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A 250GB PS3 Slim package for the UK has been confirmed by Sony and will be availableas part of four bundle deals headed our way in October.

We bright you rumours of a 250GB PS3 Slim bundle with Unchartered 2 earlier in the week, and Sony has confirmed that the new console will ship with the game on 16 Continue reading…

It seems the rumours about the 250GB PS3 Slim were true, and not long after Microsoft confirmed the “Super Elite” Xbox 360, Sony has outed a new limited edition bundle complete with boosted hard drive.

Currently only confirmed for Japan, the Final Fantasy XIII bundle includes Continue reading…

We’ve seen price cuts from both Xbox 360 and PS3, and so it’s only right whispers should start about a price drop for Nintendo’s Wii – especially when it’s rumoured to have come straight from Ninty HQ.

Nintendo fan site Nintendojo has reported it did some eavesdropping on a conference call between Nintendo and some big name retailers, where it confirmed there would be a $50 price cut starting from 27 September. Continue reading…

Sony has slammed a report on the BBC’s consumer show, Watchdog, which claimed the PS3 is dogged by technical failures. 

It denied that the Sony PS3 suffers from a technical fault known as the “yellow light of death” (clearly a cousin of the Xbox 360’s red ring of death). 
In an episode screened on Thursday night, Watchdog interviewed Playstation  repair companies who claimed the console displayed a high number of faults due to faulty soldering. Continue reading…

It has been a move expected by the gaming fraternity, and now an advert dug out by Kotaku in the States shows what appears to be an Xbox 360 Elite price cut from $399 to $299 set to hit on 30 August.
This would bring the price of Microsoft’s console in line with Sony’s forthcoming PS3 Slim, and considering they now both offer a 120GB hard drive and HDMI ports, it seems like a smart move from Microsoft. Continue reading…

Sony’s super-thin, super-light PS3 Slim is coming to the UK in September. Here’s the five things you really need to know about this gamine gaming machine. 

1 It really is seriously slim

Sony has form for sending its consoles to weight watchers. The PS3’s older brother, the quaint looking PS2 was followed by its own less portly version the PS2 Slimline. But the Sony PS3 Slim has really shed the pounds and been shrunk in the gadget hot-wash. Continue reading…

We may all have been looking out for the PS3 Slim announcement at Sony’s Gamescom press conference, but the PSP has certainly not been left out of the loop, with a digital reader, mini games and new colours to look forward to before the end of the year.
The first thing PSP owners will see from the announcements is the whole host of new games called “Minis on PSP”, launching on 1 October.Aimed at developers who haven’t made games for the PSP before, they will be – as the name suggests – ”smaller, downloadable games at low prices”. Continue reading…

It may have been one of the worst kept tech secrets this year, but Sony has now officially confirmed the PS3 Slim will be on our shelves in just a few weeks.

At 32 per cent smaller, 36 per cent lighter and consuming 34 per cent less power than the original PS3, we’ll see the Slim on shelves across the world in the first week of September as expected. Continue reading…

The  Sony PS3 Slim rumour mill has gone into overdrive over the past few days, and now a French website reckons we could see the slimmed down console announced as soon as August 18.

Amidst rumours that Sony is planning to discontinue the 80GB Sony PS3 in Japan on 10 August, French website RTL has said it’s had word Sony will out the PS3 Slim during its press conference at Gamescom in Cologne. Continue reading…