Thankfully Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings wasn’t just stirring up hype last week when he said the chances of Netflix on Nintendo were “excellent,” as the deal’s just been inked and will debut in early Spring.
Joining the PS3 and Xbox 360, Netflix will bring its streaming video service to the Wii, offering movies and TV [...]

Sony and Square Enix have sure taken their time building up anticipation for this one, but the new limited edition Final Fantasy XIII PlayStation 3 is now finally available in Japan, and our pals at Joystiq were lucky enough to wrangle one for an unboxing.

Didn’t the PS3 just get a firmware update? Something about posting all your hard-earned trophies onto your Facebook page? Yes, that sounds right. If you thought that was a big deal, wait ’til you get a load of this: According to the European PlayStation blog, yet another firmware update is imminent. And this one [...]

1994. A good year for many reasons, but for gamers it’s best remembered as the year Sony shook things up in a big way with its original PlayStation game console (on this day in Japan, at least — the rest of us had to wait ’til the fall of 1995). While Sega got a [...]

When Sony isn’t busy adding Facebook functionality or potentially courting Firefox for its PS3, it likes nothing better than to dream of global all-encompassing online services and stores. A step toward that goal is the company’s recent introduction of the PS3 Video Delivery Service into the heart of Europe. PlayStation loyalists in Deustchland, España, [...]

Sony rolled out firmware v. 3.10 for the PS3 today, bringing Facebook integration to the system. Your boss will now know that you’ve been playing Pro Evo 2010 instead of writing your blog posts. Yay. Screw that, here’s something us PS3 owners can look forward to: a PlayStation Insider source who’s “very close to [...]

Following the release of Microsoft’s improved Wireless N Networking Adapter for Xbox 360, Mad Catz has announced its own wireless adapter, which improves upon Microsoft’s device in a couple of ways. First, the adapter, essentially an Ethernet bridge, works with the PS3, allowing for the use of the 802.11n standard with Sony’s console.
Second, and [...]

Let’s get this out of the way at the top: No, Sony’s Aino phone, which touts limited PS3 Remote Play functionality, can’t access any of the PSN or PSP games you may have hoped it would. However, a recent Playstation.Blog post revealed the crosstalk capabilities imbued within the mobile device (which hit store shelves [...]