Showing posts with label ps3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ps3. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Final Fantasy X getting a remake!


It seems that my favorite Final Fantasy game, Final Fantasy X is getting a remake! It's going to be an HD remake for the PS3 and the Playstation Vita (the handheld successor to the PSP, which is equal in power to a PS3!).



I can't wait to be able to play the remade version! I really wonder if there will be any updates, or if it will simply be the same things once again. I know that it'll be an HD remake, but if there will be any other meaningful changes - I just don't know.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

PS3 Price drops to $249!


The PS3 price has dropped. It's now $249, 249 and ¥24,980.


The 360 has dropped significantly since its release a few years ago; the PS3 hasn't dropped quite as far, but it's getting there. Unfortunately, the PS3 isn't in as much of demand as the 360. Xbox 360 has many more games, including indie games and mainstream games that are released and going to be released for it. The PS3 has very few exclusives and not as much to offer, other than a free network unlike the 360.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

From Dust, Dev Diary 3 AND Trailer - This game looks AMAZING!

Sorry for being such a nerd, but From Dust looks like a freaking awesome game! I haven't seen an awesome world building/manipulating game that looks this awesome in a very long time! I can't wait until it's release and it's coming soon - July 27th! PC, PS3 and 360... I don't like consoles, so I'll just use the PC version :P





Wednesday, May 18, 2011

360 update causes discs to not work - PS3s update causes overheating



Microsoft's Xbox 360 recently had some troubles that caused retail discs to not work in some Xbox 360s and Sony's recent update seems to be causing overheating for people's consoles. Sony is, of course, having the worst time of all (because they're having way more troubles, like with their network, the natural disasters, etc...), but it's surprising to see 360 have an error like this at the same time.

I guess just don't update your systems for a while, until they've patched out these strange errors; Microsoft says to contact them if your 360 doesn't read discs after the update.

Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6314530/xbox-360-update-producing-disc-read-errors
Source: http://gamerant.com/ps3-overheating-jeff-85134/

Mass Effect: Genesis, DLC, Now available on 360 and PC



Mass Effect was released a few years ago for the Xbox 360 and PC. Mass Effect 2 was released, later, for only the 360 and the PC, as well; however, in early 2011, EA decided to release a PS3 version, containing any of the DLC (downloadable content) from the game that was already released for the other systems.

Mass Effect 2 may have been released on the PS3, but Mass Effect was not; Bioware has made their games to where they rely on the choices that you've made in the games before. Mass Effect choices carry over to Mass Effect 2. The reason Mass Effect is not on the PS3 is because Microsoft owns the publishing rights for the original game, while EA owns the publishing rights to any sequels of it.

Because of Mass Effect 2 being released on the PS3 without Mass Effect, they decided to go ahead and include something that allows the player to make choices without it just being a heap of questions thrown at the player; they made a comic called Mass Effect: Genesis.

Mass Effect: Genesis was only available on the PS3 version for five months, but it is now finally released on the 360 and PC for 320 Microsoft Points (360) or 320 Bioware Points (PC). If you don't feel like playing through Mass Effect again or you don't want to play it at all, then this four dollar DLC is a great choice; however, I recommend playing the first game, it's very impressive and the comic simply skips way too much of the original game's important and memorable parts.

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/301847/news/mass-effect-2-genesis-comic-now-on-xbox-360/

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Microsoft, Buying Skype for $8.5 billion dollars!



Microsoft has announced that they are going to buy Skype for $8,500,000,000 (Eight-billion-five-hundred-million dollars). This is going to be huge for both of these companies; Skype is one of the biggest online video chat and telephone groups, allowing for free communication on some things.

Kinect and Skype are going to be compatible with each other, soon; Xbox 360 is going to be getting updates to be compatible with Skype. This will allow for a whole new age of communication on Xbox Live; some think it might even be free to make video calls if you have a Gold account on Xbox Live (Gold accounts are paid accounts - you pay a small monthly fee for access to tons of stuff).

Well, we'll see how it all goes... I hope it goes well. After seeing what has happened to Sony, I'm becoming more of a supporter of Xbox Live... I still like the PS3 system, more, but Microsoft's networks are far superior and aren't handled by complete morons like at Sony...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6312959/microsoft-to-acquire-skype-for-85-billion

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Project Cafe, Wii successor, Designs



IGN asked for people to make their own ideas of what the Wii 2 (Wii's successor, codenamed: Project Café) will look like. There are rumors and speculation circulating everywhere and Nintendo has announced that the console will be revealed at E3.

There were quite a few cool designs that IGN revealed from its users, even if one of them does kind of look like a VCR...

There are far more designs at IGN, but this one to the left is my favorite. It may look like a VCR, like I said, but it still looks awesome! IT has four controller ports, which use USB, and the system kind of reminds me of the Nintendo and Super Nintendo consoles...

Anyway, I really hope it doesn't have the name that this person gave it... Nintendo BEEM; that would be such a strange name... Most people believe it's going to be called the Nintendo Stream, so far - this is because of the cool way it streams 1080p video to each of the four controllers, simultaneously. How is this useful, you ask? Well, if you are playing a four-player split-screen game, you don't want the others to cheat by looking at your screen; so, you can simply look at your controller without anyone being able to spy on you on the same screen as theirs! And, you get your own screen instead of having to share it...

Plus, 1080p is a really high resolution, meaning this console is very powerful. The 360 and PS3 are both capable of 720p, 1080i and 1080p - however, most games on these consoles usually only make the effort of using 720p, even though it's a far smaller resolution. If this console can stream four 1080p videos at the same time, it has to be very, very powerful...

Source: http://wii.ign.com/articles/116/1166486p1.html


Friday, May 6, 2011

From Dust, Ubisoft game, Art Direction Trailer



Here is a really awesome looking game that I found while surfing around the internet; it's a game called From Dust. It's apparently about controlling Nature. Nature is basically the main character of the game, influencing everything that happens.

The art direction was made by looking at real locations in our world, real disasters, real floods, real volcanoes - the people of the world were influenced by real-life tribes, mostly from Africa. These tribes, in the game, also have influences put into them by the game developers - the people in the game wear masks from birth to death.

Anyway, this game looks beautiful and I really really want to play it! It looks like a very original game over what I've seen in the past few years. So, here is a YouTube video by the developers showing what they did and you get to see lots of beautiful places in their fictional world!


Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Playstation Netwrok, YOUR INFO STOLEN, It only does IDENTITY THEFT



PSN has been hacked and everyone who has an account on the Playstation Network has had their information stolen. You might want to check to see if your identity was stolen by doing a credit check - mostly if you had your credit cards stored on PSN. (if you ever used it on PSN, that is)


Now, the PS3 is being devalued and becoming a running joke for everyone on the net; who would want to own something made by a company that stores passwords, credit card information and personal addresses in plain text? They didn't even encrypt it at all! It was just sitting in some computer somewhere, waiting to be stolen!




http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5064/5659494926_07070655ca_z.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9XhNn.jpg
http://imgur.com/FXUii

Monday, April 25, 2011

Minecraft ripoff?, Fortresscraft for the 360, more like Ripoffcraft...



Here is a game that many people are calling a ripoff of Minecraft for the PC - simply, it's the same game as Minecraft... but it's called Fortresscraft, has slightly better graphics and it's on the 360.

So, you get to decide what you think yourself.. but I think it's copying off of Minecraft. It seriously has almost the exact same objects, blocks, NAME and everything else of Minecraft... So, even if its concept was before Minecraft, EVERYTHING except for the concept is copied off of Minecraft...


Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Gameplay trailer



Here is a trailer for the upcoming game, Final Fantasy Versus XIII (no relation at all to Final Fantasy XIII or Final Fantasy XIII-2, except for the origin story of this world - but they're different worlds). Square Enix just loves to confuse people by naming different games with almost the same exact name with a slight twist...

The graphics in this game look nearly realistic; however, that's just the prerendered part. They can't really put realistic graphics onto PS3 or 360, so they'll have to scale them down. I hope they release it on the upcoming Nintendo console, Stream!

Stream is more powerful than a PS3 or 360! However, a PC or Mac Pro can still be beefed up to be as powerful as you want them to be, so they should still be released on those, in my opinion, but Square Enix doesn't care much for my opinion. Even though, they would have great sales if they sold it on Steam.

Anyway, here is the trailer!


Infamous 2, Trailer



Infamous came out a while back for the PS3 and amazed loads of people that played it. Most people that played it agreed that it was awesome; unfortunately, I haven't had the chance to play it as of yet. I might go ahead and buy it some day and then review it or something.

Anyway, here is the cool trailer!


Infamous 2, Beta has been extended because of PSN outage



The beta for Infamous 2, the sequel to the awesome game Infamous, has been extended. This is because of PSN's outage. The beta is of the create-a-world mode on PS3, which is usually something hard to make on consoles. Most editors like that are far better on PC, however, this company wants to challenge that.

When PSN comes back online, those select few that are able to playtest it will be given an extra amount of time to playtest. For now, however, we'll just have to wait and see what amount of time will be added to the beta of this awesome looking game!

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6310181.html

Nintendo, Confirms Next-gen Console Playable at E3 2011



Nintendo has confirmed that their next-gen console will be playable at E3 2011. They have stated that the system will be available by early 2012. Nintendo's profits have fell sharply, mostly because of declining sales of the Nintendo Wii.

Microsoft's Kinect and Playstation Move are two of the biggest factors hurting Nintendo; now, Nintendo has created a new system that will truly be revolutionary, called the Nintendo Stream - according to some sources. It will have an HD 1080p, six-inch screen on four different controllers streamed from the console. This is like processing four different games at the same time!



The Nintendo Stream is sounding pretty cool, I think! I know I'll be getting one :D

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6310161.html

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Nintendo's next-gen console 'called Stream'



Nintendo's next-gen console is very likely going to be called Stream. (IGN made a joke of - let's just hope its not called the Wii Stream... Eww!) Anyway, I'm sure people will still make that joke, even if it's just called Stream. People will have a Wii and then a Stream...

In all honesty, I don't think IGN's concept of the controller is right. I think that it will be more like a tablet (like the Ipad) than a controller. It probably won't have buttons, but who knows. I just think that it would be freaking huge if it had all those buttons around a six-inch screen...
Nonetheless, this new name is because of the way the console will stream to four different controllers - 1080p videos right on the controllers themselves. These controllers will be touchscreen tablet controllers and probably will be 6-inch screens.

The hardware in this new system has to be powerful to put out four different 1080p videos at the same time (like running four different games at the same time!). So it, of course, is far more powerful than the Xbox 360 and the PS3!

This game system will also have easy portability from the 360 and PC, so that means we may see a lot of games be on only PC, 360 and Stream, soon; this will leave Sony in the dark, like their PSN outage did to use PS3 users...


Saturday, April 23, 2011

Portal 2, Comic, Lab Rat



Portal 2 now has a comic called Lab Rat. It features Chell, Companion Cube and some other guy that told Chell something important in Portal: the Cake is a Lie! The comic is awesome and I really think that any fan of Portal (and any fan of comics in general!) should check it out!



http://www.thinkwithportals.com/comic/

Friday, April 22, 2011

Nintendo's Next gen Console, Cost, Specs, Design and Release Date



The next gen console from Nintendo is already coming soon, and is expected to be announced next month at E3 or something around then.

Here are some of the feature of the new system:

  • $350 - $400 dollar cost, based on manufacturing costs
  • Controller with HD (1080p) Touchscreen (Able to Stream split screen games to four different controllers, so people don't have to look at one screen split into four - they'll have their own personal screen on the controller!)
  • Better hardware than the PS3 and 360 (Expect releases to now be on all three companies' consoles! And for more exclusives for this new system, that can't be handled by the 360 or PS3!)
  • Release date between October - November
  • Name Pending for the Console (Codenamed : Project Cafe)
  • According to my source, it will look like a more modernized version of the Super Nintendo

I can't wait until we get our hands on this amazing sounding console! :D


http://mynintendonews.com/2011/04/22/nintendo-wii-2-nintendo-wii-2-project-cafe-coming-this-year-for-400/

Chrono Trigger, coming to PS3 and PSP



Chrono Trigger was released back in 1996 for the Super Nintendo, then later on it was re-released for the Playstation One - now it's being re-released for the PS3 and PSP. This is awesome news, because that game was amazing!

I just wish I could replay that old game, Chrono Cross. It was one of the most amazing games that I've ever played in my whole life. Both of the games were some of the best and highest quality of games ever, but I still think that Chrono Cross was one of the most original and amazing games, ever.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6309951.html

Nintendo, Wii Successor Console, Will Arrive when it is announced



The Wii Successor, Nintendo's next gen console, has been accidentally confirmed, it seems. Shigeru Miyamoto was asked about the new next gen console; he said that the console 'will arrive when it is announced.' He seems to have accidentally confirmed the console, but we already knew about it anyway, so who cares.

The new next gen console will have an awesome controller; the controller will have an HD screen on it and be shaped kind of like a PSP. This will allow for split screen games to give each player a 1080p view of only their split of the screen, instead of everyone just looking at four small screens on one television.

I can't wait until the next console comes out, and I hope all of those rumors about the controller are true! This would make it far better than those terrible motion controlled systems, like the PS3, Wii and 360... They are all embracing too much of these new types of controls, I think. However, the new console will be backwards compatible with all Wii and GameCube games, according to rumor. Also, it will have better hardware than the PS3 or 360.

http://techland.time.com/2011/04/21/nintendo-wii-successor-will-arrive-%E2%80%98when-we-announce-it%E2%80%99/