The US press won’t be getting their mitts on Sony’s latest eReader until tomorrow in NYC, but our friends to the north have been slobbering over the PRS-600 for the last few days. Verdict: wicked fast page turns, but too much glare. Hit the jump for a side-by-side comparison with the 505. → Read More
Speaking to the Times Online at GamesCom, Sony head Kazuo Hirai confirmed that Sony’s answer to Microsoft’s Project Natal is set for a spring launch next year. → Read More
Netbooknews recently took a trip to Kingston’s Hsinchu factory and caught the entire process of making and packaging a USB drive on camera. Please try to contain your excitement. Thanks for the tip, Sascha! → Read More
So, the other week Game Informer published the results of a reader poll that found the Xbox 360 has a 54 percent failure rate. In typical PR fashion, Microsoft sent along the following statement to TG Daily defending the awesomeness of the Xbox 360 console. → Read More
This will serve as the last contest reminder for the day. Don’t forget to enter for your chance to win one of five Target exclusive Superion Autobots. Head on over to the original contest page and enter. You have until 12PM ET today. → Read More
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The first batch of DLC for Activision and Luxoflux’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is slated for an August 27 launch for the Xbox 360 (800 MS points) and PS3 ($9.99). The entire DLC list is detailed below but the quick and dirty version is as follows: eight new playable characters, three new character skins, three new multiplayer maps and a “Expert” level for single-player campaign. → Read More
Don’t forget to enter our contest to win one of five Target exclusive Hasbro Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Superion badasses. Go here and enter. Now. Do it. Contest ends tomorrow. → Read More
PC gamers- Nvidia is running a deal on a handful of graphics cards that comes with a download code for Rocksteady and Eidos’s upcoming Batman title, Batman: Arkham Asylum. If you haven’t played the demo then go and do that now here. It launches with Nvidia 3D Vision support and PhysX game physics on September 15. Oh, the following Nvidia GeForce cards are part of the deal: GTX 260, GTX 275 and the GTX 285. via Big D → Read More
Big, bad Bay just pushed out the press release confirming the October 20 street date for both the DVD and Blu-ray of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Both the DVD and Blu-ray versions will come in a two-disc variety (single disc DVD will be available as well). The two-disc packages will include “augmented reality technology” that give owners a chance to rebuild a broken down Prime using their webcam and a “special website.” A gaggle of other extras are available. Check those out after the jump. → Read More
Joytiq is reporting out of GamesCom that 2K will not be releasing BioShock 2 in Q1 of 2010. According to an unnamed 2K rep, a new trailer for the hottest game of 2010 will be shown at PAX East, which runs the last week of March. That makes me sad. Oh well. Update: Bloops. Update: Call it a failure in translation. The representative meant PAX in Seattle and not PAX East in Boston. The company currently has no plans for PAX East. The rep followed up that “‘early 2010′ is a much more realistic release date than ‘second quarter 2010.’” → Read More
It’s not too hard to believe that Sony would have tinkered under the hood of the PS3 Slim and today we’ve learned that those assumptions are, in fact, true. The Slim now has a 45-nanometer Cell microprocessor, which was jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba and IBM. Benefits of the new fangled chip based on IBM’s Power architecture promises improved performance with less power being drawn on the whole. And we all know how much of a power hog the last gen PS3 was/is. An improved Nvidia graphics processor is also on board, but neither Sony nor Nvidia have revealed any details on the new chip. via Yahoo Tech → Read More
Why does this not surprise me? Remember the whole fiasco with the BlackBerry Bold? Looks like AT&T is shafting HTC and its first Android device, the Lancaster. According to the Digi Times, the launch of Lancaster could either be delayed or canceled because it hasn’t passed AT&T’s validation process. It was supposed to launch earlier this month, but that obviously didn’t happen. This is bad news bears if HTC takes into account the fact that up to 20 Android devices will be launching in the second half of this year from the likes of Motorola, LG and SE. [Image via Engadget] → Read More
