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PS3 Is out

Its now offical [via]

if we go by specs , ps3 is better than the Xbox 360
but sony wouldn’t settle for a ” better ” it seem , they are going for the kill

while Xb0x 360 backwards compatibility is still rumors ( nothing is confermed )
sony says that ps3 is firmly compatibile

CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc

and its blu-ray !

and the fact that it use most memeory on the market is good also

    USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
    Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
    SD standard/mini x 1
    CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1

notice how memory stick ( the one used in nearly most sony products ) is there ? thats good for them
because that what would be called cross product sales

speaking of cross product sale
Sony has the change to do what Game Boy Advance link with Game Cube did before
Link UP ! since both share USB 2.0 and Wi-Fi which could enable the psp to interact with ps3

game that were shown are
Devil May Cry 4
Fight Night 3
Spider-Man
Getaway PS3
Warhawk PS3
Tekken 6
Killzone 2 (working title)
Gran Turismo 5
Final Fantasy XII
Red Dead Revolver 2 (working title)

Games Confirmed
Heavenly Sword
Metal Gear Solid 4

pictures from file rush news

much work for Nintendo to try and do better than both sony P3 and Xbox360 , but with the rumors of IBM & ATI working on next Nintendo consule , i expect to get something great !

Gamespot has videos on it [link]

psp Vs DS

well the top ten sales figure came from japan as of april 11

for the PsP

    Minna no Golf Portable (SCE) – 337,972
    Ridge Racers (Namco) – 274,682
    Shin Sangoku Musou (Koei) – 268,514
    Tales of Eternia (Namco) – 157,043
    Piposaru Academia (SCE) – 108,599
    Metal Gear Acid (Konami) – 99,871
    Kotoba no Puzzle: Mojipittan Daijiten (Namco) – 98,109
    Gagharv Trilogy (Bandai) – 89,202
    Doko Demo Issho (SCE) – 86,255
    Mahjong Fight Club (Konami) – 77,137

for the DS

    Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo) – 711,424
    Sawaru Made in Wario (Nintendo) – 710,371
    Pokemon Dash (Pokemon) – 323,741
    Daigassou! Band Brothers (Nintendo) – 166,071
    Catch! Touch! Yoshi (Nintendo) – 163,963
    Touch! Kirby (Nintendo) – 127,690
    Another Code: Futatsu no Kioku (Nintendo) – 104,114
    Chokkan Hitofude (Nintendo) – 102,330
    Kimi no tame nara Shineru (Sega) – 97,629
    Puyo Puyo Fever (Sega) – 82,898

by that list we see that the ds has a small lead on PsP ( understandable since it was relased before the PsP ) but the list also prove that the PsP is not the DS killer it was said to be

but what would drive the sale of PsP i think is now the UMD is cracked , and games can be run from the memory ( some torrent site already have games to download ) and there is a lot of porgrams that convert media into PsP thing for it to run

same as Ps2 , its still selling strong because you can buy it and live on copys , but with game cube for example , there is no copy , unless you want to follow a plan with painfull steps

of course i don’t have nither a DS or PsP , i’m thinking of going to the state , maybe i’ll pickup something there ( just like when i picked up the game cube ) prices here in kuwait are kinda priced as if 1 $ = 1 Kd

Speaking of games , if you want a bloody as hell Adventure game i advice you to pick

God of War

its bloody , its mature , and its hella fun

going with the flow of Technology

some bloggers have flickr accounts
Flicker was mostly normal people posting pictures they took with their digi-cam , some pro also use it , but not much i think

others are dicovering it and using it , it seem a U.S. Senator has a flicker account as well ! wow , that nice .

wish our parliment members used new Technology , other than mobiles and few members who have bad web sites , our parliment members are the same as the ones in 1960’s
wonder what Al-tabtabaee flicker would be like 😛

Masters of Doom

one great book i read around 7 month ago , the book talk about the story of ID software John Carmack and John Romero the two people behind the great game doom

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

anyway , the book is going to be truned into a showtime movie !

The film industry trade publication Variety announced today that Showtime plans to make a bio-pic movie based on Masters of Doom, the 2003 released non-fiction book on the formation of Doom developer id Software.
The executive producer and scriptwriter for the movie is Naren Shankar, who currently is an executive producer on CBS’s crime show CSI and has written scripts for shows like The Outer Limits and Farscape. Shankar stated in the Variety story that he first learned about about the David Kushner authored book by reading a review in an engineering journal. The book chronicled the formation of id Software and in particular focused on the developer’s two driving forces, its master programmer John Carmack and designer John Romero. There is no word yet on when Showtime plans to start production on the movie.

which is cool for geeks like me ! you don’t get much geek movies , last good one i have seen was Pirates of Silicon Valley

cyber freedom of speech in kuwait

some people talked about a blog that got banned here in kuwait by all kuwait ISP

I went around and started checking , and i couldn’t enter it from my ISP and i tried another ISP , same result

so i said to my self , why not try to check on smartfilter URL checker
since its the software some of our ISP use here in kuwait Qualitynet

and what i got ?

List Date: Fri Apr 1 (List: 346)
Categories:
Hate Speech, Politics/Opinion, Profanity, Sexual Materials, Gruesome Content

like woha ! the blog did suck , but it had it funny moments , i thought it was bad ! but not that bad !
and not only the page is going to get blocked in kuwait , but by all ISP or companies or houses that use
smartfilter products ( which i was told there are a lot )

to compare i had one of the blogs i link to checked , brother Q
it came out as Personal Pages
( Zaydoun with all his political talk still came out as personal pages also )

do you think the ISP had the right to report him as such ?

where do you draw the line ? porn ? flashing breasts ? hair ? uncovered face ?

( i’m not linking to the blog that was banned , he seem to have removed it , but its still in the database )