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42 unusual facts about Playstation 3


360 Gamer

360 Gamer is a UK-based video games magazine dedicated to the Xbox 360 console, published since 27 October 2005 by Uncooked Media (which previously published its sister PlayStation 3 magazine, Play Gamer, as well as the current titles FSM and Neo).

AionGuard

AionGuard was a video game in development for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles.

Ashes Cricket 2013

The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U and retail PC game platforms were also cancelled.

Ben Hibon

In early 2007, Sony PlayStation commissioned Hibon to create and direct an animated series inspired by their flagship PlayStation 3 game Heavenly Sword.

Brighton, Missouri

Brighton, Missouri is revealed to be the boyhood home of Sergeant Matthew Baker, the fictional protagionist in the 2007 Ubisoft Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 game, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway.

CellFactor: Revolution

In June 2009 a new first person shooter based on the CellFactor engine has been released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows with the name CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars.

Coded Arms: Assault

Coded Arms: Assault was a first-person shooter for the PlayStation 3 which was being developed by Konami.

Conflict: Denied Ops

It is the first game in the series to be released on the PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, but it was also released on PC.

Congo Bongo

This version was also featured in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection (Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection in PAL regions) for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Craig Stone

After breaking his leg a group of Ebbsfleet supporters got together to help Stone pass the time whilst out injured by purchasing a PlayStation 3, something which he asked for.

Dirt: Showdown

Dirt: Showdown (stylised as DiRT: Showdown) is a video game published and developed by Codemasters for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Every Time I Die

In 2006, their song "The New Black" was featured as a bonus track in Guitar Hero 2 and also in the PlayStation 3 game MotorStorm.

Felice Herrig

Felice is a playable character in the video game Supremacy MMA for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Fumito Ueda

In February 2007, Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu reported that Ueda and his team were working on a new game for the PlayStation 3.

GNU toolchain

Parts of the GNU toolchain are also directly used with or ported to other platforms such as Solaris, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows (via Cygwin and MinGW/MSYS) and Sony PlayStation 3.

Greg Edmonson

He is also the composer for the successful Uncharted PS3 game series and for a number of episodes of the animated sitcom King of the Hill.

Hidetaka Suehiro

His most notable directing role was on Deadly Premonition (named Red Seeds Profile in Japan) for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, which gained him attention from many videogame websites and magazines.

Inclinometer

The PlayStation 3 and Wii game controllers also use tilt as a means to play video games.

Jez San

In November 2004, Just Add Monsters became Ninja Theory and continued the development of PlayStation 3 first-party game Heavenly Sword, which debuted three years later in September 2007.

La'Myia Good

She is best known for her voice work in the blockbuster PlayStation 3 game Killzone 3 as the voice of Jammer and her work with R&B group Isyss.

Lucas Ordóñez

Lucas Ordóñez Martín-Esperanza (born May 1, 1985) is a Spanish racecar driver, who entered professional racing by winning a spot in a PlayStation 3 Gran Turismo competition.

Lucy Porter

Lucy was also the presenter of FirstPlay, a weekly digital "magazine" for European customers on the PlayStation 3.

Magic: The Gathering video games

Magic: The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers is a 2009 game for Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows, and PS3 developed by Stainless Games Ltd and published by Wizards of the Coast.

Masami Kurumada

Saint Seiya videogames have been released for old consoles such as Famicom/NES, Game Boy and more recently for PlayStation 2, the latest released in 2011 for PlayStation 3, and a Saint Seiya Omega game for PSP was released in December 2012.

Media Create

Every Friday (Japan Standard Time), the official Japanese website is updated with the top fifty selling video games of the previous week, as well as hardware sales figures for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS Lite, Wii, PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, Game Boy Micro, Xbox, and Xbox 360.

Meredith Molinari

On February 18, 2010, Meredith Molinari's first reality series, The Tester, aired, which can be downloaded from the PlayStation Network on the PlayStation 3 and PSP.

MiniDVD

Most slot loading players cannot use this format; there are exceptions, however, such as the PlayStation 3 and the Wii, but not the Wii U.

Mitch Benn

On television Mitch Benn appears on a semi-regular basis singing a song about the PlayStation 3's yellow light of death on BBC One's consumer affairs programme Watchdog.

MotorStorm: Arctic Edge

Unlike previous games in the series, the game was developed by Bigbig Studios and it's the first game in the series not to be released on the PlayStation 3.

NBA Elite 11

However, some copies, especially for the PlayStation 3, have made it into circulation and are considered rare collector's items.

Noclip mode

In the games Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: World at War, and Call of Duty: Black Ops for the Xbox 360 and more recently the PlayStation 3, players could copy their game save data to their computer and modify it so they could use noclip in online multiplayer matches.

Okan Yalabık

He also played the Arabic and Colombian Walla in the 2011 PlayStation 3 game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception.

Olleh TV

Since November 20, 2007, following a partnership between KT and Sony Computer Entertainment, Olleh TV is made available for PlayStation 3 owners in South Korea.

Peter Hofstee

In mid-2000, Hofstee joined the team to develop the concept of the Cell Broadband Engine, which is the central processing unit of the PlayStation 3, and has already found a number of other uses.

Poncotsu Roman Daikatsugeki Bumpy Trot 2

An issue of Famitsu revealed details that the title moved production to the PlayStation 3 and that Irem would unveil a new trailer at the 2007 Tokyo Game Show.

Putnam, Connecticut

In 2006, the town made national news after an individual was shot twice by masked robbers while waiting in a group overnight outside a local Wal-Mart for the release of the PlayStation 3 video game console.

Rafael Dyll

Departing from his trademark electronic sound, he has composed the score for the SRPG fantasy game Rainbow Moon to be released on the PlayStation 3 and is also working on various iPhone/iOS projects and as yet unannounced games.

Rip-off Britain

Suomi-lisä, the "Finland surcharge", occurs when a seller exploits the poor competition and high barriers to entry (due to regulation and taxation) in Finland to price a good higher (e.g. 51 € on PlayStation 3 vs. price in equally taxing Sweden); today applies especially to electronics, but used to refer to the high mortgage interest rates charged before late 1980s-early 1990s banking deregulation

SBK-09: Superbike World Championship

SBK-09: Superbike World Championship is a motorcycle racing game developed by Milestone S.r.l. and published by Black Bean Games for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Windows, and Xbox 360 in 2009.

Split/Second

Split/Second, released in the UK as Split/Second: Velocity, is an arcade racing video game developed by Black Rock Studio and published by Disney Interactive Studios for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

TVNZ ondemand

Since April 2010, TVNZ Ondemand has been available on the PlayStation 3 as an extra option in the XrossMediaBar for anyone in New Zealand running version 3.10 of the system firmware or later.

Ultimate Knight Windom XP

In this version the game-play was modified to resemble the PlayStation 3 Gundam game, Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs., and an option to create an account for online game-play was added.


.detuned

detuned (spelled simply Detuned in Japan) is a demoscene project by the German demogroup .theprodukkt (also known as Farbrausch), released exclusively on the PlayStation 3.

1080p

Video game consoles such as Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii U, as well as microconsoles like OUYA, GameStick and Nvidia Shield can display upscaled games and video content in 1080p, although the vast majority of games are rendered at lower resolutions.

A Looking in View

The song was released as downloadable content for the Rock Band and Rock Band 2 music video games for the Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 3 consoles, as part of Alice In Chains Pack 01, which also includes older hits "Rooster", "Would?", and "No Excuses", along with "Check My Brain", also from Black Gives Way To Blue.

Check My Brain

The song was released as downloadable content for the Rock Band and Rock Band 2 music video games for the Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 3 consoles, as part of Alice In Chains Pack 01, which also includes older hits "Rooster", "Would?", and "No Excuses", along with "A Looking in View", also from Black Gives Way to Blue.

Dynamite Headdy

It was later released for the Wii's Virtual Console in July 2007 and has also been included as a part of Gunstar Heroes: Treasure Box Collection for PlayStation 2 and Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Gamestation

The chain mainly focused on the sixth & seventh generation of consoles: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, as well as the PC and previous generations of consoles (such as PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and Game Boy Advance).

Hekira no Sora e Izanaedo

The title track was used as the theme song for the Xbox 360/PS3 game BlazBlue: Continuum Shift.

I Don't Want a Lover

The song was also featured on an in-game radio station (Vice City FM) on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City.

Jim Noir

'My Patch' was used in a trailer for the PlayStation 3 video game LittleBigPlanet which was shown at the E3 games conference, and also as a main track in the full game.

Marcus Rivers

Marcus Rivers (portrayed by child-actor Bobb'e J. Thompson) is a fictional 12 year-old character that was used by Sony Computer Entertainment America as part of their Step Your Game Up advertising campaign for the PlayStation Portable and PSPgo consoles in North America, much like the PlayStation 3's "It Only Does Everything" advertising campaign commercials with Kevin Butler.

Masanobu Endō

Appearing in the February 23, 2008 episode of ToroStation in the PlayStation 3 online software Mainichi Issho, he recounted his experiences with the anime director Yoshiyuki Tomino.

She's Got Me Dancing

The song has been used occasionally in the media, including the advertising of PlayStation 3 game EyePet, a television commercial for the iPod Touch, features on the EA Sports video game FIFA 10 and is also one of the songs available to dance to on Just Dance 3.

Sukima Switch

Ōhashi covered the song "Katamari on the Swing" in the PlayStation 3 game Katamari Forever.

Super PLAY

Notoriously, the review of the PlayStation 3 game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was the only one based on the layout used 1996-99 and had a yellow stripe, which was the color used by reviews on games from the original PlayStation.

The Game of Life

Hasbro Family Game Night 3 for Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 3 video game platforms, and was also later released as part of the Hasbro Family Game Night Fun Pack, which consisted as a compilation of both Hasbro Family Game Night 2 and Hasbro Family Game Night 3.

The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific

The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific is a historical first-person shooter video game developed by Magic Wand Productions with Kynogon's AI middleware Kynapse, and released on November 30, 2007 by Activision and the History Channel for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360.

Warpath: Jurassic Park

Warpath is backwards compatible with the Playstation 3.

Yellow Dog Linux

As an interesting application of YDL on PlayStation 3 consoles: Gaurav Khanna, a professor in the Physics Department of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth built a message-passing based cluster using 16 PS3s.