Playstation 3
Folding@Home video
As you might have earlier read, Sony have teamed up with Sanford Uni to introduce a Protein folding system to help cure serious diseases such as cancer. The PS3 is 20x faster folding than a PS3. You can see a video explaining it if you continue reading.
Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction Trailer Debut
Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction now has its debut trailer in HD! While keeping its cartoony feel, the graphics look nice and clean. Game looks pretty good too. :P
Continue reading for the trailer.
Free Virtua Tennis 3 for the first 150 to buy from HMV
UK retailer HMV are offering the first 150 people to buy a Playstation 3 from their store in Oxford Circus Store, Central London. Unfortunately it is only their London store and only the first 150, it will not be anyone else in any other place.
Sounds good. Free game isn’t it? Shame they couldn’t have picked a little more exciting title like Motorstorm or Resistance: Fall of Man.
“PlayStation 3 is released this Friday 23rd March, and to celebrate the event, the first 150 customers who buy their PS3 console from our prestigious flagship Oxford Circus Store, Central London, will also pick up a free copy of Virtua Tennis 3 on PS3!”
Source: HMV
Warhawk is apparently now a download and not a blu-ray
Earlier we reported that Warhawk is now going to be available on Blu-Ray disc, but now according to QJ.net’s “switcheroo” its now a download…again. Apparently a semi-official PS3 log Three Speech have now reported that it will be a download.
So, at the moment Warhawk is now a download and not going to be on Blu-Ray, apparently. Subject to change? :p
Motorstorm 2 on its way
After Phil Harrison’s keynote address at GDC 07, PSU ran into some guys from Evolution Studios and had a talk with them, where they mentioned and pretty much confirmed Motorstorm 2. According to one of the guys from Evolution Studios it has “been in development for a long time”. They wont mention any specifics, but they did tell PSU that it will be running on a revamped version of the Motorstorm engine.
Motorstorm 2 and us Europeans dont even have Motorstorm 1 yet…heh.
New Darkness trailer
Loads of blood, gore and hellish creatures of the night. No, its not Vanessa Feltz, its the Darkness for Playstation 3. A new trailer has been released today with lots of blood, gore and brain-eating. Just the way we like it. The video reveals the first elements of the storyline that we’ve heard so far. Im not sure what to think of the story, but the gameplay looks quite fun.
WARNING: Video contains alot of blood gore and violence.
From Gamevideos [Via Kotaku]
NO Killzone 2 screenshots in March issue of OPMUK
Sadly, according to developers of Killzone 2, there will be no new gameplay screenshots of Killzone 2 in March’s issue of Official Playstation Magazine UK. Guerrilla Games had this to say on the issue:
“Well that was one big false alarm. We are not releasing any screenshots or info or anything regarding Killzone for PS3 in any publication, print or otherwise, at this present time. Now do not ask me why OPM decided to go with that back-page “exclusive”. I don’t work at OPM, ask them.”
There you have it. I guess we’ll have to wait until E3 in July to see Killzone 2 in action.
Source: Killzone Unit
Sony spends 1.5 Million Euro’s on advertising in Ireland
A while ago, QJ.net reported that Ireland was loosing interest in the Playstation 3. In a survey 82% of people asked said they would not be buying the Playstation 3 because it of the cost. Sony has responded by spending 1.5 million euros on ad campaigns in Ireland. SCSI marketing director Marea Gray had this to say:
“We’ve never done anything like this to this scale before. It was quite expensive to do, but you have to showcase the product properly.What we’ve done, it’s about embodying what the brand is about. We’re not just saying “here’s a console and here’s great graphics.” We’re showing how the PS3 is part of a lifestyle thing.”
He also made a comment about the Wii:
“We’re aware of what the competition is doing and we know that Wii is still spending a lot. Wii tends to go for a very product driven campaign, PlayStation tends not to go down that road.”
Take that as you will, but I think he means to say that Playstation 3 is more than a games console.
Source: QJ.net
Save lives with your Playstation 3
According to Kotaku.com, Sony have teamed up with Stanford University to create a network which you can connect your PS3 to, to help study causes of many diseases such as Parkinson’s, Cystic Fibrosis and Cancer. The next firmware update will open the doors to this program. Once you have it installed you will find a new Folding@Home icon on the XMB. To join you simply click the button. You can also setup your PS3 to run the app while it is idle. This is called Folding@Home
So how does it work?
Sony’s powerful Cell processor will tap into Stanford’s Folding@home program to work on studying disease by folding proteins. When this process is started on a single computer this can take up to 30 years to process, however with Folding@Home allows the thousands of PS3s to work on the same simulation, speeding the process dramatically, 10 times faster according to Sony.
GAME UK compares 360 and PS3
GAME in the Blue Water center, have a little poster up at their Xbox 360 section comparing the PS3 and the Xbox 360. While I doubt that GAME intend to be so bias and we are told to promote the PS3 (I work at GAME ), but downsizing a major seller is stupid, so I don’t think its their intention….or is it?
Though, it does make a false statement that the PS3 is “full backward compatable with all PS1 and PS2 games”. Im all for promoting the PS3 and I hope it wins the war, but I agree with UK:Resistance, they’ve just made an affordable console look crap.
Source: UK:Resistance
Edit: According to GamesIndustry.biz the sign was completely unauthorized and has now been removed. There, I didnt think GAME would insult such a good seller.
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