Amidst increasing speculation that the three-week PSN outage has been the driving force behind a recent, mild wave of PS3 returns here and abroad, Sony CEO Howard Stringer and executive deputy president and the man himself, Kaz Hirai, have spoken on that point and a few others to the Wall Street Journal. Whilst Hirai ascertained that only a “very small percentage” of (presumably former) PS3 owners decided to cancel their PSN accounts, Sony remains future-cautious.
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An application, which allows blokes to find birds offering a sexual favours in exchange for money has achieved Apple's approval for inclusion in its AppStore.
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The Wall Street Journal reported earlier tonight that Microsoft–in what would be its most aggressive acquisition in the digital space–was zeroing in on buying Skype for $8.5 billion all in with an assumption of the Luxembourg-based company’s debt.
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"We won't officially be at E3 this year.” That’s legendary Halo developer Bungie on their plans – or rather, their no-plans – for the universe's biggest gaming expo. In a statement posted to the studio’s most recent Bungie Weekly Update, expectations for an E3 unveiling of their debut project for new masters Activision were scuppered – and for good reason, really: "We wanted to make sure you didn't get whipped into a rumor-fueled frenzy only to have your expectations unceremoniously dashed during expo week."
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Electronic Arts have put paid to rumours which began to circulate over the weekend that they were currently using development kits from the next model Xbox: prototype kits "housed in PC units". EA have poured cold water on the story and the metaphorical development kits, calling it a "total fabrication" and "one hundred percent not true".
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For the U.S. government, the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan represents a unique opportunity to test advanced computer forensics techniques called "media exploitation" that it's developed over the last few years.
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