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Sony’s Jack Tretton Addresses PlayStation Network Outage at E3 2011 Keynote
It’s been a big year for Sony and the PlayStation Network—and by big I mean the elephant in the room where the PSN was dead-in-the-water for nearly a month of that year. Not only did the PlayStation Network go dark, but after it came back online, Sony kept getting hammered by further breaches to various ...
E3: PS Vita Expected in Market ‘Phased Rollout’ by the End of 2011
In light of the beating they’ve taken, Sony really needed to come to market with something to revitalize their position in the market and the PS Vita may do exactly that. Originally called the NGP (Next-Generation Gaming Portable) the Vita retained the name it was rumored to possess when Sony representative’s debuted the platform at ...
Kinect Fun Labs: Testbed For the Future of Interactive Media
The Kinect system for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console seems to be an experiment more than anything. Although the Kinect allows gamers to control their video characters with gestures and voice commands, the simple truth is that motion-based gaming is really only suitable for a very few types of games. The Kinect must be meant for ...
E3: Nintendo Wii-U First Impressions—Game Changing?
Today Nintendo stepped out at E3 2011 and revealed their “next-gen” console, which is really a controller-peripheral called the Wii-U. From its initial looks, the Wii-U appears to be an oversized controller-cum-tablet (with a massive 6.2-inch diameter touchscreen), which will bring a screen literally into the hands of the player. The overall bulk of it ...
Xbox LIVE’s Feet Staying on the Ground but Head Firmly Thrust into the Personal Cloud
Yesterday, Microsoft’s press event at E3 revealed a new direction they intend to take the Xbox—into the realm of becoming an Internet entertainment center—but also away from trapping all of their content on that box by allowing players to carry their personalization with them. As a result, Xbox LIVE is moving themselves into the personal ...
Really New New Xbox Experience Debuts at E3
What does Microsoft have up its sleeve for E3? So far, we’ve been given hints of the New Xbox Experience, which is something like the previous New Xbox Experience, except with live TV, YouTube, and motion control through Kinect. Although it might seem a little strange to stream in live TV through your Xbox, given ...
E3 2010: In Retrospect of Expecation
Now that E3 2011 is upon us, fangs bared, pulse rifles hot, and golf clubs swinging, it’s a good time to look at what E3 2010 brought us and what innovations from last year we should see gaming companies build on this year. Oh the Microsoft front, Kinect came out during E3 2010, born out ...
Kinect and Mass Effect 3: The Power of Your Voice
While the Kinect has all the hallmarks of a visual platform capable of following our every move and translating it into an interface, a lesser-promoted feature of the device happens to be the microphone and voice recognition. Today, at their E3 Press Event, Microsoft revealed how the voice interface will be used in their upcoming ...
LulzSec Hacks Nintendo with Gentle Pat on the Head and Candy
The hacker group now infamous for several serious hacking attacks against Sony, PBS, and even a recent attack against a company affiliated with the FBI. As game companies go, Sony has been a favorite target of LulzSec with a breach exposing over one million user accounts last week. The hacker group communicates with the rest ...
Sony Hacked Again, Over 1m Accounts Compromised Claims LulzSec
In what seems to be an apt visualization of the adage “when it rains, it pours,” hackers have been poring over Sony’s websites with an increased vengeance over the past few weeks in the wake of the attacks on the PlayStation Network. Next up: Sony Pictures Entertainment, the movie-making division of Sony. According to a ...