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Date: Tue, 26. April 2011 04:16:09

AFP - PlayStation Network has remained offline as Sony worked to rebuild the service that connected PlayStation 3 (PS3) consoles to games, films, and other digital offerings.

Date: Mon, 27. April 2009 15:04:43

Hugh Pickens writes "June marks the launch across Brazil of Zeebo, a console that aims to tap an enormous new market for videogaming for the billion-strong, emerging middle classes of such countries as Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia and China. Zeebo uses the same Qualcomm chipsets contained in high-end smartphones, together with 1GB of flash memory, three USB slots and a proprietary dual analogue gamepad. It plugs into a TV and outputs at a 640 x 480 pixel resolution. 'The key thing is we're using off-the-shelf components,' says Mike Yuen, director of the gaming group at Qualcomm. This approach means that, while Zeebo can be priced appropriately for its markets mdash; it will launch at US $199 in Brazil compared to around US $250 (plus another US $50 for a mod chip to play pirated games) for a PlayStation 2 in the region mdash; and next year the company plans to drop the price of the console to $149. But the most important part of the Zeebo ecosystem is its wireless digital distribution that gets around the low penetration of wired broadband in many of these countries, negates the cost of dealing with packaged retail goods, and removes the risk of piracy, with the games priced at about $10 locked to the consoles they're downloaded to. Zeebo is not meant to directly compete with powerful devices like Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360, or the Wii. 'In Latin America, where there's a strong gaming culture, that's what we'll be, but in India and China we can be more educational or lifestyle-oriented,' says Yuen. One Indian gaming blog predicts Zeebo will struggle, in part due to the cultural reluctance toward digital distribution and also the lack of piratable games."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/26/1555226amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/04/26/1555226"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/26/1555226amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/0tM6vozW6ggv8NaMupg9xc_1Q8k/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/0tM6vozW6ggv8NaMupg9xc_1Q8k/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/JfGxBZffGkI" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 1. September 2011 08:04:33

Console gaming on the go just got easier thanks to a mobile gaming kit that comes with a built-in high-definition display screen to connect to your Xbox 360 or Sony PlayStation system.

Date: Fri, 7. January 2011 05:05:00

PC World - It looks like Razer is trying to get into the handheld console gaming business--except with PC games. Razer's portable gaming concept prototype (codenamed "Switchblade"), announced Thursday at CES, is kind of like what you'd get if you jammed together a Nintendo DSiXL, a netbook, and an Alienware m11x.

Date: Mon, 2. March 2009 15:04:51

adeelarshad82 writes "CNet reports on a bizarre comment from Sony's Computer Entertainment CEO in response to complaints from developers on how hard it is to develop games for the Playstation 3. 'We don't provide the "easy to program for" console that (developers) want, because "easy to program for" means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is, what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?' Given that games heavily drive console sales, and the fact that the PS3 is already 8 million units behind the Xbox 360, I think making a developer's job harder is the last thing Sony needs."pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/01/1522259amp;from=rss"img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/03/01/1522259"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/01/1522259amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/zcUig-OGWXH9BMeRhfswnE2reeA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/zcUig-OGWXH9BMeRhfswnE2reeA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/5HzG9JNwX4w" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Mon, 12. May 2008 06:35:46

On Monday, Nintendo launches WiiWare, a service that allows gamers to download games straight to their Wiis. Are the growing number of games-on-demand services and the sometimes unusual bite-sized games they offer the wave of the future? Indie developers ? and big console makers ? are betting on it.

Date: Fri, 2. September 2011 08:04:28

Console gaming on the go just got easier thanks to a mobile gaming kit that comes with a built-in high-definition display screen to connect to your Xbox 360 or Sony PlayStation system. The GAEMS G155, short for Gaming and Entertainment Mobile Systems, is essentially a heavy-duty briefcase with the display neatly fixed to the inner lid. Your game console is positioned inside and held in place tightly by two wide fabric fasteners straps.

Date: Thu, 24. September 2009 07:54:52

Games giant Nintendo follows similar moves by Sony and Microsoft and slashes the price of its games console.

Date: Mon, 28. February 2011 13:59:07

(AHN) - A new survey on gaming and mobile device use finds that games on handsets surpass the popularity of games on traditional consoles and computers.

Date: Mon, 28. February 2011 13:59:07

(AHN) - A new survey on gaming and mobile device use finds that games on handsets surpass the popularity of games on traditional consoles and computers.