Following up on yesterday’s news about the new firmware version 2.0 for the PlayStation 3, the new PlayStation 3 firmware is apparently faulty. Users are reporting a lot of rapid system hangs and hickups after upgrading their boxes, and Sony has not made any announcements concerning a fix yet, but reportedly they are now aware [...]
Sony has officially released Firmware version 2.0 for the PlayStation 3 today. This new update enables controlling the PS3 using your Remote-Play enabled PSP (PlayStation Portable) to switch it on and access content stored on the PS3, including music, movies or photos. As long as both units are connected to the Internet, you can access [...]
NVIDIAs new Crysis-optimized beta drivers 169.01 and 169.04 were picked apart over at Elite Bastards, who could reveal shocking results. Apparently these drivers force removal of certain water/shadow effects, increasing performance at the expense of visual quality. One can easily deduct that NVIDIA has made this move in order to better benchmarking results for their [...]
The new 65 nm CPU family from AMD, known as Phenom, is getting quite the rocket launch this month. With aggressive pricing, AMD is hoping to reclaim some of their recent market share losses. Three CPUs are getting launched initially – the Phenom 9500, 9600 and 9700 – clocking in at 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 [...]
Contrary to what we’re used to with DVDs, far from all Blu-Ray movies are region code protected. There’re a lot of Blu-Ray player owners (read: PS3 owners) out there, but most don’t know what movies are region free, and many don’t even know that this is as common as about 50% of all releases! Well, [...]