Found this today at Walmart. Paid $54.92 ($62.06 after tax) in good old Canadian dollars.
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I am having some bad luck these days with my PS3. Over the last week or so someone broke one of my Rockband guitars. Either the thing was dropped or someone was too hard on the strum bar. Notes were not strumming properly and notes were randomly releasing even if the fret was being held down. Turns out that a piece of plastic broke off the strum mechanism and it was causing false strums.
I got Rockband back in January, so it really didn’t take that much regular (about every weekend) use to break it. Check out the pictures of the internals and broken part.
Hot off the press, Gamepro presents their view of the PS3 and Xbox 360’s upcomming releases. Sure to ignite debate between the fanboys, the list does look good for both systems. I have to say, especially after the PS3 outselling the Xbox 360 in the United States this week, that I think things are really going to change.
Here are the games:
Xbox 360:
1. Ninja Gaiden 2
2. Left 4 Dead
3. Too Human
4. Gears of War 2 (SYSTEM SELLER)
5. Fable 2 (SYSTEM SELLER)
6. Halo Wars
7. Splinter Cell Conviction
8. Alan Wake
9. Banjo Kazooie
10. Halo Chronicles
PS3:
1. Gran Turismo 5 (SYSTEM SELLER)
2. Haze
3. Metal Gear Solid 4 (SYSTEM SELLER)
4. Metal Gear Online
5. Singstar
6. LittleBigPlanet
7. Resistance 2 (SYSTEM SELLER)
8. Killzone 2
9. Motorstorm 2
10. SOCOM Confrontation
11. InFamous
12. The Agency
13. Final Fantasy XIII (SYSTEM SELLER)
14. God of War III (SYSTEM SELLER)
15. Tekken 6
16. Twisted Metal
What do you think?
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GTA 4 - Coming Soon
Pre-ordered my copy of GTA4 yesterday. Should be good times.
I just learned the hard way that once you install a new hard drive into a Playstation 3 that the old one will no longer be accepted and will need to be formatted to be used again.
Yesterday I bought a 250 gig Western Digital 2.5” hard drive for my PS3. I turned on my Playstation and attempted to backup my game saves and media (videos, mp3’s, pictures) through the system menu. I needed 41 gigs to do so but I did not have this space available on any removable media. No problem I thought, I would just connect the drive to my computer and copy it that way.
I put in the new hard drive, formatted it and then plugged the old one into my PC. Much to my surprise a PS3 formatted hard drive cannot be read by either Windows XP or Vista – apparently it uses some sort of proprietary file system, I’m assuming to prevent any sort of illegal copying.
Anyways, I put the old hard drive back in only to be told that I needed to format it to use it. WTF?! After installing the new hard drive, the original 80 gig hard drive that it came with was no longer accepted and needed to be reformatted to use again!
Continue reading ‘New Hard Drive For Your PS3? Say Good Bye To Your Old One’
From Crackle:
The Playstation 3 sold 179,416 units the week ending March 1, 2008 as reported by VGChartz.
Japan America Other Total
DS 52,827 152,759 173,987 379,573
Wii 65,116 218,189 92,338 375,643
PSP 84,297 76,447 45,623 206,367
PS3 14,441 89,585 75,390 179,416
X360 2,262 102,622 47,735 152,619
Total 1,293,618
I own an AOC Envision L32W461 and for a value priced HDTV (I paid $699 CDN in Nov 2006) it has been a great purchase. Aside from the usual not so black black’s found in lower priced HDTV’s this unit works quite well. It wasn’t until I started playing time sensitive rhythm games like Rockband and Guitar Hero that I realised there was a problem. The latency on this TV is quite high and without proper tweaking it can make playing certain types of games impossible.
Continue reading ‘Envision 32in HDTV and Rockband on the PS3′
I came across a great article over at AnandTech dating back to 2005 that talks about the technology behind the Cell processor. Its very tech heavy but is quite interesting if you are into the technology aspect of the PS3. It talks about the differences between single and multicore processing and the difficulties, advantages and disadvantages in programming for these types of chips. It’s interesting to note how poorly this chip performs when computing standard desktopy type instructions (not unlike the PS2 Emotion Engine) compared to video game and media type code.
I had a real hard time figuring out where I was supposed to go in this level. I got about half way through and was pretty much stuck. I blame the darkness of the game design. This video helped me find my way.
Great game, highly recommend the purchase.
