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Nick Breese is a researcher with New Zealand based security outfit Security-Assessment.com and found himself giving a presentation at the Kiwicon hacker conference in Wellington earlier this week. His presentation looked at the use of the PlayStation 3 games console to crack passwords, and Breese...
Read More | Nov 30th, 2007
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced the availability of the latest system software for the PlayStation 3, finally taking it into V2.00 territory. To be honest it isn't that great a leap forward, although there is one nice new feature: the ability to turn a PS3 system on and off...
Read More | Nov 9th, 2007
So the Sony PlayStation 3 has been available for a little over a week in Europe, and in that time it has officially become the second fastest selling games console ever in the UK. ChartTrack, an organisation that monitors such things, reports that the first two days of release saw some 165,000 PS3...
Read More | Apr 2nd, 2007 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Apr 12th, 2007
Well, that’s kind of how I feel to be honest. If you read my previous PS3 posting here then you will appreciate that one of the reasons I opted for the much more expensive Sony PS3 over and above the hugely cheaper Microsoft Xbox 360 was the fact that I have an extensive collection of PS2 games....
Read More | Feb 25th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jun 7th, 2007
It has been a long time coming, and I very nearly gave in and bought both an Xbox 360 and a Nintendo Wii along the way, but I can reveal the answer to the questionnn ‘what will be the next games console to grace the happygeek living room’ is: a PlayStation 3. And it will grace that space on the...
Read More | Feb 20th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Feb 25th, 2007
According to Desctructoid, Playstation 3 demo units at stores are freezing up on purpose. Quoting one salesmen, "We do that so that people won't play it all day long." Aside from the shock that this is from Sony, the question becomes, is this really true. Sony should be desperate to sell its...
Read More | Dec 27th, 2006
Everyone is up-in-the-arms about Nintendo's new console beating Sony's. The sales of the Wii in November (roughly 467,000) are more than double the PS3 sales (147,000), according to NPD. But what most articles about this don't talk about: the PS2 is still winning, and easily. It managed to sell...
Read More | Dec 10th, 2006 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Dec 14th, 2006
I'm always excited when I see people inventing new uses for existing devices. Linux kernel developers have been working hard, and have now added PS3 support for the Linux kernel. Sony helped by contributing patches for the machine, which have now been merged into the kernel. This will be included...
Read More | Dec 13th, 2006
All 3 major game consoles have been released -- Microsoft's Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii, and Sony's Playstation 3. Out of all of these, the PlayStation 3 appears to be losing. Why? The previous generation console, the PS2, dominated consoles created by Microsoft and Nintendo. The answer lies in the...
Read More | Dec 2nd, 2006 | Comments: 6 | Last Comment: Dec 7th, 2006
Sometimes, I get wind of something that has all the makings of an April Fool’s Day prank: but not often in September. Which is why I took a second look at the story about an IBM supercomputer in the making, with ambitions to break the petaflop speed barrier, which will use the heart of a, well,...
Read More | Sep 11th, 2006 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Sep 14th, 2006
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