PlayStation Tips #5 - DIY Hard Drive upgrade

+ Posted by Jeff Rubenstein // Social Media Manager

No matter which model of the PLAYSTATION 3 you’ve got - 20GB, 40GB, 60GB, or 80GB - music, video, and gaming download fiends will find a way to fill up their hard disk drive. Fortunately, the PS3 doesn’t require some hard-to-find proprietary HDD - you can swap it out yourself with the kind of drive [...]

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Filed: Hardware

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PlayStation Tips #4 - DLNA media server

+ Posted by Al De Leon // PR Manager, SCEA

Some of you may have heard the term “DLNA” on this blog or elsewhere, and the term has been discussed recently with the 2.10 firmware update that added DivX video support. For those who aren’t familiar or want a refresher, DLNA stands for Digital Living Network Alliance – it’s basically a group of companies developing [...]

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Filed: Hardware

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PlayStation Tips #3 - Remote Play/PS Store download head start

+ Posted by Al De Leon // PR Manager, SCEA

Let’s say it’s a Thursday, the PLAYSTATION Store was just updated, and you can’t wait to get your hands on a new PS3 demo. The only problem is you’re not home. With the PS3/PSP Remote Play feature, you can get a jump start to your download from the road.
Here’s how it works:
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Filed: Hardware

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PlayStation Tips #2 - Folding@home

+ Posted by Noam Rimon // Sr. Development Manager SCEA R&D

How about helping conduct advanced biological research over this holiday season? No, you don’t need to be a scientist to do that, the researchers over at Stanford University already have came up with software that can operate on your PLAYSTATION 3 console and perform multitude of complex operations that will help their research against diseases [...]

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Filed: Hardware, PlayStation Network

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PlayStation Tips #1 - PSP RSS

+ Posted by Jeff Rubenstein // Social Media Manager

The last week of December is a time for families to get together - and it’s also a time when a large number of gamers will join the PlayStation Family. So every day this week we’ll highlight a bit of functionality that new PLAYSTATION 3 or PlayStation Portable owners might not know they had at [...]

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Seasons Greetings from Gran Turismo

+ Posted by Jeff Rubenstein // Social Media Manager

This video just came in from the folks at Polyphony Digital, makers of the Gran Turismo franchise - take a look:

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so2.addVariable(”videoURL”, “http://www.us.playstation.com/blogvideos/granturismo/gt5pholidayvideo.flv”);
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Tagged // gran turismo, video

Filed: Title Spotlight

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Pata-me, Pata-you, Patapon news

+ Posted by Chris Hinojosa-Miranda // Associate Producer, SCEA

On the eve of holiday break…and the launch of Patapon in Japan, we here at Patapon Central (aka Pon-SCEA) have been very excited over a few little Pata-tidbits that are currently circulating in the media, both locally and overseas.

First, great Pata-News came to me from Japan: Famitsu, one of Japan’s leading gaming publications, has [...]

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Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice Site is Live

+ Posted by Greg Lutton // Assistant Producer, SCEA

Whaddup PSP heads? The holidays are upon us in full swing, with everyone ready for fun and exciting times with the fam … (crickets, crickets, BOOM!).
OK, come the new year when the smoke has cleared we’ll be bringing you an action packed title which you’ll wished you could’ve played as you listened to grandpa’s favorite [...]

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PlayStation Store Update

+ Posted by Grace Chen // Senior Manager, PLAYSTATION Store

Hey, everyone. It’s time again for the PLAYSTATION Store weekly update. Due to the holidays, we will not have a PlayStation Store update next week. However, this week’s update should keep you busy until then - it’s our biggest ever!

Downloadable Games

Toy Home ($9.99)
Toy Home is an exciting toy car racing game where your house becomes [...]

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Filed: PlayStation Network

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PlayStation Store for PC Update

+ Posted by Grace Chen // Senior Manager, PLAYSTATION Store

Here is this week’s content release for the PLAYSTATION Store for PC. To download these games to your PSP, navigate to http://store.playstation.com. There, you’ll find descriptions of the content and directions on how to get started. For more on the PLAYSTATION Store for PC, please click here.
Downloadable Games
SOCOM US Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo ($14.99)
PS one [...]

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Filed: PlayStation Network

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