As part of their continual "smart saving" guides, today Yahoo! Finance republished a poorly worded thus unintentionally hilarious holiday season shopping guide from SmartMoney written by Anne Kadet. Listing electronic items to avoid giving as gifts, the first pick of the litter is the PlayStation 3.
At a time when Sony's reporting a recent increase of sales (440,000 PS3 units sold the week of Thanksgiving), what reasoning is there to avoid the PS3, according to this article? Why, that pesky disposable controller that you keep having to buy new ones of, of course. Wait, what?
Colorado University students know just how to kick things up a notch, it looks like. Most people use their roomba for cleaning up their homes. Others use it to make their pets look ridiculously adorable. These badass developers chose to make a playable game of Pac-man.
Pac-man is controlled by a laptop while the ghosts move autonomously, chasing after Pac-man inside a maze pattern. When Pac-man sucks up a power pellet, the ghosts would start fleeing away from him. Pretty cool, right?
After a long wait and nearly a whole year lagging behind the XBox 360, the PlayStation 3 is finally getting some Netflix streaming love. Reading the official announcement for this new feature—which will begin implementation sometime in November—is a tug-of-war of emotions. Here are the ups and downs of my reaction to the press release.
Not everyone knows how to make their marriage proposals memorable. Oh, sure, it sounds easy enough—get a big enough rock, bend on one knee, put your entire dignity into four little words. But what if you want to do something a little more creative? Gamer Brad Smith had the bright idea to insert his into a Super Mario game and got his girlfriend to play it.
Settle in and enjoy everyone because three-minute-long trailers are a thing of the past. Now we have seven minutes and ten seconds of awesome Final Fantasy XIII footage complements of Square Enix. You'll get a little gameplay footage and a whole lot of cutscene footage. But don't worry about spoilers, it's ALL in Japanese. I'm still looking for an English version (don't think it exists yet) so make do with all the shiny moving pictures. Personally, I think it looks incredible (thought that from the very first trailer) but the Japanese voice acting is somewhat strained, perhaps due to the overly stiff facial features of the characters? Well, if you're so inclined, the vid is offered in HD (and looks perfect) so don't hesitate to treat yourself.
Anyways, take a look...and notice the release date at the very end...
Three years in the making, the fan film Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy is the result of hard work from a committed group of fans from Italy calling themselves Hive Division. How committed? Well, putting together the time and money to put a serious fan film together is an impressive task in itself, but even more so when it's feature length.
Philanthropy is 69 minutes long, and you can watch it here.
As far as anybody should be concerned, there's at least one great reason to play DJ Hero, the latest music simulation game from Activision. That reason is the ability to assume the alter-egos of electronic twosome Daft Punk.
If you are an avid multi player video gamer, you are probably already familiar with Ventrilo. Whether you have heard of Ventrilo or not, if you are not using it, you are missing out a powerful technology!
The Benefits Of Ventrilo
Ventrilo lets you concentrate on your game, while maintaining instant and hands free communication between the players in your guild. Using Ventrilo increases the competitiveness of video gaming by allowing your group to hear everything that is happening. Ventrilo is customizable and very easy to learn to use - even guild members who are not technically savvy can easily use it. Also, it doesn't slow your computer down like some VoIP based programs do. Ventrilo is also very easy to use so players can learn to communicate even if they are not highly skilled at the game.
Seriously..Pop some popcorn because We've got the FULL scoop on GH5 dropping next month.
Let's first talk features: like all 85 songs included on the disc being available from the start. Also Two new modes have been announced for the game. "Party Play" mode, which allows players to jump into a band or drop out even in the middle of a song, and switch instruments or difficulty levels while playing.
The second feature is a "RockFest" mode, which can be played by four players locally or eight online, with several sub-modes that influence how the game is played. For example, in the "Momentum" mode, the game adjusts the difficulty of the note track based on how well the player is playing, with more points rewarded by staying at the "Expert" difficulty. Other sub-modes of RockFest include "Elimination" in which the worst player is dropped periodically, "Perfectionist" where only certain sections of a song count towards points, "Do-or-Die" which forces a player to wait a brief time if they miss a note, and "Streakers" that rewards the player for long strings of consecutive notes.
Activision finally let loose some details on the upcoming special edition of DJ Hero, dubbed "The Renegade Edition". With an alluring black finish, metal accents, custom carrying case, and 2-disc CD featuring unreleased tracks from Eminem and Jay-Z.
As part of their continual "smart saving" guides, today Yahoo! Finance 
Colorado University students know just how to kick things up a notch, it looks like. Most people use their roomba for cleaning up their homes. Others use it to make their pets look 
Seriously..Pop some popcorn because We've got the FULL scoop on GH5 dropping next month.
