Archive for December 4, 2006

EA predicts Sony will miss PS3 year-end shipment numbers

If you haven’t managed to procure a good, solid pre-order yet from a credible retailer, you just might want to take a good hard look at those unboxing pics we shared last night, ’cause it could very well be as close as you’re getting to a PlayStation 3 in 2006.

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PS3: Is History Repeating Itself?

Is Sony poised to repeat its success with the PS2?

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Valve pushes Half Life 2: Episode 2 into Summer of 2007

We’ve all been complaining about the sheer number of games and systems coming out before the holidays, and of course no one is going to have the time or the budget to hit them all. So…erm…I have some good news, and I have some bad news.

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After 18 months, 4 seconds of sound to define Windows Vista

Some people spend 18 months working on a whole album. At Microsoft Corp., that’s how long it took to perfect just four seconds of sound. Of course, this isn’t just any four-second clip. It’s the sound that millions of computer users will hear every day, and perhaps thousands of times in total, when they turn on computers running Vista.

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Yes, you can install another OS on your PS3!

It only takes four easy steps to install another system software on the hard disk of your PS3! Read on to find out how!

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LimeWire to filter out Adobe products

LimeWire today announced on the company blog that from now on they will be filtering out Adobe products like Photoshop that are distributed illegally over P2P networks that LimeWire hooks into.

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Firmware 3.0 WILL have PS1 emulation!

All the news just keeps pouring in! A little while after our original post about the PS3’s online network, one of our dedicated readers Rami was kind enough to translate all the Japanese text on the PlayStation online network for us! While the gist of his translation was about the capability of the PS3 online network, there was a small bit of info

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Sony PS3 woes continue: Players report glitches on PS1 & PS2 games

In doing everything possible to lose the race against Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Sony reportedly still has issues to work out with its backwards compatibility for older PlayStation games, even after its release in Japan, and only days away from being sold in North America. In true Sony form, officials were not available for comment.

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PS3 Linux OtherOS installer out! Full Fedora Core 5 install instructions!

Yes, the void has been filled! You will be able to install Fedora Core 5 on your PS3s right now if you have all the components ready! The void we’re talking about here is the OtherOS Installer which has just been released by Sony on their Open Platform for PLAYSTATION site. So let us be the first ones to tell you how it’s done. Pictures coming soon

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Examples of Microsoft stealing source code

With all of the FUD around Microsoft and SCO making wild and unsubstantiated claims regarding Linux, I thought I’d look up how much code Microsoft has stolen themselves. With a simple Google search, I was able to turn up eight different instances in just a few minutes where Microsoft has lost court battles from their code theft.

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