Halo 3 is coming!

People, Halo 3 is almost upon us!

The Covenant control Earth. The Flood is unleashed and on the loose. With the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, Master Chief is the only one that can save the human race. Master Chief, the last of his kind, is a warrior born for combat, bred for war … and humanity’s only hope.

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One game I got to go and buy, in just a few days.

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Sony's 'Home' has been delayed! Yay! (not).

Well some rather bad news I'd like to bring some attention towards.

If you look down the page a little you'll see my blog concerning 'Home' which is going to be Sony's version of 'Second Life.' There's more on that and how I vision 'Home' much like 'Second Life' to benefit people such as myself and many others...

Go down and have a read for more on that! :)

Anywho, back to the bad news:

PlayStation Home, PS3's online social networking "thing", will not release this year as planned, Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai has confirmed in his Tokyo Game Show keynote this morning.

Unlike E3, where the application was shown up and running, Hirai merely showed the Home logo on the Makuhari Messe stage and said that the service had been pushed back to "truly meet the needs and feedback of the users." Home was originally scheduled for a "Fall" launch this year, as announced by SCEE dev boss Phil Harrison at GDC this March.

During a Q&A session after his speech, Hirai said the delay wasn't down to technical problems, but was because Sony wants Home to be a worldwide service and to have functionality suitable for people in different regions.

He thinks it can be satisfactory to all kinds of users when it launches, he said, adding, "We want to make sure we have a full range of services."

PlayStation Home is an avatar-based, MMO-style networking application for PS3 users, allowing console owners to have their own virtual spaces, trophy cabinets for their game achievements, and so on. Players will be able to access features like downloadable content and play games with friends through Home.

Source.

Although I'm sad to see this has been delayed I do understand that Sony probably needs to prepare for all this. Despite what Sony say here I truly believe this delay will allow us the user a far better and stable infrastructure with 'Home'.

Heard of Second Life? Check out Home for the Sony PS3

Have you heard of Second Life and its success?
Second Life takes online inter-activeness to new leaps and bounds, opening many doors for forms of advertising and communication.
Imagine advertising your potential business via 'Home' and/or Second Life, creating a massive Billboard in your acquired Virtual space which promotes your business even further. Let's face it, we are moving towards a digital world, it has began but we really have no idea how far it will all go, I see a true potential here and I believe Sony have capitalized and also added this to their PS online infrastructure to give it just that much more to accommodate to everybody’s tastes and furthermore their needs.

Fortunately for many of us, Sony has also foreseen the endless possibilities a user can achieve and introduced Home. Considering Sony has a 100 million+ (you read that correctly) strong customer base with the PS2 already and the PS3 is truly a next generation console system that offers so much more than just a ‘gaming machine’ I’d have no doubts in saying Sony hit the nail on the head with this one, one can already see if they search for it that a majority of PS2 owners are wanting to move into the next generation with the PS3…

Like Rupert (aka. The Super-Viser), I see a bright future ahead with blogging and the way of the internet and online inter-activeness, especially when considering how many can make a living from it via advertising essentially, Second Life and Home are no different.

Well there is not really that much longer for Sony Playstation 3 fans to wait until 'Home' is released and best of all it's free I tells ya!

Check out the video here to see what 'Home' is all about.

Manic Monday

Hi Guys,

Well today has been a busy day with work, self employed work for that matter :)
Was unable to attend my work experience TAFE course today and it seems like the same deal Tuesday :(
On the upside I earned some $$ and that's always awesome, more of the same tomorrow and I should be a very happy boy for the week.

I'll try and squeeze in some changes and posts to my BlogSpot, hopefully before the end of the week.

Rupert, Andonis & Tracy hope to catch up next week.

AAQ.

More about my blogspot.

Well today I spent a considerable amount of time changing the GUI of my blogspot, as you can tell I am now rolling 'Wii style' :P

I find this current template to be more appealing to the eyes and also consider this to suit me best, as to who I am and what I'm about, also considering I love electronics and the Wii is no exception.

My next steps will be to include a slide-show banner (thanks Rupert for the idea :)) with different kinds of PC hardware and other electronic goodies; including the latest generation console gaming units available today.

Be sure to keep an eye on my blog as it's going to go through some graphical changes I can assure you throughout the next few weeks however I think the Wii will stay!

Be sure to come back now.

AAQ.

Windows XP Sp3 Beta Testing Approved!

Well getting back to the things that I enjoy! :P

Microsoft has chosen me along with a minimal amount of other testers to try out the Service Pack 3 available for Windows XP (Professional Edition here). The latest beta of XP SP3 will be delivered to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.



Note: Ignore the sidebar, which was something I added from Vista to XP, this in no way is incorporated with the Service Pack!

Funny enough the latest WMP and IE were not slipstreamed in this SP to WMP11 and IE7 respectively. Still a new build is in the works and I’ve received word that I'll have a new build within the next week or so to test, here's to hoping that there will be newer and greater improvements within this new build of SP3.

Now here's to hoping that Microsoft will accept me amongst the 10,000-15,000 beta testers for Windows Vista's SP1 build which also is to be released next week, all I can say is I have been accepted for that and am awaiting word further (or a download link).



I'll report more on how this all plays out, of course I'll have to water it down to please MS abiding by my disclosure agreement.

Where have you been?

Hi guys,

I have not blogged in some time, just less than two weeks in fact.

I've been very ill, unfortunately for me I was sick as a dog; Fever, joint and muscle aches not to mention the occasional vomiting which I guess was the upside of it all. :)
Still I can laugh and smile about it now being damn glad I'm over it but sadly I've spread it onto my other family members and now they are sick... :(

Oh well these things happen but now that I'm well and feeling pretty lively I will be blogging more occasionally.

Until a lil' later...

Cheers for now.

AAQ.