Sony PlayStation 3 owners who held off on updating their systems in order to keep from losing the option to install alternate operating systems have a new glimmer of hope. Hacker George Hotz (a.k.a Geohot) has released a video of a new hack that promises to keep the alternate OS install feature, even with the [...]

Although PlayStation 3 sales have been on the rise and Sony has a rosy outlook for the console’s future, it turns out that the company is still losing money on every PlayStation 3 unit it sells. According to The Wall Street Journal, which examined Sony’s fiscal third-quarter financial performance, the company loses 6 cents on [...]

Until now, Apple has held an odd place in the gaming industry. Many of the hottest games for the PC have never sold as well on the Mac, due not only to a smaller market share, but also Apple offering only a handful of hardware configurations that can run the latest, graphics card-melting titles. But [...]

For gamers, Christmas can, indeed, come early. Because here is every gamer’s dream wrapped up in a Christmas paper so beautiful that you might never play Guitar Hero in a living room ever again. Please hail Ric Turner, who realized the holiday season was upon him and it was time not to keep up with [...]

Since its launch three years ago, Sony’s PlayStation 3 has always been more expensive than its rivals, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii, in large part because the components in the PS3 cost so much to assemble. At launch, for example, the console cost Sony about $805 to build, according to technology research firm iSuppli, [...]

The video game industry just keeps on seeing its sales numbers decline, in spite of a huge month for Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and the crucial holiday month of November was no different than the last nine months of 2009. For the month, according to industry analyst The NPD Group, sales across [...]

File it under the “get this while you can” category. Last week Apple approved a 99-cent application called iRwego that features both the sounds and artwork of the Super Mario series from Nintendo. And yes, it’s still up–though probably not for long. The app, not blessed by Nintendo, plays more than a minute of music [...]

Nintendo seems ready to resume its dominance over its video game console competitors, Microsoft and Sony, and to shake off several tepid months of sales, an analyst suggested Monday. Those comments came after Nintendo put out a press release boasting that it had sold 550,000 Wiis in the U.S. during Thanksgiving week, leading Wedbush Morgan [...]

Microsoft on Monday said that millions of Xbox Live members have used the new social-media features that the company pushed live a week ago. In June, Microsoft announced it would begin offering Xbox Live users access to Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm. And while the manifestation of each of those services is scaled down on Xbox [...]

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft, and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. A prominent feature of the Xbox 360 is its integrated Xbox Live service that allows players [...]