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games × Gaming × Giants × Next Generation Portable × PSP Games × Sony
The issue of backwards compatibility is a hot button issue in the gaming industry. This is especially true for Sony who initially released ta backwards-compatible PS3 only to nix that function due to the high cost later. When Sony announced the NGP earlier this year, speculation quickly started as to whether original PSP games would be supported. According to Eurogamer.net the NGP will indeed feature the ability to play original PSP titles but with a catch.
UMD VS Digital
While the NGP will support original PSP games it lacks a UMD drive and thus can only play those purchased digitally through the PSN store. This means that existing PSP owners who have physical copies of games that want to play them on the upcoming NGP will have to repurchase them digitally. This doesn’t exactly come as a surprise as support for the UMD has been on the decline from the outset when movie studios dropped support for the format almost right away. Sony’s PlayStation division themselves even released an updated version of the PSP that relied entirely on digital media and did away with the UMD last year. Still, if anything signified the death of the format this would be it. No word yet from Sony as to how they plan to address the issue of rare titles that are only available on UMD such as Disney and Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep.
Guest Author Bio: Maria Rainier is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education where she’s written on geological & petroleum technician jobs along with a piece on hospitality travel & tourism programs. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, playing piano, and working with origami.
Source: NGP's backwards compatibility unveiled
UMD VS Digital
While the NGP will support original PSP games it lacks a UMD drive and thus can only play those purchased digitally through the PSN store. This means that existing PSP owners who have physical copies of games that want to play them on the upcoming NGP will have to repurchase them digitally. This doesn’t exactly come as a surprise as support for the UMD has been on the decline from the outset when movie studios dropped support for the format almost right away. Sony’s PlayStation division themselves even released an updated version of the PSP that relied entirely on digital media and did away with the UMD last year. Still, if anything signified the death of the format this would be it. No word yet from Sony as to how they plan to address the issue of rare titles that are only available on UMD such as Disney and Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep.
Guest Author Bio: Maria Rainier is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education where she’s written on geological & petroleum technician jobs along with a piece on hospitality travel & tourism programs. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, playing piano, and working with origami.
Source: NGP's backwards compatibility unveiled
games × Gaming × Gears of war 3 × Giants × Microsoft
As promised, Microsoft has aired the first single-player campaign trailer for Gears of War 3. It aired, as expected, at the end of the Champions League final between Barcelona and Manchester United (won by Barcelona).
This first full trailer opens by basically re-hashing the earlier released teaser trailer featuring protagonist Marcus Fenix and his father Adam. The new trailer goes on to show action between COG (Coalition of Ordered Governments) and Locust forces, as well as the new enemy variant, the Lambent (mutated members of the Locust).
Special musical guest for the trailer is Black Sabbath performing “War Pigs.”
In addition to the new enemy, for the first time in the series, Gears of War multiplayer will feature four-player co-op gameplay. Gears of War 3 will be the final game in the current story arc.
Pre-orders are available here. The game will be shipped in Standard, Epic, and Limited editions, and ships on Sept. 20th.
Watch the trailer below.
Watch the trailer below.
games × Gaming × Harm × Kids × Safe
Playing mobile games at home more enjoyable because it was in a state of relaxed and easily find and download new games via wireless internet at home, respectively. This activity is more interesting to do at home, without having to interfere with work and so forth.
There is also the assumption that casual games are games that sought by mobile gamers, because it is easily played in a while, like when you’re queuing tickets and so forth. It is also not entirely true, because at this time, some hardcore games like Infinity Blade and Deadspace are also very much loved by the players of mobile games.
Seeing that 47% of mobile games played at home, so mobile gamers can choose any game, including the hardcore games. So it is not always have to choose the games that can be played in a short time and easy to play.
In addition, the players make mobile gaming as one means of additional entertainment for them, when sitting in the living room couch, or lying on the bed. As for playing games console or computer they have to sit at the table or sit in front of the TV.
And the gamers, it is not identical with the players who can only play simple games casual games. They will choose what games they think are interesting.
Here are the results of a survey conducted about the place we play a mobile game:
- 47% at Home
- 14% in the office or workplace
- 12% when you’re hanging out with friends
- 7% in the toilet
- 4% on the street or other places.
- 3% in school
From the above survey, it turns toilet was ranked number 3 as a popular destination for mobile gaming. Interesting is not it?
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