Last night’s keynote was a huge disappointment for me. I brought my laptop to my friend’s place where we were having a games night, connected up to his wireless LAN, and starting at 9pm EST I started checking for updates from Ken Kuturagi’s keynote speach.

What did he say? Nothing, nothing, and more nothing. Then at the very end, he does mention two small little tidbits.

One, the 20GB PS3’s price will be dropped in Japan only to 49,980 Yen (tax included). That’s about $428US, in case you’re wondering.

Two, all 20GB PS3’s (not just Japan, it seems) will now include an HDMI 1.3 interface (supporting deep colour).

At least it’s something. Hopefully we’re learn something about the PS3’s online capabilities, and this “mystery feature”, as TGS progresses.

PLAYSTATION®3 HDD 20GB EQUIPPED WITH HDMI AS STANDARD

I’m trying to avoid too many Resistance posts, just because the game has been so extensively profiled and previewed already. This game looks amazing, I’m sold, it’s definitely the PS3 game I’m most excited about this year, and I’m sure it will be the most popular.

But I can’t skip this. Insomniac released a new trailer and it’s amazing. It’s all gameplay footage and it looks so damn good. The weapons, the enemies, the level layouts, the graphics and animation: this looks absolutely amazing.

Resistance Trailer

There’s a new Lair trailer, a playable demo at TGS, and IGN has put up a comprehensive interview. We’ve known of the existence of this for a while but no details have been released at all. Now, we finally get some real information!

This game sounds awesome. These are accomplished developers and they clearly love the PS3 and make full use of it’s features including Blu-Ray storage, the tilt controller, and full 1080p. The screenshots look amazing. The trailer is only cut scene footage (although it looks really cool), but we should get real gameplay videos from the TGS playable demo soon. The interview is a very interesting read.

IGN says it looks amazing but is clearly early in development. It’s still early to say for sure, but I’m definitely excited about this one.

Lair Interview
Lair Preview

Listen… carefully. What can you hear? Well, unless you live near a main road or have really noisy neighbours, hopefully you cannot hear anything. And the situation will apparently be exactly the same when you turn your PS3 on and off. Whilst Sony claimed in their specs sheet back at E3 that they were seeking a sound and heat output of equivilent level to the PStwo, many believed this to simply be idle marketing speak.

Well, if a report from a GamePro blogger is to believed, Sony have actually achieved what they set out to at E3. Not only does he reveal the power supply within a developer’s TEST (ie check the game works on a retail unit) PS3 is definitevly internal, but he also states the machine is pretty quiet with “minimal fan noises” and a low heat output. Good news for those seeking to use the PS3 as a Blu-ray player without having to put up with a background “woosh” noise. This ties in with other (less reliable sources) I have read that have implied the machine makes its loudest noise following it start-up before quickly quieting down.

I have also read, on good authority that the PS logo on the sixaxis (if that is its real name) flashes red when it is searching for bluetooth signals, something that ties in with the picture on the right from the circuitcity website. Lets hope those red lights aren’t used as red LEDs of death though!

Gamepro

I guess you’re curious to what the box will look like that you’ll hopefully be picking up come November?

You can see a stack of PS3 boxes (empty hopefully because if they fell…) that have been posted on Sengo.com forums.

Looks like they could be what the lucky people who will be at TGS will be playing on. Not surprised that they are mainly the 20GB PS3.

The image on the right looks like a PS3 being unpacked and it’s a 60GB version going by the silver strip at the front.

I really really want a PS3 after seeing those images! I mean I want one right now!!!

I will dream of the day I pick up a 60GB PS3 box take it home then carefully rip open the box and smell that polythene & plastic then pop a couple of bubbles on the bubble wrap and plug in my PS3.

The wait is going to get even worse when you guys start bragging about your PS3s.

Thanks to ehandlr for this little beauty!

There are a few more images at the link below.

PS3 Boxes & Un-packed

Every play Guitar Hero on the PS2? What? You haven’t? Then stop reading this (yes, I told you to stop reading this site that I put all my sweat and tears into), and go buy a copy and play it! It’s a great great game. Lots of fun and lots of fun. Did I mention that it was fun? Guitar Hero II is coming out at the beginning of November and that just makes November a smash hit month for me.

And guess what else? Guitar Hero is probably coming to the PS3! Listen to this: “Kotick confirmed that Guitar Hero would appear ‘on every significant new format’, while discussing intentions for yearly updates and building franchises across a number of key Activision titles.” I would call the PS3 significant, wouldn’t you?

I just hope for two things in the PS3 version. One, that we can still somehow use the Guitar Peripheral from the PS2 version (using a dongle or something). And two, that they could increase the number of players so that we can play the whole rock band! Like in Frequency and Amplitude (the developer’s previous games).

When my friends and I get together to play PS2 games, Guitar Hero or Frequency is always played. The games are just too fun! If you haven’t played them, go to it! Frequency is available in the bargain bin these days, and man, it’s really quite a bargain! Oh and please - don’t forget to play multiplayer!

Guitar Hero goes multiformat

At the pre-TGS press conference, Sony announced the winner of a vendor bidding battle for the official PS3 advertising agency: Martha Stewart’s Living.

We’ve seen the early fruits of this partnership with the new PS3 slogan “This is Living”. Now Sony has unveiled some teaser photos of things to come:

The new PS3 fan magazine:

Even Kratos is sporting a touched up look. Berry baskets are always a favorite.

If anyone has better Photoshop skills than me, please send in some pictures and I’ll post them. The Photoshop Phriday guys should do this theme proper justice.

Video Game Snack Time

[Henning: you can send pictures to images at ps3blog dot net]

I already have a PS3 pre-ordered at Toys ‘R’ Us, but even the store told me that sometimes they don’t get their stuff in until a week after the launch. So I want to hedge my bets a little and pre-order a PS3 somewhere else, but I can’t find a place to do that.

I just called the Sony Store. Previously they told me they would be taking pre-orders, but that they just haven’t started yet. Now I talk to someone from the store, and he said that I can get a pre-order on November 17th. Uh… okay. That’s launch day! It would just be an order then, forget the “pre-”.

I called up EBGames, and he said that they don’t have any information yet. I called up Zellers (where I actually found my PS2!) and they didn’t answer the phone. How’s that for rejection!

Has anybody successfully pre-ordered a PS3 in Canada at a place other than Toys ‘R’ Us ?