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Four weeks ago today, Sony announced its ‘Welcome Back‘ campaign following the weeks-long PSN outage that began in April. Now, the program is entering its final weekend, giving you just two more days to download your pair of free PS3 or PSP games, along with 100 virtual items from PlayStation Home and 30 days of PlayStation Plus. To claim your gratis package from the PlayStation Store, click on the “Welcome Back” tab and make your pick. Sure, a few handouts may not make up for those countless days you spent offline, contemplating a switch to other networks, but free stuff is free stuff, so head over to PSN to claim what’s rightfully yours before the clock strikes midnight on July 3rd.

Sony rolls up the PSN ‘Welcome Back’ mat this Sunday, takes free entertainment with it originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Exactly as promised, Redbox is today inaugurating a new branch to its media-renting venture with the introduction of video game rentals at $2 a day. There’s a pretty rich and fresh selection on offer, including the likes of Duke Nukem Forever, Dirt 3, and Brink, and you can reserve your copy online before moseying down to your nearest Redbox kiosk to execute the transaction. About 5,000 of those crimson encasements have already been partaking in the testing of this service, but now Redbox is flipping the switch on the other 21,000 across the US and making things officially official.

Redbox starts renting out video games nationwide, charges $2 for your Xbox 360, PS3 or Wii pleasure originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on November 14, 2007 by CyberNet.

Playstation 3 users are getting all riled up because DivX support has officially been announced for the system. This will be sent out via a separate system software update sometime in future, which means existing PS3 owners will get a piece of the action.

So what does this actually mean? DivX says that game developers will be able to utilize DivX’s decoder technology, but that’s nothing too do backflips over. The big news is that PS3 owners will be able to watch almost all of the videos that are currently shared over the BitTorrent network. The excitement is perfectly understandable considering all of the television shows and movies being shared in this format, which users will be able to throw on their system and watch. This will be thrown onto the decently long list of the already supported media formats for the PS3:

• Video formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.264/MEPG-4 AVC, and MPEG-4 SP
• Audio formats: ATRAC (.oma .msa .aa3), MP3, AAC (.3gp .mp4), and WAV
• Image formats: JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, and PNG

There has also been rumors that DivX support is coming to the Xbox 360, but both Microsoft and DivX have yet to confirm it. Microsoft better get on top of this because it could effect the decision of buyers this holiday season!

[via Joystiq]

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Sony’s got some wonderful ideas here at E3 2011, but the company’s left quite a few threads for journalists to sew up — what’s the battery life like? How much will continuous client gameplay cost? Just how does that split-screen 3D monitor work? Sony’s 3D gaming czar Mick Hocking flew in from Liverpool to talk stereoscopy with the press, and we’ve got some answers for that last one. What you see above is an LCD panel that refreshes at 240Hz, and delivering 3D at 60 frames per second to each eye, by using the typical active shutter glasses technique of blocking light to your left eye when the “right” image is displayed, and vice versa for the right eye. However, the glasses have a special button that makes both lenses of one player’s glasses display images for the left eye, and both lenses of another player display images for the right, allowing each to have their own 60fps feed all the time for private split-screen gaming.

While that potentially means you could use these glasses on non-Sony 3DTVs too and get the same effect (or, you know, just pick up a Sharp Quattron 3D or Vizio Versus, which do much the same thing). Hocking told us that this particular unit also does additional software processing to reduce ghosting. But what of games? The 3D guru said there’ll be a number of titles supporting the feature when the monitor hits this fall, and that other 3D titles could potentially (and easily) be patched if they also support split-screen to begin with. Hocking says developer enthusiasm’s been particularly intense for split-screen, even more so than the holographic and head-mounted display technologies that Sony’s working on, and we may see the feature integrated in Bravia televisions should the idea take off.

Sony’s 24-inch PlayStation 3D ‘dual-view’ monitor: here’s how it works originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nintendo’s Wii U controller is a gaming display, video conference device, and yes, a stylus-toting tablet, but no such tool has been announced for those other consoles, so PS3 and Xbox 360 owners who want to get their sketch on will have to turn to THQ’s new uDraw GameTablet instead. Tablets for both gaming systems were announced last month, and today we had a chance to paint on the big (HD) screen at E3. Though the drawing surface feels just as roomy as the Wii version, the tablets are noticeably smaller than last year’s counterpart, with the obvious absence of a Wiimote holder taking credit for the device’s reduced footprint. That Wiimote also made it difficult for lefties to tackle the tablet, but no such issues exist on the PS3 and Xbox versions. Other major design changes include shifting stylus storage from the rear to just above the touch surface, and trimming some girth off the instrument itself.

Both tablets will be coming in November for less than $100, though specific pricing has yet to be announced. For now, you’re limited to uDraw Studio and Pictionary on the game title front, which appear noticeably sharper in HD, though otherwise similar to the versions we used with the Wii. THQ has promised more games for future release, including Disney Animator, though reps weren’t able to confirm any other titles or dates. We had a chance to draw in both games, which respond to both the stylus and hardware buttons for brush selection and other functions, such as undo and navigation. A rep pointed out that the new versions are also more sensitive to stylus pressure, adjusting brush thickness based on how hard you press, for example, but we didn’t find that to be the case. After you’ve spent a few minutes concocting your next digital masterpiece, you can fire off your work of art via email, instead of just sending it to an SD card like on the Wii version. Overall, there’s nothing groundbreaking here, but if you’ve been looking to balance out your Halo and Resistance by sketching honeybees and rainbows (or making your console a bit more kid-friendly), then uDraw may be worth the investment.

Tim Stevens contributed to this report.

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THQ uDraw GameTablet goes HD, we go hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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