In exciting, “I wish I had more reason to own this thing,” PS3 news, Amazon is currently having a buy 1, get 1 free sale on Sony and Disney Blu-rays.
If you own a PS3, do yourself a favor and pop over there and buy yourself a few presents, you want to show off your fantastic gaming machine with some movies, right?
DivX, Inc. has given everyone out there another fantastic reason to own a PS3: Sony’s monolith is now supporting DivX! This means that Sony will integrate this video playback technology into the PS3 so that developers will who have updated their firmware to version 2. can already utilize it.
Wait…developers?
Never fear intrepid warrior, the consumer side of this coin hasn’t been dated yet, but it’s gonna happen! Now you can effortlessly stream all of those torrents that you’ve downloaded and not worry about getting them burnt onto a DVD.
That’s right, one of the newest and best reasons to own a PS3 is its video-playing capability. Now, if we could only get them to release some games onto the system…
Read the full press release after the break. Read the rest…
We’ve all been there…sitting at a computer and needing to kill some time. Maybe you’re at work and the clock doesn’t seem to be moving. Or your in class and the teacher just won’t stop lecturing (luckily, you have a laptop and WiFi). No matter what the problem is, we all need a break every once in a while.
Enter the Top Ten Most Addicting Flash Games! Well, at least as purported by the Brits over at CNet.uk.
Is the list good? Sure.
Seriously though, even if all of the games suck…what’s that…an hour wasted? Success!
Denying that you’re going online when you’ve registered ElderScrollsOnline.com is kinda silly, but what the heck, Bethesda did that. When their parent company, ZeniMax, swaggered online and procured that site, there was little doubt what was happening. And, after a paltry few days of denying the inevitable…wait for it…Bethesda’s Pete Hines confirmed that an MMORPG of Elder Scrolls is gonna happen!
Shocking, I know.
He says that they have already put $300 million into this project.
He also went on to say, “I don’t think that this funding changes our focus in terms of what we are about and are trying to accomplish. The additional resources will allow us to expand our publishing efforts-both our own titles and those of other studios-and to pursue development of more titles, working with internal and external development teams.”
What does it all mean? Well, it means that I might finally venture deeper in to the online gaming community. I mean…having lost many of my formative years playing the early Elder Scrolls games and then to see the big deal about Morrowind (finally, the general public caught on), I think that they’ve already got at least one person ready to roll and more than likely many people.
Let’s do this thang!
“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” This was a rallying cry for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut as he stormed into Mobile Bay in 1864. This brash move helped him defeat the Confederacy that day and capture the bay.
It turns out that the fine employees of Best Buy and some other quality retail stores are echoing his call to action in their lacking of caring about release dates. “Release dates?” they quaff, “We don’t need no stinkin’ release dates.”
Proving that you can’t keep a good plumber down, Super Mario Galaxy has burst onto the scene four days early! At least, that’s what the thread at GameFaqs is discussing. If you’re interested in getting your grubby mitts on an early copy of Galaxy, pop over to GameFaqs and figure out where you can. Or just pop over to your local Best Buy…they’ve got them there, just harass the workers enough and they’ll cave.
Tired of the incessant bickering about your slothing about while gaming through videos? Do you hear that tiny voice inside your head asking you to better yourself and your planet?
For not friend of humanity and language, Poverty.com’s Free Rice game is the answer! You can, indeed, work for other people, while gaming — a pretty sweet deal.
The Free Rice game will give you vocabulary identification questions that automatically adjust to your skills, so they’ll push you to the limit, but not over the edge of impossibility. Improving the world comes the free rice they donate through the UN’s World Food Program and the site’s advertisers for each answer you get right. No pressure, but people are depending on you getting it right!
In the past month, they have donated over 856 million grains of rice. Not only that, but the amount is vastly increasing daily.
Do your intrinsic and extrinsic needs a favor…get over to the Free Rice game and help out!
Atari, one of the former giants of the video game world, might just be closing up shop…finally.
What’s the story with this 35-year-old company? Where did it all go so wrong? Well…where it started to go wrong is a a long tale indeed, but how they’re messing up in recent times is easy.
They have posted a $70 million loss for the last fiscal year, have fired most of their board, borrowed $10 million (I’d like to shake the hand of the person who thought it was a good idea to loan them the money) and now they’re reporting a $12 million loss for Q1.
Yup, Q1. As in, the one that ended on the last day of June. Apparently, they thought they could delay the inevitable.
They’ve already sold most of their popular franchises, such as Stuntman and Driver. Heck, they might even lose their Dragon Ball Z license.
Shock of shocks, in their quarterly report they state, “substantial doubt about [their] ability to continue as a going concern.”
And you know what? Coming from a guy who bought a Jaguar (I’m still bitter), why delay the inevitable? Fold up shop and go away.
Itching to finally get your game on with Sega’s superlative fighter and don’t want to throw down a Grant and Hamilton ($60)?
Then get thee to Amazon!
Right now they’re offering it for $40 (two Jacksons if you’re keeping score).
Without question this game rocks…it’s the seminal 3D fighting franchise that all other 3D fighters aspire to be.
Also, you can get Virtua Fighter 5 from Circuit City this week for $40, but they’re probably sold out, so get thee to Amazon!
Hunting for a PS3 this holiday season and looking to save a few bucks on it? Good luck, the price is stuck. However, fighting the evil gaming industry insurgency of price gouging and ’sticking-it-to-the-video-game-customer’ is Dell!
Wait, Dell? The same Dell who used to hire reefer kids to sling their products? (Dude, you’re getting a Dell deal!)
Indeed, that very same Dell is offering a deal on PS3s.
What’s the deal? Currently, they are offering a deal on the 40GB system. You’ll get the system with Spider-Man 3 on Blu-ray (natch), but you’ll be able to watch it in the crisp clarity that you were supposed to with the Startech 6 ft HDMI cable that they’ve thrown in with it. That’s a real deal, because for some inexplicable reason the PS3 still only ships with standard AV cables.
Actually looking to play games on your gaming system? Well, then you might want to rethink your PS3 choice, but if you’re still sold on Sony’s beast, Dell is also throwing in Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, a fantastic game.
The price of all of this stuff if you were to buy it separately? $488. The price Dell is asking? $399.99. Dude, you’re getting a PS3! Buy it now.
As we all know, smaller is better — and Sony Japan is on that bandwagon.
They have confirmed plans to release a redesigned PlayStation 2.
It’s going to drop in weight from the current hefty 850 grams to the more svelte 720 grams. Not only is it losing some of its heft, but also the AC adapter is moving inside the system, replacing the external one on current slim models.
This new sleeker PS2 will go on sale in Japan on December 22. Those lucky people can purchase it in three colors, Charcoal Black, Ceramic White and Satin Silver. Sadly, it’ll still be the same price (¥16,000).
An official release of this new model outside of Japan? There is no official word yet, but I imagine that it’ll roll out worldwide eventually.