My usual daily internet round up lead me to this site stating they have a working PS3 modchip.
Too good to be true? well only time can tell.

 According to the site, Belzar the world first full-fledged direct boot modchip for the PS3 that is packed full of useful features including multi-region DVD and blu-ray movie playback is now being tested by 50 beta testers for final bug testing.

Belzar PS3 Modchip features:

• Works on all PS3 models
• Works on all PS3 regions (USA, JAP, PAL,)
• Direct Boot of PS3 original, import, and backup (copied) games
• Direct Boot of PS2 original, import, and backup (copied) games
• Supports multi-region Blueray Movie Playback
• Supports multi-region DVD Movie Playback
• No config disc needed – it just works!
• Transparent stealth operation
• Integrates proven belzar Intelligent Code Modifying System
• No awkward USB interface – just insert DVD and play!
• Supportsall upto date titles
• Ultra-low power consumption; does not interfere with normal PS3 operation
• Only 12 wires to solder
• No external PC/laptop needed
• completely upgradeable firmware, via Belzars usb 2.0 interface

PS: PS3 games are around 25-50gb, how long will it take you to download or even upload ? Which sites will allow that amount ?  Which ISP will let you download let’s say 3 ps3 games in a month ? around 100gb ?

For me i think the high capacity of the PS3 discs is the real easy yet effective solution for piracy .

What are your thoughts ?

For one more time I played through the Yakuza 3 Jap demo and at the end, I started to check around the net to see if there is any new news about it being released over here, and I found at gamefaqs.com some petition sites.I was very happy though about them because that show we are not the only one missing this gem.

So I started to realize maybe Sega was wrong not porting it over here but now if even they want to do it, it will maybe took another year or so and by then we all will forget about it or our thirst of it will be fulfilled by all the videos, cut-scenes, ending and gameplay videos from YouTube and the sort, which mean Sega will lose few fans and potential buyers, although the real fans will still grab it anyway.

So my two cent for all these Japanese developers, start maximising your product potential by just adding some bloody English subtitles to them.

It cost less than voice over and mostly people really preferred anyway Jap voice with English subs.

Some guy told me if you add eng subs then you must support online too for them and I said NO NO: add English subs so people can import the game but they know they can’t have the extras features online provide.

PS3 is region free when it comes to games so why still make it looks like old ps2 with just Japanese language without English subs?

My one petition is for all those Jap developers: Start Adding English Subs To Jap Only Titles or Bring Them Over in Less Than a Year!

I love video games but these new DLC things start to look more like
laziness than just enhancement of the games.

Yea I know some dlc really make the game better and some purely
just for costumes.
My question is why pricing it? Why can’t it just be free?

I really think dlc is making developers and publishers lazy and
greedy in a way that what should be included in the original
game get removed to be released as dlc and be priced.

In the past games had hiding costumes you can enable after
achieving some crazy hard stuff now you just buy them which
really sucks but again it’s just my thought though.

What do you think about dlc? Give us your thought through
the comments.

I will not make a long post here but all you read lately is Wii break records or PS3 is not doing well.Well let’s look at it differently and you will realize its normal PS3 is not doing well.

Let’s see right now:

-Wii and DS are doing well because all focus on Gamecube and GBA gone.
-Xbox 360 is doing well because support or releases for original Xbox gone, but.
-Sony PS3 is walking the line with PS2 which just make it hard and on top PS2 games still being released right now up until June this year.

In my opinion Sony need to cease game releases for PS2 and focus on PS3 but then try and find a way for PS3 owners to play PS2 games or start selling PS2 games on PS Store.

And one plus PS3 have over the rest is , so far hackers havn’t been able to break it yet, so everyone playing at least PS3 games is legit while there’s modchip all over the net for X360 and Wii.

They said you can’t follow two path at the same time.

Now i say if PS2 is out of the line those report and analyses can be 100% accurate because right now it’s like 2 vs 1.
The report should go like PS2+PS3 vs Wii , not just Ps3 vs Wii or x360 vs Ps3

[update] Seems a hacker have found a way to play PS2 games on PS3, Sony need to get this to work legally not some hackers program which can break down the unit, we want official tool.

Am not a PS3 fanboy so please keep comment relevant to the topic.

Petric now 17 had his hearing last month, and today the judge has convicted him of his crimes although no sentence was passed on yet, he is facing the maximum possible penalty of life sentence in prison without parole.

Described as a cold, calculating killer who plotted to murder his parents by the prosecutors, the defence in other hand attributed his crimes to irresponsibility due to his video game addiction (it was also revealed that when Petric left the crime scene, there was only one thing which he took with him: his copy of the Halo 3 game), thankfully the Judge overruled this stupid argument, and pointed to evidence saying that he actually plotted the act.

“Mark Petric, who is a minister at New Life Assembly of God in Wellington, testified that his son came into the room and asked: “Would you guys close your eyes? I have a surprise for you.”
The father testified that he expected a pleasant surprise. Then his head went numb from a gunshot and he survived. His wife, Susan, 43, died of gunshot wound to the head.”

I really was going to blame the parent for bad parenting but even bad parenting doesn’t deserve a gun shot.

The father was a priest so I know there might be some up and down there but the kid deserve prison for life, I don’t really believe in death sentence because killing him won’t do any good , I rather let him live and feel the sorrow , sadness, loneliness , shame of his act.

Read the Associated Press Article here

Tell us what you think, does he deserve life or death sentence in your view?

To be honest trailers aren’t bad, they help build lot of hype to the title even if the end product turn out to be not good as advertise while gameplay videos just show you exactly how the end result is going to be.

So which category good for trailers and which is good for gameplay videos?

♦ Trailers are good for movies plain and simple and not so good for video games in my humble opinion because they are cut-scenes which always look good even for the worst game and they don’t tell us anything about the actual gameplay or how the battle system is.

♥ Gameplay videos in other hand are very good and useful for us end users as we know straight away how good the game is and if it’s something we will like although we don’t know much about story.

For us here we watch trailers but we love gameplay videos, if its movie related then fine but games related we only want gameplay videos.

If the game is truly good gameplay will add more hype than trailers but if it’s not so good well trailers will do it good while fooling us buyers.

We encourage developers to give us more gameplay videos instead of load of trailers with pre rendered videos which at the end don’t tell us how the game really is, at least if you must trailer, make a trailer which include few real gameplay please.

We know quite few people will disagree but again give us your thought and as we aren’t any guru this is our own view.

JRPG can do better

As a big fan of JRPG whenever I read about bad sales when they hit US or Europe I always wonder.
People love jrpg in our side of the continent but still don’t buy it much, why is that?

- I think the answer lie in the delay between Asia releases and translated version releases for outside Asia.

We love the game but don’t want to wait 3, 6 month or even a year for a game we love to be translated while I already even see all the spoilers videos online even the ending videos some dude post on YouTube.

Now how can it be improved?

I think right now the simple solution is worldwide releases or at least a very short delay between Japan and outside Japan releases.

Some might argue but will you buy a game twice? Maybe yes if you are really a pro or fans but the simple truth is most gamers are just casual players, so it will take lot of passion to own an import and still want to buy the translated version.

Companies should start adding at least foreign subtitles to their games, people who import games don’t really need the audio to be translated , they only care about subs as most people really preferred the original audio since the beauty of it sometimes is the accent.

Final Fantasy Dissidia for PSP out in Japan and sold about 350000+ copies in first week and imagine just adding an English subtitles to it how sales flood the demand will be, but now people who import it have to rely on internet for translation and maybe even a patch which greatly refrained them to buy the game again even if its translated version been released.

Another issue is the universal playback where you don’t even need to hack your consoles anymore, wherever you buy a game it will work on your console like the PS3(x360 and Wii still have regional lock though).

My New Year message to the gaming world is : “please JRPG developers, start adding foreign subtitles to your games and you can minimize the cost (audios translation) and maximize your sales, or less the gaps between .jp and .us, .eu releases dates.”

If internet was not around companies can still get away with this long gaps but with internet, game videos sites, YouTube you can’t afford to let customers watch every videos in the game online or even the ending online before decide to buy it as the suspense and surprises which push you to the end of a game already extinguish.

If you can do it worldwide or even add subs,  do it,  don’t let people see every hidden videos in the game online before make up their mind and doing so can reduce greatly piracy as well , killing two birds with one stone.

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First of all I own ps1, ps2, ps3, xbox, x360, gba advance, dreamcast, 2 psp , so only ds was missing and I was happy that we got one .It was overdue but at last we got one.

When we started to play, I realize that this isn’t for me, it looks too kiddie (sorry fan boys), and it still feel like playing my gba, maybe too much psp spoiled my eyes, I really don’t know but for sure I was disappointed of the graphics but hopefully the immense DS game library will keep us so busy we won’t even worry about the graphic (well let’s hope).

The xbox360 start freezing whenever i try to connect to live , i ve tried everything possible, from cleaning the dust to clearing the cache , even deleted all the demos and the megaman , but nothing works.

It was very frustrating , i read online quite few people have that problem too so i follow all of them solution and didn’t work.

So two days ago i unplugged the network cable again for the 1000 times again and deleted my profile, then used the recover gamertag from the dashboard .

Feeew… after few minutes of heart pumping wating , the recovering done and Voila! my xbox stop freezing and working again like a charm.

So if you have same problem and tried everything but not yet delete an recover gamertag , give a shot.