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The scope of the class action lawsuit facing Sony over its removal of PS3 Linux support could include over 10 million consoles, potentially reaching billions of dollars in refunds if everything goes the lawyers’ way.

The US Air Force is less than pleased with Sony for removing the PS3’s Linux support, although unlike most Sony critics it does actually use the OtherOS feature, in a supercomputing cluster of PS3s which it complains is now doomed by a lack of replacement units.

Sony Music Entertainment indicated in a press release that the Ultraviolet: Code 044 anime will be coming out in the U.S. soon. The anime series adapts Kurt Wimmer's 2006 live-action Ultraviolet film. Anime Vice suggests that there will be plenty of mixed reviews but makes mention of acclaimed director Osamu Dezaki (Ashita no Joe, Aim for the Ace!, Lupin III) who worked with the animators of MADHOUSE and Tezuka Productions to create the anime.



The 2008 anime has Romi Paku as the voice of the main character "044". 044 is a female warrior who is genetically engineered with high combat skills and ordered by the government to annihilate a vampire army. The American version may see Singer/songwriter Becca as the voice actor for this character as at Otakon 2009 in July she had revealed that she would be voice-acting for this character. At the time of the announcement she had no idea about the American plans.

Source: Anime Vice, Anime News Network

Sony has quietly filed a patent that appears to reveal that they are planning or at the very least considering the possibility of reintroducing full PS2 emulation to the PS3. The PS3 initially shipped with a special chip for this purpose but was later removed in an attempt but Sony in order to cut costs.

The 'plan' is suggested by Sony's American operation recently filing a patent which describes a method by which the PS3s "Cell" processor could emulate the PS2's "Emotion Engine", without the need for special hardware.

Initially the PS3 actually shipped with this functionality provided in the hardware and this was a key selling point (After all backwards compatibility is very key for gamers), but with later revisions of the console the chip was dropped and with it the backwards compatibility of the PS2.

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