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April’s upcoming Splinter Cell: Conviction will, thanks to a deal with Microsoft, be exclusive to Xbox 360 – but don’t assume that the same can be said of its eventual successor. I don’t see why it wouldn’t,” Ubisoft Montreal’s Max Beland stated when asked by Edge Online if the next …
Read More »PS3 bug what happened?
Throughout yesterday’s ‘Day of Despair‘ for PS3, Sony persistently referred to the issue as a problem with PSN – but the truth behind what caused the global blackout of around 90 per cent of the world’s PS3 is a lot more complicated. PSN was initially thought to be at fault …
Read More »PS3 bug hits the headlines
The panic has subsided and it’s business as usual for PS3 owners, but March 1st 2010 will likely never be forgotten by hardcore gamers or indeed the specialist press – and the national media is today going into overdrive to highlight Sony’s day of woe. Today’s copy of national freesheet …
Read More »Sony: PS3 global system error is over
March 2nd brings with it an end to the internal clock issue that crippled Sonyâ??s console
Read More »The PS3 crisis is over
The world’s PS3s are working again. After a day of panic and a what must have been a very long and nervous night for Sony execs, the internal clock bug that saw around 92 per cent of the globe’s PS3 consoles stop working correctly yesterday has been defeated thanks to …
Read More »Xboxs FFXIII to outsell PS3 version
The Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII is on track to outsell the PS3 SKU by two-to-one – that’s the prediction of discount shopping portal MyVoucherCodes.co.uk. The site comes to the conclusion based on the number of searches made on its server, with interest in the Xbox 360 title …
Read More »PS3 tech woes escalate
The conspiracy theorists are out in force this morning after what began as a global issue with Sony’s PSN network has now escalated to what many people are calling an internal problem with some older PS3 consoles. Over the weekend many PS3 owners began complaining that they were unable to …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Heavy Rain claims no.1
So new, risky IP can’t be a commercial success, right? Wrong. Sony’s hugely ambitious and totally off-the-wall interactive crime thriller Heavy Rain has lived up to the hype and debuted in top spot in the ELSPA GfK Chart-Track All Formats Top 40 this week. It’s Sony’s first UK number one …
Read More »Heavy Rain special edition content delayed
Buyers of the Heavy Rain special edition released today will have to wait until March 4th until they can download the game’s soundtrack. Sony posted a comment on its PlayStation Blog today apologising for a last-minute technical delay. Heavy Rain’s European product manager Alex Pavey said: If you redeem your …
Read More »PS3 â??an evolutionary leap in audio designâ??
25MB of RAM allocation allows for dream audio work, says SCEEâ??s Dan Bardino
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