Why pay $80+ at somewhere like JB Hi-Fi when you can pick up a Dualshock 3 controller anytime from OzGameShop for $47 including delivery. It’s black, has Bluetooth, vibrates, and you know, helps you kill zombies. [OzGameShop via OzBargain]
Interactive stuffed toys have creeped me out since the Teddy Ruxpin, but back in 2008, Sony thought about stuffing this freaky critter with storage, Wi-Fi and even a cell processor to terrorise kids everywhere. It would improve in areas where Microsoft’s ActiMates failed in the ’90s by being able to sense being touch, cry, recognise voices, and move about of its own accord. The bizarre patent was only recently publicly released.
Confession: I’m a huge UFC fan, so when the cage and technology collide, I’m all over it like a gogoplata. Exhibit A: Diego Sanchez (in training to fight hall-of-famer Matt Hughes at UFC 135) loves THQ’s UFC Undisputed game. “It’s is a visualisation tool for me where you’re seeing it, you’re feeling it and you can already have that knockout in your mind.”
Spanish police this morning say they have arrested three involved in the hacking of Sony’s Playstation Network, which shut down the PlayStation 3′s network for month, locking nearly 80 million gamers out of playing online.
For most of 2010, Sony led the way in Australia for integrated IPTV in its television sets. But IPTV is only a small fraction of the potential for integrated entertainment on a flat panel television. Gaming is destined to be the next big boom for television screens, and it’s time for Sony to leverage its assets by sticking a Playstation 3 console into a premium Bravia TV.
Within a week?! WITHIN A WEEK?! It’s already been over a week! Sony’s still hard at work attempting to restore operations after the security breach, and is moving the PSN network infrastructure and data centre “to a new, more secure location”.
