Reuters - Sony Corp said on Thursday it would stop shipments of PlayStation 3 models with 20- and 60-gigabyte (GB) hard disk drives in Japan this month, focusing instead on the 40-GB model.

AFP - Sony Corp. said Thursday that it will stop selling the two original PlayStation 3 models in Japan and focus on the new slimmed down version amid fierce competition from rival Nintendo Co.

AP - Sony’s game unit is discontinuing two PlayStation 3 game machine models sold only in Japan to streamline its lineup and boost software development, a company official said Thursday.

Reuters - GameStop Corp , the largest U.S. video game retailer, raised its quarterly earnings estimate on Thursday after holiday season sales rose sharply on blockbuster games like “Guitar Hero.”

PC World - What happens when you take the powerful Cell microprocessor, the chip that sits at the heart of the PlayStation 3 games console, and put it to use inside a television? Toshiba is demonstrated just such a TV at this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show and the results are impressive.