| PS3 OWNED BY OWN MAG! |
[Jun. 7th, 2006|08:14 pm] |
This is copied from a forum:
The Final PS3 Launch Details
You read the headline right: PS3 will cost you $500. It will launch worldwide on November 17th, and initially it's only available in black.
Actually, that $500 will only get you a bare-bones version of the console-the real deal goes for $600. For that you get a 60GB hard drive instead of a 20GB one, Wi-Fi, an HDMI port, a chrome PS3 logo and faceplate, and slots for a Memory Stick, SD, and CompactFlash cards. That's an awful lot to give up if you can't fork out the extra hundred.
Even the more expensive version, however,is missing some features that Sony initially announced for the PS3: the two rear USB ports, the two extra Ethernet ports, and the second HDMI port have all been cut (so much for dual HDTV action).
We wish that we could give this news a silver lining, but honestly...we think it stinks. The only way this price looks good is if you judge it as a Blu-ray player and not a games console. We can only imagine that Sony was just as suprised as we are that it couldn't fit it's components down into a more affordable machine. The sudden missing features -and full-on pilliging of the 20GB version- seem to reflect this. We're going to press Sony hard with some tough questions, and we hope to have those answers for you in the very next issue.
Copycat Controller
Here's a bit of good news - well, unless you're a Nintendo fan. That newfangled motion-detecting controller Nintendo worked up for it's new Wii system? Sony just flat out mugged 'em for it. Yep, the new, final PS3 controller design (notice that the "boomerang" look has been tossed) can detect six degrees of motion - basically, up, down, and tilting. Unlike the Wii controller, however, it cannot sense how close it is to the TV.
Okay, so Sony isn't exactly original - at least the future PS3 owners will get a great feature packed in at no extra charge. There is a catch, however: Sony had to drop the vibration feature because it interfered with the motion sensor technology. So, no more "shock" in your DualShock.
Sony also "borrowed" the analog triggers from the Xbox 360 pad to replace it's L2 and R2 shoulder buttons, and although we havn't confirmed this yet, the new "PS logo" button on the front looks an awful lot like the 360's Guide button. Hmmm...
Here's one more controller tweak that you might miss while looking at the photos: the tilting action of the analog sticks and been broadened to provide your thumbs with more sesitive control. Also, while the controllers are wireless, they can attach to the PS3 via a USB cable to recharge, even while playing.
While Sony's lack of originality bugs us (c'mon guys, not one new idea in this controller that's your own?), at least the result should be one of the best pads ever produced (minus the rumble, that is).
Online Questions
At the press conference, Sony only briefly touched on the ambitious strategy for it's PS3-focused online network. We now know that, as Microsoft does for Xbox Live, Sony will sell prepaid cards packed with points for purchasing downloadable content (for those of you who don't want to use a credit card).
Sony put up a slide listing the basic, free services we can expect from it's network: video chat, friends lists, rankings, account management, player profiles, voice, and text messaging, and "the latest info." Notice something missing? It's worrying that "online multiplayer gameplay" isn't on that list. Phil Harrison, the President of Sony Worldwide Studios, confirmed free online gaming for PS3 months ago at the Game Developer's Conference; hopefully Sony hasn't changed it's mind on and decided to charge for it. We should have an answer to this question next issue.
The Games
Finally, the games. This is really what it's all about, right? Sony showed off a lot of PS3 titles at it's conference. from both it's own studios and third-party publishers, in playable and video form. The lineup looked fairly solid overall, but the titles shown via videos almost always looked better than the real-time demos- a worrisome not to anyone whoe remembers Sony's faked pre-rendered PS3 game trailers from last E3. Still, we wouldn't question that PS3 exclusive blockbusters like Final Fantasy XIII and Metal Gear Solid 4 are going to be anything short of spectacular when they're done, and titles like Resistance: Fall of Man and Warhawk, while not yet mind-blowing at first glance, should be great, solid games.
Having said that, however, Sony didn't show us anything on PS3 that seemed impossible for the Xbox 360 to handle. If Sony plans to charge $200 more than it's direct competitor, we'd like to see a much bigger jump in graphics. With final PS3 kits just now reaching developers, games should, hopefully, beef up soon.
Wow. Huh?
We're still in shock. For us, the press conference only ended a few hours ago, and we're still trying to process all of these mega-bombs that Sony just dropped on us. In a matter of hours we'll get to go hands-on with a good number of PS3 games, and find out much more about the thinking behind Sony's announcements. Next Issue, we could feel completely different about the state of PS3...but, right now? We're bewildered, stumped, crazy in love with our Metal Gear Solid 4, shaking our heads in disbelief, eager to play Resistance and Warhawk, ready to strangle Sony execs, and ready to put down our PS3 pre-orders... with no idea how we'll pay for it all. Sony is taking a lot of big gambles - will they pay off?
Much much more in PS3 next month.
Source: PSM July issue.
Author: Chris Slate.
Credit: Shinobi of MMC
That settles it, I'm getting a Wii. |
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[Apr. 21st, 2006|08:21 pm] |
Sorry I don't post here often, truth is, there hasn't been anything interesting going on in my life resently. I did get MMUP resently and it is good, but it doesn't have that classic feel that the original game had.
In other news, Red Alert isn't moving, and I'm tempted to write an e-mail to capcom about changing Aquaman's name to Spoutman in battle network 6... |
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| Red Alert |
[Feb. 17th, 2006|04:11 pm] |
Delvar, I've finished the images for your layout, they're here.
Also, Red Alert might be moving sometime soon, but there is no confirmation on it yet... |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 4th, 2006|10:49 am] |
Sociopath
You are 57% Rational, 14% Extroverted, 57% Brutal, and 85% Arrogant. |
You are the Sociopath! As a result of your cold, calculating rationality, your introversion (and ability to keep quiet), your brutality, and your arrogance, you would make a very cunning serial killer. You care very little for the feelings of others, possibly because you are not a very emotional person. You are also very calculating and intelligent, making you a perfect criminal mastermind. Also, you are a very arrogant person, tending to see yourself as better than others, providing you a strong ability to perceive others as weak little animals, thus making it easier to kill them. In short, your personality defect is the fact that you could easily be a sociopath, because you are calculating, unemotional, brutal, and arrogant. Please don't kill me for writing mean things about you!
To put it less negatively:
1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.
2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.
3. You are more BRUTAL than gentle.
4. You are more ARROGANT than humble.
Compatibility:
Your exact opposite is the Hippie.
Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Spiteful Loner, the Smartass, and the Capitalist Pig.
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If you scored near fifty percent for a certain trait (42%-58%), you could very well go either way. For example, someone with 42% Extroversion is slightly leaning towards being an introvert, but is close enough to being an extrovert to be classified that way as well. Below is a list of the other personality types so that you can determine which other possible categories you may fill if you scored near fifty percent for certain traits.
The other personality types:
The Emo Kid: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Starving Artist: Intuitive, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Bitch-Slap: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Brute: Intuitive, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Hippie: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Televangelist: Intuitive, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Schoolyard Bully: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Class Clown: Intuitive, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Robot: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Haughty Intellectual: Rational, Introverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Spiteful Loner: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Sociopath: Rational, Introverted, Brutal, Arrogant.
The Hand-Raiser: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Humble.
The Braggart: Rational, Extroverted, Gentle, Arrogant.
The Capitalist Pig: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Humble.
The Smartass: Rational, Extroverted, Brutal, Arrogant. |
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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You scored higher than 38% on Rationality |
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You scored higher than 11% on Extroversion |
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You scored higher than 67% on Brutality |
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You scored higher than 92% on Arrogance |
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| My Birthday and stuff. |
[Jan. 21st, 2006|08:15 pm] |
Well, it's getting close now and I'm really excited. My birthday is on the 17 of Febuary so this post is rather early, that's why I'm just going to post what I want etc. I'm hoping for MM:MHX (comes out end of this month) and Ape Escape Acadamy (I've always been a fan of the Ape Escape series and adding to my collection whould be great). I'm also hoping for a 1gig. memory stick for my PSP to put all of my music on (maybe not all of it, but all of the important ones).
I'd aslo lke to comment on the two new MegaMan remakes and why I want them (with thing I didn't put in my post to "The MegaMan Fan Community."
-MM:PU was a game I was looking forward to even befor they anonced all the special features. It was a way to get back to the roots of the Classic series and all MM games. MM1 was always one of my favorites and to see it get a bit of attention pleased me. I really can't wait to get my hands on it.
-MM:MHX is also a way to get back to MM roots. Being that it was the first X game there is a strong conection with the classic series. I've hoped that by making this and MM:PU Capcom would be able to go back to MM's roots and maybe even imspire them to continue thwe classic series with a MM9 and MMX9 to get rid of all the plot holes in the series.
27 days till my B-Day, hopfully I'll get both of the games on my wishlist, but I'd be happy just getting MM:MHX. |
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| Merry Cristmas! |
[Dec. 23rd, 2005|08:56 am] |
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I know it's a few days early, but I won't be able to get on much in the next few days, so I just wanted to wish everyone a merry Cristmas. |
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| Letter to Santa |
[Dec. 7th, 2005|03:58 am] |
 Dear Santa...
Dear Santa,
This year I've been busy!
Last Thursday I pulled over and changed ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) quickman012's flat tire (15 points). Last month I got in line at the supermarket at the same time as someone else and I didn't yield (-8 points). In August I punched starnik in the arm (-10 points). In February I gave shadowblade3000 a life-saving blood transfusion (50 points). In April I helped super_chaos see the light (8 points).
Overall, I've been nice (55 points). For Christmas I deserve an Easy-Bake Oven!
Sincerely,
aquarius505 |
Look at how good I am, I even made Super Chaos good >_ |
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| I'm back... |
[Nov. 23rd, 2005|03:05 pm] |
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... from my time away from livejournal and just wanted to let everyone know. Also the next two chapters of the fanfic I've been working on have been posted on Red Alert's site. |
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| Yahoo is evil... |
[Nov. 7th, 2005|03:58 pm] |
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It figures that just after I get rid of evil Aquarius I have a day I could of used it. Yahoo won't let my get on to YIM, I can slill get to my e-mail and everything else, but not YIM. It's probobly just something wrong with my 200 year old computer, but I can't get a new one, since I have no money and my perents say that if I want a new one I have to buy it myself (which is understandable since they baught my PSP for me...) |
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| New Icon |
[Nov. 5th, 2005|10:45 am] |
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Say good Bye to the dark/evil Aquarius & hello to Riku of Kingdom Hearts! |
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| Candy Hunt! |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|02:06 pm] |
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| My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul |
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| aquarius505 goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Cyclops (from X-Men). | | animemasterdril tricks you! You get a rotten egg. | | blazeman tricks you! You get a used tissue. | | diva_bee gives you 3 tan blueberry-flavoured jawbreakers. | | flames_delvar gives you 8 tan grapefruit-flavoured gummy worms. | | mastersushichef gives you 10 green tropical-flavoured pieces of chewing gum. | | pyrosyerfoxy gives you 11 red-orange cola-flavoured wafers. | | quickman012 gives you 14 teal blueberry-flavoured nuggets. | | shadowblade3000 gives you 5 mottled green pineapple-flavoured pieces of taffy. | | starnik gives you 11 light green licorice-flavoured nuggets. | | superkoala gives you 10 tan banana-flavoured nuggets. | | aquarius505 ends up with 72 pieces of candy, a rotten egg, and a used tissue. | | Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
Looks like Animemasterdrill and blazeman won't be getting anything from my this year. |
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| Aren't I smart |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|02:00 pm] |
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Game over.
Congratulations.
Learn anything?
That's right...
I stayed up really late coding this.
Well, let me break it down for you:
You have a total of 10 friends
You requested to guess 10 entries.
None was skipped due to invalid content (surprising?).
You made 10 guesses.
You got 10 correct.
Doing the math for you, that means you got 100% correct |
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| Boo! |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|05:25 am] |
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Happy Halloween Everyone, I made this image just for you guys.
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| Affiliates |
[Oct. 29th, 2005|04:07 pm] |
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All sites my LJ is affiliated with will have a * after the name of the site. (all sites will be listed in links section) |
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| Another ad... |
[Oct. 29th, 2005|03:49 pm] |
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This time I'm advertising for my Live Journal community, The Megaman Fan Community. It is still new and the layout may be chanfged a long with a few other things. I'm using it for all updates that I don't want to put on this Journal. If you are a fan of MegaMan then please join. |
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| Nothing much to update... |
[Oct. 28th, 2005|12:27 pm] |
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Yup, I don't have an update today, instead I will be advertising for one of the site in my links. The site Red Alert is curently looking for a new member. We need a Soilder Stonekong, if you want to join just post here. I would also like some feed back on what you thought about it. |
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| School sucks... |
[Oct. 19th, 2005|05:29 pm] |
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Everyone at my school hates me, even the people I though were my friends. It seems that some rumors have been spread about me. Normally I would just ignore it, but this time the rumors were started by my best friend! I won't go into details here, but for the most part it seems people have said I'm gay. I'm not, I'm not rasist eather (another rumor). The sooner I go to High School the better... |
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| I screem for Ice Cream! |
[Oct. 11th, 2005|02:58 pm] |
| You Are Strawberry Ice Cream |  A bit shy and sensitive, you are sweet to the core.
You often find yourself on the outside looking in.
Insightful and pensive, you really understand how the world works.
You are most compatible with chocolate chip ice cream. |
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| Wow to make a me! |
[Oct. 11th, 2005|02:54 pm] |
| How to make a aquarius505 |
Ingredients:
5 parts anger
3 parts brilliance
5 parts |
Method:
Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Serve with a slice of emotion and a pinch of salt. Yum! |
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| Hello |
[Oct. 9th, 2005|05:24 pm] |
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I just got myself a livejournal, hope you like it. It should be updated at least once a week. |
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