We're on the cusp of the biggest video game announcements of the year as the Electronic Entertainment Expo, also known as E3, is fast approaching. The flipside of that is the web is stuffed to the gills with enticing rumors. Two of those? We could get a $200 PlayStation 3 from Sony, or a redesigned, smaller Xbox from Microsoft.

This is bad: since yesterday, PlayStation 3's around the world have been unable to function online or, in some cases, offline. It's an issue that's effecting the original PS3, not the PS3 slim, but it's pretty bad nonetheless. All online...

Sony could one day have one controller to rule them all, if this patent is any indication. The electronics giant has filed a patent for something it may or may not one day produce: a video game console controller which...