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Netflix streaming
How To Make Your PS3 Stream Netflix
Netflix isn't dragging its feet as it sets up its on demand streaming service on the PlayStation 3. After announcing the feature last week, Netflix has started sending out discs that let PS3 owners with Netflix subscriptions partake in the streaming. More » -
netflix
Netflix Streaming Coming To PS3 In November
Sony is barging in on Microsoft's territory, having hammered out a deal to stream Netflix movies over the console just like the Xbox 360 for no additional charge beyond the Netflix membership. More » -
da bomb
EECB Succeeds Where Stupid Sony Techs Fail
Remember back when some individuals referred to good things as "da bomb?" They probably didn't have the Executive Email Carpet Bomb in mind, since Consumerist didn't yet exist, but they should have. Here's to re-branding "da bomb" as shorthand for the EECB. Just look at what it did for c0crusader, a spurned Sony laptop customer who used da bomb to shake Sony down for $99. More » -
sony
It's Been Two Months, So Sony Goes Ahead And Releases Another New PS3
If you went out and bought a PS3 Slim, thinking your new system would at least avoid obsolescence for the rest of the year, think again. More » -
psp go
You Can't Transfer Games To PSP Go Because You Bought Too Many PSPs
Lordnat75 writes on Sony's tech forum that he can't re-download his games because he's owned too many PSPs. More » -
more like system down-date
Gamers Accuse Sony, Nintendo Of Breaking Their Consoles From Afar
It's a good week for Microsoft and its fanboys, because both Playstation 3 and Wii gamers are reporting recent system updates are rendering their consoles nothing more than bricks. More » -
sony
Sony Will Let Gamers Transfer Blu-ray Movies To PSP In November
Sony announced a while back that it would boost its foundering PSP by allowing gamers to transfer copies of Blu-ray films to the handheld device — but only if they also own a PS3. More » -
ad wizardry
UPDATED: Sony Was Not Responsible For Chilean Ad With Nazi Imagery
Copyranter spotted this insensitive — to put it mildly — Chilean PS3 Ad that shows a gamer giving a blood transfusion to German field marshal Erwin Rommel while laying in beds whose headboards are adorned with swastikas. More » -
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PSP No-Go
Sony Releasing New PSP That Doesn't Play PSP Game Discs
On Thursday Sony releases the PSP Go, its fourth iteration of the handheld gaming device in as many years. In a move to counter used game sales that conceivably eat away at game publishers' bottom lines, the smaller, lighter, $250 PSP spurns the system's Universal Media Discs in favor of downloads. More » -
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nigerian 419
Nigeria Demands Apology For Sony Ad Implying They're A Source Of Scams
Nigeria is mad at Sony for its latest ads that suggesting a lot of scams come from the country. Heaven forfend! More » -
firmware upgrades
Reader Says Firmware Update Borked His PS3
After Agent Xray purchased The Beatles: Rock Band, he tells us his PlayStation 3 put up a speedbump on Abbey Road by requiring him to download the latest firmware upgrade in order to play the game. More » -
more to love
Videos Suggest New Slim PS3 May Be Slower Than Old Fat One
The advantages of the newly released PS3 Slim over the older models are numerous: smaller size, larger hard drive and faster booting — um, wait, maybe not that last one. More » -
console wars
GamePro Names Five Best Console Wars
The history of video game console competitions reads much like that of New York's crime families — you see powerful leaders making bold, risky moves to snuff out their rivals and fierce, tribal alliances that breed clashes between vocal factions. More » -
it's on like donkey kong
Microsoft Lowers High-End 360 Price To Match PS3
Responding to Sony's announcement that a new, cheaper PS3 — as well as a universal price cut to $300 — is imminent, Microsoft is understandably lowering the price of its Xbox 360 Elite to $300, matching the new PS3. More » -
video games
Slimmer, Cheaper PS3 Coming In September
In a move to spike slumping PlayStation 3 sales, Sony revealed the long-rumored PS3 Slim will be slinking onto shelves Sept. 1. More » -
epic fail
Xbox 360 Failure Rate is 54.2 Percent, Game Informer Finds
The Xbox 360 breaks five times as often as its closest failure-prone competitor, the PlayStation 3, a print edition-only Game Informer survey found. More » -
tales from the crypt
Sony And The Mystery Of The Missing Assassin's Creed Disc
Reader Martin sent his PS3 in to Sony because a game was stuck in the drive. When he got it back, the game was missing. Where did it go? Sony says there was nothing the drive when they received the unit. Martin is wondering why he would have sent his console in to Sony in the first place if it didn't have a game stuck in it. It is a mystery. More »
