Nine Baud Tech News

Today we find this article over on BBC News. I have to admit I have tried the Second Life and for the life of me I just don’t get it. Everywhere I turn someone was trying to sell me something (aggressively) and/or offering to “cyber”. While there are the likes of the World of Warcraft (which I have not tried) and the like I just can’t get into it.

Games such as World of Warcraft and worlds like Habbo Hotel are fast becoming “significant platforms” in the converged media world, the report said.

“There’s a whole ream of different genres and spaces emerging,” said the report author Piers Harding-Rolls.

Revenues from subscriptions to MMOGs will hit $1.5bn by 2011, he said.

There is revenue to be had and all the power to them but, geez. What ever happened to going outside or meeting friends for a coffee?

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Tags: Second Life, World of Warcraft, MMOG

For the gamer freak in your household Sony is now providing downloadable games for the PSP. The titles available include

“Cool Boarders,” “Crash Bandicoot,” “Hot Shots Golf 2,” “Syphon Filter,” and “Tekken 2″ — however, Sony added in a press release that future titles would be made available later this month.

Great stuff for the socially challenged on your Holiday list.

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Tags: Playstation, PSP Downloads, Sony Games

Damn, that’s a lot of cake.

Sony Corp. sold 88,400 units of its PlayStation 3 game console in the first two days after the launch in Japan, leaving most stores without any stock, video game magazine publisher Enterbrain said on Monday.

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Tags: Sony PS3, Sales Figures

It’s 4:53 am in Tokyo and I’ll bet people are lined up around the corner in some locations. Apparently some shops opened at midnight. Today Sony launches their PlayStation 3 offering.

The console officially went on sale on 11 November but reports suggest few stores opened at midnight to let fans get the long-awaited gadget.

Instead stores are organising lotteries to decide who in the queue gets a PS3.

Many gamers could go home disappointed as Sony has only made 100,000 machines available on launch day.

Only 100K of them? A rather nasty way to run up the hype.

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Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, PlayStation On Sale, Release Date November 11 2006, Sony, Tokyo