Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops is the first "Solid" Metal Gear game for the Sony PSP. The "Ac!d" series is based around card gameplay, whereas the "Solid" series is based on the traditional home console series. This video shows the teaser trailer of 1970's era based Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops, coming to the Sony PSP Winter 2006. Read more about the upcoming game here.
According to this listing at EB Games, Half-Life 2 is scheduled to come to the Xbox 360 on 2/5/2007. It has yet to be confirmed by the publisher or developer. An earlier announcement from Valve said that "development of future game releases for the Xbox 360" were in the works.
Bill Gates did a brief chat session with MTV after his appearance at E3 on motion controllers, the Live Anywhere service and the rise of social gaming.
On social gaming : "Some games you are going to be playing by yourself," he said. "But most of gaming, particularly as we draw in both men and women and people of all ages, most of it is going to be social."
On motion control: "There's room for innovation here, but moving that controller around — it's something that's not mainstream for most games," he said, bringing up Microsoft's experience years ago with the Sidewinder 3D Pro.
The Xbox Live Dashboard is due to receive an update in the coming week. A new feature pointed out by Gamevideos.com shows that you can have two gamer pics now. You have the standard graphic one, provided by publishers. The second gamer pic is your "personal picture," which will only be viewable by people on your friends list. Your personal picture can be captured via the upcoming Xbox Live Vision Camera. You can also add a picture as an attachment to messages you send to friends. Another feature related to your friends list is the "idle" function, similar to AIM's idle message, when someone is away from their Xbox 360 for a while.
Watch the video here (or jump to gamevideos.com if the server is busy):
SyberSoft is developing an attachment peripheral for the Nintendo DS (along with the Gameboy Advance) that will allow you to display the DS's screen on a Television. The screen is captured through a lens and mirror inside the peripheral, then output through an AV Cable. Because the screen is scaled up on the larger screen, graphics will not be as sharp. Your screen will have to be kept clean as well, as any dust particles will be projected on the TV as well. Also, the DS (and DS Lite) requires interaction on the bottom touch screen, so only the top screen is projected, making it unusuable for games such as Metroid Prime Pinball and Yoshi's Island 2. The Viewboy is targeting a $29.95 retail price and is currently looking for a distributor. Read more at Lik Sang.
Major Nelson has confirmed that an Xbox Live Dashboard update is nearing release.
From Major Nelson: "You’ve heard the rumors for a few weeks, but the truth can now be told: There is a major Xbox 360 dashboard update coming in 'about a week.' Background downloading, boot to the dash option, and Marketplace improvements are just a few of the new features and enhancements that are in this update."
More details will be coming in his weekly podcast this Sunday. A solid date is to be announced.
Team X-tender has released images of their upcoming "XCM 360 High Speed Fan." This is the third cooling solution for the Xbox 360, but the first to allow you to monitor and control the temperature/fan speed. The XCM 360 also requires the Xbox 360 console to be opened, voiding the warranty, so the fans can be placed over the CPU/GPU processors.
