Source: A short but media-rich piece on MaxConsole.com. What we heard: When the PlayStation 3 was launched, it was criticized for a number of reasons. One particular bone of contention was the fact ...

Videogaming247 has learnt that the upcoming in-game XMB - heavily rumoured to be included in PS3's Firmware 2.40 - may not work with all PS3 titles, and that user-music and Trophies functionality is ...

The PS3’s XMB is generally considered to be the best interface possible for a console that not only plays games, but has full access to various types of media, the internet and TV. It’s not flawless, ...

The cross-media bar, or XMB, might be the best console user interface ever. It made the PSP and PlayStation 3 a joy to interact with, and now you can finally relive the magic on a modern machine.

Viraaj is a spirited gamer, lifelong PlayStation main, huge petrolhead, but most importantly, a principled journalist. With experience at publications like FandomWire, HotCars, and DriveTribe, writing ...

The XMB gets generally positive feedback from the PlayStation community. Having said that, though, there are some features that many gamers would like included. There have been many XMB concepts, ...

The first thing you might have noticed when Sony announced the NGP last month was just how much of an overhaul the UI had been given. The home screen looked vastly different from the XMB interface ...

EU PlayStation 3 member user Scorchio has come up with some brilliant tweaks to the current XMB in the face of all the criticism Sony’s new UI has prompted. He’s created a thread over on the EU Forums ...

Sony Computer Entertainment has elaborated just a bit on the backend interface that will allow users to interact with the PSP when not playing games. A mystery until now, it turns out that the system ...

PlayStation 3 owners' desire to have the console's media navigation system pop up during gameplay will eventually be realized, says Sony. In a brief update to PlayStation.Blog, PlayStation Network ...