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Home Tidbits

Posted by Raoul on August 8th, 2007

Several new interesting facts to report on Home, Sony’s upcoming free product for the PS3. None of this is especially earth shaking, but many of our readers would be nonetheless interested:

Currently, Home limits the number of users in a single room to 64. This seems to be a performance related issue as the frame rate […]

PS3 Controller News and Rumors

Posted by Raoul on August 1st, 2007

Several fresh items today regarding the PS3 controller:

We can confirm that prototypes of the new rumble-enabled controllers have made their way to various Sony developers. Information on these controllers is still closely held by Sony and their partners, but an official announcement and unveiling is expected in the next two to three months. Leipzig is […]

PS3 Controller with Rumble in Development

Posted by Raoul on June 14th, 2007

We’ve written extensively of the court case between Sony and Immersion and its potential impact on the peripherals business for the PS3. While we’ve been featured on Immersion’s own press site, we assure our readers that we have no affiliation or vested interests in the company. Right before GDC, this court battle came to a […]

PS3 Memory Footprint

Posted by Raoul on May 9th, 2007

The release of the 1.60 firmware six weeks ago was recently followed by the release to developers of the corresponding 1.60 SDK. The SDKs always come out a few days after the firmware so that Sony can iron out any bugs, issues and complete the documentation for the new and changed features.
Ozymandias recently did an […]

Ken Kutaragi “Retires”

Posted by Raoul on April 30th, 2007

The transition, which began with the appointment of Howard Stringer as CEO of Sony instead of Ken Kutaragi is now complete. Ken Kutaragi, the father of the PlayStation and current CEO of Sony’s games division is officially retiring from his executive position at Sony in June.
Ever since the December demotion, which saw Kutaragi replaced as […]