The “Break it Down” Blog

PSN Cracks 14 Million Active User Mark - Michael Pachter Eats Feet

In the most recent Bonus Round episodes (Online Services - Part 1, Part 2) analyst Michael Pachter, and all around good-dresser, proported that PSN was a complete Sony-fail with, what he guessed, was less than 1 million active users; part of his reasoning for stating this was that Sony never announced numbers for the service [...]

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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo This Week

  A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, LucasArts announced that a demo of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed would be released sometime in August. Well, they’ve made good on that announcement. The demo, will be unleashed this Thursday onto the Playstation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace. The level in the demo [...]

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Burnout Paradise to be Released on the PSN

In some very unexpected yet awesome news, EA has announced that Criterion Games’ smash hit, Burnout Paradise will be hitting the Playstation Network this fall. The PSN release will come complete with the upcoming Trophy support and the new ‘Bikes Pack‘ that will be hitting both the Playstation Network and Xbox Live shortly. This is [...]

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PS3 Getting In-Game XMB, VOD and More in 2008

Niiiice, it looks like even though 2.30 firmware for the PS3 just dropped, adding a new PSN Store interface as well as adding DTS-HD support to the PS3, work on the next set of firmware upgrades is hot underway. Sony promises not only in-game XMB but also a new video download service that will be “unlike [...]

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Using XBox Vision Camera on the PS3

I wanted to play a game today with some friends and XBox Live is currently on it’s 15th day of completely bunked service that started with a DoS attack that is apparently still going on (and has been followed up by a class-action lawsuit). Navigating around XBox Live will show you pretty quickly that the service [...]

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