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Poor Americans are Gamers, Too
In case you didn’t know, there are poor gamers. Conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation has published a report on what it means to be poor in America today. According to the report, households living in poverty have many modern amenities including air conditioning, cable TV and video game consoles. The report is meant to…
By Sam Winstrom Published July 22, 2011 -
Why Sony and Microsoft Teaming Up on Their Next Console Makes a Lot of Sense
Microsoft has trouble making hardware. Sony has trouble running online services. What if the next Xbox and the next PlayStation are one and the same? A few months ago, while reporting about the then unannounced Wii U console for Nintendo, we stumbled on an interesting ancillary rumor: Microsoft and Sony were in active discussions regarding…
By Joel Johnson Published July 15, 2011 -
Sony Exec Calls PSN Hack ‘A Great Experience,’ Quickly Clarifies Himself
Losing the entire PlayStation Network service for 23 days and its online marketplace for more than a month is not many people’s idea of a good time. Nor is it Tim Schaff’s, though the Sony Network Entertainment boss called it “a great experience,” at a forum before, as the politicians say, he revised and extended…
By Owen Good Published July 14, 2011 -
The Man Who Has Every PS2 Game In America
Ahans76, a PlayStation collector, is apparently more of a PlayStation collector than most, because he claims to now be in possession of every single North American PS2 game ever released. Having picked up a console on its launch day back in 2000, he began his collection with Ridge Racer 5. In the beginning, he simply…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 7, 2011 -
Man Deploys ‘Madden Defense’ to Beat Murder Rap
A man on trial in North Carolina for killing his pregnant fiancée says he could not have been the killer, and is using a screen capture from a game of Madden NFL as his alibi. Michael Mead, accused of killing Lucy Johnson, 31, in 2008, showed a “screenshot from the gaming system to a private…
By Owen Good Published July 6, 2011 -
Chinese Consoles Invade India
Video games are hot in India right now, but don’t expect to see many of these gamers on Xbox Live or Playstation Network anytime soon. According to The Economic Times, Indian gamers are buying Chinese consoles over their branded counterparts. Honey Singh, owner of an electronic shop in south Delhi’s Nehru Place said “We manage…
By Sam Winstrom Published July 5, 2011 -
CultureTotal Recall
The PlayStation Controller You Never Got to Use
Yesterday, we looked at the PlayStation controllers that Sony has released (or in the Boomerang’s case seriously intended to release) to the public. Today, we’re looking at one that never made it. Before the PlayStation was released in 1994, development kits had to be sent to studios to ensure games would be ready for the…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 29, 2011 -
Gamers, Let’s Stop Hating Each Other
The video game world is constantly growing, and so is the video game audience. More and more games are being developed for the casual gaming audience, and while some people think this is a good thing, some people don’t. Commenter GunFlame: used Steal *nothing to Steal* 🙁 is sending out a call for unity, reminding…
By Jen Schiller Published June 28, 2011 -
CultureTotal Recall
The Evolution of the PlayStation Control Pad
It’s perhaps the most iconic design in the world of game controllers, and definitely the longest-serving. Today in Total Recall, we look back at over 15 years of PlayStation control pads. The primary PlayStation controller’s basic appearance has survived with only minor changes since it accompanied the first console to the marketplace all the way…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 28, 2011 -
Let the Countdown to the Uncharted 3 Multiplayer Beta Begin!
Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells wants gamers ready around 2 p.m. PDT tomorrow to download Uncharted 3‘s multiplayer beta. This release is only for certain people. The rest of us have to wait until July 4. [via Twitter]
By Sam Winstrom Published June 27, 2011 -
What’s Wrong With Kids These Days?
Back in my day things were different! If I wanted to play a video game I had to use one joystick to move and aim! In the snow! Come to think of it, it wasn’t that bad at all. Acast010 thinks that this generation is a lot worse—not the games though. He says the gamers…
By Sam Winstrom Published June 27, 2011 -
PS3’s New Flavor is Lighter, Less Power-Thirsty
Andriasang says a new PS3 configuration is coming, but don’t get your hopes too far up. The changes concern its power draw, weight, and the removal of LED lights. The hard drive for the CECH-3000B model still is 320GB, according to a retail source Andriasang quoted. The console cuts power consumption to 200W from 230W…
By Owen Good Published June 19, 2011 -
For $35,000, You Can Make Your Own PS1 Games
Website PlayStation Museum has a complete PS1 development kit, including everything you need to make a game, from coding it to burning master discs. And now it can all be yours. The site is selling this obscure and yet amazing collection of hardware, which includes dozens of pieces of equipment as well as software and…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 16, 2011 -
Guy Goes From Gran Turismo to Le Mans
In 2009, we told you about Spaniard Lucas Ordoñez, who won a Gran Turismo competition that gave him a shot at racing a real car. Fast forward to 2011 and the guy just made the podium at Le Mans, one of the world’s most gruelling and prestigious car races. Ordoñez, who only a few years…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 15, 2011 -
Spanish Police: Three Arrested in PSN Hack Attacks
Spanish police this morning say they have arrested three involved in the hacking of Sony’s Playstation Network, which lead to Sony shutting down the Playstation 3’s network for a month, locking nearly 80 million gamers out of playing online. All three were freed without bail pending formal charges. The New York Times reports that they…
By Brian Crecente Published June 10, 2011 -
Terrifying TriMount Connects All Your Game Console Sensors, Might Just Kill You
For anyone who owns all three of this generation’s gaming consoles, it can be a bitch setting up their respective sensor peripherals. Not anymore, as the dreamGEAR TriMount combines all three. Only it looks like a very angry Wall-E. This behemoth rigs the Xbox 360 Kinect, Playstation Eye, and Wii Sensor Bar together to form…
By Kwame Opam Published June 8, 2011 -
Nintendo Home Consoles *Finally* Getting a Tekken Game
Tekken: Wii Successor, a temporary title, is the first Tekken title to come to a Nintendo home console. Tekken is traditionally a PlayStation series, but has also come to the Xbox 360. It’s also the first Tekken with face painting
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 8, 2011 -
The PlayStation TV: A 3DTV That Shows Different Images to Two Players
Whoa! A PlayStation TV. It’s a $500 24-inch 3D TV that Sony’s promising delivers “best in class” entertainment for way more people than are able to currently afford 3D. It looks like a giant PSP, sorta. Update: Hands on. It’s, well, nice. Set up in the fake, entirely-too-clean dorm room Sony had on hand, the…
By Matt buchanan Published June 7, 2011 -
Welcome to Sunny Los Angeles
Awesome shots courtesy of Isaac Viel.
By Drew Cohen Published June 7, 2011