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I haven’t really been keeping up on the games world too much lately but I came across this in my news reader this morning. It’s a new game for the PS3 that looks simply gorgeous. It’s an old fashioned platform style fantasy game, only with modern 3d graphics and a pretty good physics engine. Think ghosts and goblins meets little big planet.

More info available here

The New Playstation Europe Blog:

Hello and welcome to the brand new official PlayStation.Blog from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE). For the loyal PlayStation fans, the title of this post echoes what Patrick Seybold said when the US blog launched back in 2007. Yes, it’s taken us a while to get here and we know that many of you have been asking for a European blog for a long time now. We’ve been listening and thank you all for your patience and support whilst we’ve been getting everything ready for today’s launch. Now that we’re here, it’s our hope that this blog will grow to become a one-stop-shop for your daily fix of PlayStation news from across the SCEE region.

So the PS3 is going no where right? It’s failed to compete with Microsoft and Nintendo, Right? I mean that’s what you would believe from reading the writings of numerous analysts and technology blogs. So you might be a little surprised to read that the PS3 sold almost as many units 10.77 million as the xbox 360 did last year (10.8 million). If Sony managed to pull that off considering that Microsoft are practically giving the damn things away, then I think the future of Sony’s console is far rosier that some people want you to think.

For all those people out there predicting the demise of the PS3, your predictions and musings are about as accurate as those predicting the demise of blu-ray. From PlayStation Universe (PSU):

With the Wall Street Journal and other media outlets reporting doom and gloom for the black behemoth, sales data has indicated that PS3 sales are actually up 60 percent in comparison to 2008. That’s quite the feat considering the system is often considers a little too pricey for the average consumer.

Like the” blu-ray is dying” myth, there’s another one that seems to be doing the rounds at the moment, and that is that the PS3 is dying, going no where and doomed to failure. Except, like with the blu-ray myth the numbers just don’t add up. First of all, if you consider that the main competitor for the PS3 is the Xbox 360, and look at the total sales to dat you might be surprised.

From Playstation Universe:

Sony Europe has announced that universally acclaimed social platformer LittleBigPlanet has seen a whopping 84,000 user-created levels uploaded since the game’s release earlier this month, with a total of 27 million level play throughs logged.

That’s pretty impressive. I’m a huge fan of this game but I haven’t yet made any levels as I’m still going through the level making tutorials, but It’s well worth a look if you have a PS3
[Read LittleBigPlanet sees 84,000 user levels uploaded :: PlayStation Universe (PSU)]

Ever since Steve Jobs launched the new Apple Laptops at a special event in Cupertino recently, one story has done the rounds with quite a degree of ferocity, and it has nothing to do with the Notebooks that were released. During the Q&A session afterwards, when asked why there were no Blu-Ray drives in the new notebooks Steve Jobs responded by saying that currently Blu-Ray was “a bag of hurt”. This comment has unsurprisingly been seized upon by many and twisted and contorted to mean a dozen different things. Once again, though, the dialog surrounding this has shown that there is quite a lot of misinformation floating around in cyberspace about Blu-Ray and this gave the format’s detractors another opportunity to jump on their collective soap boxes spread the myths about the format, most of which are simply not true. In light of this what follows is a look at some of the most common perceptions about Blu-Ray and why they’re wrong.

From Ripten:

Home was revealed some time ago now, but the vast majority of users haven’t been able to experience the ambitious virtual environment yet. Those eagerly awaiting the opportunity will have to wait a bit longer still, says Sony

[Read PS3 Users Have To Wait Longer For Home]
[tags] Playstation, Sony, Home, Virtual, Online, Internet [/tags]