Some kids found out that in the config file of the BioShock demo there is something about the PlayStation 3. Take2 Games has a ‘Non-Disclosure-Agreement’ with Microsoft and that could make this PS3 version of BioShock before the official release of the game in Europe pretty expensive.

[Console]
;; Console (XBox360, PS3) specific settings

;; StreamingDynamicFloatingLimit:
;; If this is a positive number, then instead of using the fixed per-level
;; limits, the StreamingDynamic resource will use as much memory as is
;; available as long as the total memory allocated by the game is less than
;; the specified number. In other words, StreamingDynamic will grow and
;; shrink to fit to the available memory instead of being locked to a fixed
;; budget
StreamingDynamicFloatingLimit=500

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Sony has announced that there’s an update to version 1.2 of Folding@Home online. New in this version are features as Screensaver Mode that makes your PS3 use less electricity. The Remote Play allows you to see on your PlayStation Portable how much work your PlayStation 3 has done over the past few months. Just launch the program and you’re ready to update.

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Back in the eighties Konami brought Track and Field to the NES, and not too long ago they launched the retrogame on Xbox Live Arcade. Today Konami presented a Nintendo DS version of Track and Field at the Leipzig Games Convention. The game called New International Track & Field is in development at Sumo Digital known from the latest Outrun and Virtua Tennis 3 games.

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Ubisoft has announced that Gameloft, a studio that develops a lot of games for mobile phones, is working on a Nintendo DS version of the cell phone game Miami Nights: Single in the City. In this game it’s your goal to create a character and build up a personality, relationships and so on. They promise a lot of mini-game fun, hooray!

Source: GoNintendo

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We just have the hardware sales from Japan in, but they don’t look that interesting. The usual, Nintendo DS Lite owns all and the Wii is the best selling next-generation console in Japan. The PlayStation Portable is selling better than its big brother, the PlayStation 3. Silently the PlayStation 2 is starting to fade away in the shadow of the mighty PS3. Oh and the GameCube sold 131 units.

Hardware sales from Japan, August 6th to 12th:

DSL 147,025
Wii 65,120
PSP 32,147
PS3 21,321
PS2 12,545
Xbox360 2,112
GBM 366
DS 180
GBASP 138
GC 131
GBA 16

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A pair of good eyes spotted in Nintendo’s Leipzig Games Convention folder that Super Mario Galaxy will launch on November 16th in Europe. The folder also said that Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles for Wii will come out on the same day as Super Mario Galaxy. Forever Blue will be coming out November 9th in Europe.

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Sierra Entertainment has announced that A2M is developing a new action game called WET. This game will come out next year for Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360. The main character in this game is Rubi, a brave female who’s a mix of Uma Thurman and Angelina Jolie. Sometimes she has to steal stuff, sometimes she kills someone, sometimes she protects a VIP. That’s a nice job with a whole lot of variety in it! But there’s more, the style she uses in her actions is completely in Tarantino style with Mexico and Hong Kong flavor. Sounds like a spicy woman, we’d love to see more of her, and hear more of her as well off course!

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Kazuhito Miyaki, the director of Eye of Judgement, says that the EyeToy of Sony’s PlayStation 3 has more potential than Nintendo’s WiiRemote. He says that the technology used with the EyeToy camera is better than the high tech stuff in the WiiRemote, this is what he had to say:

With other games it’ll be about creating a whole different dynamic so, in a way, you could say there is much more potential and ability in our technology.

Source: CVG

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2K Games has officially announced Mafia 2 and gave five screenshots of the game along with the announcement. The story sets in the early fifties, the late fourties and the whole setting should give the player a Hollywood feeling. Illusion Softworks is developing the game, the same studio that developed the first Mafia game. 2K Games will be showing more of Mafia 2 during the Leipzig Games Convention. (more…)

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NCsoft has announced a Limited Collector’s Edition of Tabula Rasa. End this year the game will be launched and on the same day the collector’s edition will be available as well. The pack contains a making-of DVD and lots of extra in-game stuff. You’ll get secret cards as well, an Allied Free Sentients-field guide, Tabula Rasa dog tags, an AFS challenge coin and a neat poster. The box itself looks hot as well.

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