Weekly (Friday) News #4

Our apologies for the brief hiatus, we had some management issues to address.

On the subject of E3, the recent announcement of the Xbox S has left us amazed; how could a such big company like Microsoft stuff up this badly?

PS VR, Dive into a world of fake stuff

By now you all should have heard of Sony's VR headset in development, the PlayStation VR. This headset will allow you to go deeper into games and relive them as if you are actually in them.

Microsoft's plans to rival Sony and NIntendo

We all know of the upcoming plans for Sony and Nintendo, but what of Microsoft? All the answers here.

Philips CD-i: The Games Themselves

Our last edition of the smash hit left us at the beginning of the CD-I, 1991. Philips was faced with the tough task of putting together a console to compete with the TurboGrafx and Genesis, whilst still having a fully functioning computer to compete with the Commodore Amiga and Apple Newton. We all know how that project turned out, don't we?

New phone from HTC!

Everyone's favourite dodgy phone company HTC have released a brand new entry in their "desire" series, this model, titled the HTC desire 825, it is 5.5 inches, and has a 720p display - pretty decent I say!

Weekly (Friday) News #3

Facebook is, apparently, using people's phone microphones to SPY collect useful data on users. What a dick move.

PS4 Sales hit 40 Million, yet total sales are lower than 20 years ago

The PlayStation fan in all of us felt a little more joyful when we read the happy news that Sony is finally back on track, yet total console and game sales are at their lowest in 25 years. Just a bad year, or is the videogame industry finally dying off after 35 years of success? We hoped to find out, but the results we pulled up are more than a little bit disturbing.

Weekly news on a Wednesday #3

American travelers are the worst-behaved in the world.

Some forgotten 90s corporation is suing all the big lads- a bit ridiculous?

Remember Creative? The lads who battled it out with iRiver for supremacy in a late 90s MP3 player war worth HUNDREDS of dollars? Well they are now attempting to get back in the game- but not as a manufacturer. You see, they're going on a suing spree!

What we'll be seeing from the Vita at E3

BioShock Vita

InFamous Vita

Patapon 4

Medievil 3

Vita 3000- With touchscreens everywhere

FF XV

And a bunch of indie dreck

Sony XPERIA E5 Announced: Hopes for better Xperience??

It's fair to say the budget Sony Xperia E line hasn't had the greatest of times. The Sony XPERIA E was a bit crap, the E2 didn't exist and the E4 ran Gingerbread. But can this shitty classic line of mobile phones turn it around with their newest release? I, for one, doubt it. OBJECTION!

Weekly (Friday) News #2

Recently, Twitter (henceforth referred to as "Twatter") made the @name tag at the start of tweets not count towards the character limit!

Philips CD-i: The Burgeoning (Or why the games were so terrible)

THIS IS THE SECOND IN OUR SERIES OF 6
CD-i THEMED POSTS.

Google finally advancing on their "Glass" concept

We've had colour TV, we've had 3D TV, we've had internet TV. A lot has changed in the motion picture industry in the last 40 years, and one plucky California corporation hopes to disrupt the marketplace once more.

Weekly news on Wednesday #2

Microsoft last week announced plans to crack down on terrorist content, perhaps in response to the Obama administration's intense effort to get Silicon Valley's help in preventing organizations like ISIS from using social media as a recruiting and fundraising tool.

Weekly (Friday) News #1

Turns out, Australia's (lovely) Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has taken to posting random crap on social media, and apparently it is winning him the election!

Is the face of computing changing?

Tommy Chen logged onto his PhilipsElectronicsNews account just recently with the intention of publishing an exciting new story on Philips's UltraHd BluRay player. He learnt much more than he needed to for that simple assignment as soon as a squizz was taken at the Blog Views page.

Sony invests in Cogitai.

Here it is- Perhaps the biggest tech story of the year, unearthed by yours truly here at PhilipsElectronicsNews headquarters.