A spate of PlayStation 3 shutdowns Wednesday prompted Sony Corp. to pull the latest firmware update for its game system.

Version 2.40 went out late Tuesday, and almost immediately word circulated that systems everywhere were turning to bricks just after installing…

With economic unrest causing the cost of everything to go up this summer, it’s hard to imagine anyone willing to instead cut their prices anytime soon.

Yet that might be what happens next to gaming consoles if the games that…

There’s a bundle of rumors floating around claiming that both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 soon will get motion-sensitive controllers like Nintendo’s Wii.

Here’s the latest among them …

By now, everyone has heard the rumor that Sony Corp. will discontinue the PlayStation 3 console with an 80 gigabyte hard drive. Exactly why remains a mystery.

That’s because Sony never said anything about it; all the speculation stems from…