I was playing “liberty city” and to my eyes the quality was just as good as the PS2, I am aware of the fact that many people who read blogs and who know just the slightest about PC will loath all forms of consoles, but you know what this is different.

I think that I could spend a whole day in the back of a car with one of these playing games or watching movies. I think by now most probably have seen the PSP on TV or even in real life, if you have seen it on TV well all I have to say is that it doesn’t do the PSP any justice, the screen is so much bigger than you could imagine but saying that the console itself isn’t too big.

I have thought quite hard to find some bad things on the PSP here is what I have come up with………………………….. …. …. ..umm.. no but seriously the only thing that I could think of well in my eyes is the fact that they use some crappy UMD, I think if I am right in saying that is stands for Universal Media Disk these are some small cassettes type CD’s which can fit in to the palm of you hand but they really do cost an arm and a leg. The only other bad points of the PSP is the things it doesn’t have (like the feature of being a mobile phone) which if it did have I would be sure to buy.

I think consoles are on the brink of a revolution if the PS3 is as good as the PSP, and I definitely think that Sony have got there act together…well I still disagree with putting multi-player games on consoles I think that ruins the experience. If you do have the money then definitely I am 100 percent behind you if you buy the PSP its a bargain in my view.

Well I don’t own a PSP so I cant talk about the long term experiences of a PSP e.g. malfunctions, glitches, overheats and warranty’s but still a great little toy. if you disagree with the PSP just because it is a “console” or a “Sony” play it first, or if you have played it and still disagree with any thing I have just wrote, write below.

IGN: The double agent aspect sounds like it’s more intrinsic to the game’s overall design than just the story plotline. Can you talk a bit about this?

Daniel Roy: You’re absolutely right! When we came up with the Double Agent concept, we thought long and hard on what it could mean for the gameplay, especially in the context of Splinter Cell. For instance, as a double agent, you will be given dual, sometimes contradictory objectives by terrorists and Third Echelon. For instance, you could be asked to plant a bomb by the terrorists, while at the same time having to sabotage it for the NSA. In some instances, these dual objectives lead to direct contradictions, and this is when you, as Sam Fisher, must make difficult, moral choices.

Read the rest of the interview: IGN

Release dates:
PC – Q1 2006
PS3 – Q4 2006
Xbox – Q1 2006
Xbox 360 – Q1 2006
GameCube – Q1 2006
PS2 – Q1 2006

It makes me feel a whole lot older, how did ten years pass by like that! I remember the release of the PS1 which was a revolution in the console gaming world. I’m not gonna lie, I never owned one – but so many of my friends and relatives did that I might’swell have. I never was much of a console guy (pc all the way) but the Playstation certainly had its place in the worlds advancing video games market, and for that I pay my dues. 

September 9th will go down as a day notorious in American gaming history. Two consoles launched on September 9th; one, which launched in 1999, was a failure that doomed a hardware manufacturer to a future of software production. The other, launched in 1995, is one of the most successful consoles in gaming history. But you’re not reading this to lament over the late Dreamcast, we hope. Instead, you’re here to read up and celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the PlayStation’s U.S. launch. Sony’s little grey machine that could is a decade old now, and its ripple effect over gamers, popular culture, and technology carries a profound legacy.

 :arrow: Gamespy, Top 25 PSone Games of All-Time

 Now I won’t ruin for you their number one game, but it does bring back memories of the fun times I had on the PSone – especially the days of Tekken 3, what a game. It comes to show how far Technology is advancing and not only changing the gaming world, but also the political and even religious world around us.

Sony will be releasing the PSP (Playstation Portable) next week on 1st of September in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Sony has also already shipped more then 5 million PSP units over the world and 2.33 million units are going to Asia and Japan and 2.74 million units going to the United States and Canada.

Source: GameIndustry

 The PSP™ (PlayStation®Portable) has a slim 6.7" x 2.9" frame that packs a powerful multimedia punch, enabling you to enjoy your favorite games, music, videos and photos instantly, anywhere. Factor in the PSP system’s brilliant high-resolution screen and cutting-edge wireless connectivity and Internet Browser – and you may just have a revolution in your hands.

Learn more about the PSP here

Packed with new modes and features, NCAA Football 06 captures the unique electricity of college football.  The all-new Race for the Heisman mode gives players the chance to experience the ultimate goal in college football – winning the Heisman Memorial Trophy.  Starting out as a high school prep star, players will begin their career on the practice field in search of scholarship offers and then work their way to becoming one of the nation’s top collegiate players. 

In NCAA Football 06, gamers can also act as Impact Players to single handedly break games wide open with highlight reel moves and special animations.  Through a revamped Dynasty Mode, gamers can take control of a program and make a run for the championship year after year.  In addition, redesigned graphics, improved gameplay and new in-studio commentary and analysis by Brad Nessler, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit make NCAA Football 06 the most authentic and realistic college football gaming experience.

Developed in Orlando, Florida by EA Tiburon, NCAA Football 06 is available for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and the Xbox video game system from Microsoft.  The game is rated “E” (Everyone) by the ESRB and has an MSRP of $49.99 for both console versions.  The game’s official website is www.ncaafootball06.com.

PS3

Xbox 360

Processor

3.2GHz Cell w/ 7 SPEs
2.0 TFLOPS

3.2GHz G5 w/ 3 Cores
1.0 TFLOPS

Memory

256MB XDR @ 3.2GHz
256MB GDDR3 @ 700MHz

512MB GDDR3 @ 700MHz
10MB Embedded DRAM

GPU

550MHz NVIDIA

500MHz ATi

Best Display

1080p Standard
Dual Screen Output

1080i Optional
Single Screen Output

Network

1000BASE-T Ethernet
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g

100BASE-TX Ethernet
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g

Audio

5.1 Digital

5.1 Digital

Wireless Input

x7 on Bluetooth 2.0

x4 on 2.4GHz RF

Storage

Removable HDD
*TBA

Removable HDD
20GB

Release

Spring 2006

November 2005

Dimensions

About 13.5" x 3.25"

About 10.25" x 2.5"

My Review:

What can I say? They will be a good/ish specification at this time of course!! The problem is when they are actually released!! They’ll totally loose their great speed and graphics by the end of 2005/beginning of 2006! I mean by then 3.2ghz will not exactly be great, and already 512MB Ram is sucky. What i’ve always said about consoles: They are just non-upgradeable pc’s for people who can’t afford to maintain a high specification of pc! Sorry but thats prettey much fact. I already have all of the things on the specifications of both of the consoles on my PC and I have done for like 2 years! A 20GB Harddrive is actually prettey pathetic, must say i’m dissapointed.

Design - Personally I think they both look okay. Nothing special about them, wow they’re both silver (thats so 2 years ago!). They probably look better then the original versions, but of course that is the idea! I’m not totally critical of consoles, and I do like to play on them but you have to be critical of both if you want to get a good opinion overall.

You can find out more about PS3 v Xbox 360 here

Though the Register is also under the assumption that the Xbox 2 will be shown May 16 as well, rather than May 12 as reported in the story below.

As they are on the Xbox 2 front. A memo alleged to have leaked out of games publisher Electronic Arts earlier this year pointed to a late 2005 release date for Microsoft’s next console, codenamed ‘Xenon’. Next month’s launch notwithstanding, PS3 isn’t expected to ship until Q1/Q2 2006, so Microsoft could very well want to get in ahead of its rival will a release targeting the Christmas 2005 sales season. Comment made by other industry players, including Nintendo, suggests the business believes Microsoft will try to get in early.

Having not taken the chance to launch Xbox 2 at January’s Consumer Electronics Show or February’s Game Developer’s Conference, Microsoft has to be eyeing upcoming major games industry events of which E3 is by far the biggest and most important.

So look out for the 12-16th May!!

Heavyweight:

Roy Jones Jr

James Toney

Muhammad Ali

Chris Byrd

Joe Frazier

Evander Holyfield

Sonny Liston

Rocky Marciano

Ken Norton

Light Heavy:

Jeff Lacy

Evander Holyfield

Roy Jones Jr.

James Toney

Antonio Tarver

Middleweight:

Bernard Hopkins

Ray Robinson

Jermain Taylor

Ronald Wright

“At noon, I recorded voices for a game named Suikoden (Konami). In the evening, I worked on an anime named Erementar Gerad, which will be starting in April,” Terada wrote in his blog.

Terada, who currently works under the pseudonym Mugi Hito, is known for his voice contributions to anime like Grappler Baki, where he voiced the character Orochi Doppo. But he also lent his voice to the role of Sigma in Capcom’s Rockman X4 and X6.

Suikoden IV, the latest in the long-standing franchise, was released for the PlayStation 2 on January 11 in the US. GameSpot will provide further information on any future Suikoden game as it becomes available.

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Wow, sounds like a beast
Note that by the time this is released, all pc’s will probably be 10x more powerful…