• June 2013 - Xbox One and PS4 Preorders and a Flash Cart for the 3DS

    Hi everyone its now June 2013 and the news is coming thick and fast here at DCEmu HQ, for those who dont know DCEmu has a portal site ie this one and a ton of Subdomains which have a hell of a lot more news for each and every console and OS we cover. The biggest news of the moment is that Preorders for the Xbox One and PS4 are now open, get yours preordered now or risk waiting in the queues when you do want to buy each of the next gen consoles. If you are a company wanting us to do reviews or wish to advertise in any way at DCEmu then use our Contact Page. Finally news of a Flash Cart for 3DS has come through, can it be true ?

  • June 25th, 2012

    New PS3 Firmware update coming tomorrow 

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    Published on June 25th, 2012 22:33
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    The latest PS3 firmware update is coming out tomorrow.PS3 System Software Update 4.20 will include a handful of new tweaks to increase the system's usability, Sony has announced on the EU PlayStation Blog.First and foremost, you'll now be able to select multiple saved data items at once, so you can move or delete info en masse rather than have to painstakingly shift them over one at a time.Less thrillingly, the power-save mode has been altered so the system will automatically turn off after an hour of no use by default, as per SCEE regulations. These settings can be altered via the System Auto-Off section under Settings in the dashboard.The audio for Sony's official wireless stereo headset has been tweaked as well. The last system update enabled players to hear their own voice through the headset in a feature called Sidetone. The new firmware will make the feedback adjustable by letting players select one of five volumes for their microphone, or turn this feature off altogether.Virtual surround sound will also be enabled for those using the wireless stereo headset to watch movies on Blu-ray or DVD.More details will be revealed on the US PlayStation Blog once the update goes live tomorrow.

    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...oming-tomorrow
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    Portal Turret mini replica available later this year, features sound module 

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    wraggster
    Published on June 25th, 2012 22:26
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    2. Joypad News
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    The latest Valve-licensed replica from Gaming Heads is a mini model of the Aperture Sentry Turret. The turret is 16 inches tall (including base and antenna) and features a sound module, which will play samples of the turret's "activation, search, auto search, disabled and tipped over sounds."

    The company is only making 350 turrets and they'll be "cast in high quality poly-stone," then painted and finished by hand. Pre-orders are available now and the item will ship in Q4 2012 for $324.99.

    We'd mock the price, but then we think about the cost of making a real (orrealest yet) Portal Turret with a Penn State education, and now a few hundred dollars doesn't seem so unreasonable.

    https://www.gamingheads.com/index.ph...=3&product=101     ...
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    Xbox 360 subscription model comes to Best Buy and GameStop 

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    wraggster
    Published on June 25th, 2012 22:25
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    2. Xbox 360 News

    Microsoft's experimental Xbox 360 has left the confines of the Microsoft Store
    Microsoft's $99 Xbox 360 and Kinect bundle hits GameStop and Best Buy retail locations today, according to Microsoft's Major Nelson. Prior to this launch, the model was only available at Microsoft Stores.
    With the new bundle, users pay $99 upfront for a Xbox 360 4GB unit with Kinect, and agree to pay for 24 months of Xbox Live at $14.99 per month. All told, the system ends up costing more once it's paid off, but the move does lower the barrier of entry.

    http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...y-and-gamestop



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    Asus Transformer Pad Infinity shows up at Best Buy, commands $600 price tag, 64GB of 

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    wraggster
    Published on June 25th, 2012 20:14
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    2. PC News
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    You didn't think ASUS pushed its souped up Transformer slate through federal approval for the sake of its health, did you? No, if Best Buy's online store has anything to say about it, the Transformer Pad Infinity's FCC excursion was preparing it for sale. It's not quite ready yet, but when it is, Best Buy will apparently be handing the slab out for $599 and change, netting buyers 64GB of storage, NVIDIA'sTegra 3 processor and a 1,920 x 1,200 10.1-inch Super IPS+ display. The listing appears to be for the WiFi-only version of the tablet, with no mention of the Snapdragon S4-equipped LTE variant that ASUS announced earlier this year. According to the product page, the unreleased hardware is currently "sold out online," but at least you know how many pennies you'll need to pinch. Check it out at the source link below.

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    Apple sends iOS 6 beta 2 to developers 

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    wraggster
    Published on June 25th, 2012 20:10
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    2. Apple News,
    3. Apple iPad,
    4. Apple iPhone
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    The wait between iOS 6's unveiling and its planned fall release just got a little bit shorter, as Apple has just pushed out beta 2. If you're in the developer crowd that can try it out, don't expect any revelations: the primarily focus is on the bug fixes that nudge the software closer to a final release. As in past years, multiple additional betas are expected between now and the time the iOS 6 is ready to come to the general public, so there's likely still lots of room left for Apple to polish the release to a shine. Those paid up on their developer accounts can grab the update through the usual means and see just how much luster has been added since WWDC.

    http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/25/a...to-developers/     ...
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    New Xbox could be subsidised by cable companies 

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    wraggster
    Published on June 25th, 2012 20:09
    1. Categories:
    2. Xbox 360 News

    2014 machine likely to heavily engage TV audience, says analyst
    Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter has predicted that the next Xbox won't be seen until 2014, and is likely to have at least one SKU which sees the hardware subsidised by a cable TV company in exchange for a subscription contract.
    Speaking to Xbox 360 Magazine, Pachter pushed his launch predictions a little further into the future than most, saying that a release in spring 2014 meant that Micrsoft's target audience could buy themselves a console during a period when they weren't expected to be buying presents for family, something which he thinks would damage a Christmas release.
    However, Pachter also thinks that "only a few million units" would be manufactured for the launch period.
    Perhaps more interestingly, Pachter sees the cable and satellite TV providers playing a major role in making Microsoft's next machine affordable to the masses.
    "It's pretty clear to me that Microsoft intends to allow the Xbox 720 to function as a cable TV box," says Pachter, "allowing cable television service providers to broadcast over the Internet through the box, with SmartGlass as the remote controller, and with the Xbox 720 using Windows 8 to split the TV signal into multiple feeds, allowing consumers to divert different channel feeds to different displays within the home."
    That close association with TV providers is about much more than just offering better services, Pachter believes. By tying in a long-term contract with a satellite or cable television provider to the purchase of the console itself, Microsoft can offer a more advanced machine for less, in much the same way as it has with the $99 360 with a two-year LIVE contract.
    "I think this is the biggest part of the next launch," Pachter continues. "It will allow Microsoft to participate in the cable TV monthly subscription. There are 85 million households in the U.S. with either cable or satellite TV, and if Microsoft could sell half of them an Xbox 720 and collect a $5 monthly Xbox Live Gold fee from each of them, we're talking huge profits.
    "This suggests to me (along with the current $99 Xbox 360 financing plan) that Microsoft will seek to get a cable TV provider to subsidize the cost of the box, meaning that we might see an Xbox 720 for $99, if the customer commits to a cable TV subscription for two years."

    http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...able-companies

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    Yoshida: E3 conference needed more Vita 

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    wraggster
    Published on June 25th, 2012 20:08
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    2. Playstation Vita News

    Sony Worldwide Studios president admits the handheld was under represented

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    Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has admitted that the PlayStation Vita was under represented at the company's E3 press conference.
    Speaking to Develop Online, Yoshida discussed a string of tweets he received following the conference that criticised the absence of so many of the games being released for Vita over the next year.
    "In retrospect, we should've spent more time showing and talking about our PS Vita titles," he said. "We have 25 PS Vita games playable on the show floor... We could have spent more time talking about those, but we had a very clear intention this year to make the total press conference shorter, because we're notorious for holding lengthy ones.
    "I'm hoping that journalists are looking at the games on the show floor and getting the word out that way."
    Yoshida also elaborated on the importance of the PlayStation Mobile initiative to realising the Vita's potential. Sony has released an SDK that smaller, independent developers can use to make games for Vita and PlayStation certified Android devices.
    "In the past, becoming a certified, licensed developer for the Playstation platform was not an easy thing to do. The development kit was somewhat expensive," he said.
    "With PS Mobile, people can just download the SDK from our web site and when they decide to publish their game, they can pay us just $99 per year to become the publisher of their content, so that includes PS Vita."
    "In my mind, we are still at the starting phase of realising and showing the potential of PS Vita."
    Sony's handhled has performed below expectations since it launched in Europe and the US earlier this year. In March, Sony revealed that it had sold 1.8 million units worldwide, but Yoshida has since ruled out the possibility of a price-cut in the near-term.

    http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...eded-more-vita

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    Exergames don't combat sedentary lifestyles, says study 

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    wraggster
    Published on June 25th, 2012 20:07
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    2. Nintendo Wii News

    Children compensate for active gaming by exercising less elsewhere
    A study of children using a number of high-impact exercise games has shown that having them in the home does not actually increase the amount of exercise which members of that household participate in.
    A US university study, reported by the New York Times, reveals that, instead of encouraging children to become more active generally, playing games based around physical activity merely leads them to over-compensate in other areas, resulting in no net gain on calories burned.
    Having distributed a number of Wiis to families with overweight children, some with exergames and some without, the study confirmed a long-held academic principle: that a sedentary lifestyle is a tremendously difficult habit to break, finding "no evidence that children receiving the active video games were more active in general, or at any time, than children receiving the inactive video games."
    It's not the first study to have similar findings. A previous investigation into the use of Wii Sports in homes discovered a rapid fall off in usage statistics in the weeks following purchase after an initial flurry if enthusiasm.
    Asked for comment on the studies by the NYT, Nintendo offered a predictably anodyne statement.
    "While Nintendo does not make any health claims with active-play games like Wii Sports and Wii Fit Plus, we hope that the games encourage users to be more physically active. They are designed to get people up off the couch and to have fun."

    http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...les-says-study

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    LulzSec members plead guilty to hacking Sony 

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    wraggster
    Published on June 25th, 2012 20:05
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    2. PS3 News

    Two British teenagers have admitted they participated in DDoS attacks on Sony and others
    Two members of "hacktivist" group LulzSec have pleaded guilty to hacking Sony and other companies with DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. Ryan Cleary, 20, and Jake Davis, 19, both admitted to the Southwark Crown Court that they took part in the attacks on Sony, Nintendo, 20th Century Fox, NHS and others. Cleary pleaded guilty to six of eight charges filed by London prosecutors at a hearing today, while Davis pleaded guilty to two of four charges.
    Cleary, who is already jailed in the UK was indicted earlier this month by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles. His attorney has said she would "fiercely contest" any moves to extradite her client to America.
    "Cleary is a skilled hacker. He controlled his own botnet, employed sophisticated methods and his broad geographic scope affected a large number of businesses and individuals," FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller told Reuters in mid-June.
    Ryan Ackroyd and another 17-year-old man whose identity is being concealed for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to four charges. They both denied attacking websites from Sony, Eve Online, Nintendo, News Corp.'s British unit and others. They also denied stealing and posting confidential information obtained by the hacking efforts.
    http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...o-hacking-sony
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    Final Fantasy XI is the most profitable ever FF title 

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    wraggster
    Published on June 25th, 2012 20:01
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    2. PS2 News,
    3. Xbox News

    Square Enix has confirmed that ten-year-old MMO outing Final Fantasy XI remains the profitable title in the series ever released.
    “Looking at profitability, it’s the top of all past Final Fantasy games,” Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada told the Vana Fest 2012 audience, Andriasang reports.
    The publisher recently announced yet another expansion pack for the title, which is available on PC, PS2 and Xbox.
    Wada added that “if you were to add up the total playtime of all currently active FFXI players, you’ll reach a figure of over 200,000 years”.
    A second Final Fantasy MMO, FFXIV, was released in 2010 but has been beset with problems from the outset.

    http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/final...f-title/098461     ...
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