Category: Gaming

The official announcement today is PSP will get a taste of Sonys Music Unlimited streaming services starting on April 14th. The service is titled as Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity by Sony requires a PlayStation Network ID to access all that digital audio. Sony promises a synchronized music experience across your PSP, PS3, PC and other network enabled Sony devices like Bravia TVs and Blue-ray Players: a claim backed by cloud based catalog of some 7 million tracks supported by music sync functionality that will organize your Music Unlimited library. Check the video overview of the service while you ponder the $3.99 basic and $9.99 for premium accounts.

The upcoming Ninja Gaiden 3 series will have a multiplayer mode, said Project lead Yosuke Hayashi in the April issue of PlayStations official magazine. He offered no details on the multiplayer mode, other saying that it will be complex. Unlike the previous versions Ninja Gaiden 3 will release simultaneously for both PS3 and Xbox 360 versions.

The next generation Xbox 360 development, with shockingly small amount of fanfare, Microsoft has ushered in striking new Xbox Development Kit which is designed to increase efficiency and reduce cost of Xbox 360 development teams. Boasting an undisclosed uptick in RAM, built-in flash memory, capacious hard drive and a slimmer form factor, this XDK will also be sold at significantly reduced price.

AMD has another refresh to its graphics card portfolio this spring. Radeon HD 6970 is the new one, the card will be with more specifications, and the new mid-tier card will be retail at $149. The performance offers no threat to AMDs single-GPU flagship, but the 6970s 840MHz graphics and shader clocks speed plus 1 GB of GDDR5 running at an effective 4.2 GHz data rate dont seem like anything to sniff at either. Reviewers agreed that its AMDs slightly delayed answer to NVIDIAs GTX 460, and with latter card existing retail availability to make room for the less powerful GTX 550 Ti, the 800 stream processors and 16 ROPs does expose the HD6970 to being cannibalized by AMD s own Radeon HD 6850 and that turns out to be exactly what happens.

An Indian gaming website leaked the images of Elena in Uncharted 3, they said that the pictures were sent by an anonymous tipster and it looks like a screen grab from the game. They also dont know from where and how he got it. They are sure about the pictures are of Uncharted 3.

GameStop is now beating heavily on a digital distributed future; it has announced the acquisition of Spawn Labs and got the agreement to acquire the Impulse game distribution platform. While Spawn Labs may not be the familiar name you may remember the HD-720 set-top box essentially a Slingbox for your gaming consoles. GameStop may got some grander ambitions for the technology than that, the company press release says its testing some new consumer interface that will give users immediate access to a wide selection of high-definition video games on demand on any Internet-enabled devices.

The Sonys Xperia Play faming centric Android Smart phone, Sony has released five PlayStation classics on Android Marketplace. These games are exclusively compatible with the Xperia Play and not just any Android enabled devices. Each game will cost $6.38 and will let you relive the good ones of PSOne gaming with tactile gamepad. The five games are in addition to Crash Bandicoot, which already comes pre-loaded with the device. Sony will release more titles in the future for sure. Here is the list of games available on the Android Marketplace are

Crysis 2 is the best looking game around the lack of Direct X 11 support, has left quite a few people puzzled. The absence of latest in PC graphics technology is most likely to be patched soon with the Direct X 11 for Crytek first person shooter. The studio PC fanboys would pride for bringing bleeding edge graphics and pushing the envelope of PC hardware and technology with games like Crysis.

Chinon USA has released its docking station with 7-inch LCD screen and it has merged the fashion, entertainment and its latest Audio-Video technology in its new AVI Stylix docking station for Apples iPod and iPhone. It is available in multi-colours to match your unique sense of style, seems to be ultimate accessory of Apple. It delivers high resolution playback of videos stored in iPhone or iPod connected by Wi-Fi and streams video from internet such as Youtube or Netflix.

Andrew House, the man in charge of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, has delivered a latest titbit in an interview with MCV; he states that every game on the PlayStation will be available to buy as a download. He also expresses Sonys desire to have simultaneous distribution in both digital and physical channels, but that sounds a lot less concrete than his promise that every game will be downloadable. Digital-only games also figure prominently in Andrews vision of NGPs future, as he expects them to diversify choice for consumers along with the big time titles like Uncharted.

Microsofts direct X has been a main stay of mainstream PC gaming since the inception. Its existence hasnt been without its tension. The notable graphics guru John Carmack of id software ignoring it in a favour of Open GL until last week finally he acknowledged the Direct3D has out grown its cross-platform alternative and was now the preferable API for PC game development. But plenty of game developers, Richard Huddy, Head of AMDs developers relation team dont want any API at all. The modern graphics cards can pretty much stomp any console hardware into the dirt in a straight fight and yet fail to show the full extent of their superiority in actual game visuals. He had prefer to see the developers given direct low-level access to the hardware, so they can improve their talents and really push things forward. The beauty of Direct X is that its a standard that every Windows games designer can code to, leading to predictable and more compatible results.

Farmville just now got the English Countryside level is a brand new addition. Players who have reached the level 20 can kick in for English Countryside level.Farmville English Countryside, which ahs a British slant to it. The regular version of the game will be starting from tomorrow. This game got a country specific content, open to every player irrespective of their nationality.