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Howdy! It?s Brian A. from Kotaku Japan checking in. News sites here are abuzz with the latest flying through the rumor mill. A writer at Famitsu, the country?s premiere game mag, says that the PS3?s HDD won?t be internal and sold as a peripheral to be attached to a 2.5 inch slot on the console. Guess that?s the wack boomerang looking thingy that some have referred to as a controller.

The PlayStation 3 was originally intended to act as a home network router, according to Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi, who has revealed that the functionality has been dropped because it would have been too expensive.

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We at TeamXbox.com all have our opinions on what would make a stellar launch title lineup. That?s why we thought it would be fun to play Microsoft for a day and come up with our own launch title predictions, coming at you with from a few different angles:

In Part Two of my interview with Jeff Henshaw, we examine the Xbox 360 Dashboard and Marketplace, Xbox Live, Xbox 360 connected media experiences, and much more!

Paul Thurrott Windows SuperSite: Part One - Part Two

This article was posted over at Anandtech at the weekend and then was mysteriously pulled but luckily for us Google have an archive.

Right now, from what we've heard, the real-world performance of the Xenon CPU is about twice that of the 733MHz processor in the first Xbox. Considering that this CPU is supposed to power the Xbox 360 for the next 4 - 5 years, it's nothing short of disappointing. To put it in perspective, floating point multiplies are apparently 1/3 as fast on Xenon as on a Pentium 4.

Developers around the world have received the very first development kits containing the first custom parts designed by IBM and ATI for the Xbox 360.

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The PSP Software Development Kit (PSPSDK) is a collection of Open Source tools and libraries written for Sony?s Playstation Portable (PSP) gaming console. It also includes documentation and other resources developers can use to write software for the PSP.

PSP Hacks

If you never got around to downloading Turf and Sanctuary - you now no longer have any excuse not to grab these great new maps. Both of these maps, dubbed the "Killtacular Pack", can now be downloaded free of charge over Xbox Live. Simply load Halo 2, sign in to Xbox Live and select "Content Download" from the menu.

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PSP Video 9 is a free PSP video conversion and management application. It can convert regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, etc) into PSP video files, as well as manage/copy these PSP video files between your PC and PSP.

Following the announcement of the partnership between Microsoft and Toshiba, Bill Gates revealed that the Xbox 360 might incorporate HD DVD technology in the future. More info inside.

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I suppose if you can?t find any pictures of the Nintendo Revolution a leaked ad for the Nintendo Revolution will have to do.

Kotaku

Kopin Corp. and 3001 AD announced today the Trimersion virtual reality system, which for the first time will bring virtual reality gaming to the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and PC.

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We look at both of the recently announced consoles and do our best to separate fact from fiction.

AnandTech

Could the supposed leaked pictures of this mammoth hardware be real? Judge for yourself. Additionally, Ruliweb has obtained two pictures of the current RSX chip from nVIDIA.

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Many people seem disappointed that it?s a swap hack. Personally I don?t have any problem with it as it works great. We at PSP Hacks give our thanks to the PSP-Dev team for discovering and providing this exploit. For those who are having difficulty getting it to work, follow these simple steps:

PSP Hacks

First of all we have 48 unified shaders all running in parallel. That gives us roughly three times the graphics power of existing high end PC hardware. In this context 48 is a huge number! The original Xbox had just one vertex shader and four pixel shader pipes.

GameStar

A video file released to a Web site for PlayStation Portable independent developers, appears to show an independently developed "Hello, World" test application running from memory stick, on a newer model PSP with firmware version 1.5.

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Playstation Japan have released an updated firmware v1.52, that fixes a few security bugs.

Since Microsoft announced their next generation console platform, XBOX 360, at this years E3 various aspects of the technology have been spoken of including ?Xenos? (formerly rumoured as ?R500?), the graphics processor for the console. ATI have been presenting some information on it so far and whilst one thing is clear, it is a very different graphics processor to those we have seen before, there is has still been very little understanding of what Xenos really is and how it works.