Lack of Sleep

Well I spent the majority of my night trying my best to finish up some trophies in Prototype before I send it back Monday. I went to bed at 5 am and woke up at 730 am. I feel like a truck hit me lol. Some interesting finds for me.

1. God of War got its website redone www.godofwar.com . You use your playstation ID to log in and under the forums they are taking feedback for a collectors edition.

2 Tonight in Playstation Home (9pm PST) they are having some event about a dance off with hamsters. I have no idea what to expect but im going to check it out. It might actually be fun and yeah using the words Home and fun in the same sentence is pretty weird.

3. European site Play.com is listing Gran Turismo 5 for release on 27 November. The site said thats an offical date by Sony but im calling shenanigans. They list about 5 different playstation 3 titles for that day alone. Including Uncharted 2. If GT 5 by some miracle gets released this year my bet is around mid December.

4. This new PS3 motion controller is sounding pretty sweet. I found this on Kotaku. http://kotaku.com/5297265/sony-spills-more-ps3-motion-controller-details...

The PlayStation 3's second motion control push is slated to launch in Spring 2010, Sony Computer Entertainment reiterated to developers today, arriving with a "range of first-party and third-party content." SCE pitched the new controller as capable of functioning "with any games across all genres from casual to core."

On the technical side, SCE says that the PlayStation Eye accessory will come equipped with force feedback rumble. Sony boasts that the "face-tracking and head-tracking capability already in the PS3 SDK" will offer developers "powerful tools for new types of user interaction."

Sony says its new controller will also work in tandem with the Eye's built-in microphone array for voice input and voice recognition. Up to four of the new motion controllers can be tracked at once by the PlayStation Eye.

Adding the wand controller to games comes at a horsepower cost, Sony notes, writing that the "motion-tracking library has some SPU overhead and has an impact on memory as well, although these will be minimized."

The developer targeted communication also indicates that Sony is "currently looking into the possibility" of combining motion control wand and stock PS3 controller functions, offering the example of "the motion controller as a sword and use DualShock 3 as a shield."