Playstation 3
No new content for the SCEE regions Playstation Home tomorrow.
Well its the usual Thursday scheduled downtime tomorrow, and unfortunately there is nothing new coming yet.
Scheduled downtime tomorrow (Thursday the 14th of May).
Home will be down from 8am tomorrow morning, but don’t get too excited, community team leader MusterBuster has informed us that there will be nothing new arriving tomorrow, no clothes, no furniture, no new areas. So don’t lose any sleep unless you’re maybe hoping for a new video trailer for inFAMOUS or something along those lines.
Hopefully soon we will get the Playstation Home Film studio set, Check out this nice article about it at joystiq
And for those of you wondering if the fish in the stream in Home Square will be returning this week - sadly not, no.
The ULTIMATE Guitar Hero controller! (released for the PS3 & PS2)
For all those Guitar Hero obsessed gamers out there, Logitech has a big treat waiting for you - as long as you can afford it!
Made mainly out of Authentic guitar materials, The Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller Premiere Edition is a fantastic addition to your Guitar Hero games on the PS3, but at GBP £149.99 rrp its also quite a pricey addition, especially seeing as you can purchase a real brand new guitar for that price.
But looking away from the obvious cost factors, this controller is exceptionally well built, the body itself is solid and the neck is made from real wood, the frets and tuning pegs are made from metal and the fingerboard is made from proper rosewood. And unlike the basic plastic Guitar Hero controller you don’t get that annoying clicky sounds from strumming or hitting the fret buttons, the controller is almost silent operation.
It features a touch sensitive Neck slider to take full advantage of the features in Guitar Hero World Tour, The guitar also features a “Star Power” button, personaly I think this takes away from the fun tilt to get star power feature which makes watching your friends play so amusing.
The Guitar comes loaded with a 2 year limited hardware warranty, dedicated gig bag, Wireless 2.4GHz USB receiver, Guitar controller strap, 2 AA batteries and the usual paperwork and documentation.
So down to the pro’s and con’s:
Pros - Its exceptionally well built, it looks fantastic, it feels fantastic, its a good weight, Xbox doesn’t have it, and it has a 2 year warranty.
Cons - Its pretty pricey, It will give you back ache from playing for too long, you’ll never want to put it down, your REAL Guitar playing friends will take the mickey out of you and tell you to stop wasting your time and to get and learn to play Real Guitar.
So if your a 24/7 Guitar Hero addict or you just have money to burn, why not pick one up?
There is a black edition of the guitar going on sale in June for European gamers, and later this month in the US.
FUEL - Everything Motorstorm wishes it was! (PS3, 360, PC)
Currently approaching the PS3 community at the speed of a bullet shot from the Desert eagle of the God’s, is a game of epic proportions of which you don’t often see. Personally I think it is one of the most groundbreaking games released in recent years. But for some bizarre reason, hardly anybody has heard of it.
Fuel is the name, and racing is the game.
The little-known, under marketed and under reported game designed by Asobo studios in France is currently streaming towards us at light speed and is set for release on the 29th of this month. The game is brought to our fingertips via Codemasters, so hopefully it won’t disappoint.
Fuel is set in an alternate present in the U.S of A, but not as we know it, not even close. Global Warming has taken over and has forced everyone away (well almost), as Sebastian Wloch at Asobo Studio states “a bunch of crazy drivers are going for it in these extreme conditions to find more extreme racing than ever”. The prologue to the main fmv for this video says “These were once fertile lands until weather raged war on man, the sea’s rose, the sun scorched the earth, and the people fled. Some… remained behind”.
The basics of this game are that it is an off-road free roaming racing game with a whole bunch of different vehicles to choose from (over 70 in total plus a bonus vehicle if you pre-order). But that is where the basics end and the game suddenly gets interesting. The game is a massive 14,000 square kilometres in size with a huge 40km draw distance, the game quite literally takes hours and hours to drive across (on or off-road), but to make this more of a challenge you have weather effects that will keep you on your toes (tornadoes, sandstorms, rain, snow, thunderstorms and blizzards to name a few), the landscape ranges from snow capped mountain ranges, deserts, canyons, cityscapes to salt flats and more (most of which is generated from actual satelite data of landmarks in the US like Yosemite national park and the Grand Canyon), and to add even more feeling to the game it has a 24 hour day/night system!
There is a whole host of races and missions to keep you occupied plus a race maker if you finish all those, and if you get bored of doing that you can go play in the world, with the rest of the world playing in the world with you, go adventure the American landscapes with your friends or simply go do anything you wish, chase tornadoes, jump off big cliffs, pull the dragster out and have drag races with people on the salt flats etc etc.
This article could have me going on for quite some time, but instead I will be nice! I have placed the link to the FUEL website at the bottom of this page so you can research and discover about it yourself (and watch some videos).
In conclusion:
1) If you’re a racing game fan, then purchase the game.
2) If you’re not a racing game fan, then still purchase the game!
The simple point to this game is:
“If you can see it, you can drive to it, taking any route (on or off-road)” - Complete freedom.
FUEL website – www.fuel-game.com
Wii Smasher Rumours: Sony PS3 motion controller at E3
If what we are about to mention here is all true then we know we will be very happy bunnies, the latest rumour says that Sony will have its brand new PS3 motion controller at E3 2009 in June.
The all new Sony patent shows off the awesome PlayStation 3 Wand Controller where the final finished device will be shown at E3, look at the picture above at you will get to understand a little about this device.
All we say is; if this rumour is indeed true we can see this smashing the hell out of Nintendo Wii, please let us know what you think of this device, post all comments below. Thanks
Source – Variety via TechRadar
PS3 Mag Gameplay Premiere Video, are the screens bad then?
So those of you who thought the screens were bad on the awesome PS3 game “Mag” can now think again, so are the screens bad then?
Below is a superb Mag gameplay premiere video for you to feast your eyes on and after watching it only then can you answer our question. Some people have past judgement and said “This game looks really cool and that they would buy it, but did not like the animations”. Mmmm
Another question we would like answered is “Is this going to be one of the most incredible gaming experiences of this generation, and perhaps of gaming as a whole? Anyway, please watch the video and let me know.