Looks like Sony is testing out it’s in-game XMB project. The today released High Velocity Bowling includes the ability to play a custom soundtrack from you HDD and group music folders just like in XMB.
The TimeShift multiplayer demo that was released today.And gess what? Theires IN GAME messaging!They’ve done this in Resistance: Fall of Man to.
I gess we could expect these features in the XMB in the next firmware update?
News Source : NeoGaf
Physics professor Gaurav Khanna has built a PS3 cluster supercomputer to help his studies into “gravitational radiation emitted by very massive black holes as they engulf stars”. Most of the 8 PS3’s in his cluster were donated by Sony but he hopes to expand this to 16. He was surprised how easy it was to install Linux and get them working in parallel. My cluster is running code as fast as running 200 processors on a supercomputer,” Khanna said. However he noted a limitation with the PS3’s 512M of RAM that was not expandable.
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Khanna began working on the project about a year ago.
“I was lucky that my wife was able to get one for me last Christmas,” when they were in short supply, he said. When he got it he was like — well, like a kid on Christmas morning. “I was so excited about it. As soon as I got it I started taking it apart and putting Linux on it.”
This did not thrill his children, who wanted to play games on it, but “now they have their own.”
And Khanna has eight of his own, most of them donated by Sony. He has received permission to spend department grant money on additional consoles and has six more on order. “My goal is to have 16.”
Khanna’s in-house system will not eliminate his need for time on more traditional supercomputers. Khanna last year was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for 30,000 hours of time on its TeraGrid computing infrastructure for his work on black holes and gravitational waves. However, using the time on a supercomputer means putting your job in queue and waiting until the necessary processors are available to run it. That can mean waiting days for a job that might take a few hours to run. “It’s very painful,” he said.
“The infrastructure hasn’t kept up with demand,” he said. “There is never enough computing time. So it’s not that I won’t be using my supercomputer time any more,” but he will not be as dependent on it.
Loading Linux onto the consoles and hooking them together to work in parallel was easier than he expected, Khanna said.
“I thought it was going to take some hacking, but it was fairly straightforward,” he said. “Sony tells you how to do it.” The tricky part was rewriting his code to take advantage of the new Cell processor. “I had to do a lot of learning. That took several months of work.”
Cell processors are good for supercomputing, and Los Alamos National Laboratory will be using them in a new peta-scale supercomputer it expects to have working next year. But inexpensive clusters of PS3s will not do away with the need for true supercomputers, Khanna said.
The fundamental limitation of the gaming console is its relatively limited memory, with only 512M of RAM per console, “and it’s not expandable,” he said.
“My problems are not heavy on memory usage,” he said. “It’s just heavy on raw calculation.” But if a job requires lots of memory, the PlayStation 3 probably won’t do the trick.
News Source: GcN
Capcom®, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today confirmed that owners of Sony Computer Entertainment’s PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft will be able to experience Devil May Cry® 4 early, thanks to the release of a playable demo. A free downloadable demo of the game will be available on the PLAYSTATION®Store and Xbox LIVE® Marketplace in early 2008. Devil May Cry 4 has been rated M for Mature by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB).
The demo introduces gamers to the gothic-inspired supernatural world of Devil May Cry 4, new protagonist Nero and the awesome power of his Devil Bringer. The demo consists of a sampling of sections from the full game, chosen to showcase Devil May Cry 4’s varied locales and allows gamers to familiarize themselves with Nero’s unique abilities. Players will receive instruction on the various new actions that the Devil Bringer bestows, such as the ability to slam creatures to the ground, cover great distances in a single bound or even grab enemies while on the ground or in the air and pull them towards Nero to continue the attack combo. The Exceed system allows Nero to “rev up” his sword as if it were a motorcycle throttle and unleash devastating attacks. Players will need to master all these techniques before the end of demo showdown with the mighty Berial.
Fully demonstrating the power of the next generation of consoles, the Devil May Cry 4 demo brings to life the coastal city of Fortuna and its surroundings, such as the port and snow-capped mountain ranges in exquisite detail. Devil May Cry 4 delivers its intense action at a constant 60 frames per second at 720P resolution on HD monitors, ensuring seamless and breathtaking gameplay all in stunning high definition.
News source : Maxconsole
Demos
- TimeShift Multiplayer Demo (free)
PSone Classics
- Wild Arms ($5.99)
Games
- High Velocity Bowling ($9.99)
Add-Ons
- MotorStorm Falfer Domino ($0.99)
- Folklore Add-On Bundle 1 ($5.99)
- Folklore Add-On 1 ($3.99)
- Folklore Add-On 2 ($3.99)
- Rock Band Black Sabbath Pack 1 ($5.49)
- “N.I.B.”* ($1.99)
- “Sweet Leaf” ($1.99)
- “War Pigs” ($1.99)
Game Videos
- Grand Theft Auto IV “Move Up, Ladies” Trailer (free)
- Metal Gear Solid 4: TGS 2007 Trailer (free)
- Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune “Enviorments” Video (free)
- TimeShift FPS Video 3 (free)
- Turok Interview Trailer 1 (free)
- Battlefield: Bad Company “Frostbite” Video (free)
Blu-Ray Disc Trailers
- The Legend of Zorro Trailer (free)
Themes
- Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction Theme (free)
- Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Theme (free)
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Sega has filed a new protection in order to protect the Dreamcast trademark which has fuelled rumors that they are working on bringing out the Dreamcast 2. An application was sent to the US patent office on August 13th and relates to “Home video game machines; player-operated electronic controllers for electronic video game machines; video game interactive controller, namely, hand held pads, and floor pads or mats; joysticks for video games; computer cursor control devices, namely, computer mouse; flash memory cards; video game software, computer game programs”.
News Source: uspto.gov
Hmmm seams like we have a new nex-gen console?!
