Ray-tracing is more a demo of horsepower than a viable or desirable rendering technique. It doesn't really model light propagation accurately (you don't see by shooting mon-chomatic rays out of your eye) and you get much better/accurate results via a combination of other techniques. Ray-tracing is a brute-force,…

Yikes. Activision must have started taking the same arrogance enhancement medication that Sony been on for the last couple years. "Yeah, music industry! What are you going to do? It's not like there another, better rock music videogame out there. Oh, wait..."

Did they ever fix the off-center sensor under the square button or are they still claiming that the mis-aligned sensor was "intentional"?

@LittleBigPlaneteer: Remind who right now is charging for demos and developer interviews that are free on Live Marketplace? Oh, right. Sony. And if you don't think Sony is going to charge for outfits for Home (if it ever launches), you're high. Sure, they'll have free ones but there are also plenty of free themes…

The more I hear about the new Sonic, the more I'm convinced it was purely designed by marketing. I'm guessing the design was locked during a freak one-week period where the top-selling game was Twilight Princess ("We need a game with a werewolf") and the Fantastic Four was the top video rental ("We need a character…

@Luke Plunkett: Luke, when people say "you don't have an M rating", they are referring to what you call R18. I'm guessing your M rating is the equivalent of ESRB's T rating. If you had what the ESRB calls an M-rating, then Fallout 3 wouldn't have an issue. The only really silly rating in the ESRB system is AO,…

@ThursdayNext: Sony just canceled Getaway 3 and Eight Days. How is that increasing first party development? Resistance 2 isn't first party.

@excel_excel: Aren't those the same morons that "confirmed" Left 4 Dead on the PS3?

It won't have higher rez textures unless 2K were really incompetent on the 360 version. The PS3 has a lot less total memory available for games due to its bloated OS (one of John Carmack's main gripes about the PS3 versus 360). Devs oftern complain about having to squeeze 360 games into a lot less RAM. Heck, Gears of…

I live in Leland Yee's district and this bozo has made it his goal in life to see violent games banned. He keeps trying different bills of varying severity and they keep getting shot down by the courts. His attitude that it is the government's instead of the parent's responsibility to control what gets into the…

One has to ask again why anybody bothers to use Official Playstation Magazine as a reliable source of info. These are the same guys that sung the praises of Lair and Heaven Sword.

@FP_slomo788: Anybody who uses built-in wireless adapters for the Wii and PS3 or the dongle for the 360 is an idiot. 1) Their performance sucks. 2) You can get a wireless bridge for $40 that has better performance and will let you have prioritizd traffice ethernet for ALL your devices near your TV (Tivo, consoles,…

How soon until Sony starts charging for stuff that is already free to everyone on Xbox Live? Oh wait, they already have with Qore.

"Going mainstream" is one thing but appealing to the peddling the shallowest of titles like Nintendo did is another. Would the New York Times criticize tv critics if they complained that a networks entire Fall lineup consisted of variants of "America's Funniest Home Videos"? Would they say that the critics weren't…

Sony has ZERO room to talk about the quality of the software on the Playstation Online Store (POS) when they have that stupid rubber ducky game. Plus half the games on PSN are poor ports of XBLA titles (stuff like Gauntlet with no voice chat support, etc).

From the people that screwed up Star Wars Galaxies...

It's not Sony's or Microsoft's fault that your country has government-run censorship boards. Those muck everything up.

I guess colour is outlawed in the future.

"Sony was working their way through a dry run of the "- Yeah. Their presentation was dry alright.

Is Jack sick or something? Yesterday he looked like he was going to throw up about three times during the presentation. Today he looks like he really wants to leave.