Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) announced its PlayTV, a combined TV tuner and Personal Video Recorder for PS3. PlayTV will be available in UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain early in 2008, with other PAL territories to follow.

Equipped with two 1080p tuners (for Europe only now), a program guide, it will allow you to store recorded broadcasts on your PS3 drive, and also transcode and transfer the saved files to your PSP.

No word as to when this might be available on this side of the Big Pond.

Sony denies it..

"We have not added rumble [to PS3], and have no announcements regarding this feature," said Dave Karraker, Sony’s director of corporate communications.

But did acknowledge motion-sensing enhancements for the Sixaxis controller, …"This is not a new controller, but is part of the normal development and evolution of controllers," he said.

Sony’s Phil Harrison said, "I think [rumble] was a last generation feature; it’s not a next-generation feature.

To Rumble or Not to Rumble … that still is the question.

No GTA IV on October – or even for Christmas for that matter.

Rockstar is delaying the release of Grand Theft Auto IV because it is having problems with its development for the PS3. That will delay other platform releases as well because of the contractual obligations which state that the PS3 version must come out first.

"We believe the lack of GTA IV this holiday season is a clear positive for Take-Two’s competitors, namely EA and Activision,” said analyst Todd Greenwald.

"We estimate that roughly USD 400 to USD 500 million in consumers wallets will be freed up to spend on other hardcore games."

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