Sony, the people that come up with very few original ideas in gaming, have done it again. They have just announce that their R&D department has just finished painting Wii remotes black, and has started plugging them into PS3s. In all seriousness, Sony has announced their Playstation Move. The easiest way to describe it would be a black Wii remote, with a pingpong ball on top.

The Move “wands,” as Sony calls them, will work with the Eye Toy (a camera that incorporates the users actions into a game.) From what I have seen it looks pretty interesting, and I would be much more impressed if Nintendo hadn’t released this same technology three years ago. But who knows, perhaps Sony will one-up Nintendo, at this point it’s hard to say; however Sony has had three years to make their technology superior.

Sony has set the release date for sometime this year. They will offer Move controllers with select games as well as various bundles. For those who already own a PS3 you will be able to buy a bundle including an EyeToy, Move wand, and a game for about 100 bucks, half the list price of the Wii.

Only time will tell if this is worth anything. The only appeal I see is to those who liked the concept of the Wii but feel like they were let down. Not to say that Sony won’t let you down either but let’s give them a shot.

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Sony Playstation 3 consoles around the world almost met their apocalypse. Due to an error with the internal clock, it would try to treat 2010 as a leap year. This bug did not effect the PS3 Slim model and the total number of PS3s affected has not been released. The summary of the problem has been posted on Playstation’s Blog.

Read more to figure out what the errors were, and my opinion on Sony’s prompt action to this issue.

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I don’t think I am the first person to notice this, but I feel like the first to come out in anger against the new direction video game companies are taking “multiplayer” video games these days — if you can even still call them multiplayer.

The first offense I noticed was last year’s Left 4 Dead. My roommates and I rented a copy and were ready for some four-player, zombie, split-screen action on my 52-inch TV. We put the disc in my XBOX360 only to figure out that four player co-op really meant two player split-screen split between two different consoles. (more…)

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