DUALSHOCK 3 Compatibility List

The DUALSHOCK 3 controller for the PlayStation 3 will be making its way into stores next week and Sony has released a full list of all the games that will be compatible with the new controller, mind you that you can still use it on other titles, but you won’t get the rumble that gamers apparently needed to have since there have been complaints since the day the SIXAXIS was announced not to feature force feedback. Here now is the official list of games, as listed on PlayStation.com, that will make use of the new controller, which will be in stores at an MSRP of $54.99:

• SCEA - Formula One Championship Edition* (PS3)
• SCEA - MotorStorm* (PS3)
• SCEA - PAIN (PSN)
• SCEA - High Velocity Bowling (PSN)
• SCEA - MLB 08: The Show (PS3)
• SCEA - Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (PS3)
• SCEA - Resistance: Fall of Man* (PS3)
• SCEA - Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3)
• SCEA - Go! Sports Ski* (PSN)
• SCEA - Folklore* (PS3)
• SCEA - Heavenly Sword* (PS3)
• SCEA - Warhawk* (PSN / PS3)
• SCEA - Super Stardust HD* (PSN)
• SCEA - Snakeball (PSN)
• SCEA - Toy Home (PSN)
• SCEA - PSOne Emulation (PSN)
• SCEA - Piyotama (PSN)
• SCEA - PixelJunk Monsters (PSN)
• SCEA - Blast Factor* (PSN)
• Sega - Condemned 2: Bloodshot (PS3)
• Ubisoft - Lost: Via Domus (PS3)
• Ubisoft - Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2* (PS3)
• EA - Burnout Paradise (PS3)
• KOEI - Dynasty Warriors 6 (PS3)
• Capcom - Devil May Cry 4 (PS3)
• Atari - Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit (PS3)
• Disney Interactive - Turok (PS3)

The Mystery Behind PlayStation 3’s Sometimes Mandatory Installations

"Tired of mandatory hard drive installs on PlayStation 3? Blame Blu-ray and DVD.

Capcom took a public stoning last month when “Devil May Cry 4″ was released on PS3 with a mandatory 20-minute installation not necessary on Xbox 360.

Since then, Capcom VP of business development and strategic planning Christian Svennsson told me his company didn’t realize the issue would “blow up.” He says the company will take the response into account for future releases.

Figuring out why some games require these installs has been like pulling teeth. Publishers don’t want to talk about it, and Sony won’t come clean for them. I contacted multiple parties — chiefly Capcom, Sony, and Ubisoft — while researching this story and hit stone walls at almost every turn.

Nonetheless, we’ve been getting close to an answer, and everything comes back to a developer spending enough time to understand the unique characteristics of Blu-ray. It’s Blu-ray’s “fault,” but not because it’s slow tech. It’s just different tech.

This is what I’ve learned:

The PS3 version of “Lost Planet” requires installs, too. As does “Lost: Via Domus” and “Hot Shots Golf” from Sony. But “Dark Sector” and many other PS3 releases don’t.

The issue arises from differences in the reading techniques of DVD and Blu-ray. By nature, the outer and inner parts of a disc move at different speeds while a disc is spinning, regardless of format (CD, DVD, Blu-ray, HD-DVD, etc.). While DVD drives can read data at those differing speeds, Blu-ray reads at one speed. Combine that with the extremely large size of Blu-ray discs, and simply dumping existing DVD data onto a Blu-ray disc will inevitably result in longer load times.

Installations are a way around this issue."

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Boy steals $10K, buys Playstation 3

"Indonesian police said Monday they are searching for a nine-year-old boy who ran away from his home in Jakarta with more than 10,000 dollars in cash belonging to his father.

The boy reportedly bought a Playstation video games console and a mobile phone after enlisting the help of a shopping mall security guard to change around 800 dollars into Indonesian rupiah.

"We have deployed our forces to look for the boy, but with no results so far," said local police officer Agus, who like many Indonesians goes by only one name.

The boy ran away from his home in a suburb of the capital after his mother grounded him for not doing his homework, the Jakarta Post reported.

He spent the night at the shopping mall and asked the security guard to take him into school the next morning, but disappeared after telling a teacher he was going to play basketball, the paper said.

"I'm just afraid that my son is being used by somebody else who knew that he had thousands of collars in his pocket. I want to know where he is," the boy's father told the Jakarta Post.

The boy has been missing since Thursday, and Agus said the local force had enlisted the help of Jakarta's metropolitan police force to find him."

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Best Buy Confirms CoD4 Game of the Year for PS3

"Best Buy seems to have confirmed what we have all been wondering. Will there be a Game of the Year edition of Call of Duty 4 on the PS3? Well, the answer is yes.

According to the electronics retailer, the PS3 version with the Variety Map Pack will be shipping on April 24th, exactly 21 days after the Xbox 360 maps hit the Xbox Live Marketplace.

If you’re a PS3 owner and are looking to buy CoD4, it would be a good idea to wait a bit to get that extra content for free."

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Dead Space producer would “love” to continue series

"Dead Space executive producer Glen Schofield has told videogaming247 that the promising new EA horror game is likely to just be the start of an ongoing series.

“We can definitely do more with this world,” he said. “And I’d love to.”

Dead Space - currently in development in California and set for release 360, PS3 and PC on Hallowe’en this year - is already surrounding itself with cross-media properties, including a graphic novel and recently confirmed cartoon film."

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New MGS4 Content Featuring New Area and More Coming Next Wednesday From JeuxVideo

"JeuxVideo.fr travelled exclusively in Japan to test for three days a new version of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots. The privileged few on scene were also able to speak with Hideo Kojima, the father of the series. We are thus back in a week for a special feature on one of the most anticipated games of the year. And to help you wait, here are a series of catches broadcast today on the canvas."

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Western Digital debuts new Xbox 360 and PS3 compatible 320GB passport size HDDs

"Today, Western Digital Co., one of the largest HDD ( Hard Disk Drive ) manufacturer has just launched it’s newest - 320GB and 250GB My Passport™ Elite™ Portable USB Hard Disk Drives -, which according to Western Digital, the new USB HDDs are designed to ” make it easy to securely carry thousands of songs, videos or photos in style. ”

The new My Passport Elite USB HDD as can be seen from the photo are small in form factor and each weighs around 5 ounces or 141 grams, they are pretty much as big as a passport book, hence the name. These new HDDs come with full USB 2.0 standard support with a maximum transfer speed of 480 Mb/s and they are powered by the USB bus, so do not require any other external power source.

Jim Welsh, Western Digital Branded Products and Consumer Electronics’ Vice President and General Manager said : “Your digital content is as personal today as photos in shoeboxes and racks of CDs were yesterday. The device that securely holds your content should be just as personal. Having listened to our customers, we are expanding the options available on our WD Passport family of personal storage devices with more features, content management functions and fashionable design. ”

According to Western Digital’s press release, the new My Passport™ Elite™ Portable USB Hard Disk Drives also have plug and play capability with video gaming consoles such as Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3.

One 320GB My Passport™ Elite™ Portable USB Hard Disk Drive currently carries a price tag of $199.99, while it’s the 250GB brother carries a price tag of $169.99."

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