2.60 Update for PS3!

Over at the PlayStation.Blog, there's a vid showing the new features of the PS3's latest update. What are the features, you ask? Well, here they are

1. You can now visit the PlayStation Store as a guest(who needed that anyways!).
2. DivX 3.11 support. 
3. A new 'Photo Gallery' feature by which you can view photos, and it is awesome! It is an optional download just over a 100MB. Sweet!

That's pretty much it!

Here are the things Sony should condsider doing in my opinion; how about a legal driver with which we can all hook up our DS3/SIXAXIS to our PCs/Macs(I know, I know, there is a hack for that, but how about a driver straight from Sony)? Wouldn't that be cool?

Firmware 2.50 for the PS3 is OUT!!!!

Well, what are you waiting for? Go get it! Oh, so first want to know what are the features so that you don't waste time downloading an update that does nothing-like the previous one. Well then, lets get down to business!

• First of all, the way you create a PlayStation Network account has been redesigned. And believe me, it looks good! I would rather say, more appealing and simple for casual gamers. Then again, only hardcore gamers buy the beloved PS3 right?
• You can also turn off your PlayStation 3 after a background download or an installation has completed!
• Various names have been changed: like 'BD/DVD Settings' has been changed to 'Video Settings'. A feature worthy to be noted, 'Sequential Playback' has been added under the renamed 'Video Settings'.
• If your electricity bills are unusually high, you know who the culprit is-your PS3! Thankfully, Sony has added 'Power Save Settings'-a feature Xbox360 owners have long been used to! It means, you can turn-off your Sixaxis/DualShock3 after a period of inactivity! Cool, huh?
• The method of reconnecting Bluetooth devices has been changed! And, you can select 'HP' as an option under 'Printers' if you want to print your favourite pictures!
• You can use 'Mosquito Noise Reduction', support for Adobe Flash 9 has been added! There's much more! Click this link to get to know all the features!

You know what, I think you've heard enough! GO DOWNLOAD IT IMMEDIATELY!

PSP 3001 has its own tricks up its sleeve

According to a source inside Best Buy, the new PSP-3000 model - recently announced and due in October - doesn't just offer good and improvised screen with better brightness and contrast and all-but also the feature to be compatible with PS3's controllers....the SIXAXIS and the DualShock3! Sorry, its not the PS3's controllers,..wait a sec, IT IS!

How would the chance to play your PSP games using a DualShock 3 or Sixaxis controller be? The new PSP is apparently going to be compatible with PS3 controllers. Sony is very innovative nowadays these days, don't you think? So obviously, that must mean that the new PSP has Bluetooth! This piece of news-that the new PSP is having Bluetooth has itself been vaguely rumoured before.

But wait - how would you hold the screen up so you could actually see it ? Not a problem - it's also going to output video via composite cable in 480i resolution.

I don't know, it sort of sounds plausible. Maybe. Certainly it's one way of overcoming the problem Sony has of everyone in Europe and the US thinking it's a bit over priced for a handheld with a not overwhelming brilliant games catalogue. So... turning it into a games console of its own is not a bad idea. Any officially confirmed statements will be posted. Stay tuned folks.

A brand new PS3 model in August?.....may be

A peek at a Wal-Mart gaming spreadsheet may just have spoiled Sony's big surprise for E3. According to this little list, the 40GB PS3 is to be replaced by a brand new model come August.

Now, on the one hand, maybe this is a sign that Sony have seen sense and decided to hand back our 'Backwards compatibility', and perhaps a heftier hard-drive....or, the much more likely theory, is that the 'new version' of the console will include the DualShock 3 rather than the Sixaxis. A bit dull yes, but thinking about things logically, it certainly seems the most likely option...or, apparently this new model is a 150GB PS3, complete with two DualShock 3 controllers, Home, and a demo of Killzone 2.