Archive for April, 2011 - Page 6

PlayStation 3 Price Cut Coming Soon? New PS3 Models Approved By FCC

Sony Gets Two New PS3 Models Approved By FCC, Does This Mean Cheaper Parts & Incoming Price Cut
Filed by on Thursday, 28. April 2011

From my perspective, it seems that Sony is quickly losing goodwill and customer loyalty over the PSN outage, which seems to just be going on and on. For those of you who still do care, Sony quietly submitted four new models of PS3 to the FCC to get approval to [...]

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White iPhone Is Thicker Than Black iPhone

Bloggers Find That White iPhone Is 0.2mm Thicker Than Black iPhone, Expect Most Cases To Still Fit
Filed by on Thursday, 28. April 2011

Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller told us that more work went into the white iPhone 4 than just making it white, and apparently that work involved making it bigger. Many folks reported noticing that the white iPhone was just a touch thicker than the black iPhone, and now, we know [...]

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Just Add Water Breathing New Life Into Oddworld: Hand Of Odd

Real-Time Strategy Title Oddworld: Hand Of Odd Getting A Second Chance At Life Thanks To Just Add Water, Munch's Oddysee Getting HD Remake As Well
Filed by on Thursday, 28. April 2011

Man, the folks over at Just Add Water sure are busy these days. After getting the news that they would be doing an HD remake of Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee in addition to the HD remake of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrathe that is already in production (and, unfortunately, has just been delayed [...]

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PlayStation Network Down Update: SOE Says Its Customer Data Was Not Compromised

Sony Online Entertainment Says That Their Customers' Personal Data Is Safe From Theft After PSN Attacks
Filed by on Thursday, 28. April 2011

Sony’s history making issues with attacks against the PlayStation Network have affected an unknown amount of their 75 million+ user base, but if you’re a Sony Online Entertainment customer, you can breathe easy tonight. After having to deal with attacks on their own servers last week, Sony Online Entertainment took [...]

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Redbox To Start Offering Video Games Throughout The US

After A Round Of Testing In Select US Cities, Redbox Announces That They Will Start Offering Video Games Nationwide In June
Filed by on Thursday, 28. April 2011

Redbox has announced that they will begin offering video games in their rental stations around the United States in June, a move that we’ve known was coming for a while. After all, with the death of traditional rental stores, gamers need a new place where they rent games purely for [...]

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Gets Honeycomb 3.0.1 Software Update

ASUS Rolls Out Android 3.0.1 Update for Eee Pad Transformer Gets Rid of Bugs & Adds Cloud Storage
Filed by on Thursday, 28. April 2011

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer was just released this month, but Asus has already released a software update that adds some apps and a bit of functionality.

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Google Nexus S Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread & Android 3.1 Honeycomb Updates Coming Soon?

Android 2.3.4 to Bring Video Chat to GTalk; Android 3.1 to Bring Flash Player 10.2 With Hardware Accelerated Video Support
Filed by on Thursday, 28. April 2011

Gingerbread and Honeycomb are Google’s latest mobile operating systems for Android smartphones and tablets, respectively, and while they aren’t available on that many devices right now, it looks like Google is interested in updating them both in the coming weeks.

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Rockstar Reveals LA Noire's Social Club

Find Yourself Stuck In LA Noire? Use The Game's Social Club To Ask The LA Noire Community What They Did In The Same Situation
Filed by on Thursday, 28. April 2011

Being a gumshoe is hard, but I imagine that being one in the 1950s without any help from forensics would be darn near impossible. Luckily for you aspiring detectives, Rockstar has revealed the details behind the planned social aspect of their upcoming title LA Noire – dubbed the Social Club [...]

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Android Location Tracking Gets Google Hit With Class Action Lawsuit

Google Gets Hit With Similar Class Action Lawsuit On Location Tracking Like Apple, Called Copycat Lawsuit By Some
Filed by on Thursday, 28. April 2011

Although Apple and the iPhone quickly received criticism for the iPhone location logging scandal from last week and this week, it was quickly discovered that Android did something similar. Apple has gotten a class action lawsuit headed in their direction, and also threats of government intervention, but now Google has [...]

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PlayStation Network Down Update: GeoHot Chimes In

GeoHot Clears Up Any Misconceptions That He's The One Responsible For PSN Attacks, Shares Who He Thinks The Anger Should Be Directed Toward
Filed by on Thursday, 28. April 2011

In the midst of this whole PSN debacle, George Hotz has taken to his personal blog to share his thoughts on the situation, as well as to make it clear that he’s definitely not the one responsible for PSN going down. “To anyone who thinks I was involved in any [...]

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