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vg247.com - 6/26/2009

PS3 Firmware 3.0 - Grief reporting, reputation system, background patches, multiple audio outputs, more [Update]

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VG247 has learnt that PS3 Firmware 3.0, “a completely new system” for the console, is to release pre-Christmas with a raft of major feature updates. The software upgrade has been described to us as “a huge overhaul”, and was compared to NXE “in some ...

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