Sony will share many secrets at the TGS 2008

From VG Chartz, here's the list of games presented by Sony:

Guitar Hero III (PS3) : playable

FIFA 09 (PS3) : playable

Street Fighter IV (PS3) : playable

Resident Evil 5 (PS3) : playable

Lumines Super Nova (PS3) : playable

Metal Gear Solid Online (PS3) : playable

Way of the Samurai 3 (PS3) : playable

Sonic Unleashed (PS3) : playable

Socom : Confrontation (PS3) : playable

PlayStation Home (PS3) : playable

Dokodemo Issho (PS3) : playable

MotorStorm Pacific Rift (PS3) : playable

LittleBigPlanet (PS3) : playable

Resistance 2 (PS3) : playable

WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 (PS3) : playable

Dynasty Warriors : Gun dam 2 (PS3) : playable

Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm (PS3) : playable

Devil Kings : Battle Heroes (PSP) : playable

Dynasty Warriors Multi Raid (PSP) : playable

Warriors Orochi 2 (PSP) : playable

Kingdom Hearts : Birth by Sleep (PSP) : playable

Dissidia : Final Fantasy (PSP) : playable

Secret Agent Clank (PSP) : playable

Ape Quest (PSP) : playable

Patapon 2 (PSP) : playable

Bleach : Soul Carnival (PSP) : playable

Dokodemo Issho (PSP) : playable

Yusha no Kuse ni Namaikida 2 (PSP) : playable

LocoRoco 2 (PSP) : playable

The Idolmaster SP (PSP) : playable

Mobile Suit Gun dam : Gun dam Vs. Gun dam (PSP) : playable

Tales of the World : Radiant Mythology 2 (PSP) : playable

1 unannounced PS3 game from IREM

1 unannounced PS3 game from Konami

9 unannounced PS3 games + 3 unannounced PSP games from Sony Computer Entertainment

First of all, there's a good amount of playable games. In fact, all identified games will be playable. That's a good thing.
Secondly, there's that IREM game which I can't remember if it's that other R-Type game, not necessarily a pure shooter, or an adventure game. Well, it's not really the same IREM anymore, but hope doesn't hurt, right? Maybe it's that Hototogisu tactical card game.
Thirdly, and probably the most important part of all, Sony will present 9 first party games for the PS3, and 3 for the PSP, all kept secret for the moment.
It's only after most of this batch of new games will have been released that Sony will know how to proceed with the PS3's price.

6 Pirates caught: CoD 3 sales rise by 8.4%

Let me see.

We have roughly several hundred millions consoles and PCs combined sold worldwide, all capable of playing current games. If we include the 95% piracy figures from Yerli, plus the 90% of piracy in China and think about averages, I suppose that there's around several hundred millions pirates left out there, waiting for a sentence.

Come on, I'm sure you can do better than catching six folks the hand in the jar, right?

How did this end?

• a Washington man, apparently unrepresented by counsel, agreed to pay Activision $100,000 (CoD 3 Wii, CoD 3 Xbox 360) to settle the case.
• a South Carolina man, also apparently unrepresented, agreed to pay Activision $25,000 to settle the case. (CoD3 Wii, Tony Hawk's Project 8, Xbox 360).
• a New Jersey man, apparently the only defendant who had an attorney, agreed to pay Activision $100,000 (CoD 3 Xbox 360).
• a Minnesota woman, apparently with no attorney, agreed to pay Activision $1,000.
• a second South Carolina man agreed to pay Activision $100,000 (CoD 3 Wii, Cod 2 The Big Red One PS2, Tony Hawk's Project 8, Xbox 360). He too was apparently unrepresented.
• a New York man's case is still active (CoD 3 Xbox 360).

(GamePolitics)

A most interesting aspect of this affair has been the claimed use of scare tactics by Activision (acting like a RIAA of video games), pressuring defendants to reject representation by attorneys, otherwise facing massive judicial costs.
A practice which is unacceptable, especially if less or not even guilty people get sued and were to be threatened the same way.

Really, the more Activision tightens its grip, the more sales will slip through its fingers. If anything, they're not spending their resources in the right direction, and overly disproportionate sanctions will only encourage crackers to pursue their activities, and they'll surely take the piss even more, no doubt about that, while the message sent to the average Joe (steal one game and we destroy your life) will get a lukewarm welcome, considering those dark times of relentless inflation and looming worldwide economical crisis.

So what's next?
Again, without condoning piracy, there are degrees of justice to apply, and those examples will remain utterly futile if the sanction doesn't even look fair to begin with.

It's as ridiculous as thinking that it's the securities embedded within the Blu-ray technology that prevent piracy on the PS3.
What prevents piracy is that no one burns Blu-ray discs because burners and discs are damn expensive, notably because it's a new technology, which half the planet doesn't care about, while many industrials deem the format already dead. Which is a good thing in fact, since it won't get popular, so the situation won't change and logically keep the "household" piracy low. Actually, developers certainly DON'T want the format becoming too popular.
Finally, and thus far, it seems that launching pirated games from the HDD is still a good challenge, even when running Linux on the console.

Meanwhile, I continue to buy my used games at incredibly low prices for an overall great quality.

Amazing: Nintendo's latest Wario Trailer

Back in July I was drooling over the first trailer for Wario Land Shake Ur Butt Baby, but if you still have doubts about the quality of the game, then do not miss this fantastic trailer for Wario!
At least you will realize that Nintendo has not lost it.

Pipes, Demons and Mustaches

In may 2008, Youtube member Ultimortal unleashed the fruit of a most unholy fusion upon us:

5 stars stuff there.

The Good, the Bad, and the Weird ...

Man, that's some crazy shit I tell you. We got western stuff, we got guns and smoken we got shades of Mad Max, we got some HK fu, plenty of bangs and booms, we got chicks, we got white pussy, black pussy, Spanish puss... err... shit, wait, no. We got a big black steamy train, we got plenty of sand and dust, and it's all in Korean, loud and dirty.
It just seems too cool to be true. I can't believe I missed that!

DICE created a whole new genre!

So says Martin Frain, marketing director for DICE, as per a campaign to revolutionize video gaming with incoming Mirror's Edge.

As per his words, they have created the "first-person action-adventure".

Amen.

Funny thing, I played that game called Cybercon III four hours on my STE. What I think could be called a FPAD.

Mirror's Edge, can't wait to play this new set of textures. Err... I mean this new game.