Custom made Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 from eBay
Konami and Sony’s limited edition Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 may have been enough to satisfy a few fans of the game willing to pay a premium for their console of choice but, for sheer excess, it has nothing on this custom-made system built by the folks at Morpheon Mods, which is now up for auction on eBay. Among the many details adorning this shiny creation is a laser-cut, stainless steel MGS4 marquee, a laser-etched image of Solid Snake, a carbon fiber Fox Hound logo on the rear, and 14 white micro LEDs to light everything up just right.
They even got Hideo Kojima himself to autograph the console and, perhaps best of all, they wrapped everything around a fully backwards compatible 60GB PS3. Just don’t expect any of that to come cheap, as bidding is already topping the $1,500 mark with six days left, though you do also get pretty impressive collection of Metal Gear swag with it, and 15% of the proceeds will go to help the Child’s Play charity.
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Diablo 3, Starcaft 2 trilogy-News from BlizzCon
Over the weekend, Blizzard’s annual “BlizzCon” convention came and went with much spectacle and delight for fans. Attendees enjoyed hands on time with the company’s vast roster of upcoming software, as well as the cultural trimmings of singing Tauren and inside jokes involving Murlocs. Two big announcements came out of the event, though, as Blizzard revealed a new class for Diablo 3 and a trilogy of titles under the StarCraft IIumbrella. Joining the Barbarian and the Witch Doctor in Diablo 3 will be the Wizard, a magic-focused class. Demos proved to be carnage-filled with only four players playing Wizards, but just fantasizing about eight Wizards playing simultaneously—that’s the number Blizzard is shooting for player-wise for the game—is tantalizing.
On the StarCraft II front, Blizzard revealed that the single player portion of the game would be broken up into three separate products, one for each of the factions: Wings of Liberty for the Terrans, Heart of the Swarm for the Zerg, and Legacy of the Void for the Protoss. Each campaign is said to have around 35 missions and all will end with the same ending, offering three distinct looks at what sounds like one over-arching story. This was a big year for BlizzCon: the company had a plethora of content to show, with Diablo 3 andStarCraft 2 joining Wrath of the Lich King in the company’s expansive roster of software. More information about the reveals, as well as screenshots and videos, can be found on Blizzard’s official BlizzCon web site.
Source: Ars Technica
Over 97% of today’s kids are video gamers
According to a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project 97% of young people today play video games in one form or another–boys and girl alike. And when they play video games, they often play them with someone else, ether in person or online. Two-thirds play face-to-face, the survey found, while a quarter play online with other people. “It shows that gamers are social people,” says Amanda Lenhart, a senior researcher at Pew. “They communicate just as much. They spend time face-to-face, just as much as other kids. They e-mail and text.”
The kids these days game fairly often, too, with 50% of them saying they had played a video game the previous day. And even though many underage respondents said they had played or owned several M- and AO-rated games, the Pew researchers were quick to distance themselves from making any proclamations about video games and real world violence. Instead, Joseph Kahne, a study co-author and dean of the education school at Mills College in California, said games like Halo–while violent–provided “more than average opportunities for players to help one another.”
Source: Gamepro
