PSU.com

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PSU.com
Type of site
Video gaming
Website http://www.psu.com
CommercialYes
Launched2006
Current statusActive

PlayStation Universe (PSU.com) is a website providing news and forums for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita platforms.

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History

Launched in October 2006, PSU.com is an online PlayStation magazine [1] primarily known for its exclusive news and reviews for the PlayStation 3 console and PlayStation 4. The site features up to the minute previews, features, interviews as well as a wide variety of multimedia content.

PSU.com is a collaboration between UK entrepreneurs Seb Hayes and Kieran O'Neill. [2] The current site is an amalgamation of two former PlayStation sites (PS3Land.com & PS3Portal.com) which were launched in December 2003.

The site's forum members operate a Folding@home team (ranked #52 as of November 2008). [3] In February 2009, PS3Forums was redirected to PSU.com/forums; placing the forum under the PSU.com brand. As of April 2011, the forums reached the 250,000 member mark. [4]

Folding@home is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. The project uses the idle processing resources of thousands of personal computers owned by volunteers who have installed the software on their systems. Its main purpose is to determine the mechanisms of protein folding, which is the process by which proteins reach their final three-dimensional structure, and to examine the causes of protein misfolding. This is of significant academic interest with major implications for medical research into Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, and many forms of cancer, among other diseases. To a lesser extent, Folding@home also tries to predict a protein's final structure and determine how other molecules may interact with it, which has applications in drug design. Folding@home is developed and operated by the Pande Laboratory at Stanford University, under the direction of Prof. Vijay Pande, and is shared by various scientific institutions and research laboratories across the world.

PSU.com Version 2

On 25 July 2007, PSU.com Version 2 was launched. [5]

Version 2 features:

PSU.com Version 3

On 30 January 2009, PSU.com Version 3 was launched. [6]

PSU.com Trophy Portal

On 19 March 2009, PlayStation Universe added the most complete and up-to-date collection of all PlayStation Trophies on the web, featuring a large community component with user-submitted Trophy guides and difficulty ratings, as well as areas to chat about individual Trophies. The PSU Trophy Portal features over 3,500 Trophies from over 100 Trophy supported PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Network games. [7]

New management

In September 2010, PlayStation Universe was turned over to new management.[ who? ]

References

  1. ↑ "Alexa Top 10k". Alexa.com. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Student sells dotcom business for $1.25 million". Bath.ac.uk. 4 June 2007. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  3. ↑ "Folding@Home Team Summary Page 54376". Folding.extremeoverclocking.com. 29 January 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  4. ↑ PSU.com Memberlist Archived 5 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ PSU.com Launches Version 2
  6. ↑ PSU.com Launches Version 3
  7. ↑ PSU.com launches PS3 Trophy Portal
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