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 Being sucked up by my job again it's kind of tough to follow the news threat these days. One of the reason why I finally started twittering againafter not using my account for month now. It is a lot easier to share those 140 chars instead of writing a full fledged post. Anyway, what were the most interesting posts these days?
0.5 PS3 Definitely one of the most promising news is about the potential downsizing of the PS3 due to the forthcoming 45nm version of the Cell. Here is what David Reeves said in a guardian.co.uk interview: As much as i like the idea of the 45 nm version what was driving Reeves to speculate about a DVD equipped PS3? What type of nonsense would this be? Whatever, this new hardware revision gives Sony the flexibility to react during those days of finanical crisis with an adequate price reduction, which will come for sure this year. Turn the lights onIf you are a loyal follower of this blog you should know by now that I am a big, big supporter of Philips Ambilight technology. Mounted on a white wall Ambilight creates a compelling atmosphere that no other HD TV can create these days. The good thing about the Ambilight technology is that it works with all video inputs. amBX on the other side is a Philips spin-off that uses the same kind of technology plus further effects like ventilators and shacking hand rests to even make this experience more realistic. Mainly focused on PC gamers with keyboards and usual monitors, amBX is now supporting the PS3. As much as I support the Ambilight technology I am not sure if this is going to take off as a new technology. Both hand rests and fans will not work in the typical living room environment and only the LED based lights would somehow work in such a context. But those lights just don't simply attach to a usual TV which makes it kind of difficult to use them. So, in case you are interested in this technology I would really suggest to take a look at the Philips Ambilight products as they will work with all games and movies and don't need special support. Demos, demos, demosAs a PS3 fan I was waiting for those demos for month now and finally I wasn't even at home to start the downloads. Two critically acclaimed game demos have been released last week, Killzone 2 as well as Resident Evil 5. This weekend I finally found the time to at least take a look and check the quality of the games. After I downloaded the Killzone 2 demo I was a little bit disappointed to find out that it is basically a cut down version of the GC 2008 demo I already played last August. Too bad. I guess I have to wait for the final game. Resident Evil 5 on the other side was a very positive surprise to me. The game really picks up all the good things from the last chapter and comes with very good graphics that justify the long wait for the game. I can't wait to play both of those game in a couple of weeks. Monkey BusinessAfter the first rumors turned out to be true I had close to zero confidence that we eveer gonna see TimeSplitters 4, now that Free Radical seemed to be history. Well, it might not actually be the case now that we had to learn that Crytek, the company behind Far Cry and Crysis bought what was left of the company. Well, there is no confirmation yet, but I guess that part of the deal are all the company owned IPs, which would of course include TimeSplitters. If those Crytek guys feel at least a little sense of responsibility they will of course continue with the game after they have successfully brought those guys on board. The new name of the company is Crytek UK. Not very unique if you ask me.
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