Mar 10

Court rules in Sony’s favor against LG, PlayStation 3 free to enter Europe again

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Well, it looks like there won’t be a widespread PlayStation 3 shortage in Europe anytime soon — the Hague’s civil court of justice has just ruled in Sony’s favor in its dispute with LG, and ordered that the 300,000 PS3s currently seized by customs be released to Sony for distribution across the continent. LG has also reportedly been ordered to pay €130,000 in legal fees — and if it doesn’t comply, it will face a fine of €200,000 per day until it does. That doesn’t mean that the tussle between the two companies is over, however, as this ruling doesn’t have anything to do with the patents at the heart of the dispute.

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Court rules in Sony’s favor against LG, PlayStation 3 free to enter Europe again originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 09

PS3 firmware update v3.60 live, adds cloud storage and turns off controllers at intervals of your choice

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If you’re rocking a PlayStation Plus subscription and can’t wait to boot your savegames into the cloud, you’ll be happy to hear that the System Update enabling that — firmware v3.60 — is available for download right now. If you aren’t paying $50 a year for PS Plus, what good is it to you? Well, it’ll let you set how long you’d like the system to wait before it tells your DualShock and Sixaxis controllers to shut down, hopefully conserving battery life without intermittent annoyance. Enjoy!

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PS3 firmware update v3.60 live, adds cloud storage and turns off controllers at intervals of your choice originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 09

PlayStation now offers customer service via Twitter, probably won’t help you jailbreak your PS3

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Got a question about a PlayStation product? Have a Twitter account? If you answered yes to both, then you’d be interested to know about @AskPlayStation — the official account for all of your PS concerns. They’ll assist you via tweets Monday through Friday from 9:30AM – 5:00PM PST and will answer in real-time between the hours of 2 and 5 PST. Hit up the source link to get all of your inquiries answered — just behave yourselves, OK?

PlayStation now offers customer service via Twitter, probably won’t help you jailbreak your PS3 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 09

Sony adds cloud storage for game saves to PSN Plus subscriptions

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Alright, it’s official, Sony’s PlayStation Plus subscription just became a thing worth owning with the new addition of online storage for game saves. It’s coming with v3.60 of the PS3 firmware, which we’re promised to receive tomorrow, March 10th. You’ll be allowed to stash up to 150MB of PlayStation 3 game progress data in Sony’s make.believe cloud, which is not exactly a staggering amount, but then it’s not like those save files take up that much space. The major attraction that we see here is being able to just plug your account details into any PS3 around the globe and continue your questing in Dragon Age II as if you’re still at home. See Sony’s press release and instructions on how to use the new cloud saving option after the break.

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Sony adds cloud storage for game saves to PSN Plus subscriptions originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 07

Judge in Sony vs. Geohot orders YouTube and others to give up users’ personal info

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Remember when Sony sued Geohot and demanded that YouTube hand over the user info of all the folks who posted comments to Geohot’s PS3 jailbreak video? Well, score a victory for SCEA, as the judge overseeing the case’s jurisdictional discovery process has ruled that Sony can get what it wanted — information from: Bluehost (who hosts Geohot’s website) regarding who downloaded the jailbreak, Twitter regarding any tweets made by Hotz, Google Blogspot regarding comments made on his blog, and the aforementioned YouTube user data. Keep in mind that Sony’s getting this information to show that many of the downloaders and commenters are from Northern California and that Hotz’s hacking efforts were aimed at Californians — meaning the case should remain in the Bay Area instead of moving to New Jersey where Geohot hacked his PS3. With this new information at its disposal, Sony’s better equipped to oppose Hotz’s motion to dismiss in a hearing early next month, but this doesn’t mean the company will succeed in its bid to keep the litigation a West Coast affair. We’ll have to wait and see if this latest victory helps Sony win the war. Stay tuned.

Judge in Sony vs. Geohot orders YouTube and others to give up users’ personal info originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 04

New SteelSeries gaming headsets come to CeBIT, now iPhone compatible

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As you might have heard, a little something called CeBIT is going down in Hanover, and all the usual suspects are there. And that includes the kids at SteelSeries, who are debuting three more headsets for the gamers in the crowd. Siberia v2 for PS3 is compatible with the PS3, Xbox 360, PC, and Mac, featuring 50mm driver units, leather earcups, and a retractable microphone for your clumsy pick-up attempts while playing Assassin’s Creed. This bad boy also features independent volume controls for game action and conversation, as well as LiveMix audio presets. But wait — there’s more! The company’s Siberia v2 and SteelSeries 7H headsets are now available in Apple-approved flavors with a single 3.5mm jack for audio and voice, an inline remote, and compatibility with your iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad. Look for the Siberia v2 for PS3 in Q3 2011 for $120 MSRP. Look for SteelSeries 7H and Siberia v2 for iPod, iPhone and iPad soon for $130 and $100 respectively. PR after the break.

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New SteelSeries gaming headsets come to CeBIT, now iPhone compatible originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 03

Sony celebrates PS3 success at GDC, 41 million sold worldwide

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Sony trumps PS3 sales at GDC, 41 million sold worldwide, more than 80 percent are online

It’s tough to get solid numbers out of Sony for hardware sales, usually they’re cloaked behind a vague “shipped” figure, but at GDC this week the company gave us one rather impressive number: 41 million. That’s the number of PS3 consoles the company says it has sold worldwide, and over 80 percent are sucking down data from ye olde internet. Confirming the moneymaking trend we heard about last month, in 2010 the PlayStation store saw a 60 percent boost in traffic and a 70 percent boost in revenue from a total of 70 million PSN accounts. Let’s see… 70 million PSN user accounts, 41 million PS3 consoles, 80 percent of which are online — that means almost everyone has one account for gaming and a second for griefing. Sounds about right.

Sony celebrates PS3 success at GDC, 41 million sold worldwide originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 03

Sony announces Move.me application for researchers and hobbyists, promises improvements to PlayStation Home

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The PlayStation Move may not have proven to be as instantly hackable as Microsoft’s Kinect, but it looks like Sony is now trying to change that — it’s just announced its new Move.me server application that promises to let researchers, hobbyists and others use the Move as a controller for a PC, with the PlayStation 3 handling all the work in between. It will be available for download from the PlayStation Network this spring, although you can also try your luck with Sony’s early-product seeding program if you’d like to get it sooner — no PS3 SDK or licensing agreement is required. In other PlayStation news, Sony’s also confirmed that it’s now working on version 1.5 of PlayStation Home, which promises to add real-time multiplayer gaming functionality to the virtual world, along with improved physics and refined graphics. Details on it are otherwise still fairly light, but it’s also slated for a public release sometime this spring. Head on past the break for the official word on both announcements from Sony.

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Sony announces Move.me application for researchers and hobbyists, promises improvements to PlayStation Home originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Feb 28

PlayStation 3 shipments to Europe now being seized after LG wins injunction against Sony

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Sony and LG have been going toe to toe with allegations of patent infringement for over a year now, but Sony’s now been dealt what’s surely its biggest setback to date in Europe. The civil court of justice in the Hague has just granted LG a preliminary injunction that will see all new PlayStation 3s imported into Europe confiscated by customs for at least ten days. Those are apparently now already being stockpiled in Dutch warehouses while the drama plays out, and there remains a possibility that the injunction will be extended even further, which would almost certainly lead to a shortage of PS3s on store shelves — as the Guardian notes, retailers generally have two to three weeks worth of stock on hand across the continent. Not surprisingly, Sony is said to be “frantically” trying to get the ban lifted, but it isn’t making any public comments on the matter at the moment.

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PlayStation 3 shipments to Europe now being seized after LG wins injunction against Sony originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Feb 26

Modder turns RROD-stricken Xbox 360 into PS3 arcade controller, awesomeness

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In the most recent of Xbox 360 hacks, a modder named Morris has crafted a PS3 controller out of none other than — as ironic as this may seem — a dead Xbox 360. That’s right, somewhere out there, a PlayStation 3 has slain its mortal enemy, mercilessly gutted the internals and now has a modded Xbox as its eternal slave. The case contains all of the buttons you need to partake in a classic beat-’em-up — a joystick, the four PlayStation buttons, R1 and R2. There’s plenty more to gander at in the source link and enough in the way of detail and instruction to get started on your own arcade stick too.

Modder turns RROD-stricken Xbox 360 into PS3 arcade controller, awesomeness originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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