EA lately announced that The Sims 3 will be released on the game consoles in 2010.
EA confirmed that the game will be released on the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS and the Playstation 3 this autumn.

The new versions for the consoles will include all-new features such as the “Karma Powers”. The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions will get an online exchange system in which you can download and share content with other players. The Wii version will include a “Life Moments” multiplayer mode which helps you to get familiar with your town and to search for the hidden secrets. On the Nintendo DS players can build their own houses and customize every object. With the stylus players will be able to make the Sims’ facial features and dress them properly.

An EA producer said: “This is the best console and handheld game we have known from The Sims. Building on the unique traits system, living open neighborhood, lifetime wishes, and endless customization options, we’ve tailored each platform of The Sims 3 with exclusive features to allow for even more control, creativity, and connectivity.”

Sony will release a firmware upgrade in June 2010, the update will enable 3D features on the Playstation 3. Specificaly. It will include 3D game support, but no support for Blu-ray movies. A second firmware update at the end of 2010 will add support for 3D movies. Customers who buy Sony’s newest television (HX803) will have access to 4 free remastered games.

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So the PS3 continues to upgrade itself to be future proof, despite of the fact that you have to wait a little longer on the 3D movies in your own livingroom. Below follows a picture of the new Sony HX803 TV.

The PlayStation 3 has the highest percentage of users in the United States that uses the online services via a broadband connection. This appeared from an investigation of the investigation desk The Diffusion Group, for which two thousand men have been interrogated. 78 percent of the PS3-bezitters has made connection with the internet, opposite 73 percent for Xbox 360 and 54 percent for the Nintendo Wii.

The gloss is that we here speak over percentages. We could also say: “Wii has the most online users”, because the most Wii-owners have their console connected to the internet. From figures of NPD Group appeared that if you multiply the installed base of all the consoles multiplied with the percentage users that goes online, the most Wii’s are connected to the internet.

After Sony introduced the PS3 Slim to the public, the rumors are that sony won’t release a PS4 soon. First we thought 2010, but now everyone thinks the PS4 will come in 2011 or 2012 if not later. Here are some pictures of what the PS4 could look like.

According to Michael Gluck, programmer at developer Crytek, Crytek will release Crysis 2 as a new graphic standard on the PlayStation 3. “Other games will have trouble exceeding that new standard”, according to Gluck.

“On every new generation of games on the PlayStation 3, about once per two years, we see that the games improve in quality. Something that we especially see in the graphics”, tells Gluck opposite the magazine Play. I think that we will see some asthonishing graphics this summer if we have to believe the programmer at Crytek.

“We already tried to make the best games possible for the PS3, and now with Crysis 2 we certainly made a standard for all the PS3 developers.” A possible continuation on Crysis 2 will not mean a new standard according to Gluck. Crysis 3 will get only small improvements in comparison with the second part.

More interaction

“It is very unlikely that we will see large improvements in the graphics, because we are not trying to replace graphic parts but we will make improvements on the previous engine”, he said. “Thus you have to expect stronger game-elements, physics effects and more interaction, but the graphic quality won’t become much higher.”

Crysis 2 was revealed this week official by Crytek during an event on Tim Square in New York. The game will hit the stores later this year, probably in the summer, and it comes to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and the pc. We gathered some screenshots of the new Crysis 2 game:

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