The list is long and is sure to please many PS3 gamers, including myself. To start it off 2 new maps are coming out, Napalm and Cordite, and many bug fixes including:

. Code support for DLC to allow the additions of the Flamethrower and the Boltgun to multiplayer
. New trophies added for DLC pack III “Napalm and Cordite”.
. And a lot of fixes and stuff, the list goes on!

The 1.28 update will weigh 91MB (for Asia, 316MB ha). And there will be a 2 hour downtime when the update goes public.

For the complete list of features, head on over to playstationblog.com

Microsofts press conference just ended with a huge amount of new content coming to Xbox live. Facebook, twitter, better netflix and also the option to buy or rent games directly from Xbox live. This is one step closer to a new gaming world, were DVDs will become obsolete. But there was one thing that, after watching the video, really gave me the impression that Microsoft really wanted to change the way games will be reachable and playable. Project Natal is about taking full body motion control and implementing it into every aspect of Xbox Live and games. Making everything possible by body gestures. You don’t need a controller like the Wii, but a high tech camera that is able to recognize you face, whole body gestures, voice and depth perception.

The new PSP will have 16gb of internal memory with bluetooth and a slide out form factor. The size is slimmer then the PSP 3000 and  will certainly be more powerful. UMD are bye bye and now all games will be available to put on your memory card or the game will just release on a sd card (I’m not sure yet). But the only problem I saw was that there is still only one joystick and not two to make fps games for intense . No price yet but it is expected to release this fall:

Thanks to Core on Playstation network here is a video of some of the features and were Sony is heading in the future. Expect more news at E3.

This video has better vidoe and audio but the audio is really out of sync. It’s still worth it though.

Modern Warfare 2 Teaser(2) from CW Games on Vimeo.

The Xbox has been a very successful platform for many gamers and XboxLive is what connects all their gamers together. The PS3 also has a online network but it’s free were as Xboxlive is around $60 a year for gold membership. Now you don’t get as much with the PS3s online features as you do with the Xbox, but Sony is keeping customers updated with firmware that sometime introduce new features. But expect those new features to already exist on the Xbox network.

So it’s 2009 and 2008 was the year of the PS3 they said. Fail. They were a year late. With E3 coming close and more exclusives coming to the PS3 like Infamous which just scored a 9.2 on IGN. There are plenty coming from Playstation.

E3 seems to be big this year with both companies showing off their latest inovations. Sony and Microsoft seem to be into some motion sensing and will probably show the public their next add-on to their gaming platform. Having a Wii bar-like sensor in front of your TV will be released for all consoles apparently. Moving more towards the Wii is not really what I hope for, for the future of Playstation and Microsoft. But let’s wait and see.

Now introducing a new motion control for the PS3 and Xbox will not do good for hardcore gamers. Only because they don’t want error in their inputs and were the game misinterpretes the movement. I personally hate motionsensing for home consoles. I think that it should only be produced for mobile games, like on the Iphone or PSP. But for hardcore gaming, it’s just going to ennoy everyone. Sony and Microsoft are just looking at the success of the Wii and stole some ideas on what they believ made it popular. The problem is that I don’t see the success to be in the motion sensing gameplay that the Wii offers to be its selling point but it’s games only. Sony most of all, should focus on making decent games that people want to play and enjoy exclusivly on their favorite console. They need to produce games that the PS3 is named for and introduce new titles that obtain peoples attention. There have been a few like Killzone 2, LBP, now Infamous, and the Metal Guear Solid series. But that’s it for the moment for Sony. It seems that they are moving slow compared to Microsoft in delivering titles that impress the public. Now I own a PS3 and an Xbox and I have different views on each platform. I bought the Xbox 360 the month it came out with a copy of Call of Duty 2 (awesome game) only because it was the so called “next generation” console but also because Halo was what I played back then. The PS3 I bought the next month it came out. But I had a different approach to it then I had towards the Xbox. It was its complexity of options and power that it delivered for the price, not only for the games. You can use your PS3 as a full desktop computer and it had more space available then the Xbox had (80 gb instead of 20 gb for the Xbox). Not only that but it had wifi built in, better video support for watching movies and blue-ray. I would also say that I bought it because of the new cell technology that Sony introduced and I saw that it would bring the PS3 better graphics and gameplay for games. But the truth is that, to this day we can’t trully use the full power of the PS3 because of software issue that developers use. Their is also a problem with the graphics memory that the PS3 uses but I don’t want to go into full detail.

So the PS3 is better for the price compared to the Xbox but just the games that Sony should deliver, are not there and it’s crushing the PS3. Let’s hope that changes in the few upcoming weeks with E3 happening June 2-4. Now we will see a lot of new tech and new awesomeness at E3, not only games but maybe new consoles. Yup the PS3 slim will be introduced and shown to all viewers. Because it seems that all Sony’s systems start out fat and end up skinny (ps2 to ps2 slim). Now this is still a rumor and there are some pictures out there saying that this thing is real and is ready for the publics attention. I don’t think that Microsoft will be showing off a new Xbox, but who knows. In my opinion I think the Xbox needs to go on a diet and get a new look. OK and the PS3 but that is almost certain that it will.

E3 will be the turning point maybe for this war on consoles. Let’s not forget that Sony also has part of the portable gaming industry in its pocket, with their PSP and PSP2 coming out end of this year. Maybe Microsoft will join to and try to dominate over the success of the Nintendo DS and the PSP.

So get ready for E3 for new news and upcoming titles that might put the PS3 back in the race. And also E3 is set to be huge, not like that last few years. And it will have more booth babes to make it more of an enjoyable stay for those going and more reasons to watch TV for us gamers at home.

But now, after years of waiting, it’s finally here. Making itself on top of other Ps3 games, Killzone 2 was somewhat a great success. With it’s innovative non stop multiplayer, it made people stay in the game longer and now with the arrival of the two new map pack and the new update that just came out. Guerilla is surely making this an important title for the PS3.

So that’s that, and now you must wondering whats next. Well the first thing i want to talk about is the implementation of Co-op in the game. Guerilla will probably introduce a online co-op option for singleplayer during the E3 press conference. I don’t know if this is true but surely they must at one point in the future. Now for having 2 player at home playing the game together is much harder to accomplish because of the rendering of the game. You basicly need to put two ps3s into one to make it possible. The ps3 just can’t render that many polygones for two players at once. Imagine all those polygons that need to be present on the screen . So online Co-op is a must to keep the killzone 2 fans happy (including me).

Now we are already informed that the new maps, Wasteland Bullet and Vekta Cruiser are coming out today (april 30th). We can surely see some more down the road. Why not a level like the one were we first saw the snipers in the single player campaign. But let’s hope that the price for the maps come down a little because $5.99 for two maps is quite expensive. This is the map i was talking about.

I think that killzone 2 has come a long way and has reached my expectations since i saw the first trailer at E3. They just need to continue updating the game. Why not have monthly episodes of the game were each month you can buy a new episode of the game. Starting from chapter 1 you continue your journey through the story by buying episodes. Now maybe that’s what smaller game companies might do. But this can eliminate the use of disks and dvd. Making everything downloadable from the internet. I don’t know, maybe thats our future, maybe OnLive will show what Sony and Microsoft have been missing all this time. Maybe there wont be a next big ps3 or xbox console but just a box like OnLive and just the game console will be stored on Microsoft’s or Sony’s servers. I believe that’s were we are heading in the next few years anyway.

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