Here are three classic videos to shut every seventh genration fanboy/girl up for good. The videos are extended ones.

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Okay lets start positive, gt5p looks great, plays good, have the best dashboard I’ve ever seen for a racing game on a seventh generation gaming console, but the game still lacks a lot of features that other games panning from sixth generation to even the seventh generation racing games have, First of all One of these features is the 360° camera which should be embed to the Right Tumb-Stick instead of just look right / left feature that can be enabled into any of the ps3 controller buttons.

Second feature that the series is still missing is more camera angles, even though they have released the old Gran Turismo 4 Replay cameras the game still have a low amount of camera options, I know this post wont make Polyphony change their selection of cameras for gt5p *update* or GT5 but its worth a shot, the game still has no CLOSE camera for any of the cars only Far > farther > further > street > dashboard. No need to be a a Nancy Drew but why did Polyphony digital waste 4-5 months PER-CAR so that we can only drive the car from its back at a long distance and not be able to view it in 360° while driving?

Third Feature: Bad car self-lighting and self-shading, yeah the chubby car enthusiast in Beyond the Apex says the car lighting is real but I say differnt the cars are too dark and add a Far only option for the main camera and that makes the cars look really bad even on a 1080p HD.

Fourth Feature: Photo Mode, YES its finally out in the open the game has never had a good photo mode unless you count that fake 2d background thing they had in GT4 ad a photo mode, this feature is not expected by all racing games that feature exotic cars and such… PGR 2 or 3 Had it first, Forza 2 had it second, NFS Carbon had it third, few other games gave it a try and failed (GT4).

*Lost unrelated feature: Tuning Gran Turismo was one of the first games to include full tuning of at least 76% of all cars in the game and that was very impressive, but now the expect 900+ cars game will only offer few pre-tuned cars and a spoiler and rim shop for the game and that is it.*

Games with these features:

• Feature One: Forza Motorsport 2, Project Gotham Racing 3 & 4, GTA IV, Saint Row.
• Feature Two: Forza Motorsport 2, Project Gotham Racing 3, GTA IV, Dirt, Race Driver Grid, Dirt, NFS MW/Carbon/ProStreet.
• Feature Three: (Great car self-light, self-shadowing) Grad Theft Auto IV, Race Driver Grid, PGR 4, Dirt
• Feature Four: (In-race / etc.. Photo Mode) PGR 2/3, Forza 2, NFS Carbon, GTA SA (Has a camera that can take any photo).

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Codemasters®, developer and publisher of award-winning racing video games, has secured the exclusive video game rights to FORMULA 1. In a worldwide licensing agreement with Formula One Administration Limited, Codemasters will develop a new generation of the multi-million selling FORMULA 1 game franchise across multiple platforms.

Codemasters Studios, creators of genre-leading racing titles DiRT™ and GRID™, will lead the design and development of official FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP games for home console, handheld and PC gaming formats.

“FORMULA 1 is ambitious in expanding its reach with more circuits planned beyond recent additions in the Middle East and China,” said Rod Cousens, chief executive officer, Codemasters. “It is also ambitious in expanding its reach via technology. The digital communities that computer and video gaming creates will play a key role in further growing the FORMULA 1 audience and connecting them globally. As a world-leading creator of driving games, this alliance with FORMULA 1 is the jewel in Codemasters’ racing crown and creates an undisputed segment champion. FORMULA 1 has gone with the best, the segment leader. It has gone to the home of the EGO Engine for quality; it has gone to the company that can host FORMULA 1 Online, to the company that is streaking away from the pack.”

“Codemasters’ success and recent innovations in the racing game space makes the company more than appropriately tuned for the challenge,” said Chris Deering, chairman, Codemasters. “The combination of FORMULA 1’s new momentum of expansion and Codemasters’ contemporary technology and past experience is the breaking of a new dawn for the sport, on the track and on the HD game screen.”

The worldwide deal provides Codemasters with rights to feature all Grand Prix circuits, FORMULA 1 teams, cars, and driver likenesses.

The FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP games will be developed using the evolution of the award-winning EGO™ Game Technology Engine, Codemasters’ highly versatile cross-platform middleware technology. Its advanced graphics and physics technology brings an unmatched cinematic quality and realism to interactive entertainment.

The EGO Engine is currently being deployed in the creation of GRID™, the latest in Codemasters Studio’s international circuit-based racing series, set to be a landmark release when it launches on June 3.

Codemasters expects the first game based on the FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP to launch in 2009.

Well it seems that neither Sony nor EA Games were able to get their greedy hands on the license of F1, which I’m kinda glad, F1 CE for PS3 looks good, plays great, but has a-lot o issues, and missing realism, I can’t wait for Codmasters F1 Game to be released and see how its going to look, hopefully as good as Dirt and GRID, IF NOT BETTER!

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Sony’s histrion cartoonist has commented that developers are today waking up to the intent of creating their games on the PS3 primarily first, then porting them downbound to the Xbox 360 as the mettlesome module countenance meliorate this way. He also indicated that the Xbox 360 has unsuccessful to go beyond its set conference of FPS fans, meet same the example Xbox.

Here he is on PS3’s questionable theoretical vantage to Xbox 360. “Third parties attainstarted to advise from the de facto 360 SDK. Of instruction grouping fashioned their next-gen games on it because that was the exclusive digit there. The PS3 shipped and so they said, ‘let’s opening our 360 games to the PS3.’ But today companies are recognizing that ‘hey, if I move on the PS3 and then opening downbound to the 360, my 360 mettlesome is feat to countenance meliorate than if I had meet fashioned it for the 360.’ So the pendulum is swinging. The heads of utilization intellection ‘what’s feat to exhibit soured my next-gen mettlesome that such better?’ It is to advance with the PS3 and then to opening to the 360.”

    “Well no, but we do countenance at how intimately 360 is indexed soured of Xbox and for the beatific accumulate of 2007 it was evenhandedly near to where Xbox was assemblage to year.

    “The instance that they had to create Brobdingnagian indifference and physique a large establish humble before the PS3 could rattling verify root; that possibleness is over and there’s no actual estimation of it. They had a enthusiastic crescendo instance with Halo and it helped arbalist them into a pretty brawny function towards the backwards modify of terminal year, but they were ease within a stone’s intercommunicate of where they were with the example Xbox.

    “To me that speaks of a unfortunate to alter their accomplish beyond the set prototypal mortal expert contestant who was in their backwards incurvature for Xbox. The discourse for us is ‘are they rattling feat after the PS2 demographic? Are they concealing care from us?’ And the respond is no.”

-Apparently Sony corp thinks that xbox 360 will be the new port system, meaning that the playstation 3 games will look better and the x360 games will just be low quality ports (Hmm… What about that game called Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent, Or Lost Planet)

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Apparently Microsoft Xbox 360 Tech support division has many issues with users who have gotten their xbox 360’s broken due to, Grand Theft Auto IV (How about that 5 minute install time, is it worth it now MS?) Its kinda funny, that such a major company cannot fix xbox 360s or can’t get good costumer service reps to help its costumers, you’d think a company who has a revenue of US $51.12 billion dollars and 18.25 billion dollars in operating income would be able to hire people who can actually speak well enough English to be able to help its costumers instead of pissing them off. Enough said here are some user replies that caught my eye.

1. ) “While playing GTA IV my Xbox 360 broke down, it is now dead. The error code is E74, Microsoft does not know what it is. We all spend Hundreds even Thousands of dollars on our 360 consoles so you think Microsoft would make a console that could last for more than 1 year. I just bought a new 1 year membership to Xbox Live for 49.95 and two new games Frontlines which sux don’t buy it and GTA IV which is the best game ever and I can’t play them now because my Xbox is junk it might as well be a anchor for my boat, but it’s not even good enough for that. I hear the people saying I’m on my 3rd Xbox, but honestly you should not have to spend that much money too have fun. I have three accounts on Xbox live, MECHWOLF55, xBpMxTaNkKiLLa, xXSFDXxBlAstER, $150.00 a year and now I have to spend $350+dollars for a new Xbox360, I might as well buy a PS3 because it at least plays BluRay discs and might last for more than one year. If Microsoft is listening PLEASE STOP RIPPING US OFF WE ARE NOT BILLIONAIRES LIKE YOU HELP US DO NOT HURT US. And if you cut off my Xbox Live account because of this, I WILL SUE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!” -  xBpMxTaNk KiLLa

2.) “I guess Niko didn’t like you, lol” -  Xtorti0n
Read the Official Microsoft Forums : GTA IV breaking 360 consoles Thread here! >>

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Here is a long list made by me and, many people on the net, who believe after the main mission the game has nothing but multiplayer… It seems that Rockstar games gave up everything they invented just to have a small multiplayer mode. I think for the next installment the game should be developed by Rockstar games but the multiplayer should be developed by MTA mod team plus MTA Team has a built-in GTA SA editor which allows the gamer to create small islands and block certain areas to create a better online experience.

List of missing elements:

1. Flam thrower -gun or to be found
2. Airplanes
3. More walk-in places
4. Drinking differnt kinds of drinks .. and not just Sprite copy Sprunk!
5. Food menu is now shorten to one item usually $1 and $5 hot dogs.
6. Gang members “Vice City had 3 gang members at the end of the game”
7. The game has too many 3D store logos which 89% are just empty building which you cannot go into. [Oblivion has every single house usable]
8. Less main missions “GTA SA had 160+”
9. Swimming UNDER water not just over it.
10. Less Bike Spawns, 1 out of 40 vehicles is a motor bike.
    continue reading "GTA IV Missing Elements"

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Here is the GameStop coupon to save 25% extra! when trading in your Sony PSP or Nintendo DS games (not sure if it works with handhelds them self though)  but its worth if it you have a old game laying around.

!! Click on Coupon to enlarge it to printing size !! 

Offer only good till 05/08/2008

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SCE Announces Home Plans: Open Beta in Fall 2008
Delayed but with a promise of quality; Closed beta available again in Summer.

April 21, 2008 - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. announced today that it will expand the Closed Beta testing for PLAYSTATION Home in Summer 2008, inviting a further number of registrants from the PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) users. Following completion of the Expanded Closed Beta test, the PLAYSTATION Home Open Beta service will commence in Fall 2008.

“We understand that we are asking PS3 and prospective PS3 users to wait a bit longer, but we have come to the conclusion that we need more time to refine the service to ensure a more focused gaming entertainment experience than what it is today,” said Kazuo Hirai, President and Group CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. “Our overarching objective is to provide users with new gaming experiences that are available only on PLAYSTATION Home. Spending more time on the development and on the Closed Beta testing reaffirms our commitment to bringing a quality service, maintaining the PlayStation tradition.”

The PLAYSTATION Home Open Beta service that will become available in Fall 2008 will be built around providing new and fun community gaming experiences.

Details of the Closed Beta testing features, registration for the test and the opening of the service will be announced as they become available.

About PLAYSTATION Home:

PLAYSTATION Home is the visual representation of the PlayStation community. It is an evolving online social gaming service built for PS3 users to meet and share gaming experiences.

Source: PS3.IGN.COM

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According to a report in the Economic Daily News, Asus’ Pegatron Technology has secured a deal from Microsoft to assemble Xbox 360 systems with a built-in Blu-ray Disc (BD)-ROM drive. Furthermore, the newspaper even claims that these new sytems will begin shipping in the third quarter of 2008.

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The article is translated below thanks to help of Google.

“Asustek formal separation of the beginning of this year, the foundry responsible for manufacturing operations and the first reported large successes. Market participants pointed out that due to large and active?single, recently received Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console’s first Blu-ray orders, is expected to begin shipping the third quarter, to attack the second half of the consumer electronics business season.

And large stressed that the large first quarter of this year and revenue of 97.5 billion yuan, profits of about 1.5 billion yuan, while second-quarter revenue effect of the off-season, than the first quarter declined, but the first half of the second half of the year the proportion of revenue Is about 4:1 6 and have the confidence to reach annual revenue of 500 billion yuan target.”

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It seems that Rockstar North’s Grand Theft Auto 4  is controversial in more ways than one. On one hand, Aaron Greenberg of Microsoft has claimed that the Xbox 360 version of the game is outselling the PS3 version two-to-one. On the other hand, SCEA is questioning this very claim.

The director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live of Microsoft drew upon Xbox Live figures, statistics and anecdotes from retail partners to back up his statement. He suggested that the exclusive downloadable content coming for GTA 4 may be a factor in the Xbox 360 version’s success.

SCEA, for its part, said that Microsoft’s statement “doesn’t line up” with what Sony has heard from its own retailers, though SCEA didn’t specify exactly what it has heard. Sony also argued that the Grand Theft Auto series has its deep roots in the PlayStation brand.

At this point, both Sony and Microsoft have yet to release the hard sales figures. Perhaps there’s only one way to really tell for sure: to wait until the NPD Group’s April sales data report comes in and then draw conclusions from that.

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I just logged in to show someone the Error that stated the demo will start 25/25/2208 (misspelling by Konami) but i wast greeted by Update Version 1.0.2 not the 1.0.1 i already have that, this might let you play the game few hours early so go ahead and try it as for me i don’t have half-hour right now to download a update fro Bit-Torrent side of Metal Gear online

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Here is “Top Be” Introduction cinematic for the Console version of ET: Quake Wars

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Here is a video showing off some intense multiplayer action involving lots of guns, and of course, nectar use and abuse.

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Now that Grand Theft Auto 4 (Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3) has gone gold, Rockstar Games president Sam Houser was able to sit down and talk about the hurdles his company had to overcome. This time, he pointed out the Xbox 360’s storage capacity which isn’t a big leap from previous systems.

“They don’t have a significantly larger storage medium than the previous systems,” Houser told 1UP when talking about the 360. “It’s a slightly bigger DVD disc,” he added.

Meanwhile, having Xbox 360 consoles in the market with no hard drives also came up. Houser explained:

I think that the 360 is going to have to get ’round this issue we’re talking about. I can think of various ways they can do it. Hopefully, they’re going to adopt one of those in the next year or so, because it’s going to become more of an issue.

If we’re filling up the disc right now, where are we going? It’s not like our games are going to get any smaller. I think that issue’s on the table with a bunch of games right now. I’m sure they’ll come through with an intelligent solution.

On a positive note, Houser noted that the “360 is a very, very accessible, familiar, effective environment to work in.” There’s also no need to worry about storage limitations for now, since both versions of Grand Theft Auto 4 “pretty much look identical side by side.”

Houser admitted that developing for the PS3 was “challenging,” but Rockstar North managed to learn what’s necessary to create games for the powerful machine. “I don’t want to say we’ve cracked it, but we’ve got comfortable with it — we know we can make our games.”

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Yeah its a another console Rip-off just like the Popstation that later became the name of PSX -to- PSP ebooters. Just watch one of the following two videos and enjoy.

KenSingTon Sport Vii Review:

Pretendo Vii:

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