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Tech Beever @ E3 2012: Sleeping Dogs (Video)
A new look at Square Enix's Hollywood and Asian cinema style action thriller.
Tech Beever @ E3 2012: PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale Gameplay (Video)
Watch four players battle it out as Kratos, Fat Princess, Sweet Tooth, and Sly Cooper in PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale during Sony's press conference at E3 2012
And if you wasn't paying attention to the press conference, PlayStation All-Stars is coming to PlayStation Vita in addition to PS3 and that it will support crossplay.
Tech Beever @ E3 2012: Sony Press Conference (Video)
Sony's press conference featuring demos of The Last of Us, Beyond, God of War Ascension, Wonderbook, and more!
Source: Gamespot
[Update] Sony Tablet S Ice Cream Sandwich Edition
Regarding the layout of the Sony S, not much has changed. The font and colour style has changed from white/grey to a vibrant Blue (and white still) and it really pops out. The 'back' button has changed from the block arrow, to the arrow we all knew from other Android devices.
The multitasking bar appears at the left hand side, letting you select an app to jump to, it's not a new edition to the S, but it seemed a little more rapid than the Honeycomb variant.
The App & Widget menu has had a revamp, offering a 3D-Slider instead of the old vertical scroller.
Settings too have had a revamp, now in a much slicker presentation than before, making it much easier to tinker and tweak with the S.
Then there's new shortcut bar at the bottom, which has access to the browser, calculator and remote.
Notifications now have the Slide To Delete function, which is much, much easier than having to tap the tiny 'x' that sat beside each notification. Now, you simply slide them away.
Obviously, games haven't changed with the ICS update, but the shortcut bar stays along the bottom, which isn't to disturbing, although some may find it intrusive.
Being ICS, it means that the Google Chrome Browser is available, and we found it pretty quick, and syncing from PC is a great touch.
However, the Sony S's own browser has had an upgrade, and is much faster rendering pages.
The full Remote Control menu, giving you access to all the devices you'e set up.
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The remote shortcut gives you a small pop-up box that has the basic functions of the devices you've set up for remote control. |
Which you can use, or touch through to take you to the full remote.
The music player hasn't seen any improvements, although the 'scattered' albums are still nice to flick through.
Being Playstation Certified, the S can download full PSone games from the Playstation Store.
And, you know what, that's about it. We've not gone into too much detail, because to be honest, whilst the changes are indeed great, they're not all that obvious, as most of the features should have been implemented from the beginning. Does the Ice Cream Sandwich update change our final score of the Sony S Tablet? Nope, it was a good tablet, and it's simply now that bit better.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (Sneaky Peak)
Developed by SuperBot Entertainment, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is a four-player brawler, influenced by some of the greatest PlayStation themes and characters of all time. Spanning the entire PlayStation universe, players will select and control the likes of iconic characters such as Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Parappa, Fat Princess, Colonel Radec, and Sly Cooper among others. Additionally, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will include a line-up of special characters from some of the game industry's top third party developers and publishers. With a host of playable characters, special attacks, themed stages, and mash up music, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale pits players in a deep fighting game that draws inspiration throughout the colorful PlayStation universe. Oh, and it's like Super Smash Bros. which aren't hating.
Source: Pixel Enemy Youtube
Sony Tablet S (32GB) Hands On Review
There's a micro USB socket on the left hand side that can be used not only as a means of transferring files from PC/laptop to tablet, but also as a USB host, allowing you to connect extra storage, a keyboard, mouse or game controller via a converter cable (sadly not included). There’s also a full-sized SD card slot, so supplementing the 16GB or 32GB of storage is simple. The one major omission is the lack of an HDMI output.
It really does look the part, and a lot of thought has gone into the wedge shaped design, and whilst it is plastic, it still feels a very premium device.
A major feature found on the S, is the universal remote. Using a built in infrared emitter, you simply select the device you wish to control, select the correct settings, and voila! Within a few minutes, we'd set up the S to control an LG TV, Sky+ HD Box, a Sanyo HD TV another Sky Box and Windows Media PC. And if you're device isn't listed, the S can "learn" commands. The strange thing is how satisfying it is to use, it's a blast and every geek/techie is going to love this feature.
An odd omission is the lack of Playstation 3 support, although when we contacted Sony they said such feature may be implemented in the future, we felt a little miffed that it wasn't included from the word go.
The 1,280 x 800 resolution display is amazing, boasting superb brightness and contrast, at 379cd/m2 and the latter at 733:1 – on a level with the iPad 2. Movies, gaming and pictures look outstanding, and good viewing angles mean it’s just at home acting as a shared photo album as a personal movie and music player.
Full flash web pages loaded very fast, Tech Beever loaded in three seconds, the BBC desktop homepage loaded in four seconds, the SunSpider JavaScript test finished in 2,191ms, with oddly, Sony's own Select App website loading the slowest at six seconds.
During our test, we got around 8 hours of play before it ran out of juice, which was web browsing, gaming, music and video.
The camera isn't up there with the best -- you certainly wont be ditching your smartphone to take the S on trips (although you'd need big pockets if you did), but it's ok for quick snaps, although the lack of a flash means low light conditions are a no-no, but in good lighting the S produces some nice pictures.On the software side of things, the S is running Android 3.2 Honeycomb, with a few tweaks by Sony, who's added four small shortcut icons at the top of the desktop next to the Google Search and Voice Search options, for the browser, the remote app, the social networking app and email (although you can replace these with whatever you like).
In the top-right corner of the Android desktop is a shortcut to another frivolous extra – the Favourites screen, which groups recent apps and activities together in a sort of 3D video wall, and shows you things like recently played, added, web browser bookmarks etc.The S is also PlayStation certified, meaning it can play old-school PS One games, with two titles included as tasters: Crash Bandicoot and Pinball Heroes, and as the S runs on a NVIDIA® Tegra™ 2 Processor, it handles gaming with ease. The PS Store is a little empty at present, with only around 8 games, but more titles should be added soon.
Sony includes its own music and video apps, both of which come in addition to the existing standard Honeycomb offerings. The main appeal of these – (aside from a rather attractive cover art “coffee table”-style view, which allows you to rummage through albums as if they were strewn on a flat surface in front of you) – is the ability to “throw” music and video from the tablet to a suitable DLNA-compatible device. It's great when it works, but the S failed to recognize the number of devices we tried it with.
The S also comes with improved camera apps, Sony’s own ebook reader software, a social networking app that aggregates Twitter and Facebook feeds, a DLNA client for streaming music and video across the network to the tablet, plus links to the company’s (pay monthly) Music and Video Unlimited services.
Verdict.
Sony's Tablet S is a surprise win, mainly down to the genius design. But it's universal remote capabilities and intuitive take on the Android Honeycomb OS are very well done. Our only gripe is the duel-core processor -- sure it's fast, and handles everything very well, but as Sony is late hopping into the tablet world, we can't help but feel they should have kitted out the Tablet S with a quad-core, and left the duel-core in the Tablet P.
Is it better than an iPad 2? If it's apps you're after, then no, but if it's an attractive, clever tablet with great specs and loads of features, we'd highly recommend the Sony Tablet S. It may not be perfect, but it at least comes to the table with quirky ideas, and for the most part, does it's job tremendously well.
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Price: (From)- £399 - (To) £499
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Playstation Vita: The New Look
TGS (Tokyo Games Show) has been in full swing this week, but the big news was that of Playstation Vita's release date -- Yep, Japanese gamers will start playing on December 17th although there's no word yet on North American or European release dates.
That's not all though, as the TGS Vita looks very altered compared to the E3 Vita...
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| They're subtle changes, but they're there |
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| At E3 (top), the side was sloped. Not so at TGS (bottom). |
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| Buttons went from bright to dark. |
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| Again, bright to dark. |
Source: IGN
What Will Playstation Vita Game Cases Look Like?
Been wondering what cases will be taking up shelf space when Vita is launched?
Well look no further!
Well look no further!
Source: NeoGAF
PSN Offline Tomorrow Night
Users will be unable access the PlayStation Store, Account Registration, and Account Management.
So there you go, now you know.
Gamescom: Sony Wrap-Up
These are just a few of the awesome things that went down on the Sony side of Gamescom, personally my favourite if the three...
Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception
Resistance: Burning Skies
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Starhawk
Joe Danger: The Movie
Everybody Dance
Escape Plan
Infamous 2: Festival of Blood Announced
Gamescom Sony Quick News:
- PlayStation 3 Price Drop
Sony announced that the PS3 will now retail for $249.99, 249.99 Euros and 24,980 Yen. This is effective immediately. Previously, the PS3 sold for $299.99.
Sony also announced the 320GB PS3 unit will drop from $349 to $299 and a limited edition inFAMOUS 2 bundle is now available at participating retailers across North America. The bundle costs $299 and includes a 320 GB PlayStation 3, a copy of inFAMOUS 2 and a 30-day membership to PlayStation Plus. - Vita RAM Won't Be Cut
Earlier this year, it was reported that Sony would be halving the amount of RAM in the PlayStation Vita from 512MBs to only 256MBs in order to cut down on production costs, which lead to increased concerns about the system's graphics performance. New specs released by Sony today debunk previous reports, confirming that the system's RAM will go untouched, as well as reveal the resolution of the system's built-in cameras. - A New PSP
Sony talked a whole bunch about the PlayStation Vita, and then announced a new PSP model. This one will be compatible with the entire PSP catalog but not have a Wi-Fi option. It'll cost 99 Euros. No word on an international release. - Being Social on the Vita
There was the traditional talk of Near (the app that lets you look at what people are playing around you and share gifts) , Party (text and voice chat) as well as Live Area (a place to track and comment on news), but Sony also confirmed Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare and Skype will work on the device. There's even a group PSN messaging system. - Ubisoft's Vita Games -- Assassin's Creed, Rayman, Lumines
Assassin's Creed, Rayman and more are coming the PlayStation Vita. Today at Gamescom, Ubisoft announced six titles for Sony's handheld. They include: Asphalt, Assassin's Creed, Dungeon Hunter Alliance, Lumines, Michael Jackson the Experience and Rayman Origins.
Assassin's Creed will arrive in 2012 with a brand new story featuring brand new characters.
"With its processing power, dual tactile screens and cameras, PS Vita allows creators like Ubisoft new and unique opportunities to develop innovative games," said Yves Guillemot, chief executive officer of Ubisoft. "We've got a strong and varied line-up that will offer fun and immersion to all audiences of the PS Vita."
Video/News Source: IGN