Under a new scheme, Microsoft is set to sell homebrew Xbox 360 games with the developer's receiving up to 70 percent of the total revenue generated by the game. Essentially, each game must pass a peer review before it can be published, but from there on in, the only limit to the earning potential is the quality of the game!

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hard...ction=News

General Manager of XBox Live has spoken of even more new features he expects to come to the Xbox Live dashboard - including the ability to control your console over the internet, and ultimately a hardware-free future. He also confirmed that hard drive installs will work with all current and future Xbox games.
Marc Whitten said that the new update is "only the beginning" of the social networking features that Microsoft want to deploy.
He also said that we can expect future updates to include the ability to switch on your Xbox from any PC and download content to it remotely - "at some point in the future you'll hear more from us about that."
Asked if we'd ever be able to copy DVDs to the hard drive like the newly-added game install process, he said that was an "evil world" and he didn't fancy talking to the lawyers about making it happen.

http://www.oxm.co.uk/article.php?id=5415

This past week Microsoft announced that they would be lowering the price of the 20GB Xbox and introducing a new model for $349.99 with a 60GB hard drive. This larger amount of storage will come in handy when the new system update hits so that you can store your games. Circuit city is now listing this new model with a release on August 8th, but they also gave some more information about the system...

According to a page listing at Amazon (Japan), Datel are set to release some cooling looking retro themed Wii classic controllers. The colors in the range include white with a blue trim, white whith a pink trim, burgundy and a light bronze color.

After watching E3 live via a friends stream I heard about the New Video Store for PS3 Owners. It sounded amazing and I planned to purchase content. However the days past and the news comes that its not available to us EU based PS3 owners!

Anyway cutting to the chase, it pissed me off and most of the people I know. Others and I tried the simple basic network concept of Proxy but as you should know it was a FAIL.

So yeah, 3 days of hacking at kernels and other wonderful protocols in the stack I managed to get my PS3 to connect to the USA Video store and browse movies. I am almost certain that with the right details for the credit card, the purchase would be successful and I could watch the said content. Ive yet to use the paypal one use credit card yet… I understand that works for buying content from other countries stores on the PSN)

I have to now retrace the 3 days worth of positive progress and write it up for those who are interested in doing it….. but no matter how conveluted it is I am just showing that it is possible and you dont have to wait untill 2009 to access any sort of video store on the PSN.

I would also guess this would work for an XBOX 360 owner with regional content issues.

Follow the sites RSS or just come back when you hear about it in your various methods……… itll be here in full very soon.

Here is a video of “going thru the motions” on the USA store from the UK. Nothing to exciting for now….proof of concept ya know.
Source: YouTube


Part Two: How to actually purchase movies from USA PSN store from EU
Source: YouTube


http://www.vgwatchdog.com/?p=28

According to GameSpot, Microsoft has told reporters that a Devil May Cry 4 hard disk installation will take around 10 minutes on the Xbox 360 and will result in around a 30 percent improvement in load times. Reduced noise is also another benefit of the new option. Although you will STILL need to have the disc in your drive!

http://uk.gamespot.com/features/6194093/index.html

Bushing has posted up that his team have found a security issue that could allow pirated Wii games to be run on an UNMODIFIED console. He has created an open letter asking someone from Nintendo to get in touch with him about this as they have IGNORED him so far. We think he wants to help them patch the hole, rather than demand a cash settlement!

As part of our efforts to understand how the Wii works, we believe we
have found a security issue that could allow pirated Wii games to be
played on an unmodified Wii console.

I would like to speak to an engineer about this — please have one contact me at bushing (at) gmail.com.

Sincerely,
bushing

P.S. Sorry for posting this publicly — I tried emailing you three times
and never received a response. I am trying to follow the model set forth
in http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/policy.html, so your timely response
would be appreciated.

http://hackmii.com/2008/07/dear-nintendo/#more-63

Gamertell has posted step-by-step instructions for lining your Sony Playstation Underground ID to your Playstation Network ID. The result is what Sony calls a Portable ID. From the article"

"[G]oing through the process generates an image with your avatar in it as well as some code around it that links to your ID page...

Of course, Sony wants you to paste your Portable ID code in your email, forums and other social networking stuff since it not only gets your ID out there but also helps promote Sony and the PS3."

http://www.gamertell.com/gaming/comment/...rtable-id/

According to Jem Alexander of PS3Fanboy,

"We were given a pretty in-depth walkthrough of the current state of Home, including a couple of game spaces (images of those later), during which we asked the bloke as many questions as we could think of. Top of our list? Making sure that we would be able to meet up with our friends all across the planet in the various public spaces. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Home's public spaces are going to be region-specific.

If you want to meet up with your pals from abroad, then you'll be able to invite them into your apartment, but warping into the game space to bowl or play chess is not possible. This is allegedly to make sure that each region receives an "experience most suited to their tastes" as well as, no doubt, to keep advertisers happy. The last thing they want is Europeans seeing an advert directed at Americans."

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/07/16/home...on-locked/

Looks like Sony has once again denied the existance of the EU.  The PSN Video Store is only accessible from a US-based PS3.  US accounts based in the EU will not work either.

Time to bring out the proxies!!

In an interview shot for MTV News on Tuesday, Microsoft's head of Xbox business Don Mattrick, confirmed to me that Bungie is indeed working on a new "Halo" game of some sort for Microsoft.

I had been asking Mattrick about the lack of "Halo" news at E3. He said that Microsoft's Monday press conference was already loaded with content and so any announcements for that series weren't needed to get gamers excited.

I pushed him on the lack of presence for the series and asked him if we should be worried about the no-show of Ensemble Studio's real-time-strategy game "Halo Wars." Not only did Mattrick say not to worry and that announcements would be coming, he also said that Microsoft is working with Bungie on a "Halo" game.

I asked for clarification, wondering if Mattrick meant Bungie's project was "Halo Wars" or the long-announced Peter Jackson "Halo" project. Neither, Mattrick said. The Bungie game is something else.

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/07/1...-new-halo/

We all know and love our fellow muppet-modder Craig, and the fact that Microsoft has "stolen" FF XIII from Sony.
Well, he has decided to take action, see his youtube posting below:
Source: YouTube


Please, if you have any heart at all, join the fight at:
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/s...i?ps3exclu

Source: YouTube

At Sony's E3 press conference today Andy Beaudoin from Zipper Interactive announced MAG, short for Massive Action Game. The game will allow for 256 players that are broken up into 8 person squads in a chaotic free for all. Players will have the chance to advance their statistic as they play the game.

This game looks epic! GOTY type stuff possibly?

Can't wait for 2009 to get your hands on Guerrilla Games' Killzone 2? Well, neither can we, but we're not going to be able to play the game until early next year. So while waiting, why not check out some new gameplay footage of the game?

The Three Speech blog featured a new video of the game which shows off what you can expect to do while playing. Tank busting? Check. Taking out emplacements with a rocket launcher? Check. Getting into a tank and pretty much pwning everything in sight? Check. Did we miss anything?

Anyway, here's a look at the video. Be sure to keep checking back here for the latest Killzone 2 news.

Source: YouTube

It was also at the E3 of last year that Sucker Punch showed for the first time the trailer for their third-person action title, inFamous. It created much buzz, particularly because Sony has claimed it to be their own entry into the open-world, sandbox genre of gaming.

Of course, it also helps that the developer's street cred is maximally boosted, thanks to their experience working on Sly Cooper. But after that, we haven't really heard anything much about inFamous.

But now, Sucker Punch looks as if they're ready to rumble once again as news are surfacing that after a year of quiet development, they are ready to reveal another footage for inFamous. We have no idea what gives, and they decided to release materials only a year after their initial introduction of the game, but what we do know is that the second exclusive gameplay trailer will debut tonight on Spike TV.

This will be shown alongside other highly-anticipated titles such as Resistance 2, BioShock (PS3) and Prince of Persia. It's set to air sometime between 9:00 to 11:00pm PST, so you might as well stay home and wait for that to show.

i will update when there is a vid,