Video Game Bits - 09/19/07
By Eli Green
September 19, 2007 - 23:59
Sony finally announces DUALSHOCK feature for PS3
Sony
Computer Entertainment Inc (SCEI) officially announced today that it
will be releasing a DUALSHOCK controller for Playstation 3 in North
America and Europe some time in Spring 2008. DUALSHOCK, which SCE
Worldwide Studios President, Phil Harrison, initially called a “last
generation feature”, will be introduced inside the new DUALSHOCK 3
Wireless Controller. The new controller will inherit the basic
design, as well as keep the functionality of the current Playstation
3 SIXAXIS Wireless Controller. Developers are starting to work rumble
compatibility into their Playstation 3 games, and some already
released games will be receiving software updates to add the feature
as well. The current count of games that will feature rumble
compatibility, including already released games, is approximately 65
titles.
MLG to host open game competition at E for All Expo
IDG
World Expo announced today that Major League Gaming will be hosting
the centrepiece gaming tournament at E for All Expo this October.
Major League gaming is creating a special post-season tournament
exclusively for
E
for All which will take place after its own championship tournament
in Las Vegas the prior weekend.
“We
are thrilled about the opportunity to bring Major League Gaming to
this high-profile event,” said Matthew Bromberg, CEO of Major
League Gaming. “It’s important for all of us in the video game
community to support this great new way of reaching consumers and to
showcase the phenomenon of top-flight competitive gaming.”
MLG's
E for All tournament will feature thousands of dollars in cash
prizes, plus pro players and teams battling alongside amateurs. Aside
from the tournament, the event will also feature special MLG Pro
appearances and an interactive session to help gamers “Get Better
First” on top titles.
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights now available
If
street racing games with enormous amounts of customization are your
thing, then it's likely that the
Juiced
franchise is your thing too. And if that's the case, then you will be
quite happy to know that THQ released
Juiced
2: Hot Import Nights
today for Xbox 360, Playstation 2 and Nintendo DS. The new game comes
packed with a fully loaded drift racing experience, a more in-depth
customization mode, “brutal” pink slip races, plus, depending on
the version, lets players take their entire career mode online for
worldwide competition.
The game lets players experience the culture of the real Hot Import Nights tour, America's largest lifestyle custom car show. Some of the new features include the new online career mode and “Driver DNA”, which tracks gamers' personal driving traits. Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights is available for Xbox 360 for $59.99 USD/$69.99 CAD, for Playstation 2 for $39.99 USD/$44.99 CAD and for Nintendo DS for $29.99 USD and CAD. THQ also plans to release the game for Playstation 3 and PSP later this fall.
PS3 Folding@home reaches huge milestone
We've
got to give it up to Playstation 3 users who are helping a major
medical cause. Give yourselves a hearty pat on the back. SCEI
announced today that the number of Playstation 3 users on Standford
University's Folding@home program has brought the network's overall
computing power of the program to more than a petaflop (the ability
of a computer to do one quadrillion floating point operations per
second (FLOPS). In other words, that's a lot of computing power, so
much power that the milestone has never been reached on a distributed
computing network before. If you are a Playstation 3 user and you
aren't already running Folding@home, we highly consider you sign up.
For more information on Folding@home, head over to
folding.stanford.edu.
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