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The Microsoft XBox 360 is set to drop its prices yet again to $299, thats £150 to us poms. This Xbox 360 price drop is yet another snub to Sony’s Playstation 3 which is still hideously expensive and is losing a huge amount of market share to gamers.

It seems that the new Xbox 360 price drop could be a real danger to Sony’s dominance brought in by the Playstation 2, unfortunately it seems Sony have not learnt from previous success, and Microsoft has learnt from… Continue Reading»

We recently noted how Microsoft’s XBox Live community had a player rankings system built into its online community, full with roaming controller configurations and so on.

Sony have announced today that they will be releasing a new hardware upgrade v2.40 for the Playstation 3 to keep up with this, pretty good, idea.  Patch 2.4 is primarily allowing access to a PlayStation 3 online database of player information, friends lists custom game settings and game rankings.  The full list of released upgrades is as follows,

• Friend category
• View, send, receive messages via your Playstation 3
• Manage downloads
• Set the vibration feature of the PS3 controller
• Sign in

Valve, the company behind clasic First Person Shooter Games has announced its proposed update to Steam - Its internet based application for delivering games to players world wide.

The update is music to gamers ears as it takes a users stats and stores them remotely, allowing people to goto any location, be it an internet cafe or a friends house and play with their own profile and settings.

Valve was initially condemed by gamers due to its copywrite management systems implimented to prevent piracy.  However after a rocky start, and with the help of the half life 2 realease, Valves Steam system… Continue Reading»

AMD have today announced that they will be bringing out a standard for excellence on gaming machines.  Any machine that meets this standard will be allowed to display a sticker noting that it is either at gaming, or pro gaming level.

This seems to be a specific stab at Intel when they announced an integrated graphics/processor chip, something that could increase PC Performance but may damage competition.

Nvidia recently slammed Intel for the move in an interview with their CEO, and it now seems like AMD (Owners of ATI)… Continue Reading»

Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been a vein of contention for many years now.  Apple for instance has recently bowed to public pressure and removed all DRM from its downloaded tracks.  Sony recently reviewed it’s DRM policy after receiving a huge amount of negative publicity when it released a new audio CD DRM system that covertly installed itself on your computer, then opened it up for any hacker with half a brain.

But this post is not about CD DRM nor MP3 DRM.  It is about PC Games and Their Digital Rights Management Systems and WHY they are wrong.

Yesterday for instance… Continue Reading»

9X are one of the worlds top leaders in monitor design solutions, this was all but apparent as I stared up at this gigantic, and aparently ergonomic Beast that sat in their lobby.

From this picture you cannot actually grasp the sheer size of this technological gargantuan godsend.  I did not dare ask how much they charged for a 30 screen combined visual unit, and instead walked into the back of the store to see some of their other products (Whch can be viewed here).

After nearly half an hour… Continue Reading»

According to DBTechno, Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced that it will be shutting the PSP servers for some of its games on June 30th. As the reason comes out to be, they will be shut because of the lack of user activity on some games. The servers will be closed for PSP games, Lemmings and World Tour Soccer 2 and many other games should follow in the later part of this year. This announcement has come shortly after Sony announced that PS2 game servers are also set to shut down. Continue Reading»