Pachter estimates Wii 100pct up over xmas, 360 slight rise, PS3 slight drop

Posted January 6th, 2009

From videogaming247.com:[QUOTE]“I haven’t done the work for NPD yet, but my guess is that 360 sales were flat or up a little, PS3 sales down a little, and Wii sales up more than 100%,” said Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter
“That would end up around 1.2 - 1.3 million 360s, around 700,000 PS3s and around 3 million [...]

SlySoft defeats Blu-ray’s BDplus DRM scheme again

Posted December 30th, 2008

From the press release:[QUOTE]Despite some sites reporting that “Slysoft has been beaten”, the Antiguan company renowned for promoting Fair Use Rights has effectively defeated BD+ once again and much earlier than expected; the cat and mouse game of DRM has entered the next round.
Although newer BD+ decryption wasn’t expected until February 2009, today’s AnyDVD HD [...]

Home is Where You Can’t Say ‘Hello’?

Posted December 29th, 2008

From kotaku.com:[QUOTE] Anything as deep and complex as PlayStation Home is bound to have its growing pains. SCEA’s hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, took a look at some, including some hypersensitive chat filtering.
For a time, seems “hello” was filtered out of chat (I’m assuming this is if a user entered it from a keypad [...]