Has your Xbox 360 suffered from the Red Ring of Death yet? Did you think you’d got away with it by buying a later model such as the current Elite? Then I have bad news for you, as the RRoD issue seems to be back…

PS3 Firmware update v2.40 came and went last week. It was live for less time than I spend doing my hair very morning, and I’m balding. But if the rumours are to be believed, a patched version of the Xbox Live-mimicking update is coming on Wednesday July 7th… maybe.

The Sony PSP has been somewhat of a failure everywhere outside of its native Japan. All of the elements were there to make the PSP a great and best-selling handheld but for various reasons it has failed to live up to its promise. Meanwhile, Nintendo has continued its dominance of the hand-held market with its innovative, and above all fun, DS.

Resident Evil 5 is one of the most eagerly anticipated games for the current-gen consoles. Announced way back in 2005, it is expected to make an appearance in the first quarter of 2009. But there have been rumours over the past few days of the game becoming a timed Xbox 360 exclusive, something which would completely ruin the gloating of the PS3 fans over the current exclusive line-ups for each console.

While we all sit here heatedly debating the merits of this generation’s consoles, the Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3, the companies behind the machines we are currently playing are probably planning their next move in the video games hardware department. And it seems that Microsoft is keen to continue the setting the trend with the Xbox 360 and be first out of the gate next time, too.

I had high hopes for this generation of games consoles, with innovation and evolution being my vision for it. However, with the PS3 copying the Xbox 360, the Xbox 360 rumoured to be copying the Wii and both copying the idea of a Wii style motion sensing controller, is originality actually dead and buried?

There has been a sizeable amount of talk lately of how Sony and Microsoft are going to try to tap in to the casual gaming market so skillfully catered to by Nintendo’s latest two consoles, the Wii and DS. As well as intense speculation surrounding a new Wii Remote-style controller for the Xbox 360, there have been rumblings of the same for the PS3.

Love it or hate it the Nintendo Wii has been a huge success, and with the console derided by many for being worthless beating the PS3 and Xbox 360 for sales month on month, Sony and Microsoft are looking at their rival with envious eyes.

The rumours of a Blu-ray enabled Xbox 360 have come thick and fast ever since (and even before) Toshiba conceded the high definition format war and killed off HD DVD. But despite never-ending denials from Microsoft, the speculation keeps on coming.

As we at Blorge.com are apparently fanboys or haters of whatever console we choose to address in any article here, the next little bit of journalism should take most haters by surprise: Sony is only hurting itself and the Playstation 3 gamer base by delaying the much-acclaimed Home longer and longer. That’s right, I said it!