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Microsoft is on its way to add one of the most requested features in Xbox 360. The 2010 software update will give Xbox 360 USB storage support, which means users will then be able to download and run Arcade games, DLC, save games directly off the USB storage device.
Although a good news for [...]

 
The image you’re looking above is supposedly of a motherboard belonging to an updated version of Xbox 360. The updated part is apparently Xbox 360’s smaller and slimmer form factor and a single chip housing both the CPU and the GPU.
This image surfaced from a Chinese source so we can’t reckon the legitimacy but [...]

 
While console gaming users were on their quest of the nine circles of hell since February, the PSP variant made its way out in March. I wanted to get my hands on the game mainly for two reasons – it looked appealing and had a gameplay similar to Sony’s successful franchise – God of War. [...]

 
Off all the Nintendo DS rumors we’ve heard so far, this one looks more plausible provided the developers Rpad talked to weren’t fooling around. Rpad.tv was on a quest at the GDC show for details on upcoming DS successor and here is what they found.
Expectedly, the new DS will sport a bigger screen with [...]

 
Sony’s recently unveiled PlayStation Move can be hooked up to 4 controllers at once but connecting 4 Move controllers with their sub-controllers is impossible. Sony has confirmed that all 4 PlayStation Move controllers along with their sub-controllers can’t be connected at once. The reason for this limitation is PS3’s Bluetooth support that can handle seven [...]

 
Time and again we hear a similar statement from MS so it’s not surprising we’re hearing it again when someone compared Xbox 360’s DVD format size restrictions to that of PS3’s Blu-ray. CVG recently had a sit down with Stephen McGill, director of Xbox and Entertainment and this is what he replied.
“We have no [...]

 
Sony’s and old PS3 users PSN woes are now over as they’ve announced to restore the PSN service. The outage spared the PS3 Slim model but users with older PS3s were unable to access PSN and even play games with trophies due to a clock bug.
The internal clock functionality recognized 2010 as a leap [...]

 
The speculations were correct. The clock bug has been confirmed by Sony and is taking its toll on “fat” PS3s. Sony says the problem is “caused by a bug in the clock functionality incorporated in the system” and advises users to stay away from their consoles until the bug is fixed so as to safeguard [...]

 
UPDATE: Sony confirms PS3 clock issue.
Original PS3 users have been marred by an unusual error since yesterday. Firstly, millions of PS3 users were unable to connect to PlayStation’s PlayStation Network – which by the way has been confirmed by Sony – and secondly, Kotaku is reporting that few games even in offline mode can’t start [...]

 
Previous rumors suggest that Nintendo could unveil the Wii successor this year but at the Nintendo Summit, Nintendo US marketing executive Cammie Dunaway turns the probability down. Speaking to Gamespot, she said “I don’t think it will be any time soon.”
Dunaway thinks since PS2 had an installed base of over 50m, Wii at 28m “still [...]

 
Nintendo will release the DSi XL in U.S. in March. The larger-sized DSi is set to hit the retail stores on March 28 carrying a price tag of $189.99. Additionally, Nintendo also announced a 100 Classic Book pack for DSi XL that will arrive on June 15 for $19.99.
Nintendo is trying to pitch DSi [...]

 
Patents do give a hint of what companies are contemplating for us in the future. Here’s a latest patent filed by Sony that envisions of giving us a single universal controller for various type of consoles. The patent says the controller is able to “emulate the controllers of popular game consoles, such as…the PlayStation, a [...]

 
2010 looks to be the year of 3D and Sony wants to be on forefront of this fad. In addition to launching 3D Bravia TVs and Blu-ray players, Sony has confirmed to Pocket-lint that they’re also eyeing to make its powerful gaming console compatible with 3-dimensional content. A firmware update this summer will allow PS3 [...]

 
There have been a lot of rumors about the next-gen Wii and DS but none of them were as assuring as this one. At the 13th Annual Japan Media Arts Festival, Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed that Nintendo was working on a new hardware and a motion-based game that uses MotionPlus.
Of course, the confirmation is vague as [...]

 
Microsoft is already selling 250GB Xbox 360 bundles in US & Europe but Japanese will be the first ones to get the 250GB HDD as an add-on accessory. The drive will be available in retail stores from March 11 for 15,540 Yen ($172) and as per Microsoft’s spokesman, Kei Iwasaki, MS currently does not have [...]