Archive for January, 2010
The Weekly Recap (January 17-23)
Posted by Jay in Weekly Recap on January 24th, 2010
Quite a bit this week (though, no major game announcements). First off, Trev wrote another review, this one for Assassin’s Creed II. Darrin has another pretty popular opinion piece as well (as always). here’s also been some rumors flying around, like GTA getting another possible episode (though, many feel the game isn’t popular enough to warrant one anymore). And the appearance of Cloud (of Final Fantasy fame) possibly making an appearance in a future game.
One piece of news that did surface, though, is that the PS3′s Motion Controller has been delayed until Fall, so it’s going to be out there around the same time Natal is supposedly going to be out as well (though, interestingly, Microsoft decided to drop the hardware processing within the camera to opt for a software solution, so it may not be as powerful as previously thought, considering it’s going to take up some of the processing power from the console now).
There’s also been some Gran Turismo stuff out there as well, including the game possibly already making a profit and some real versus in-game stuff (from both Trev and I).
Other than that, be sure to check out Eddie’s article on the brain and his article about the PS3 supposedly being hacked.
Also note, we’ve got quite a few more QuickNews articles in this week, so if you happen to miss those smaller news stories, be sure to check them out in the QuickNews tab. You can also comment on those stories as well (on the side bar, just click on the #).
Hopefully this coming week will prove to be a little more eventful, though, seeing as we’re constantly getting closer and closer to the big release window!
Alrighty, this week in the community, I’m sure most of you have noticed that the Shoutbox (the Live Chat) has been updated. This was mainly in response to spam flooding the chat over the past few days (or, at least, I assume so). Beyond the look, it now also shows your Gravatars, notifies you when there’s a new response, and allows for the ability to private message other people.
I’ve also taken the liberty to update a few weekly articles with the Tab feature (well, a couple; the New Game Releases and the PlayStation Store Global Update), which allows for a cleaner look. I like it a LOT more than the “Read the Rest of this Story” link.
Anyway, not much else going on in the community. Just keep in mind we like the community to get involved, so please register and become an active member! We also appreciate it if you guys would sign up to submit news as well. Well, here are the recognitions this week (22 total)
Contributor of the Week
- Trev – 6 Entries
Most Liked
- Eddie – Food for Thought – Gran Turismo 5 is Already Profitable – 16 Likes
Most Comments
- Darrin – Why Do People Hate 3D? – 46 Comments
MAG Beta 5.0 Statistics and Trophies Revealed
fleakitten – January 17th
Assassin’s Creed II Review
Trev – January 17th
GDC 2010 Coming Soon
Trev – January 18th
Why Do People Hate 3D?
Darrin – January 18th
New Gran Turismo 5 Video – Real vs In-Game
JimmyMagnum – January 18th
Cool PS3 Slim Mod
Tosh – January 19th
PS3 Motion Controller Called Arc?
Trev – January 19th
Food for Thought – Gran Turismo 5 is Already Profitable
Eddie – January 19th
FIFA 10 24 Hour World Record Attempt, London 27/01/2010
Trev – January 20th
PS3 Motion Controller Available Worldwide in Fall 2010
Tosh – January 20th
LittleBigPlanet Contraption Challenge
fleakitten – January 21st
Nathan Hale, Cole, Helghast and More Skins Arriving for Uncharted 2
fleakitten – January 21st
Rumor: New GTA or DLC leaked by voice actor?
Nico – January 21st
Gran Turismo Vs Reality (Top Gear)
Trev – January 21st
Crysis 2 on PS3 and set in New York
Trev – January 21st
God of War 3 : The Making of Kratos Combat
Tosh – January 21st
A Gamer’s Success Can be Predicted by Measuring Certain Parts of the Brain
Eddie – January 21st
Rockstar Asks PS3 Owners To Be Patient.
fleakitten – January 22nd
New Kevin Butler Ad for MAG
JimmyMagnum – January 22nd
PS3 Version of Just Cause 2 Includes Video Capture
JimmyMagnum – January 22nd
Nomura “No FFVII Remake Yet, Cloud Could Make Another Appearance”
Eddie – January 23rd
Geohot (Original Iphone Hacker) Claims to Have Hacked the PS3
Eddie – January 23rd
More hints that Starhawk is being developed
Tosh – January 17th
New God of War 3 Screens
JimmyMagnum – January 17th
Tekken’s Heihachi Mishima Voice Actor Has Died by Suspected Suicide
Eddie – January 20th
Slingbox coming to PS3
Tosh – January 21st
Pax East Will Sell Out This Year
Eddie – January 22nd
PS3 Passes 3 Million Units Sold in UK
JimmyMagnum – January 22nd
Still On The Fence About Getting Uncharted 2?
JimmyMagnum – January 22nd
First Video Game Night Club Opens in Australia
Eddie – January 23rd
Well, this week, we still don’t have anything planned, but still, be sure to post in the Forums if you plan on organizing something!
No poll results this week, but the current poll is still open, so be sure to take part in that if you hadn’t done so already!
That’s it for this week, and thanks for reading!
First Video Game Night Club Opens in Australia
First Video Game Night Club Opens in Australia
Play Modern Warfare with friends between cocktails!
Geohot (Original Iphone Hacker) Claims to Have Hacked the PS3
Very interesting to see where this goes but the hack seems to be extremely impractical. As of right now he still can not play games from what I understand, but he is further then anyone before him. He is a very trustworthy hacker (oxymoron?), so he is most likely telling the truth.
This could lead to custom firmwares and emulators without linux in the future, but I don’t see any future for burned blu-ray games. Its highly impractical even with above average technical knowledge.
I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I’ve also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip.
3 years, 2 months, 11 days…thats a pretty secure system
Took 5 weeks, 3 in Boston, 2 here, very simple hardware cleverly applied, and some not so simple software.
Shout out to George Kharrat from iPhoneMod Brasil for giving me this PS3 a year and a half ago to hack. Sorry it took me so long
As far as the exploit goes, I’m not revealing it yet. The theory isn’t really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can’t post dumps. I’m hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone’s KBAG.
Nomura “No FFVII Remake Yet, Cloud Could Make Another Appearance”
In the most recent Famitsu, there is a special tribute to Final Fantasy VII’s main character, Cloud Strife. It showed images of all the games he was in and his cameo appearances etc. There was a short discussion with his creater, Tetsuya Nomura who concluded that FFVII Remake is not being developed at this time. He really wants to do it, and he is aware that the fans want it as well, but “as of right now, development has not started rolling.”
However he added that it is very possible that Cloud with guest-star in another game in the near future, in a similar way to how he was featured in Dissidia.
One could conclude by Nomura’s words….FFVII is just a matter of time. It sounds as if it 100% is happening, just not yet.
We do know Nomura is working on several other games at this time.
Final Fantasy XIII Versus
Final Fantasy XIII Agito
3rd Birthday
Unannounced Project #1
Unannounced Project #2
Next Kingdom Hearts
*thanks to Duckroll of NeoGaf for translating*
New Live Chat Features!
I upgraded our Live Chat in the sidebar. It will now block spam, and ban IP’s if needed. Yay!
Now onto the new features it has:
- You will hear a sound alert when someone posts a message
- If you want to disable the sound, just click the speaker icon
- Private Messages – Type @@Tosh for example. Then type as normal. Just replace my name with somebody else on the site. This message will only be shown between you and the person you PM’ed.
- Support for Gravatars
- Live Chat Archive – Only members of PS3Blog.net can view them though
To join in on the chat, you must be a registered member of this site and logged in.
If you’d like to join PS3Blog.net please do so here.
PS3 Version of Just Cause 2 Includes Video Capture
Posted by Jay in Just Cause 2 on January 22nd, 2010
Square Enix has announced that the PS3 version of Just Cause 2 will get an exclusive feature, detailed below:
Square Enix London Studios, a part of Square Enix Europe, today announced that Just Cause 2 for the PlayStation 3 will ship with a built-in video capture feature, allowing players to record clips of their greatest in-game exploits and upload directly to YouTube.
Watching the video above, it might prove to be quite a fun feature considering all the stuff you’re able to do in it. I know Just Cause was a mediocre title, but here’s hoping the sequel can pull off what the original wanted to, but fell short of. The capture feature supposedly has a 10 minute record length (the same as YouTube’s basic account limit), so, according to the press release, it will allow players to also do walkthroughs, speedruns, etc. Pretty neat stuff, the title definitely looks worth checking out!
Built-In Video Capture To Ship With Just Cause 2
PlayStation players to publish their greatest achievements to YouTube
Friday 22nd January/… Square Enix London Studios, a part of Square Enix Europe, today announced that Just Cause 2 for the PlayStation 3 will ship with a built-in video capture feature, allowing players to record clips of their greatest in-game exploits and upload directly to YouTube.
With some of the most incredible emergent action sequences seen in any game, Just Cause 2 frequently features moments which simply defy description. Moments where the physics, gameplay and AI all come together to create an over-the-top stunt or spontaneously chaotic scene of carnage players will want to watch again and again. By activating Just Cause 2’s video capture feature, players will be able to automatically record the last 30 seconds of gameplay directly to the PlayStation 3’s hard drive and upload to YouTube.
BASE jumped from the highest bridge in the game? Captured. Jumped out of a jet fighter and crashed into an oil rig? Recorded. Parachuted off a cliff onto a passing helicopter, laying waste to a military harbour with missiles, before ejecting, skydiving down through enemy flak, grappling soldiers to passing aircraft, leaving nothing but the smoking remains of the military might? Saved, uploaded and published for the world to see.
Also available from the in-game menu is a 10 minute capture feature which allows players to create more detailed and planned presentations. Gamers will be able to capture and share in-game mission walkthroughs, create online speed-run competitions, direct their own South East Asian-inspired Machinima and more, with the best YouTube videos linked from the official website allowing users to vote on their favourites, with prizes awarded for the best of the best.
As Rico Rodriguez, the Agency’s most powerful weapon, players must take on the island of Panau and its military regime in order to track down Rico’s former boss and mentor, Tom Sheldon, who has gone rogue with millions in Agency cash and intel. Using a unique grapple and parachute combination, there is no vertical limit as the air becomes your playground: grapple a passing plane in flight, hijack helicopters, BASE jump from the tallest buildings or mountains and leave a trail of chaos and destruction in your wake. Just Cause 2 offers players the freedom to tackle missions any way they choose and, with over 100 vehicles and countless upgrades and collectibles, the choices for relentless adrenaline-fuelled action are limitless.
Just Cause 2’s video capture and upload feature will be available exclusively for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. Just Cause 2 will also ship for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Games for Windows® and will be released under the EIDOS brand portfolio. All formats will release in-stores on March 23rd, 2010, in North America and March 26th, 2010, in Europe, Middle East, and Australasia. More information is available on the official website at www.justcause.com.
About Square Enix Ltd.
Square Enix Ltd., a part of the Square Enix Europe business unit, is a London-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd., one of the most influential providers of digital entertainment content in the world. Square Enix Ltd. publishes and distributes entertainment content from the Square Enix Group including Square Enix, Eidos and Taito® in Europe and other PAL territories. Square Enix Ltd. also has a global network of leading development studios such as IO Interactive™, Crystal Dynamics® and Eidos-Montréal. The Square Enix Group boasts a valuable portfolio of intellectual property including: FINAL FANTASY®, which has sold over 92 million units worldwide, DRAGON QUEST® which has sold over 53 million units worldwide and TOMB RAIDER® which has sold over 35 million units worldwide, together with other well established products.
More information on Square Enix Ltd. can be found on the Internet at http://www.square-enix.com
DRAGON QUEST, FINAL FANTASY, SQUARE ENIX and the SQUARE ENIX logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. in the United Kingdom and/or other countries. TAITO is a trademark or registered trademark of Taito Corporation. EIDOS, TOMB RAIDER, IO INTERACTIVE, JUST CAUSE, JUST CAUSE 2 and CRYSTAL DYNAMICS are trademarks or registered trademarks of Square Enix Ltd. in the United Kingdom and/or other countries. AVALANCHE STUDIOS is a trademark of Fatalist Entertainment AB. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Square Enix Limited is a company registered in England & Wales under the number 1804186 whose registered office is Wimbledon Bridge House, 1 Hartfield Road, Wimbledon, London, SW19 3RU
New Kevin Butler Ad for MAG
Posted by Jay in Commercials, MAG - Massive Action Game, Talk on January 22nd, 2010
Check it out, these are still the best commercials out there, from any video game manufacturer haha:
Hopefully that kid applying for Kevin’s job doesn’t take it 
Still On The Fence About Getting Uncharted 2?
Posted by Jay in QuickNews, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves on January 22nd, 2010
Still on the fence about getting Uncharted 2? On January 28th, the same day the first DLC pack for Uncharted 2 will be released, there will be a single player demo that you’ll be able to download. No idea which level it will be, but no matter which they choose, any of them will work just fine!
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