It’s certainly better than the first trailer.

Also, Sony Pictures and MGM have premiered the new, final poster for the film on Yahoo.

Padilha’s remake definitely lacks Paul Verhoeven’s twisted sense of humor and it’s more similar to what we’ve been exposed to in the previous decade as sci-fi flicks.

Computer game-y action scenes and lots of explosions.

We’ll see if the movie offers more when it comes out in theaters.

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It’s a miniature console that plays Vita games, offers access to Sony’s Music Unlimited, Video Unlimited service and connects to PlayStation controllers for 9,954 yen (around $100).

Some of the services ready for the PS Vita TV include Twitter, Hulu and NicoNico Douga, with more media providers signing up on the new device. PS Vita TV will also allow you to connect to PlayStation 4 for remote play, acting as a secondary terminal when you’re not in the same room as your console.

Here, you can see it includes HDMI output, space for a (proprietary Vita) memory card, a slot for Vita games (on the side), plus USB, power and ethernet ports.

And below, you can watch the PlayStation Vita TV Global Concept Movie…

You will also be able to buy a set with a controller and storage card for 14,995 yen ($150) and it’s set to go on sale in Japan on the 14th of November.

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Further hardware improvements include a micro-USB charger and 1GB of onboard storage. Interestingly, the screen tech has been changed to LCD from OLED, what is likely responsible for the drop in price.  Also, there will be three special edition models: Gundam Breaker, God Eater and Otomate.

The new (WiFi-only) Vita will land in Japan first, on October 10th in Japan for 18,980 Yen (or about $190). It’s unclear if and when this model will be made available in the otherparts of the world.

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Can’t tell you what that means yet, they are planning to play it mysterious and announce at IFA Conference in Berlin.

Here’s Sony’s teaser… Maybe it’s a small tablet that shoots lines of concentrated energy. Now, that would be awesome.

Can you guess?

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Today Sony Online Entertainment unveils EverQuest Next and brings a new vision for the future of online games.

“With EverQuest Next, we’re going back to our roots — a space we defined with the EverQuest legacy — and ushering in a new era of MMOs: The Emergent Era,” said John Smedley, President, Sony Online Entertainment. “Today, many MMOs fail because players consume content faster than developers can create it. With EverQuest Next, we’re creating a living world that players are part of and empowering them to produce new content alongside the development team. What does the future hold for EverQuest Next and Sony Online Entertainment? It’s in the players’ hands, and we like it that way.”

“EverQuest Next is not the continuation of a familiar story. It represents the fundamental reimagining of the characters, lore and environments of the EverQuest universe,” said Dave Georgeson, Director of Development for the EverQuest Franchise, Sony Online Entertainment. “Make no mistake; while great care has been taken to respect the extraordinary influence that EverQuest has had in this industry and with our player community over the years, this is a boldly different game unlike anything that has come before.”

Also, here’s an official description of the project.

EverQuest Next has been in development since 2009. Nearly two years ago, SOE made the decision to rethink core creative and technical aspects of the design and start from the ground up to build a new kind of game. As a result, EQN is different from all of the MMOs that have been made before in very important ways, including:

Multi-Classing – EQN will offer players the ability to explore and interact with the world according to their individual style of play. There are no levels in EQN, but there will be more than 40 distinct classes (or professions) at launch, with multi-tiered abilities and specialized weapon skills to collect and master. Players will even mix and match abilities from each class, creating truly custom characters that feel distinct and powerful.

Destructible Environments – No modern MMO has successfully implemented destructible environments that stretch across an entire seamless game world — this changes forever with EQN. Every piece of the world is fully destructible and players will have the ability to manipulate almost all of it. They will interact with and explore the world in amazing ways; venturing down into the deep bedrock beneath the surface and using powerful combat abilities to blow gaping holes into the ground. The EQN world will extend far into the heavens and deep into the procedurally-generated earth through 10,000 years of known lore and history.

Permanent Change – Players will also have the ability to cause the world to change around them, permanently, in dramatic ways. Through the concerted effort of the world’s inhabitants, including players, creatures, and non-player characters (NPCs), city walls will be built and destroyed, large-scale wars will be fought and won, and epic stories will unfold over months and years.

Emergent AI – In EQN, NPCs will have specific motivations and preferences that direct behavior in nuanced and unpredictable ways. Players will find themselves in a world where NPC decisions are based on core values, not dictated by static spawn points. For example, Orcs may attack opportunistically because they want an adventurer’s gold, not simply because a careless hero wanders into an attack radius.

A Life of Consequence – Finally, each character in EQN will have a unique story; they will not follow a predetermined path. Instead, they will seek out adventure, fame and fortune in a constantly changing sandbox world. The game will remember every choice and action that players make and will organically deliver increasing opportunities to do more of the things players like to do … from crafting armor and exploring the wilderness to purging goblins from the forests.

 

“We believe that the bold choices the team is making with EQN will result in a product that provides players with an absolutely new kind of game experience,” said Laura Naviaux, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing, Sony Online Entertainment. “However, there is something even more important to us. As an organization, we are dedicated to partnering with our community to give them a voice in the games we create. With EQN, we are taking this idea even further and offering our players the opportunity to actively build EQN with us.”

Right now, the game itself don’t have a launch window but SOE announced that it will introduce EverQuest Next Landmark, which will combine the building tools SOE is using to create the fully destructible world of EQN with all of the social functionality expected from a modern MMO, this winter.

Landmark will let anyone to build structures and create other types of content to be considered for inclusion in EQN.

SOE outlined the following features for what Landmark will enable players to:

Create Amazing Things

• Build highly detailed structures with powerful and intuitive tools.
• Quickly design complex projects or collaborate with friends to undertake massive shared builds.
• Lay claim to and control specific areas of huge persistent worlds.

Share Your Imagination with Friends

• Landmark’s persistent servers will enable players to interact with and experience the collective imagination of thousands of players in a unique shared world.
• Players will have compelling reasons to explore and interact with others. They will congregate at crafting hubs, build design templates to share and trade, and journey across the world to collect the resources required to build and craft.

Build EQN with SOE — Using the Same Tools

• Landmark players will gain increasing access to many of the same tools that SOE is using to construct the game world of EQN.
• Not only will Landmark give players access to these world building tools, SOE will provide specific guidance on what we want help building.
• Through this collaborative approach, EQN may eventually represent the largest overall collaborative development effort in the history of online games. For anyone who has ever thought about becoming a game developer, here is your chance. Together we will build extraordinary things

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

Landmark will launch this winter as a ” Free To Play. Your Way.®” offering and the first step in a multi-phase release strategy. It will serve as the gateway to EQN and as the collaborative building hub where SOE will guide the development of selected structures and environments for inclusion in EQN.

 

Damn… That was a big announcement. Hit comments section to tell us what you think of EverQuest Next… Ali out.

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We’ve seen a 400GB Blu-Rays and 1TB discs in the lab before but that was when discs were cool. Today, nobody likes ‘em very much. On the other hand, say “cloud” and everybody goes crazy.

But there’s still hope for physical people. Sony and Panasonic have teamed up to bring reliable long-term storage that only optical disks can provide.

The duo will develop a “next-generation standard for professional-use optical discs.1 They say that a 300GB flavor could be ready in two years.

Both companies aim to improve their development efficiency based on the technologies held by each respective company, and will target the development of an optical disc with recording capacity of at least 300GB by the end of 2015. Going forward, Sony and Panasonic will continue to hold discussions regarding the specifications and other items relating to the development of this new standard.

By actively promoting the adoption of a new standard for next-generation high-capacity optical discs, they intend to offer solutions that preserve valuable data for future generations.

Do you think this is a smart move and we’ll still be needing optical discs, given rapid developments in on-demand streaming and cloud gaming?

I think it’s always smart to have a physical backup of our online life.

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Curiously enough, a previous, “deceased” version of the PlayStation TV trademark can also be found on the internets. That one was filed back in September 2006 and officially abandoned almost six years later, in 2012.

Both seem to revolve around this simple mockup logo…

We’^ll bring you more news about this as they come our way…

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Just like Xbox One it’s simple, very angular. The buttons and curves are gone.

Here are some more pics…

And its price will be $399 minus PlayStation 4 Eye… That translates to €399 , and £349.

What do you think? Ugly? Beautiful? Tell us about it below…

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The next-gen war is on and my favorite gadgets are getting upgraded.

Now that a healthy amount of time has passed after both reveals, we can lay what we know about these two consoles on the table and discuss who won the second round of the next generation console wars.

There are two products and two giant companies pitch these products to you, fellow tH’ers. They want you to buy their stuff if you can buy only one and if you can buy more than one, they want theirs in the pack.

Let’s start by stating the obvious, we know what X1 looks like while PS4 – thanks to Sony’s thunder stealing tactics – is still a mystery. And what is X1? Well, it’s a black box. It looks a little too big but it’s also sharp, simple and beautiful.

This is a chess game. Sony believes Microsoft started the previous console generation by revealing Xbox 360 first, so this time around, they went on first but with a twist, they did not reveal everything, leaving the actual machine to be unveiled later, after Microsoft makes its move. And what about Microsoft? They did the same. They showed the console and how smart that thing is but there were too few games, gameplay videos or technology demos. Those will come at E3.

Both consoles use an eight-core AMD processor but Sony’s new console delivers 1.84 TFLOPS while X1’s throughput is 1.23 TFLOPS. PS4 also has the upper hand in system memory with 8GB of 5500 MHz GDDR5. So in terms of raw gaming power PS4 seems to be ahead of X1. But remember same thing was said for PS3 and Sony failed to make use of those Cell shaders in the previous battle from which, Microsoft emerged as the winner.

Here, we need to say that Sony and Microsoft have different aims in mind. Sony, wants to deliver a solely gaming experience while Microsoft’s goal is to dominate the living room. There’s a curious change of style here, remember the last generation, Sony brought blu-ray to our homes, making PS3 a device of innovation with almost no exclusive games, while Xbox 360 was strictly a gamer’s machine.

Now X1 offers lots of sports and TV channels that will be meaningless unless you live in USA but the device will also bring a better and more capable Kinect, voice recognition, snapmode, Skype…

And last but not least, a juggernaut of a TV show, Halo.

Smart TV’s finally have a market with Google and Apple locked in battle. And here X1 looks smarter than PS4. How many gamers will prefer a solely-gaming platform when another can offer similar games and smart TV?

PS4 upgraded their not-so good controller taking cue from Xbox 360’s flawlessly designed one and fleshing out theirs. Good move. MS focused on what’s inside of the controller, leaving the case design almost untouched. Microsoft says there are 40 improvements inside, including trigger rumbles. We’ll decide if they work, when we actually play something.

I’m a little skeptic about the PS4 share enthusiasm, obviously there are a lot of people out there who would put a gun to your head to show their funniest moments in games but are there enough of them for that button to matter? PS4 will introduce play-as-you-download ability which will be cool and useful and X1 will play games as they install and will include an auto-resume feature. Sony will focus on its service, rather than the device and try to keep its handheld afloat while MS will make use of all the mobile devices through Smart Glass.

Microsoft made two small but vital moves by informing the industry that X1 will be able to play 4K games and may offload computations to cloud, freeing up power on the device itself in the future.

“Always on” craze is gone but Xbox One will require a connection to work flawlessly and Kinect will be always listening. But does it really matter in today’s world? Where we have smartphones on us all the time, with a generation that check-ins on Foursquare and Facebook, a generation that still use the terrible gatekeeper software that is iTunes. So will one more eye or ear matter much? I prefer no eyes and ears in my home but I may allow them to peek this time around.

Since not many will be able to own one of each, it will mainly be about what the user requires in his preferred console. Microsoft is creating a strong nexus for home entertainment and Sony will be delivering better looking exclusives. It would do justice to say that Microsoft is spearheading the innovation this time, even without the IllumiRoom wonder. And if IllumiRoom is revealed as a part of the X1 strategy on E3, the battle will suddenly become very hard for Sony.

Now everyone is ready for the second round, which will go down on E3. What we know is that Sony will show the machine and Microsoft will reveal the exclusives. Oh and you bet there will be many surprises.

In any case, having these amazing options and technologies at our disposal, makes me think that life is good for a gamer. Wouldn’t you agree?

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The company also revealed that “Paragon levels, the Infernal Machine event, Monster Power, Brawling, and more” will all be present and correct in the console version of the game when it launches.

When the game arrives on Sony’s consoles, it’ll come bundled with all of the PC version’s latest updates.

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Via: IGN