BBC One’s consumer rights show Watchdog . Last night’s edition granted five minutes to claims that that voice recognition technology used in Nintendo’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training on DS discriminates against those with Northern accents as it struggles to …

Sony's SN Systems team reduces price of handheld development tools by 50 per cent

Grasshopper founder Suda51 has told MCV that he first planned for Rising Star’s No More Heroes to be an Xbox 360 title. Speaking exclusively in the No More Heroes Recommended Extra magazine given away free in this weeks’s MCV magazine, Suda51 said: Originally, I’d wanted to make this game for …

It’s easy to lose track of what new PS3 SKU to expect next, what with all the recent talk of 80GB cancellations and 120GB rumours – but now tech site T3 is claiming to have the scoop on a brand new slimline PS3. Claiming to have word from a ‘particularly …

CVG reports that Electronic Arts has confirmed Rock Band is coming to Nintendo’s Wii. EA CEO John Riccitiello revealed the information during the question-and-answer session of the company’s third-quarter conference call, referring to the coming launch” of a Wii version of the game. Last year, Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopulos said …

Future versions could contain physics, AI or inverse kinematics engines

Toshiba has spoken out in response to Woolworths’ announcement that it is to phase out HD-DVD from its stores in March. The retailer revealed today that it would only sell the format via its website in future, after Blu-Ray outsold HD-DVD by ten-to-one in its stores over Christmas. European assistant …

A confident Sony chief executive Howard Stringer told Reuters on Friday: PS3 has now gone past Xbox on the Christmas market. It’s moving into its own as it gets into higher bandwidth … PS3 is out of the woods and beginning to hold its own.” His comments echo those of …