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Sony PS3 firmware 3.41 Released

Benny — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 06:00:47 +0000

Sony has just rolled out the latest firmware or to be precise firmware 3.41 for PS3 console, where it will comes with a new kind of recommendation system for videos as well as games on the PlayStation Store.

If you’re exploring through the store and looking for information on a new game or video, a new option on the right hand side will come across entitled “You May Like”. This new approach is based upon data collected from other people who bought similar content.The new patch is just 40MB, and is an additional update.

It’s good to see Sony announce an update in such a small size, instead of the common range of 100MB up to 200MB, resulting in less data for users to download and of course cut the download time for PS3 users.

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Would 3D Gaming Landing to the Upcoming Nintendo Home Console ?

Benny — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:28:14 +0000

Absolutely the hot news coming out from E3 2010 was that the Nintendo 3DS is not only true but also manages to provide a full 3D gaming experience with no need of any glasses.

Most game publishers are now getting ready to link their videogames to the new device, which planned to land in the end 2010 or in early 2011 for an unmentioned price. And it is likely that Nintendo is have thought on focusing to 3D when creating the replacement to its Nintendo Wii home console.

Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo, said :

“If you display a 3D image, the image quality becomes extremely bad, so we’d probably do it with the next system. We’re thinking that the timing should be once the 3D television adoption rate crosses the 30% mark. We’re looking at the adoption trends.”

It’s still unclear whether the no-glasses system used in 3DS device could also be used in a home console. Satoru Iwata had earlier talked about how glasses will not be trend with people looking to play games at house so the company have to be interested in developing a system more appealing to gamers than the 3D glasses concept now supported by its competitor Sony, whose PlayStation 3 is going 3D ASAP.

After all, Nintendo succeed create motion tracking simple and accessible with its Wii and both Microsoft as well as Sony are just now catching up with the PlayStation Move and Microsoft Kinect. If the upcoming Nintendo home console achieved in making 3D gaming as simple, then it will dominate the market and again downgrade the competitors like Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 to 2nd and 3rd place in the console ranking. An announcement on the new home gaming console will likely only land after the 3DS device is out.

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E3 2010: Nintendo’s 3DS Revealed Video

E3 2010: Nintendo’s 3DS Revealed Video

Deddy — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:29:02 +0000

This video is showing the first appearance of Nintendo 3DS.
The first-ever portable 3D gaming system, the Nintendo 3DS announced by Satoru Iwata, The President of Nintendo at the company’s press event. This 3D portable is no need for special glasses to play.

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OnLive Will Also Comes to the United Kingdom

Benny — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:24:37 +0000

We’ve been watching the developments of OnLive, the “cloud” gaming streaming service, which lets user to play a number of the latest triple A titles without a disc or even a console. This day, it has been announced that the service will also come to the United Kingdom, after British Telecom bought 2.6% of the American OnLive.

Meanwhile, the release date and further details still have not disclosed yet and apparently will not be mentioned until the official US launch of the service this summer. Nevertheless, Europeans customers don’t need to be worry about what this means for the exclusivity of OnLive. As the service will be available not only for BT’s users but also most ISPs, (British Telecom’s stake only acquiring them exclusivity over bundle deals, instead the service itself).

OnLive’s US service will start at June 17th and costs you $15 monthly for access to the service. And of course, This doesn’t include the cost of renting or buying games.

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PlayStation Move Hands 0n

Deddy — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:14:16 +0000

Nowadays motion gaming is not just for kids anymore. PS3 with PlayStation Move bring motion games into variety of games. And for this fall Sony plans to offer some titles when PlayStation Move launches. Check out this sneak peak about the games.

The games called “Duke” the fighting title plays like a boxing simulation with gritty, street-fighting twist. You hold two Move controllers and hit around a bunch of street brawler with moves in the air that will be translate to virtual punches, uppercuts and head butts.

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Custom Firmware PS3 Rumor From George Hotz

Deddy — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:15:27 +0000

George Hotz or Geo Hotz recently told the gaming community not to update their PS3 systems until he was able to create custom firmware allowing them to use Linux on their PS3. George Hotz seems close to his goals as a new video posted today shows the hack (you can search in YouTube). Even though a release date hasn’t confirmed yet.

“This can be installed without having to open up your PS3, just by restoring a custom generated PUP file, but only from 3.15 or previous,” he writes. “It’s possible this CFW will also work on the slim to actually *enable* OtherOS; I’ll know when my infectus gets here.”

This is great news for hacking community, if Geo Hot create some custom firmware that have ability to use Linux in the PS3 Slim hardware, than the system may be compromised to allow another nefarious uses. And on the other hand, this is not good for Sony.

So let’s wait and see.

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Sexy Virtual Girlfriends on your NDS

Andi — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:11:11 +0000

Some gamers in Japan seems to had an affair which made alternative to the jealous partner. Yes, they switched to a virtual lover in the world game.

In the game ‘Love Plus’ released by Konami for Nintendo DS, gamers can get with the virtual characters such as sexy women. The player can interact like touching and talking, with a virtual date.

The girl is described as a virtual school teenager that look so sexy, later you would ask the girlfriend to do various tasks tempting. For example say ‘I Love you’ a hundred times through the microphone on the DS.

Players also can kiss the virtual lover. But the gamers do not need to kiss on screen and may be considered crazy, but just by pressed the girlfriend lips with existing stylus device.

They who intended to do further interaction, could also touch sensitive area of the virtual lover in the game. The gamers were more addictive because they can dating all the existing characters.

This game’s popularity peaked among Japanese men. To the point, as quoted and quoted AsiaOne, Thursday (19/11/2009), reported many players wives and girlfriends complain their partner is considered doing an ‘affair’ with the virtual girlfriend.

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Rumor about NDSi XL will use the chip tegra 2

Andi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:45:58 +0000

Rumors about that would be used chips from Nvidia Tegra 2 on Nintendo DSI XL, successor to the current Nintendo DSI, growing warmer. Even the rumors mentioned already certain.

However, the ‘certainty’ is not officially due to new comes from reliable sources close to the cooperation that. Sources who did not want to be named was speaking to Eurogamer that quoted on Wednesday (18/11/2009).

Nintendo DSI XL plans to present at the Japanese end of November 2009 (under the name LL DSI) and in other parts of the world (with the name of DSI XL) in early 2010. This device had previously rumored will use chips from Nvidia, Tegra 2 chip exactly.

With the Tegra 2, it believed to give a much better ability to ‘muscle’ for the popular handheld gaming device is. Tegra chip line is the name of the type Nvidia System On Chip (SOC) which is can provide three-dimensional graphics capabilities better.

There was still no official word from Nintendo and Nvidia about this. So far, Nintendo still refuses to respond to rumors and speculation.

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Linux For Playstation 3

Andi — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:09:52 +0000

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With more than 600 packages installed and 2500 new package is available through the EPEL repository, Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 finally released on 29 June 2009 ago. This release was Known after the announced by Fixstars Solutions through Enhanced YDL.net. Good news that brought in this release is the ability to be installed and boot from a USB flash drive. In addition, PS3VRAM it being development and its speed could reach 50% if compared to the Yellow Dog 6.1. For wireless users, there is an application protocol that offers Wicd WPA and WEP security that can be relied upon.

Other features that are included in this release, including the Linux kernel 2.6.29 PPC64, PPC32 kernel linux 2.6.27, include Xfce Cell SDK to version 3.1.0.1, update to the version of OpenOffice.org 3.0, adding libfreevec, using Mozilla web brower Firefox 3.0.6, increasing support for Macromedia Shockwave Flash, and so forth.

Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 platform is available for Sony Playstation 3, Apple PowerPC G4 and G5 and YDL PowerStation. Reguler installation of interesting Window Manager Enlightment E17, Mozilla Firefox 3 Web Browser, Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client and Pidgin IM client.

However, Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 is not currently available free of charge and is not available for download. In the meantime, only available for purchase from the online store Fixstars in the form of two DVD set. Price offered from $ 49.95 USD.

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Nintendo release their Innovative Wii MotionPlus

Andi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:11:08 +0000

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Right now, if we heard Nintendo trademark, it remind us with their innovative gaming console, that’s right… Nintendo Wii with their famous gaming controller, Nunchuck and Wiimote. Everybody around the world can play games with more attractive, not just sitting on the couch, grab the joypad, and focus to the games. With Nintendo Wii Intelligence discovery, we could stand, throw, run, so it would release the boundaries since the first gaming console exist.

The research of Nintendo team to give satisfaction for player not just end till now. The development of more responsive and accurate gaming controller has just found, it called Wii MotionPlus. It doesn’t mean to replace Nunchuck and Wiimote, instead it will combine with Wiimote with just attached to it.

The precision and immersion are remarkable for players, every slight movement even just a twist could rendered identically on screen and in real time, so we could say the response is a true 1:1. With this situation, next generation console controller wars has just begun, between Microsoft Xbox360 with their Project Natal, Sony Playstation 3 with their Motion Controller, and of course Nintendo Wii with their Nunchuck and Wiimote attached with Wii MotionPlus.