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From the View-Master to the iPhone, 14 memorable gizmos that exude a style all their own.
If you chance on an original PlayStation game called Buzz Lightyear of Star Command while browsing Sony’s PlayStation Store with your PS Vita, just click on by, because it doesn’t work — not yet, anyway.
I’m not sure I’d call it the killer app the PS Vita’s looking for, but if you’ve been waiting for a video chat option that lets you avail yourself of the Vita’s dual cameras, it’s finally here, as in right now, courtesy Skype.
There have been two recent announcements about watches that work as companions to smartphones, and both show a lot of promise. Is it time for Apple to create a smartwatch tied directly to the iPhone?
Conventional wisdom: Launch strong, show your best hand, win hearts and minds. Actual wisdom: Stagger your triple-A releases, because forklifting out everything you’ve got off the block and leaving a black hole of game-space between the launch window and holiday lineup is a surefire hardware sales-killer.
The press release about how Sony plans to save itself is a long, dull slog, but a perfectly logical one. Here’s the short version of the plan.
Sony just became the first and currently only set-top games console to offer access to Amazon’s streaming video service, which includes both movies and TV shows. Is it a Netflix-killer?
Here we go again: There’s a new next-PlayStation rumor out, and like most early-days scuttlebutt, it’s full of stuff no one cares about (or ought to, anyway), like the system’s name. Two things we should: No PS3 backward-compatibility and no way to play used games.
Hackers reportedly made off with Michael Jackson’s entire back catalog during a raid on Sony Music’s servers last year.
Sony’s says the PlayStation Vita gaming handheld topped 1.2 million units sold worldwide as of Feb. 26, following its U.S. launch on Feb. 22 and Dec. 17 in Japan.
IGN has an interesting interview up this morning with Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO and President Jack Tretton about the PlayStation Vita in which Tretton teases sales details about the company’s cutting-edge gaming handheld. Wait, what sales data?
