Playstation3

The PlayStation 3 (proper spelling) is Sony Computer Entertainments third video game console since entering the industry with their PlayStation One in 1994. Designed to have a 10 year life span due to its design the PlayStation 3 is the direct successor to the leading platform of its generation, the PlayStation 2.

Launched in November of 2006 the PlayStation 3 did not meet expectations with a weak launch lineup, difficult online presence and a high price point. Rallying to re-achieve past success Sony has drastically improved its online presence, launched many AAA titles and continues to update its firmware to provide many advanced features.

The PlayStation 3 features a Blu-ray player, Cell processor, hard drive on every unit, Bluetooth functionality, wireless onboard and HDMI output. The design was meant to be forward thinking and a true cutting edge media and video game unit. The PlayStation 3 is considered one of the finest Blu-ray players on the market but many developers have struggled while developing games due to the complex design.

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• PS3: It Only Catches a Predator [PS3]

  
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  Federal agents typically used $11,000 computers to crack passwords to the seized hard drives of suspected child pornographers. Now they’re using $300 PlayStation 3s to pull off the same task. “Bad guys are encrypting their stuff now, so we need a methodology of hacking on that to try to break passwords,” Claude ...
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• Activision: New Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, Band Hero games in 2010, but fewer SKUs

  
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• A Look at the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned [Dlc]

  
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  Borderlands’ first DLC add-on “The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned,” releases Nov. 24, promising to add another six to 10 hours of gameplay. Here are the foes you’ll face, in their natural habitat. These shambling, staggering, crawling bastards look like outstanding cannon fodder, and I’ve got just the toolset for ...
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• PlayStation Deals Update 11/15/09

  
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  Welcome to our weekly PlayStation Deals. With the weeks counting down till Christmas more and more quality games are getting price cuts.  The Beatles Rock Band , Uncharted 2 , Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time , Dragon Age: Origins , Borderlands , Demon’s Souls and Tekken 6 are just a few titles ...
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• Rockstar founder talks GTA V for first time

  
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• Paparazzi Punch-Out: Dance Like a Has-Been, Bite Like a Felon [Punch-out!!]

  
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  Mike Tyson got in trouble this week for, as he is wont to do, smacking someone upside the head. Jimmy Kimmel ’s writers jumped on the case and produced this new game. I’m not sure why I chortled at this. Maybe it’s because I know that lightning-flash punch is coming. Maybe it’s because anything is funnier ...
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• RTS Video Game Supreme Commander Is A Step Up

  
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  There once was a time when RTS games were archaic and simple, which was not that long ago to be quite frank, but things have changed quite dramatically in a very short time. Real time strategy video games for your PC are starting to move up in quality allowing the players to wage all out war on the web with large ...
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• Activision Exec: ‘Expect’ Additional, Paid Online Modes [Gimme]

  
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  Whoops. Kinda sorta missed this, another pearl of wisdom from this week’s BMO Capital Markets forum. Activision’s CFO told conferees that extracting more dough out of players, via charging for certain online play or features, is something we should expect. Here’s what Tom Tippl told the gathering: It’s ...
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• The Best of Big Download: November 9-15

  
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• Voice Actor Says MW2’s Ghost Might Get a Game [Rumor]

  
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  At the game’s UK launch event, Craig Fairbrass, the voice actor for Ghost in Modern Warfare 2 , said the character will get a spinoff comic and possibly a game of his own, although what exactly is not clear. Here’s the quote, which That VideoGame Blog attributes to audio of the event: I did in the last game a ...
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• Games Weather Report of Week 45, 2009

  
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  What are the best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe this week? Thanks to Amazon online sales data here are the games that are the hottest right now. Think of it as a games weather report. What follows is a listing of the Top 50 bestsellers per region, for all systems combined. North America’s Top 50: 1. ...
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• Leaked Survey Tips Off MLB 2K10 Cover Athlete [2K Sports]

  
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  A tipster taking a marketing survey was asked to judge four potential covers for next year’s MLB 2K10 . The Tampa Bay Rays’ third baseman Evan Longoria is on all of them. In that image you can see the four different designs survey takers were asked to consider. All have the 2K Sports 10th Anniversary branding ...
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• Week in Games: Out With a Blast [New Releases]

  
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  The final full week before Thanksgiving in the U.S. marks the final big week of releases in the fall sales window. This one sees Assassin’s Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, Tony Hawk Ride and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. And the God of War Collection. And Lego Indiana Jones 2 on four platforms plus two handhelds. And ...
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• System and game sales for October 2009 in the USA

  
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  September’s American video game sales data from the NPD is in, and like almost any month the past year, it shows an unchanged result: A Nintendo system on top, this time the DS and DSi handhelds outsold everybody else. NPD analyst, Anita Frazier, had this to say: “Across all categories, the Xbox 360 platform ...
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• On PlayStation Network this week: Braid & Star Trek DAC (PS3), Red Alert (PS1), Pinball Heroes & Kenka Bancho (PSP), Bubble Trubble (PSP Minis)

  
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  Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) announced what new PlayStation Network downloadable games, expansions, demos and videos were released for PlayStation 3 and PSP this week in America and Europe. AMERICAN PlayStation Store for PS3 Updates Tank Battles Price Drop (now $6.99) Downloadable Games Braid ($14.99) ...
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• Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists [Lists]

  
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• Odd And Odder Mario Sightings In New York [Gallery]

  
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  Yesterday, we gave you video of the makeshift Mario Museum Nintendo set up outside of its New York City store, commemorating the launch of New Super Mario Bros. Wii . But that video didn’t quite capture the wild sights nearby. Click each image to enlarge, captions on the right I shot this picture inside the ...
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• A Ghost Among Us

  
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  Have you played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 yet? I assume most of you have at least played the story through once. If not get out from under the rock and give the story a play through. During the madness of what is so lovably called war you meet Ghost one of those like-able characters. Wait you say you have heard ...
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• Houser Interview Teases Grand Theft Auto V [Rockstar]

  
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  Strauss Zelnick may be adamant about not announcing the next Grand Theft Auto , but Dan Houser , in a lengthy interview with The Times of London, so casually mentions work on the next GTA that it sounds rather inevitable. Writes The Times: There’s a Western game in the works for next spring, and the next GTA to ...
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