
The unfortunate sex-toy styling of Sony’s PlayStation Move controller (or “chinkon,” “penis controller,” as it is derided by Japanese detractors) has finally found its way into an ero-manga.
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The PS3 has been hacked yet again, this time allowing pirates to sneakily downgrade their firmware freely to earlier (hackable) versions, although directly running pirated copies on the latest firmware is still only a promised future upgrade.
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Microsoft’s Japanese launch of Kinect appears to be having trouble capturing public interest, despite the Xbox 360′s new-found family friendliness.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Nov 15, 2010 03:18 JST
- Tags: Censorship, Comparison, Gravure, GTA, Microsoft, Otaku, PS3, Sony, Xbox 360

Even Japanese gamers are complaining about the latest censorship massacre inflicted upon them, in this case in the form of Mafia II being ravaged by black bars.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 10, 2010 02:33 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Marketing, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Rankings, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360

Game developer Tose’s proclamation that the PS3 had finally taken the lead in the current generation’s console war has proven false, and the company has issued a grovelling retraction.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Nov 8, 2010 14:18 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Marketing, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, Rankings, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360

Statistics published by top game developer Tose show that with 42 million the total number of PS3s sold globally have exceeded the Xbox 360 by a million units.
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The PlayStation Move controller may be a flagrant copy of the Wii’s WiiMote, but ping-pong aficionados playing both consoles side-by-side have compared the two and found Sony’s imitation does actually deliver a rather upgraded experience.
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Sony’s PlayStation Move motion controller has enjoyed a successful enough launch, but that has not stopped some from ridiculing it for an apparent inability to function in brightly lit areas. Sony’s suggested solution: play in the dark.
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Some grotesque bugs have been detected in the PlayStation Move debut title “The Fight”…
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Sony has made a mandatory update to the PS3′s firmware, defeating all current hacks.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Aug 28, 2010 00:49 JST
- Tags: Australia, Copyright, Courts, Crime, Hacking, Litigation, PS3, Sony, Technology

Sony has sued the hackers behind a device which is said to allow piracy on the PS3 – sales of the device have been banned whilst the court action proceeds.
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Videos purporting to show a working PS3 hack have surfaced, though their veracity is currently the subject of heated debate.
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