MGS4 Sells 5 Million - TheSixthAxis
ScrawlFX have uncovered some data from Konami’s Fiscal Year 2010 3rd Quarter Financial Results and since the game’s launch Metal Gear Solid 4 has sold a rather staggering 5 million units and – hang on, my PS3 is now telling my controller has

L.A. Noire No Longer a PS3 Exclusive - Escapist Magazine
Long delayed film-noir mystery game L.A. Noire is no longer a PlayStation 3 exclusive, and will be coming to the Xbox 360 as well. You can be forgiven for being a tiny fuzzy on what L.A. Noire is all about, as it’s been a while since we’ve heard

Cox Accidentally Offers Everyone In Arizona A Free PlayStation 3 - Consumerist.com
His PS3 is on its way and he was so tickled he was telling everybody he could find. I was thinking about upgrading, so I called. The CSR acknowledged the offer and that it is valid, but “Do I’ve the code from a flyer.” “No, I didn’t receive a flyer

‘Mars’ (PS3/X360/PC) Development Put On Hold - WorthPlaying.com
Mars is a Sci-fi RPG action game that innovatively merges character development and light and rythmic fights. it takes you on a journey deep into an original futuristic universe and presents you with scenarios dealing with difference, racism and

BioShock 2 gets mandatory 5GB PS3 install - DESTRUCTOID
In what has become an all-too common story for PS3 games, BioShock 2 will require a mandatory installation on Sony’s Black Box o’ Blu-ray. Just be warned that you’ll be hanging around for a while after you pop the disc in the system. Because nobody

PS3 worldwide sales cross 30 million - Joystiq
lol I like where you’re going with that, but most people’s RRoD’s are covered under warranty and probably don’t get counted into sales totals. Also you could technically make the same claim for PS3’s YLoD which was getting pretty rampant about a year

Sony Still Losing Dollars (Well, Cents) On Each PS3 Sold - Kotaku.com
Last we checked, Sony was losing money on each PS3 sold , at $37 a pop. Checking in this week, we find the company is still losing money on every PS3 sold. To the tune of $0.06 a console. Yes, having reduced the functionality and the size of the

Week in Games: Rapture and Hell - Kotaku.com
The count: seven for PC, six for DS, four for Wii and 360, three for PS3,

Alien Chestburster Finds Loving Host in PS3 - Gizmodo
Say whatever bad things you will about the PS3, but have you ever seen an alien bust out of an Xbox 360’s torso? I didn’t think so. Just in time for cyborg surrealist Hans Rudi Giger’s birthday (he’s attributed with creating the trademark Alien look

The Filter - Michigan Daily
Vancouver 2010: The Official Videogame of the Winter Olympic Games” on Xbox 360, PS3, Computer, Mac and Cell Phones — Jan. 12 Games based on the Olympics have always sucked, but this one might suck less. By adding more timing-based challenges and

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The trailer basically gives a run through of a few of the characters, hardly any details on the story and a glimpse at the gameplay. This isn’t to mention that it’s all set to a really obnoxious, over-the-top Japanese power-ballad More

The console war is fought everywhere these days, but the web seems to be where people are most vocal. It also serves to give each console its own set of downloadable content, fuelling the war even more. Each week we’ll give you a run-down of More

(CNN) — If you subscribe to the adages “the more, the merrier” or “bigger is better,” then you should be plenty happy with Sony’s MAG (”Massive Action Game”), a PlayStation 3 exclusive that lets you battle with up to 256 players over the World wide web in More

1940’s detective game L.A. Noire will be available on the Xbox 360 as well as the PS3, it has been confirmed. The game is set to get its huge reveal via March’s issue of Game Informer Magazine . The game’s jump to a multiplatform release was More

Game Description: Return to the undersea city of Rapture, following the dramatic events of the first BioShock. Step into a Large Daddy suit with a rivet gun, drill and new plasmid powers at your disposal, as you fight to survive against the new “Big More

You won’t need to sit down for this one, as it should come as no surprise — Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noir is no longer a PlayStation 3 exclusive. “It’s not a PS3-exclusive,” he writes. “It was at one point, but it’s coming out for the PS3 and 360.” The More

You won’t need to sit down for this one, as it should come as no surprise — Rockstar Games’ L.A. Noire is no longer a PlayStation 3 exclusive. “It’s not a PS3-exclusive,” he writes. “It was at one point, but it’s coming out for the PS3 and 360.” The More

State whatever bad things you’ll about the PS3, but have you ever seen an alien bust out of an Xbox 360’s torso? I didn’t think so. Just in time for cyborg surrealist Hans Rudi Giger’s birthday (he’s attributed with creating the trademark Alien look More

lol I like where you’re going with that, but most people’s RRoD’s are covered under warranty and probably don’t get counted into sales totals. Also you could technically make the same claim for PS3’s YLoD which was getting pretty rampant about a year More

Those in Europe are lucky enough to already get Dante’s Inferno this week, but if you’re in the U.S. and anxiously awaiting your trip to Hell, then you’ve to wait for next week. The journey through Hell begins this day in Europe for the PlayStation 3 More

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We’re getting closer and closer to some of the stuff we see it science fiction literature and films. Siri [iTunes link] is a small Silicon Valley startup with a really breakthrough product that for now only works on the iPhone.

Here’s the deal. You download the free app, begin it up, and tell it what you want. It could be “Will it snow in Des Moines this day?” or “Where can I find the nearest burger” or it could be “Find the nearest parks”. It parses your comments, runs out to the internet for a few seconds and comes back with a lot of recommendations. It gives you buttons to call the places you’ve found, or to show them on Google Maps and get you directions.

I tried to get a bit fancier saying “Make me a reservation for 2 at the nearest Olive Garden tonight at 7.” The app figured out Olive Garden didn’t take reservations through their service, but it provided me a number for the nearest Olive Garden and offered to map it.

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Over at TechRepublic’s 10 Things blog, Debra Littlejohn Shinder has posted an article called “10 reasons why I’ll be passing on the iPad.” Some of her reasoning is sound, but quite a few of her points are easy to refute. It’s worth looking at her post and the points it tries to make, because it’s indicative of a widespread misunderstanding of not only the iPad’s capabilities, but also its intended consumer base.

1. There’s no physical keyboard

Debra’s correct that the iPad has no physical keyboard. But what she fails to account for is that not only will Apple sell a keyboard dock for the iPad, the device can also be paired with any existing Bluetooth keyboard. Apple’s reasoning for not including a physical keyboard on the iPad is even more compelling than for the iPhone, because unlike the iPhone, you at least have the option of pairing the iPad with a physical keyboard. In order to put a physical keyboard on the device itself, there’d be two options: keep the iPad the same size and sacrifice a third of the screen’s real estate, or increase the iPad’s size beyond what some (including Debra) already consider unwieldy in order to include a keyboard.

In landscape orientation, the iPad’s virtual keyboard is nearly the size of a conventional keyboard, too, so while touch typing is going to be a challenge, it’s a fair bet that typing on the iPad will be much faster and easier than the high end of 30 - 35 WPM thumb typing many people (myself included) achieve on the iPhone’s far smaller keyboard. The lack of a physical keyboard on the iPhone hasn’t measurably affected its sales; the iPad isn’t prone to suffer many lost sales from this, either.

(Note: a few people have asked for a source on the Bluetooth keyboard issue, particularly my assertion that you can use any BT keyboard and not just Apple’s wireless models. During her hands-on with the iPad following the device’s announcement, Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica verified that “You can use any bluetooth keyboard you want, instead of Apple’s keyboard dock. You could use the case/stand with your existing bluetooth keyboard. You cannot use a bluetooth mouse, however.”)

Check out the other nine points by clicking the Read More link below.

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CALABASAS, CA — (Marketwire) — 02/02/10 — Emergent Game Technologies, a worldwide leader in 3D videogame engines, today reported a 35% increase in revenues year over year and a 58% increase in profitability for the year ending 2009. Strong More

Silence those PS3 owning friends who gloat about its Blu-ray playing capabilities by hooking up this great value Sony BDV-E300 (£400, amazon.co.uk ) surround sound and Blu-ray system. The Sky’s the limit Download Sky Player and you can use your Xbox More

It seems that Paramount Digital Entertainment didn’t learn much from the release of the Warriors video game based on the motion picture by the same name. This time around, Paramount will attempt to turn the NASCAR movie, Days Of Thunder (or Top Automobile, as many More

Game Description: In this fantasy RPG, you take control of a boy who comes into the possession of an ancient artifact. The artifact gives him the ability to transform into the White Knight of the title, a 7-meter warrior from a time when such More

The first proper details on Crysis 2 have emerged, via a German Computer mag. The multiplatform sequel - which has been confirmed for Computer, PS3 and Xbox 360 - is set three years after the events of the first game in a devastated New York City. PCGames mag More

Also, there are other areas iPad can work well too. Envision what you could do with an iPad and the RedEye remote control app/hardware. Although it would work with an iPhone too, it’d be even cooler on an iPad to control everything that a high-end pro More

Rockstar Games has announced that GTA: Episodes from Liberty City will soon be coming to both the Playstation 3 and the Personal computer. Previously it was only available on the Xbox 360. The pack is a compilation of the two downloadable episodes for the game More

Game Description: Set in the realm of brutal Greek mythology, God of War III allows players to take on the climatic role of the ex-Spartan warrior, Kratos, as he scales through the intimidating heights of Mt. Olympus and the dark depths of Hell to More

Part of this will be a focus on internally developed franchise titles, such as the recently acquired Formula 1 license that’ll see its first release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Personal computer later this year; and successful titles such as Ashes Cricket More

Mauer could not be reached for comment Monday, as he was in Los Angeles, working with the Sony Corp., which has put him on the cover of its PlayStation 3 video game, “MLB 10 The Show.” Friday, he said he doesn’t want his contract situation to become More

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Waddell: East Henderson’s own ‘Blind Side’ story - Blueridgenow.com
When Thomas Waddell speaks, you listen closely. He doesn’t talk often and when he does, he does so quietly. So, you listen closely when the East Henderson sophomore does speak. And you believe, if only because you instinctively assume he has put a

Jaffe working on new Twisted Metal game for PS3 – reboot considered - TECH.BLORGE.com
David Jaffe’s God Of War III is now just a couple of months away from release. However, some people are already looking beyond that game and focusing on Jaffe’s next project. Even though yet to be officially confirmed as such, it’s apt to be a

Dragon Age 2 To Receive “Super Hot” Graphics - PlayStation LifeStyle
Bioware ’s first title on the PlayStation 3 was a hit amongst RPG fans Dragon Age was our first title for PS3, and it’s done really well. PS3 is a great system and we enjoy developing for it, much as we enjoy developing for 360 and Personal computer and

“Dark Void’ runs on fumes - Asbury Park Press
And “Dark Void” (Capcom, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99), with its free-roaming jetpack flight, held particular promise. Alas, the result is far more earthbound than we had hoped. Will Grey is a cargo pilot who, after an ill-considered

‘Borderland’ DLC getting box release - Digital Spy
Recently-announced episode Secret Armory Of General Knoxx was not included in the listing. There was also no mention of a PlayStation 3 version of the package. Borderlands Add-On Pack arrives in the US on February 23, priced $19.99. A European

Sunday Thoughts: Taking A Step Back - TheSixthAxis
To begin this tale we’ve to go way back to 2008, the (first) “year of the PS3″ (pft!) as I remember. During a conversation with some friends from America I remembered the greatness that was the Pokémon franchise and decided to revisit the

Active Gaming Heads for London - Earthtimes
Gamercize encourages children to get moving, by linking equipment such as an exercise bike or stepper machine to a games console such as an Xbox 360, PlayStation2, PS3 or Wii. As the player starts to step or cycle their control pad becomes activated

Netflix expands streaming - San Francisco Chronicle
Netflix has since been integrated with Microsoft’s Xbox 360, Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s top-selling Wii game consoles. And it’s becoming available in newer Web-enabled Blu-ray disc players and Television monitors. Norm Bogen, vice president of

Savvy Shopper: Brides on a budget have a place to shop - Greensboro News & Record
Discount bridal shops can be the right fit for planning a wedding on a budget, especially in tough economic times. In Greensboro, Budget Bridal and Formal Wear (2623 Battleground Ave.; 282-8333), which will be open until April, sells gowns that would

Gaming is the fifth network - Minneapolis Star Tribune
T he messy and very public late-night fight involving Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and NBC didn’t just offer interesting insight into the inner workings of network TV. It reminded everyone that the TV isn’t used only for watching shows anymore

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If there has been an editorial theme about the iPad over the last few days, it’s been this: it disappoints. Pundits and consumers alike have been underwhelmed by the name (I mean, seriously, does anyone in the product naming department use feminine hygiene products? How many of these devices are going to be named “Max”?), by the physical design (Can you state “Un-Ives-like Bezel” three times fast?), by the missing features (no camera, no multitasking, still no Flash), and so forth. And yet, despite these seeming flaws, I’m wildly enthusiastic about the tablet. I think part of that enthusiasm is attributable to the fact that I’m a dyed-in-the-wool netbook user… and we’re the actual target audience for the device.

Steve Jobs laid out the raison d’etre for the tablet right at the start of his presentation. Apple was going after the part of the market that wanted light computing: more than a phone could deliver and less involved than a laptop demanded. Ergo, the netbook. The list of things in the middle column of his main slide reflected the exact way that netbook users operate: checking the mail, surfing the internet, enjoying some media. That’s exactly how my parents use their netbook, how my friends do, how I do. We’re coffee-shop, hotel, and passenger-seat netbook users. To that, you can add city commuters and airline passengers among those who have driven the netbook craze.

Netbooks are great. They’re small, they are insanely cheap, and they offer just enough functionality to get a few things done without jumping into serious work that would demand a full-sized screen and keyboard. I know approximately three badzillion netbook users, and with very few exceptions, they’re all Windows users.

Continue reading In praise of the iPad: A contrarian view

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Xbox 360 BFBC2 demo arrives early - Fudzilla
Thursday turned out to be a big day for Battlefield fans. Xbox 360 subscribers with Gold Xbox Live access were able to begin downloading and playing the Battlefield Bad Company 2 Demo early. Originally, the BFBC2 demo for Xbox 360 was not to arrive

iPhone hacker cracks PS3 to run Linux OS - Personal computer Advisor
The 20-year-old hacker best known for cracking Apple’s iPhone states he’s done it again, this time with Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3). In a blog post , George Hotz said that after a five-week effort In other words, I have hacked the PS3.”

GTA Episodes from Liberty City Coming to the Personal computer and PS3 - Softpedia
Rockstar , one of the ideal known developers in videogaming, has announced that the two downloadable episodes for Grand Theft Auto IV are set to also be released on the PlayStation 3 from Sony and on the PC on March 30 of this year. Until now, the two

PS3/X360/PC Preview - ‘Battlefield: Bad Company 2′ - WorthPlaying.com
The Bad Company crew again find themselves in the heart of the action, where they must use each weapon and vehicle at their disposal to survive. The action unfolds with unprecedented intensity, introducing a level of fervor to vehicular warfare

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City released for PS3 and Computer - TechShout!
PS3 and Games for Windows – Live players can fasten their seat belts and gear up to like the last two enthralling chapters of the Grand Theft Auto IV saga. That’s right! An announcement from Rockstar Games reveals the launch of Grand Theft Auto

Police blotter 1/29 - Southtown Star
HOME BURGLARIZED Two Television sets, PlayStation 3 and Xbox consoles, a Social Security card, video games and an urn containing the homeowner’s father’s ashes were stolen Jan. 21 from a home in the 4400 block of Ascot Court. CAR THEFT A 1998 Ford Escort was

Netflix is growing - Fudzilla
Netflix is growing, and the growth is due in massive part to the fact that game consoles can stream content. Netflix has experienced 5% higher growth over last year, with the subscriber base growing at a rate of 31% per year. The company currently has

New PS3 Titles Under Development Confirmed By BioWare - PlayStation LifeStyle
BioWare ’s CEO, Ray Muzyka, has confirmed that there are a few unannounced games in the works for the PlayStation 3, and he also commented on developing Dragon Age for Sony’s system. Talking to EuroGamer in a live-chat on the site, Muzyka

Platinum Games Unveils New Title ‘Vanquish’ - neowin.net
Though no other details were released, we’d venture to guess this will be a PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 title. However, the character design is reminiscent of P.N.03, a Gamecube title released in 2003, so it may also appear on the Wii. We hope to have

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Stolen were $800, a Citizens men’s gold watch, a Sony PS3 game system and several PS3 games and a DVD. A kitchen window was broken, apparently with a brick. More

A Sony exclusive feature The PlayStation 3 verrsion of Just Cause 2, Square Enix’s upcoming open-world game, will have an interesting new feature. In order to help you capture those moments of gameplay that have to be seen to be believed, you will More

During last fall’s Tokyo Game Show, Capcom producer Jun Takeuchi announced that Resident Evil: Alternative Edition would be using Sony’s new wand motion controller. That controller has been delayed until this fall. Here are the wand controls in action . When asked what that means for the PS3 version More

Days after announcing he’d managed to hack Sony’s PlayStation 3 console to run his own software George Hotz has released the exploit online. Hotz, who is ideal known for cracking Apple’s iPhone, stated in a blog posting that he had decided to release More

EA has confirmed release details for its FIFA World Cup 2010 game. The title will arrive on April 30th in Europe - with the US getting the game three days earlier. The game will be available on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and PSP. It features all the 199 More

The brains behind Digital Foundry recently posted a rather interesting analysis of the hack/exploit that was put up by George Hotz. The analysis makes for an interesting read as it speaks about the amazing lengths Sony has gone to securing the PS3 More

It hasn’t taken much time for George Hotz , the first person ever to successfully hack the PS3 (and iPhone), to release the infamous exploit to the public. Hotz’s quick work of the PS3 ’s security began from what first started off as an More

US (ChattahBox) – The man who is responsible for hacking into the Apple iPhone during his teen years has come forward with his latest achievement: the first successful hack of the Playstation 3. “It’s supposed to be unhackable – but nothing More

It was revealed yesterday that Japan will be receiving some Uncharted 2 DLC, featuring PS3 heroes, along with the Uncharted 2: Among Thieves Twin Pack. Sony have now confirmed that Uncharted 2 will indeed be getting Killzowned, worldwide. Naughty Dog More

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We know it’s a really busy week, but we wanted to take a moment and remind all of you that there’s still time left to nominate your favorite gadgets of last year for the 2009 Engadget Awards!

For your voting (and nominating) pleasure, we present the sixth annual Engadget Awards! The premise is simple: 2009 may have slipped through our fingers, but all the memories of gadgets-past are still with us (some in a more favorable light than others). Here’s your chance to sound off on what you loved in 2009, and tell us what you’re psyched about for 2010.

This year we’ve got 24 categories up for grabs, with 48 total awards to be decided. All finalists for Engadget Awards are reader-nominated, and the editors of Engadget will then select the best of those nominations (usually somewhere between 4-6 devices or technologies) as finalists.

There are two awards per category, Reader’s Choice (voted on by you!), and Editors’ Choice (selected by us). The vote will take place in a few weeks once the nominees are picked, and winners will be announced shortly thereafter.

You can find all the info and nominees on a landing page we’ve built this year which should make it easier to get all your selections in (and vote once we’ve picked the finalists). Just click right here.

You’ve got until 11:59PM ET on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 to get your entries in. Now, go nominate, or use the handy list after the break!

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