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PS3 Breakdowns are ‘Getting Worse’

A certain ‘games journalist’ (me - Gamoc) had his Playstation 3 die yesterday. It stopped reading disks of any kind. This was a bad thing, as it can not be fixed. So I took it back to Game (with the receipt) and they replaced it (unfortunately with a 40gb).

PSN Europe update…sort of

Thursday rolls around again and that means it’s time for a PSN update. Well, unless you’re of European extraction. In that case the term update acquires a strange new meaning whereby very little actually changes. A few things have turned up, don’t get me wrong, but it’s hardly stellar stuff…

In Game XMB Coming Soon (Rumor)

One of the biggest problems with the PlayStation Network is the lack of in game XMB. However, this much requested feature may be coming this summer.
In an interview with MCV UK, Ray Maguire, Managing Director at Sony Computer Entertainment UK praised retailers and dropped some hints about in game XMB. “Achieving one million […]

Folding@home: Cure diseases whilst rocking out!

Am I a bad person? I think maybe I am, like Hugo Drax, or Auric Goldfinger.
I like the whole Folding@Home thing, I like the idea that one day, a child who would previously have some horrific genetic illness, will instead laugh and frolic with the other children because of a protein that I personally folded […]

PS3 Firmware 2.10 to Be Released with DivX Playback

Sony announced today that the UK PS3 community will be receiving a new system software update on Tuesday December 18th. The announcement was posted through Playstation UK’s system software updates page and details all the new features that will be added with this update.

Firmware 2.01 may brick the PS3

“Starting last week, PS3 owners started reporting that their next gen console would not read their Blu-Ray discs. Some users reported that their PS3 would not even read DVD’s. All reports started to come in after gamers made the upgrade to 2.01.”

Ps3 Firmware update 1.94 wishlist

Notwithstanding the recent 1.93 update which basically fixed minor networking bugs, the future 1.94 release should include increased performance across a range of games.