PlayStation 3 Getting In-Game Ads Two Years After Xbox 360
Sony has some big news coming out today: The company will allow “dynamic” ads to be placed in PlayStation 3 games. The Wall Street Journal is callRead More…
Category: Gaming
Blu-ray Movies Now Affordable. Players? Not So Much.
An Amazon promotion good through June 9 has over 100 Blu-ray movies in the $14 to $20 range (with many around $14-$15). I thought this would be a goodRead More…
Paul’s Soapbox: DRM, 3G, Playstation Home
Paul’s Soapbox is a regular feature of TechConsumer where I sound off on various tech topics/products that I’m interested in (or hate). This is juRead More…
Sony Thinks Blu-ray Will Sell Like DVD by End of 2008
Sony CEO Ryoji Chubachi knows something we don’t. At a press conference a few days ago, he pointed out Sony’s plan to increase Blu-ray market sharRead More…
The $100 PS3 Game: Gran Turismo 5
When Sony announced that Gran Turismo 5 Prologue would be available for $40 in April, I couldn’t help but have a knee-jerk reaction. How could Sony Read More…
Paul’s Soapbox: Vista Gadgets, Mario Kart, and Kevin Rose
Paul’s Soapbox is a regular feature of TechConsumer where I sound off on various tech topics/products that I’m interested in (or hate). This is juRead More…
PC vs Console Gaming: Which Is Actually More Expensive?
“PC gamers” often snicker about how “console gamers” pay for things that they get for free. They also tout that PC games usually sell for lessRead More…
Amazon Drops Price of HD DVD Player to $99, Upconvert DVD w/ Free Movies?
For anyone keeping score since Blu-ray won the next generation movie battle, HD DVD players are now $99. And that’s with 7 movies included. ConsiderRead More…
TC News: Wii Fit Unvelied, Amazon Now Prefers Blu-ray, Top Tech Companies Create Gaming Alliance
TechConsumer News is a feature we started out of a hobby of tracking the latest happenings within the consumer related technology sphere. The goal is Read More…
HD DVD’s New Feature: Watching Movies Together But Not In the Same Place
Perhaps in an attempt to differentiate itself from Blu-ray, HD DVD tech wizards will launch the HD DVD version of Harry Potter and the Order of the PhRead More…