Microsoft has hired a marketing firm to stir up interest in their upcoming new Xbox 360 console. They have set up a nifty, mysterious web site [...] read more »

Here are screenshots of a PS3 game called “Possession”. Apparently the game features zombies and a lot of city-wide carnage. Expect plenty of gore and more high-res zombies than ever on screen simultaneously. Let’s dust off the good ol’ double-barrel shotty and blast them straight back to hell!

First images of the next-generation Xbox have hit the internet, and going by the writing on the drive slot, the console will be called Xbox 360. [...] read more »

An article at Computer Business Review reports that Samsung and Microsoft partner on Xbox 2 in order to promote the Xbox 2′s (aka “Xbox 360″) High Definition television (HDTV) capability. [...] read more »

Outspoken “Father of Play Station” Ken Kutaragi was recently skipped when a new Sony president was elected in March 2005. Kutaragi-san’s recent successes include the Sony PSP [...] read more »

Applications such as modern Playstation video games that use 3D, video and intensive media require both fast CPUs and fast interfaces with memory and coprocessors. The PS3 console appears to [...] read more »

The heart of the new Playstation 3 is code-named “cell”, dual-core, 64-bit RISC chip based on the IBM POWER chip. Prototypes of this chip run at a clock speed of 4.6 GHz. It is yet unknown whether the PS3 will contain one or several [...] read more »

During a presentation at the Games Developer Conference 05 in March 2005, Sony told developers that the new Playstation 3 will use familiar tools to harness the power of the new PS3 architecture. Apparently, Sony will provide programming tools and interfaces to the hardware [...] read more »

Months after the first developer kits were provided to developers in Japan, Sony has also shipped Playstation 3 developer kits to select companies in the UK [...] read more »