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PS3 Three Times Faster Than Xbox 360?

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Some interesting next-gen gossip has been sent my way by a reliable source. As we approach E3, the specs for both the Xbox 360 and PS3 are becoming more known among the developers, spurring some major chest thumping and ?My CPU is bigger than your CPU? talk.

Kotaku
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Next-Generation Xbox to Be Media Hub

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Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Xbox gaming console will be more of a digital entertainment hub than its predecessor, making it even more of a PC hybrid than ever, Bill Gates told a meeting of business journalists on Monday.

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Revolution's graphics subsystem: 2 sep cores - ATI AMR ?

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As for specs, since you seem to be really privy on them, the Revolution will indeed support both 720p as well as 1080i. The GPU of the console packs quite a punch. It?s actually two cores linked together with ATi?s alternative on nVidia?s SLI.
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PSP Video 9 v1.37

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PSP Video 9 is a free PSP video conversion and management application. It can convert regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into PSP video files, as well as manage/copy these PSP video files between your PC and PSP.
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2 Days to Vegas

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New Steel Monkeys game hints at what next-generation graphics may be like. Screens included.
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First PS3 Screenshots

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Games Radar has posted a clutch of screenshots for a forthcoming PS3 game called Possession. The real-time strategy game has you turning the citizens of a city into zombies, then manipulating them into destroying their own town.
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Xbox 360 Boot-Up Screen ?Really Cool?

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Major Nelson is a bad, bad man. The Xbox Live Director of Programming, also known as Larry Hryb, has been teasing the readers of Random Thoughts about the Xbox 360 for weeks now. But today he really stuck the knife in and twisted:

Kotaku
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Xbox 360 to be backwards compatible

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A questionnaire being taken online by Xbox Live users appears to give the final confirmation that Xbox 360 will be backwards compatible. The questionnaire deals with Xbox Live and says subscribers through the original Xbox will be able to play against gamers on Xbox 2 -- as long as they are playing a current generation Xbox game.

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Xbox 360 controllers to work on Longhorn

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The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2005 began today and Chairman Bill Gates has been talking our ears off about tablet PCs, a 64-bit Windows, auxiliary displays, and really not too much relating to Xbox. The one bit of news that GAF has seen coming out of WinHEC is that Xbox 360 controllers will be compatible out of the box with Longhorn, the next version of the Windows operating system.

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Xbox 360: Embedded DRAM Spec Confirmed

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NEC has just announced that Microsoft will incorporate the company?s embedded DRAM (eDRAM) technology in the Xbox 360 graphics subsystem, confirming the specs revealed here on TeamXbox over a year ago.
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Perfect Dark 0 Leads 14 Game X360 Launch

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The Xbox 360 will launch with about 15 titles and Perfect Dark Zero will be the crown jewel, according to Computer and Video Games and my sources. Some of the other rumored launch titles are Project Gotham Racing 3, Need for Speed Underground 3 and Test Drive.

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Sony PSP: The Good, The Bad, And The Beautiful

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At a time when most of the major players in digital leisure are moving towards convergent solutions, Sony has launched the PSP, a portable multimedia console that couldn't be more proprietary. Beautiful to look at and stuffed with the latest technology, it's undeniably attractive - which only makes its flaws and limitations all the more infuriating.

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Toshiba Gives First Public Demo of the Cell

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In the demo, the Cell processor simultaneously decoded 48 MPEG-2 streams that were projected to a 1080i display divided into 8 x 6 cells, each of which showed a different video fitted to the cell size.

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Xbox 360 Graphics Chip Patent?

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A new patent from ATI Technologies, Microsoft's graphics chip partner for the Xbox 360, might be the final piece of the puzzle that confirm the specs leaked last year.

TeamXbox
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Xbox 360 Pic - This is it

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Here it is guy's the first picture of Microsofts Xbox 360 from Engadget and Gizmodo!

All right, after many a false sighting and tons of sketchy pics (the Xbox 360 was starting to give the Virgin Mary a run for her money), our sources are confirming that this is really it. My, Xbox 360, how concave you are! We also admire your simple, round nexus. Mmmmmm.
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Sony PSP as iTunes remote

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So you are sitting around playing wipeout and listening to your favorite Johnny Cash, when all of a sudden the A*Teens comes on! Whatever will you do? You can?t get up, that?s a lot of work, we?d better come up with a way to control iTunes with your PSP and quick!

Engadget
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Xbox 360 Revealed?

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A new picture has appeared at OurColony.net that could be the very first image of the Xbox 360.
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Nintendo Revolution at E3

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With all the rumours that are going around about Nintendo going to show their upcoming Revolution console or not, we decided it was definitely time to get some confirmation so we called our contact within Nintendo and wouldn't leave the phone alone until we got a definite reply on the question "Will the Revolution be shown at E3 ?"

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FREE DOWNLOADABLE MANGA FOR SONY PSP

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In a revolutionary move for the manga industry, Seven Seas Entertainment announced today the release of 155 pages of downloadable manga content specifically converted for optimal viewing on the new Sony PSP.
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More Xbox 360 Secrets

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I?m hearing that rumors of an Xbox 360 removable hard drive that doubles as a media player, nicknamed the Xpod, is just that. Apparently, even Microsoft hasn?t decided if they want to create such a beast. But if they do, rest assured that it won?t be selling for the $100 upgrade price that will get you a hard drive, backwards compatibility and WebTV at launch.

Kotaku
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NINTENDO NAILS DOWN NEXT-GEN WIRELESS PLANS

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Nintendo has lifted the lid on its plans to equip the Revolution with totally wireless technology. The next-gen console will communicate with controllers, peripherals, online gaming services and other Nintendo hardware using technology developed in partnership with US firm Broadcom.

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Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility?

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We've spent today doing a little more digging. It seems the Xbox 360 will use AES Encryption (XeCryptAesCbc), executable files are XEX and not XBE (xshell.xex) and after studying the kernel there is everything in place for backwards compatibility.

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AGEIA Technologies Interview @ TeamXbox

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We recently spoke with Manju Hegde, CEO and Chairman of AGEIA Technologies Inc, in order to get the scoop on their PhysX chip and the NovodeX Physics SDK, the first and only multithreaded physics API capable of unleashing the power of the PhysX chip, as well as multiprocessor gaming systems. AGEIA?s NovodeX Physics SDK is an official Xbox real-time physics middleware tool that will exploit the multicore architecture of the Xbox 360 and Epic Games has also announced the integration of the NovodeX API and support for the PhysX chip in the Unreal Engine 3.
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Xbox 2: $249 to $299

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The next-generation Xbox console will be priced at $249 to $299 when it launches in October / November, according to leading analyst firm Goldman Sachs, which expects Microsoft to ship three million units of the console by the end of the year.

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Sony PSP Review @ Iceteks

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My first impression of this beast in action was pure Awe. Capitalized for enthusiasm. The system looks really sexy even when it's turned off. It has a very sleek design. Portable gaming, portable movies, portable music... What about portable picture gallery? Yep, it has that, too.
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Microsoft and Pepsi planning massive Xbox 360 Giveaway

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We can?t divulge the source of this information (what else is new?), but we?ve learned that Microsoft is going to be teaming up with Pepsi for a major promotion this fall in which they?ll be giving away over 9,000 Xbox 2/Xbox 360 consoles in the weeks ahead of the next-gen console?s official release.

Engadget
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Nintendo Confirms some Revolution Hardware

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Here's one of the first exclusive features that this site brings to you. Hopefully, first of many exclusive news and rumor confirmations. We have heard some of the hardware to be featured on the new Nintendo Revolution console, including an IBM processor and ATI video card.

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Nintendo DS Wireless Multiboot

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Tim Schuerewegen, the man who was reportedly working with TeamXLink writing a custom windows driver for the RT2500 wireless chipset, has successfully downloaded and run mutliboot code on the DS wirelessly from a PC.
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Xbox 2 Launching On MTV

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The revolution will be televised. Xbox 2 -- aka Codename Xenon, the next-generation gaming console from Microsoft -- will make its first appearance on a yet-untitled half-hour special that will be broadcast globally across all MTV stations.

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New PSP Titles Announced, Whoops!

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You gotta love clueless retailers. The latest to accidentally break an information embargo is Toys ?R? Us who let slip a list of previously unannounced titles with their release list.

Kotaku
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Xbox Image Grabber 2 1.1

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Xbox Image Grabber 2 is a small Windows GUI application that automates the process of taking screen captures off the Xbox.

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Xbox 360 Features Touted

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More rumours are doing the rounds today regarding the specifications and software delivery methods of Microsoft?s Xbox 360 console.

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Sony PSP Mega-Review @ FiringSquad

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It has arrived. Marcus has returned with the Promised Sony Product, as foretold in Marketing 5:38, where the Prophet of Sony hath said "the PSP shall be uber, and ye shall all know it is good, so spend your money on it." But Marcus, the heathen that he is, spends 13 pages dissecting it, bit by bit.

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