ColorWare now offers choices of color for PS3 Slim. It will cost you $149 to send yours in, or you can purchase PS3 Slim direct from ColorWare for $449.
You can customize the PS3 logo, the top of the console, the bottom of your console or even the controller. Once colorized, everything is high-gloss and scratch resistant.
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Sony presented its keynote at E3. PSP Go is the big announcement. Here is the summaries:
364 games coming to the PlayStation platforms (PS3+PS2+PSP) this year. 22 million PS3 sold last year. 24 million registered accounts on PlayStation Network in 55 countries.
Uncharted 2 and 256-player MAG for PS3 are demoed.
Sony unveiled PSP Go, the second-generation PSP. Spec and look is the same as what has been leaked. 40% lighter than the original PSP-1000. 16G Internal Flash, built-in Wi-Fi, integrated Bluetooth, sliding control pad and M2 memory port.
PSP Go will go on sale in North America on Oct 1 for $249, the same price as the original PSP when launched. It will not replace PSP-3000 or UMD, which will co-exist.
All PSP games going forward will be digitally distributed via the PlayStation Network and its PlayStation Store. But also delivered to retail via UMD.
Microsoft has a busy day at E3 with a slew of announcements that put Xbox 360 and Xbox Live squarely on the top of the games in term of coolness and features.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were on stage for The Beatles: Rockband game. Yoko Ono Lennon made appearance as well.
Microsoft showed off Final Fantasy XIII on XBox 360. The title will be a spring 2010 release.
Exclusive games announced include Shadow Complex, Joyride, Crackdown 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Forza 3, Halo Reach and Alan Wake.
You will be able to add movies to your Netflix queue, no need to go to your desktop. You will also be able to search through the entire Netflix catalog on Xbox itself.
Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima appeared on stage to announce Metal Gear Solid Rising for Xbox 360. This is big blow to PS3 as Metal Gear Solid has long been a Playstation exclusive.
The video store in Xbox Live is now branded Zune, and will add 1080p full HD instant-on streaming with 5.1 channel audio. The service will be available in 18 countries (US, Canada, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Austria, Australia and New Zealand). But you need 8Mbps downstream for your internet connection in order to enjoy it.
This week is E3 week (June 2-4 at Los Angeles Convention Center) with Sony’s press conference scheduled on June 12 11am. But a leak before the event gives a glimpse of Sony’s next-generation portable gaming device PSP Go.
One notable ‘feature’ of PSP Go is the lack of UMD drive, which is the disc media when you purchase PSP game in retail store. All future games are downloads only, and people who upgrade from PSP to PSP Go can not replay those games purchased in UMD media.
Removing UMD drive is significant, it is one step closer to a total online and disc-less future. It spells the death nail to Sony’s UMD disc format and will impact Sony’s retailers financially. Whatever, it is a bold move on Sony’s part, and is a step ahead of its rival Nintendo.
Great news for iPhone and iPod touch owners. EA will release Spore Origins on September 7, the same day Spore hits the Mac and PC. Spore Origins is a scale down Spore game build specially for Apple’s app platform. The game was first demo in March when Apple introduced the iPhone software development kit to developers.
Spore Origins looks a lot like Spore’s Cell phase. It also contains a mini version of the Creature Creator software. Spore Origins is available via the usual Apple App Store.
The eagerly awaited Spore is hitting US store coming September 9. Created by the inventor of “The Sims” Will Wright, Spore looks set to be another masterpiece.
Spore does not fit nicely into any video game genre. It has real-time strategy elements and is also a life simulation game. Spore allows the player to create, design and develop own species of creature, starting at Cell level as a microscopic organism. The player then evolves the cell into the Creature phase and becomes a full blown living creature. Tribal is the next level of the game where the creature becomes social and the game focuses on the species as a group. The Civilization phase is when the creature becomes an intelligent being, and the goal is to gain control of the planet. The final level is the Space phase where the creature interacts with species across the galaxy from other planets.
If you are getting the “massively single-player online game” for the Mac, please note the minimum requirement. The game will not run on PowerPC Mac, Mac Minis or pre-2008 MacBooks:
Spore is developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It will be released on Mac, PC (Windows), DS, iPhone and mobile, with plans for other game consoles and platforms in the future. Beside the game only standard edition, Electronic Arts is making available a Spore Galatic Edition which includes the additional ‘Making of Spore’ DVD video, ‘How to Build a Better Being’ DVD video by National Geographic Channel, ‘The Art of Spore’ hardback mini-book, fold-out Spore poster and a premium 100-page Galactic Handbook.
Blizzard today announced during its 2008 Blizzard Entertainment WorldWide Invitational (WWI) event in France that it is working on the long-rumored Diablo III. The RPG action fantasy game will be released for both the PC and Mac simultaneously, but there is no release date schedule, system requirements or pricing information announced for Diablo III.
Blizzard has launched the Diablo III web site with much game details including official trailer and gameplay video. Diablo III’s P2P gameplay will be available online via Battle.net, which is Blizzard’s free online service that launched with the original Diablo in 1997. This confirmed that Diablo III is not following a subscription fee model as with World of Warcraft.
Blizzard sold more than 20 million copies of both Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction since their release in 2000 and 2001.
Source: DailyTech
