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Posts From September, 2007

Sep 20 2007 Grace Chen's Avatar

PlayStation Store Update

+ Posted by Grace Chen

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Hi, everyone. Just wanted to give a quick update on what’s new in the PLAYSTATION Store this week. Let’s get straight to the good stuff with four new demos: • Skate • NBA 08 • Sega Rally Revo • Stuntman: Ignition We’ve also released a new downloadable game, LocoRoco Cocoreccho!, for $6.99. In addition to [...]

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Sep 19 2007 Noam Rimon's Avatar

Folding@home Petaflop Barrier Crossed

+ Posted by Noam Rimon

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The momentum and excitement for the Folding@home project continues. This time it’s something that the Folding community and the computer science field as a whole have been anxiously awaiting — the crossing of a milestone known as a petaflop. A petaflop equals one quadrillion floating point operations per second (FLOPS). If you’d like to imagine [...]

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Sep 18 2007 Patrick Seybold's Avatar

PlayStation.Blog Team @ the Tokyo Game Show

+ Posted by Patrick Seybold

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Just a heads up to all of you: The PlayStation.Blog team is in Tokyo this week holding things down at TGS! What this means is our publishing frequency is going to be a little less than usual this week. We’re hoping to get some cool photos, maybe some video and other material from the show [...]

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Sep 13 2007 Grace Chen's Avatar

PlayStation Store Update

+ Posted by Grace Chen

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Hey everyone, time for another fantastic PLAYSTATION Store update. First off, you’ll notice that we’ve updated some of the thumbnails in the Store. There are new genres for the Game Demos category. Hopefully, this makes it easier to get to the content you want. Oh, and speaking of content, we’ve heard a lot of folks [...]

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Sep 12 2007 Paul Murphy's Avatar

Heavenly Sword Arrives!

+ Posted by Paul Murphy

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This week marks the release of Heavenly Sword – and after months of anticipation, weeks of “making-of” videos and the animated prequels, we’re fired up to see the game make its way to store shelves. Considered one of the most anticipated PS3 titles of the year, the buzz around Heavenly Sword continues to build as [...]

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Sep 12 2007 Patrick Seybold's Avatar

Wikia Gaming, Go Drop Some Knowledge

+ Posted by Patrick Seybold

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I wanted to post a quick pointer to a new game industry resource called Wikia Gaming. It’s basically a new community page within the Wikia network where you can share what you know about any and all of the games you love to play. I mention this because I’ve noticed several readers here have some [...]

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Sep 11 2007 Eric Lempel's Avatar

Updated PS3 and PSP Firmware

+ Posted by Eric Lempel

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Taking into account customer feedback and some internal testing, we will be making available in the next few days a firmware update for the PS3 (1.93) that fixes the network disconnect issue that some of you have experienced as a result of downloading Firmware 1.92. In addition, we are adding a new firmware update for [...]

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Sep 10 2007 Steve Bolender's Avatar

Amare Stoudemire Mo-Cap

+ Posted by Steve Bolender

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On Friday, Amare Stoudemire came to our San Diego motion capture studio to perform, conduct some interviews and be photographed and filmed. Decked out in a black and blue mo-cap suit fitted with numerous sensors he shot jumpers, went through his free throw routine and then he unleashed some sweet dunks. This man can dunk [...]

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