PS Fanboy Week in Review: 6/23 - 6/29
by Majed Athab 
{ Jun 29th 2008 at 12:00PM }
Columns
- Echochrome - the new Brain Age? "What Echochrome does, quite brilliantly, is tweak our perception of dimensionality in an interactive way not possible with Escher drawings or Penrose triangles."
- PS3 Fanboy Hands-on: SOCOM Confrontation "Take into consideration that almost everything you can see, you can get to. More importantly, note that almost every building in the game can be entered as well, maximizing the playable area within each territory."
PS3 Headlines
PSP Video
- Grand Theft Auto IV patch finally here It's about time.
- No movie studios have signed with PS3 download service... yet So it's coming this summer ... but Sony is all alone.
- Novastrike to get significant update (and European release) in August Much appreciated. Much needed.
- PSN friends list now capped at 100? [Update] Because, like, having more friends is like totally cool!
- Rumor: Does this image show a PS3 trophy screen? [UPDATE] Quite possibly. We bring you this week's hottest scoop.
- Rumor: Kratos may be in Soulcalibur IV We await your Kratos/Sophitia eroge fan fics.
- SOCOM headset officially revealed Hello? Hello? Can you hear me over there?
- Sony presentation reveals some nice surprises So much stuff your head will explode. Seriously.
- Dissidia: Final Fantasy website updated with story and characters Updated website reminds us this game is going to be sick.
- Firmware 4.01 fixes issues with 4.00 Oh? There was a problem?
- Koller promises more first and third party games, less ports Make our dreams come true Mr. Koller.
- Man tries to trade drugs for PSP It doesn't work ... we've tri-- er, we've heard. Yeah. That's it.
- Patent reveals touchscreen handheld device from Phil Harrison Phil left us a parting gift before heading to Infogrames.
- PSP will get direct access to the PSN Store this fiscal year Sounds convenient.
- Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth gets reprint, only $30 A great and rare game gets reprinted. Pick it up.
PSP Video
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
StPaddy81 @ Jun 29th 2008 1:07PM
Rumor has it, we'll get a walkthrough of 2.4 tomorrow, and judging by your tweet:
"# Andrew: Sony embargo #1 ends this Friday at noon. Sony embargo #2 ends on Monday morning at 8AM. Stay tuned. 4 days ago"
I'd venture a guess, we'll see it pretty early tomorrow morning. :)
Anton Chigurh @ Jun 29th 2008 4:14PM
Confirmed for just shy of Midnight Pacific time on the PS Blog.
Well, let me say "a surprise video" confirmed. He didn't specifically say firmware and trophies video.
However, he did say that there will be 2 walkthru vids, about 5 mins each in length, one for In-Game XMB features, one for Trophies.
SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread) @ Jun 29th 2008 6:27PM
yea i was figuring the same thing. i noticed the Twitter board the other day and since the first one past without anything stellar (to me personally anyway), i figured the second one had to be it. i dont wanna watch videos of it though, i want to use it. although it is good to get some kind of quasi-confirmation from at least one site.
StPaddy @ Jun 29th 2008 1:08PM
Rumor has it, we'll get a walkthrough of 2.4 tomorrow, and judging by your tweet:
"# Andrew: Sony embargo #1 ends this Friday at noon. Sony embargo #2 ends on Monday morning at 8AM. Stay tuned. 4 days ago"
I'd venture a guess, we'll see it pretty early tomorrow morning. :)
StPaddy @ Jun 29th 2008 2:13PM
oops...damn double post.
nxtiak @ Jun 29th 2008 1:16PM
Hey I just noticed, in that picture it's on a Dell computer monitor. So I'm guessing it's fake and it's a photoshop.
bdl0325 @ Jun 29th 2008 1:54PM
You and a few hundred others have said that, but this generation of consoles can use monitors......
el serpiente @ Jun 29th 2008 1:59PM
You can plug a PS3, or any console with the right outputs into a dell monitor. Try again, Sherlock.
beoba @ Jun 29th 2008 2:29PM
DVI/HDMI adapter:
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10231&cs_id=1023104&p_id=2661&seq=1&format=2
Though your monitor needs to be HDCP compliant :(
why not the LS2LS7? @ Jun 29th 2008 4:49PM
Yeah. PS3 will not do HDMI out without HDCP. Poop.
However, if your Dell has component in like mine does, you can hook it up that way instead.
mathab @ Jun 29th 2008 3:40PM
Test post.