Cloud gaming service OnLive will roll out a wireless internet support beta later this month.
The platform, which launched in the US in June, currently requires a wired ethernet connection to play titles.
The company will also be offering a 50 per cent discount on all games over Labor Day weekend (September 4–6), and said that it is to extend sign ups to its Founding Members Program – which includes a free one year membership to the OnLive, with an optional second year at $4.95/mo - through December 31, 2010.
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Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter believes Microsoft’s likely to introduce a new $100 premium Xbox Live membership option.
Pachter made the prediction shortly after Microsoft announced plans to increase subscription fees for the online service for the first time since it launched in 2002.
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Following his talk at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival last week, which addressed Sony's commitment to 3D, we caught up with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe senior vice president Ray Maguire to discuss how the company intends to attract developers, the importance of avoiding 3D for 3D's sake and what Sony's wide reach can offer PS3 owners.
How significant is Sony's advantage in the 3D marketplace?
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Following Apple’s confirmation that its social gaming service Game Center will launch next week, mobile game multiplayer tech-maker Aurora Feint has announced the upcoming release of PlayTime, a new infrastructure enabling real-time multiplayer with voice chat across iOS and Android devices.
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Blitz Games Studios’ licensable middleware, BlitzTech, now features full functionality for Xbox 360’s Kinect and PS3’s Move.
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Though the bulk of my career as a journalist was spent covering consumer technology, my bosses at Newsweek were kind enough to let me try my hand at other subjects, namely movies and music. As such, I got to see up close how other entertainment industries present themselves to the world. My most formative such experience was the MTV Video Music Awards, which I attended in 1996 and 1997.
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A PS3 firmware update allowing users to watch Blu-ray movies in stereoscopic 3D will be launched next month, Sony said at the IFA trade show last night.
While a release date wasn’t specified, Sony CEO Howard Stringer said that Spider-Man 3, Avatar and Green Hornet will all be available in 3D Blu-ray format in the future, as will Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and Michael Jackson's This Is It.
Future PS3 updates will enable playback of 3D YouTube videos and PlayTV broadcasts, the company said.
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During a session at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival last week, Lima Sky co-founder
Igor Pusenjak charted the history of the company's evolution from developer of a bubble-wrap popping app in the first days of the iPhone, to creator of the four million-selling
Doodle Jump. We caught up with Pusenjak afterwards to talk about how mobile development is continuing to change, why the App Store is still ahead of its competitors and the importance of self-promotion.
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Sony has announced that a new cloud-based digital music service is in the works for the company’s network-enabled devices, including PS3, Bravia TVs, VAIO computers and Blu-ray players.
Music Unlimited will give users access to millions of songs, with one single account and without the need to manage digital files, the company said at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.
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LucasArts has confirmed that it has let an unspecified number of staff go as it looks “to better address the needs” of its internal development studio.
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