Rockstar Continues to Diss PS3 Owners

In the late 1990's, a game was released on Playstation that changed the video game industry forever: Grand Theft Auto. As a proud Playstation gamer, I was excited to explore this game, which was, as far as I knew, the very first game of its kind.

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Sony has formally announced plans to bring true 3D gaming to the PlayStation 3.

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Sony is in heavy talks with Mozilla to port Firefox to the PS3.

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Final Fantasy XIII hits the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 9, 2010, introducing both sets of platform owners to the sky city of Cocoon.

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Psycho Killer: My Review of "Borderlands"

One word that sums up the new cross-platform role-playing shooter "Borderlands?" Guns. Lots and lots of guns. 2K Games' newest release puts you in the shoes of one of four treasure hunters on the distant world of Pandora.

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Netflix for the PlayStation 3 is almost here. According to a note that arrived in our inbox this morning, the disc is in the mail even now.

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GS: Is there an exact launch date? SS: Not yet. Just November. GS: So break down how the process works. You need a special Blu-ray disc to access the service, which you sign up for… SS: Yeah, you just order a disc, and you'll get it generally the next day.

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The PlayStation 3 might not be winning the console wars, but the system has quietly started to find its niche as an all-in-one home theater media system. Today, the PlayStation Blog announced that Netflix is coming to US-based PlayStation 3's next month.

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Didn't think Microsoft exec Aaron Greenberg could top himself after saying that Hulu on 360 was like "asking out a really hot chick on a date?"

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Uncharted 2: A Players Hands On Review

Every so often a game hits shelves that captivates and entrances the audience from start to finish. Uncharted hit shelves two years ago with audiences expecting a good game, but a getting more than they bargained for – a great game.

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Why Trophies are Unimportant and Irrelevant

Trophies, the achievement system for PlayStation, allows gamers to track and log their accomplishments within a given game.

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Firmware 3.0 has not been the greatest thing Sony's ever done from a PR perspective. This latest Firmware, while bringing some new features to the table, has also brought software compatibility problems and, in some of the most extreme cases, outright bricking.

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Sony's just officially pulled the wrappers off its motion-control peripherals--the one's we're eagerly awaiting. They're due in the Spring, which is probably before Microsoft's Natal will arrive, and they'll beat the next-gen Wii by a year.

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Trinley Dorje is a pretty hip guy. Like many 24-year-olds, he's into popular music and video games. He's also the Karmapa Lama - the only senior Buddhist leader recognized by the governments of China, India and Tibet.

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Sony's been having to "look into" quite a few things since PS3 Firmware 3.0 launched. First there were complaints about Uncharted: Drake's Fortune crashing, then there was the issue with white Dualshock 3 controllers not working.

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The head of the largest adult video production company in the world plans to start pushing for the inclusion of porn on the Playstation Network. If Vivid Entertainment head Steve Hirsch succeeds, he will look into getting adult videos on the Xbox 360 and perhaps the Wii

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Video games are at a crossroads. Despite what the hardcore call "dumbing down", many video games are "too much like work" for too many people. If we're to make video games as ubiquitous as movies, what can we do about this?

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What most of us do is identify with the character -- and how can you identify with a character you can't see, a character who usually doesn't even talk or have any opinions about the horrible things going on around him? This goes back to the "silent hero" dilemma that has …

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Some, not all, of the Rock Band Network songs will be made available for PS3 users, but song creation still remains exclusive to Xbox 360 (while Wii gets nothing).

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Microsoft has announced that it's dropping the price of Xbox 360 Elite by $100. The price cut comes after Sony introduced the PS3 Slim and cut the price by $100. Now the question is: What will Nintendo do to compete?

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But like the denizens of Gotham he's sworn to protect, fans of the Caped Crusader have stood by their man, patiently waiting for a game maker to step up and embrace Batman as the perfect video game hero. Looks like that patience finally paid off. Big time.

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The NPD Group, famed tabulator of video game hardware and software sales, says it sees the new $299 price point of PlayStation 3 contributing to a significant sales boost for the system.

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Cling to that Cell-based PlayStation 2 emulator patent all you want, but Sony director of hardware marketing John Koller has some disparaging words for those wanting Shadow the Colossus to one day work one the latest hardware.

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Sony might not be able to keep a secret, but they can sure make an announcement.

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Valve, Valve's boss Gabe Newell and the PlayStation 3 have a history. A history of not getting along. And it doesn't look like that's about to change any time soon.

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