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The look and the environments remind me a lot of LocoRoco Cocorecho. What do you guys think?

Thanks to Sporty for the link. Too much PS3 news to fully cover today

This is a Japanese strategy RPG developed by Sega exclusively for PS3. Unfortunately, Disgaea 3, which was the other big strategy JRPG for PS3 was pushed back to 2009.

This is out in Japan and headed to the West in November. There are also trailers on the Japanese PSN if you have a Japanese account setup. These videos show more cut scene footage than gameplay but the art style looks very nice.

I was just talking to Tosh this morning about Champions of Norrath, my favourite PS2 game. Which got me thinking that I would really like a game in the same spirit as that one on the PS3. Which got me thinking about what my all-time most wanted made-up game would be on the PS3. So here it is. This is the game I’d most like to see on the PS3, in the form of a recipe (kinda).

1. Start with a game with the same basic mechanics as Champions of Norrath.
2. Update the game with current generation visuals and 5.1 surround sound.
3. Throw in some of the cool stuff from Untold Legends like the combo system.
4. Make sure it has good online and offline multiplayer support.
5. Expand the random dungeon generator so that they’re different every time you play. (This was in Champions, but not its sequel.)
6. Add more spells and variety in spells.
7. Add three dimensionality to the game, allowing you to jump down on enemies.

Okay, okay. I was starting to get a little too specific there. The point is, I’d like to see a good Champions style game on the PS3. Untold Legends was a valiant attempt, but fell quite short.

That’s what I’d like to see. How about you guys?

I was prepared to sell my 60GB PS3 to get this bundle. But it’s a 40GB PS3 … booo Konami. We want a 80GB PS3, oh, well. At least I have the MGS4 LE Game bundle pre-ordered.

If you want the bundle you can pre-order on Monday May 19th at Konami.com. Details below:

It comes with the Gun Metal Gray PLAYSTATION 3 system with a 40GB hard drive, the bundle also includes a matching DUALSHOCK 3 wireless controller.

The MGS4 LE game box contains: The Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots game, which includes Metal Gear Online, enabling you to take part in the ultimate multiplayer squad based tactical shooter. An exclusive Blu-ray disc including over 2 hours of additional content - “Hideo Kojima’s Gene”, a behind-the-scenes vision of Hideo Kojima’s production team & game and “The Making of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots” documentary. As well as, the official Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots CD Soundtrack, including 16 never-before-released tracks by Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, Armageddon, The Rock), Nobuko Toda, and Ennio Morricone.

MGS4 Limited Edition PS3 Hardware Bundle Details!

Last weekend I was in Walmart looking for an easy-to-use digital camera for my daughter. I walked past the Wii display and it looked like there were some boxes there. Surely, these must be some peripheral or somesuch, because I’d never seen Wii’s at Walmart since… well… ever! But no, these were the real deal. About seven of them.

So I picked one up, and Wii Play too for the extra controller. My wife and I had discussed this earlier, and we thought it would be a fun gaming system for her and the kids.

So we got it home and I neglected it for a bit so that I can play with my kids outside. My daughter was more interested in the new digital camera than the Wii, and ditto goes for my other daughter and son. Eventually I set up the system and got things running. And you know what? The kids enjoyed creating the Miis but soon lost interest. That was a disappointment.

But luckily since then things have improved. They’ve been playing it more and more, so I don’t feel like I just wasted hundreds of dollars. Whew!

But now that I had a Wii, I thought I’d look into the games some more (though I already had a general idea) to see if there’s anything that I would want to play. I know lots of people love the Mario games like Mario Kart, but they’ve never held my interest. I’ll play them, but only because we’re at Steve’s that evening and everyone else likes playing them. (Sorry Steve.)

So anyway, I’ve searched far and wide, and I found only one Wii title (that’s not available on my PS3) that piqued my interest. Boom Blox! That game looks like a lot of fun. I’ll give it a rent, and if I like it, I might just pick it up.

Now I need to find a game or two that my daughters (7 and 5, both with a low tolerance for failure) and son (2) will enjoy…

The video below was created and uploaded to YouTube from within a PS3 game. This could have some great potential. Imagine a cool moment in a game that you wish you could have recorded and shared with your friends. Now you can if the game supports it. Right now only this game supports it at the moment.

Check out NeoGAF and start at post 58.

These numbers are given in Sony’s fiscal calendar which is one full quarter behind regular calendar time. For example, Calendar Q1 2008 = Fiscal Q4 2007.

(Numbers given in millions)

For fiscal year 2007, Sony sold 9.24 million PS3’s which is under their estimate they set one year ago of 11 million units. For fiscal year 2008, Sony is forecasting 10 million PS3 sales.

Sony’s full quarterly financial report can be found here.

Did you notice this report on Haze the other day? It had this little tidbit in there:
Will the game support 4 player co-op and multiplayer in split screen? […]
The game supports two players split screen per PS3 in Co-op and multiplayer. You can connect two PS3 with 2 players playing split screen to make it […]

As home gets pushed further and further out, the only thing we can do is wait and read about it. Like this interview with IGN!
After reading the interview I had a hard time trying to pinpoint anything that was new and interesting, or just new for that matter.
But in case you’re new to the PS3 […]