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YouTube pulls a Hulu -- yanking API access from Popcorn Hour (Update: Google responds)
Hope you weren't enjoying watching YouTube on the television screen via Popcorn Hour and other set-top boxes, as they have been given notice by the newly 1080p and network TV-friendly website that they are no longer welcome to access its content. The new Hulu-ish Terms of Service (sectio...
Sony's Blu-ray digital copies tested on PS3, PSP
We've seen digital copies of Blu-ray via separate DVDs before (e.g. Watchmen), and just recently Sony finally cut out of the middle disc and put the transferable video on the high-def disc itself. Joystiq recently showcased how it's done using a copy of Godzilla and a PlayStation 3. For this y...
Monday, Nov 16
Facebook for PlayStation 3 'begins' this Thursday with firmware update 3.10 (video)
Okay, pretend to be surprised if you want, but Facebook and PlayStation 3 are coming together, sort of. We saw the tiniest bit of teaser last week via leaked photo, and now we've got details and a release date. Users will have the option of sending status updates for PSN purchases and Trophies...
Thursday, Nov 12
GameStop to start testing game downloads early next year
GameStop has been dropping hints about its digital download plans for a little while now, but it looks to have done its most extensive and official talking about the matter yet at the recent BMO Capital Management Digital Entertainment conference, where it confirmed that it will start t...
Wednesday, Nov 11
Leaked PS3 XMB images hint at Facebook integration, new image layout
Although we were too late to verify for ourselves, both Joystiq and Scrawl swear up and down that the above three images, each of whom unfortunately lack a higher-res version, all hail from the official Sony Computer Entertainment Europe website, and each showing a feature of the PlaySt...
Sunday, Nov 1
PlayStation Home 'not a priority right now' for Sony, most people seem to feel the same way
Just earlier this month we'd been hearing word from Sony that it was seeing PlayStation Home as more of a "social game platform" than a "social network," and now we're hearing that Sony might not be seeing it as much of anything. Peter Edward, the director of Home for Sony, says that the servi...
Saturday, Oct 31
Engadget Podcast 169 - 10.31.2009
00:49:25 - Nintendo DSi LL goes large in Japan on November 21 (update: DSi XL in Europe Q1) 00:53:41 - Netflix for PlayStation 3 requires a disc, software solution coming late 2010 00:57:28 - Apple TV 3.0 software update is out, with iTunes Extras, LP & Genius in tow
Monday, Oct 26
Opinion: The daily roundup: here's what you might've missed
Netflix coming next month to PlayStation 3 Turns out a disc will be required for streaming, and that's the only solution available until a PS3 software update sometime in late 2010.Palm Pixi on sale November 15 exclusively at Sprint for $100 on contract Other news of import
Friday, Sep 4
New study finds close to one quarter of Xbox 360s fail within two years
Sure, it's not exactly news to hear that the Xbox 360 is the most unreliable console of the big three, but just how unreliable is it? Now there's a point of contention. The good news for Microsoft, of sorts, is that a new study from SquareTrade found that just 23.7% of Xbox 360 consoles failed wi...
Saturday, Aug 29
Engadget Podcast 161 - 08.29.2009
Song: Rock You Like A Hurricane Hear the podcast 00:02:27 - Snow Leopard review 00:37:20 - Sony announces Reader Daily Edition, free library ebook checkouts 01:07:48 - PlayStation 3 Slim review 00:12:10 - Xbox 360 price drops go global on Friday, it's official
Friday, Aug 21
Engadget Podcast 160 - 08.21.2009
00:01:15 - Sony unveils slimmer PS3: $300, lands in September (updated!) 00:26:42 - Sony announces PS3 firmware 3.0, European PlayStation Video Store, Digital Reader comics viewer 00:27:10 - Sony announces 'snackable' 100MB Minis for PSN Store
Friday, Jul 24
Epic Games VP says new consoles are a "long way off," Natal is the "next Xbox"
We've heard plenty of talk about ten-year console life cycles for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and it looks like there's some consensus starting to build around the idea that any new consoles really are still a long ways off. Speaking with Eurogamer earlier this week, Epic Games VP M...
Friday, Jun 5
Motion control wars: Xbox 360 and PS3 are playing catch-up with Wii next year, who will do it right?
Of course, that's all about to change next year, with the emergence of the Microsoft's Project Natal and Sony's PlayStation motion controller. Typical thinking would suggest that Sony and Microsoft will be attempting to capture a slice of the casual gaming market that the Wii has so well...
Saturday, Apr 4
Sony says the DSi is for kids, the PSP is for winners
Well, chalk this up for out of the ordinary -- Sony's PR team just sent us a "Statement from Sony PlayStation on PSP and Competitive Landscape" that basically boils down to SCEA director of hardware marketing John Koller calling the DSi a kid's toy that "ignores significant gamer demogra...
Thursday, Feb 26
PlayStation Network snags 20M users, Xbox Live still way more profitable
Sony announced a landmark this week for its PlayStation Network: 20 million users worldwide, as of February 20. According to the presser, that breaks down to 5 million in the first 14 months of service, 5 million more 8 months later, and an additional 10 million the 7 months after that. There...
Friday, Dec 19
PlayStation 3 Wireless Keypad review
As hard as it might be for you wizened, Atari-era gamers to understand, there are plenty of people out there who think that today's gaming controllers need even more inputs; even more buttons. That's largely thanks to the inclusion of in-game messaging on most platforms, and, for those wh...
Friday, Jul 6
Sony has "no plans" to cut PlayStation 3 price
Wait a tick -- if Sony has "no plans" to hack off a cool hundie from the price of its PlayStation 3, what mothership is directing Circuit City? In a brief blurb that can't exactly be taken as the unequivocal truth, Sony President Ryoji Chubachi told Reuters that "at present, we have no plans"...
Thursday, Jul 5
Wii outselling PlayStation 3 'six to one'
Filed under: GamingConsidering that some retail locales in America are still having trouble keeping a fresh supply of Wii consoles in stock (whilst the PlayStation 3 units tend collect thin layers of dust), it's no surprise to see such dramatic sales figures surface. Sure enough, Enter...
Saturday, Jun 16
PS3 launches in Korea with 80GB hard drive
Filed under: GamingThe translation from Korean to English is a little icky, but it looks like the PlayStation 3 launch in Korea which took place earlier today went ahead with an 80GB hard drive, in line with previous reports from Sony. It still confuses us as to why Sony is so adamant that the...
Sunday, Jun 3
PlayStation 3's upscaling update analyzed
Sony, ya' see this is why you should have tried to push out the PS3 with 1080p upscaling right off the bat. Instead of people actually enjoying your games, you've got everyone booting up Photoshop to compare the minute differences between the quality of PSOne/PS2 games in their unscaled, o...
Friday, May 11
Nyko's PlayStation 3 Intercooler gets reviewed
Just over a year ago, Nyko busted out a lucrative solution to the world of overheating problems that hordes of Xbox 360 users were experiencing, and even after being lambasted for causing consoles to draw an unsafe amount of electricity, the company hasn't learned a thing. Unlike Pelican...
Friday, Apr 13
Engadget Podcast 106 - 04.13.2007
01:26 - 20GB PlayStation 3, RIP: 2006 - 2007 06:28 - Xbox 360 Spring 2007 Dashboard update 13:07 - How-To: play DivX and Xvid on your Apple TV 17:14 - Apple's Leopard delayed to October, iPhone blamed 24:16 - Apple sells 100 millionth iPod, deems experiment a success
Friday, Feb 23
Europe's PS3 to have limited PS2 backwards compatibility?
Filed under: GamingWe'll admit, we're feeling starting to feel for you folks in Europe, as not only do you now have to actually pay attention to where you're driving, but the PlayStation 3 you were planning on snagging exactly one month from today might be hamstringed right out of the box. A...
Wednesday, Jan 17
Yet another Linux option for your PS3: Debian Live
Filed under: GamingAt this point, running Linux on your PlayStation 3 shouldn't come as any surprise, but just in case you haven't snapped up the Yellow Dog variety, and you're still intrigued after seeing that Fedora Core video, here's yet another option for testing the open source wat...
Thursday, Nov 16
PS3 FAQ: answers to your PlayStation 3 questions
Can you turn the console on and off remotely with the controller like you can with the Xbox 360? Yes. Just hold the PlayStation button and it'll give you a similar prompt to quit the game, shut off the controller, or shut off the console.
Sony's PlayStation 3 review roundup
Ok, even though we didn't think Sony would ever pull together enough components to actually launch this thing (which probably explains the two week queue), the PlayStation 3 is finally upon us. You've witnessed the PS3 getting unboxed, getting some playtime, and getting ripped apart, b...
