
The Sony Playstation 3 (PS3), Xbox and Nintendo Wii have captivated a generation of computer gamers with bold graphics and rapid-fire animation. But these high-tech toys can do a lot more than just play games. At North Carolina State University, Dr. Frank Mueller imagined using the power of the new PS3 to create a high-powered computing environment for a fraction of the cost of the supercomputers on the market.

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.

Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
So these are the people buying the PS3?
"it costs less than some desktop computers" I wonder if paused and asked what "desktop" means. having 8 PS3 sucking on those power outlets and heating the room will guarantee you a nice set of balls with testicular cancer.
I thought Sony said that the PS3 was already a super computer.LOL So it takes 8 to make a SMALL super computer. That shows how the CELL is not as powerful as everyone thinks(including sony). The PS3 is a joke. You can look at their awful games and thats enough proof.
if you read the article you see that they are constrained by the memory of the PS3. If they could get a computer from IBM with eight cells in it would be faster. Not hating but the ps3 is a gaming/entertainment machine not a supercomputer. It will play beautiful games and beautiful blu ray movies it will not solve the worlds problems.
Has anybody bothered to explain to this moron that these console CPU's are stripped down and are nowhere as powerful or efficient as the real thing?