DiasFlec | Sony praises Nintendo 3DS success | (1/28/2012)

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The Nintendo 3DS has what is perhaps an unlikely supporter.

Sony was singing the praises of the glasses-free 3D handheld at a CES event that was recently detailed in Sony’s official Playstation Blog.

"Normally we don’t really reference the competition a lot when we talk about the PlayStation business, but in this case it’s perhaps a little salutary that sales of the 3DS, having the advantage of releasing a little bit ahead of us, have been exceedingly good," said Sony Computer Entertainment International president Andrew House.

Of course, Sony isn’t really happy for Nintendo. It’s using the 3DS as a way to counter the argument that its upcoming Playstation Vita will have no room in a market where the iPhone and tablets act just fine as portable game devices.

But the 3DS’s success, House says, "shows that there is, in general, a lot of demand for a ‘gaming-primary’ device, which is how I would describe Vita, but our device in contrast has just so much more to offer."

This isn’t the first time Sony has come forward with surprisingly flattering comments about the 3DS. The company previously pointed to the device as an example of how gamers are interested in 3D gaming content.

However, those comments came after it seemed pretty conclusive that gamers were simply not excited about the PS3′s 3D capabilities. To compliment the competition seems like the last line of attack, so this doesn’t come across as an exceedingly strong message for the Playstation Vita.

But we’ll see. At $250, the Vita is much more affordable than many originally expected, so perhaps it has a shot. The Vita launches in the US next month.

DiasFlec | Nintendo Chief Tips NFC, New Network for Wii U | (1/28/2012)

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Nintendo Chief Tips NFC, New Network for Wii U

Nintendo’s Wii successor, the Wii U, will come equipped with near-field communication (NFC) technology, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said Friday in a presentation to investors.

“By installing this functionality, it will become possible to create cards and figurines that can electronically read and write data via noncontact NFC and to expand the new play format in the video game world,” he said. “Adoption of this functionality will enable various other possibilities such as using it as a means of making micropayments.”

The NFC implementation Nintendo plans to use will be the FeliCa and MIFARE standards, Iwata said.

He also tipped the Nintendo Network, a platform that will offer downloadable content like digital add-ons and game packages for the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS. It will allow gamers to communicate, compete, and form communities around specific games.

Additionally, Iwata acknowledged the struggle the company has had with the 3DS, the glassesless 3D handheld Nintendo launched in March, and discussed how slow sales of the device prevented the company from reaching financial goals this fiscal year.

In the quarterly report Nintendo gave yesterday, it posted a loss for the first three quarters of fiscal 2011 and forecasted an even bigger loss for the entire 12-month period, which closes in March. Nintendo expects to lose as much as $838 million for the year, a hit it will take due to dismal sales of the 3DS. It also lowered its outlook for 3DS sales for the year from 16 million units to 14 million.

Iwata said that sales of the 3DS have picked up worldwide since November, due to the launch of “strong titles,” meaning Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7, the first 3Ds titles featuring Mario.

However, when Nintendo launches the Wii U at the end of the year, Iwata said the company will not forget the disappointment it has had with the 3DS. “We are going to put to use our bitter experience with the 3DS,” he said.

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MLB Capsules: Ryan says he’s confident of signing Darvish

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ARLINGTON (AP) — Texas Rangers President and Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan was impressed by his first meeting with Japanese sensation Yu Darvish and is confident a contract will be completed by next week’s deadline.

“My expectations are that we’ll get something done,” Ryan said Thursday night, then added the term “optimistic.”

The Rangers last month bid a record $51.7 million under the posting system to win the right to negotiate with the 25-year-old Darvish, considered Japan’s best pitcher. The 30-day negotiating window for the two-time defending American League champions ends Wednesday at 4 p.m. CST.

Ryan declined to elaborate on negotiations, but didn’t express any concern about the possibility of them going down to the wire.

“That’s the nature of these things,” Ryan said before a team awards show that kicked off the Rangers’ annual winter FanFest weekend.

The 6-foot-5 Darvish last week visited Texas for the first time with his representatives and family members. He visited Rangers Ballpark and met with team officials, including Ryan, before returning home to Japan.

“Obviously, he was bigger than I thought,” Ryan said. “I thought he’s built like a pitcher. He looks good. I think he understands a lot of English and I just like his attitude about wanting to compete. To me, he represented all I had been led to believe, so I felt really good about it.”

That’s quite a compliment coming from Ryan, the hard-throwing Texan who played a record 27 major league seasons and is baseball’s career strikeout king.

The Rangers, who have been scouting Darvish’s games in Japan for at least two years, only pay the $51.7 million posting fee if he signs with them.

Darvish, the son of an Iranian father and a Japanese mother, went 18-6 with a 1.44 ERA last season for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. He had 276 strikeouts to lead the Pacific League.

Darvish, who turned pro at 18, pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was a member of the Japanese team that won the 2009 World Baseball Classic. The right-hander has superb control and throws seven effective pitches.

“I’ve never seen any film on him, but heard that he’s very good,” Michael Young, the Rangers’ longest-tenured player, said with a smile. “Very good players are always welcome.”

Texas has lost its No. 1 pitcher in free agency after each of the last two World Series.

Cliff Lee left after the 2010 season to return to Philadelphia, and left-hander C.J. Wilson agreed to a $77.5 million, five-year contract with the AL West rival Los Angeles Angels last month.

”I think everybody’s pretty optimistic that we’ll sign Yu Darvish and hopefully he can bring a lot to this team,” outfielder David Murphy said. “All I know is what I’ve seen on TV. … He looks like he’s got electric stuff.”

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Selig’s contract extended through the 2014 season

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says he couldn’t resist the pleas of team owners for him to stay on the job. His wife Sue has said all along there was no way her husband would walk away from the game. In the end, she was right.

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Commissioner Bud Selig is “very hopeful” another wild card team from each league will be added this season.

Selig says that a committee formed to work out details of expanding the playoffs from eight teams to 10 is dealing with scheduling issues. Addition of a second wild card in each league would add a one-game play-in between teams with the two best records in each league that are not division winners. Selig says that would mean condensing the overall playoff schedule.

Selig says the committee knows he is an ardent supporter of the concept. Under the new collective bargaining agreement, MLB and the players’ union must agree by March 1 whether to add the new round for 2012.

Selig cites progress in Athletics’ to San Jose

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Commissioner Bud Selig says Major League Baseball is working “at a rather quick pace” to resolve the proposed move the Oakland Athletics to a proposed new ballpark in San Jose.

Selig says there was a comprehensive presentation on the situation to the owners’ executive council on Wednesday. Selig says he doesn’t want to get into any details yet but the issue is, in his words, “very much on the front burner.”

The A’s want to move to San Jose but the San Francisco Giants have had territorial rights to San Jose since 1993. Selig appointed a committee in March 2009 to evaluate the issue facing the Bay Area teams.

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Verlander trying to take new attention in stride

DETROIT (AP) — After becoming the first starting pitcher in a quarter-century to win the Most Valuable Player, Justin Verlander was ready for a different kind of offseason.

He’s on the cover of a video game now — and even appeared on Conan O’Brien’s show to promote it. The Detroit ace isn’t shying away from all this extra attention, but he’s determined to stay focused on the season ahead. The Tigers begin spring training workouts for pitchers and catchers in less than six weeks.

“I’m trying to keep everything as normal as possible,” Verlander said. “It’s easy to get pulled in a lot of different directions.”

Verlander will be hard pressed to top last season’s dazzling performance. After winning 24 games and leading Detroit to the AL Central title, the hard-throwing right-hander became the first starter since Roger Clemens in 1986 to take MVP honors. Along the way, he threw a no-hitter, led the league in strikeouts and routinely reached triple digits on the radar gun, becoming one of the game’s most recognizable faces and helping the Tigers reach the AL championship series.

Of course, Verlander also threw a career-high 251 innings, and that doesn’t even count pressure-filled starts in the playoffs against the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers. At 28, Verlander is in the prime of his career, but following up on last year’s heavy workload will be a test. He says his offseason regimen hasn’t changed much — although he had to wait a bit to start preparing for 2012 because his 2011 season lasted well into October.

“Just kind of pushed it back a couple weeks,” he said in a brief phone interview with The Associated Press.

Verlander took pride in his preparation last season. After some disappointing Aprils, he showed up at spring training with a different approach, treating the preseason a bit more like the regular season.

Verlander was solid for his first few starts, then his season really took off in May, when he threw his second career no-hitter at Toronto.

Soon after that, Verlander established himself as the front-runner for the Cy Young Award and even reopened debate over whether pitchers can be MVPs. He ended up winning both awards.

The hoopla from the regular season helped prepare Verlander for the offseason — and the celebrity status that comes with all his honors. He takes it mostly in stride, although there are times his place among baseball’s stars really hits home.

“When I was the cover of the video game, that was pretty cool,” he admitted.

Verlander is on the cover of Major League Baseball 2K12 and is helping promote a contest in which competitors can try to qualify for a possible $1 million prize by throwing a perfect game on their Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 consoles. The competitors with the top eight perfect games qualify for a live tournament to crown the champion.

Verlander was on O’Brien’s show Wednesday night to talk about the contest. He also chatted a bit with the TBS host about his superstitious habit of eating from Taco Bell the night before his starts.

Soon it will be time for Verlander to put his offseason obligations to the side and report to spring training. It’s been a quiet offseason so far for the Tigers, whose biggest addition to this point has been reliever Octavio Dotel.

Detroit also signed backup catcher Gerald Laird, whose job will be to catch an occasional game and allow starter Alex Avila to rest. Avila was one of the biggest reasons behind Detroit’s successful season last year, hitting .295 with 19 home runs. But he also started 130 games at catcher and took a beating behind the plate.

“I think he got worn down by the end of the season,” Verlander said. “He would never admit that.”

Aside from his own team’s moves, Verlander has also kept an eye on the rest of the free agent shakeups around baseball. The Los Angeles Angels signed Albert Pujols, meaning the slugger will now be in Verlander’s league. They also signed C.J. Wilson, who pitched for the Texas team that beat the Tigers in the ALCS.

“The Pujols-C.J. Wilson signing was a big splash,” Verlander said. “Obviously, I’m excited to face Albert.”

Pujols is 5 for 10 lifetime against Verlander, including postseason at-bats. He homered off him in the 2006 World Series, when Pujols was playing for the St. Louis Cardinals. But Verlander was a rookie back then.

He’s a much different pitcher now, and in a little over a month, he’ll be back with his team and ready to take the mound again.

Scott agrees to one-year contract with Rays

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Luke Scott is looking forward to life in the AL East without having to face Tampa Bay’s young, talented pitching staff.

The power-hitting free agent first baseman-outfielder was added to the middle of the Rays lineup Thursday after agreeing to a $6 million, one-year contract. He will receive $5 million this season, and the deal includes a $6 million club option for 2013 with a $1 million buyout.

Scott figures to be the team’s primary designated hitter, although he also brings some versatility that will provide manager Joe Maddon some flexibility on defense.

“It’s going to be a joy,” Scott said by telephone from Oklahoma, where he is rehabbing a shoulder injury that limited him to 64 games with Baltimore last season. “Not having to face that pitching staff is definitely going to be a relief. They have tremendous arms in that rotation and in their bullpen. … It’s very tough to make a living against that pitching staff.”

The Rays are just as happy to gain Scott’s bat.

The 33-year-old hit .269 and averaged 25 home runs per year from 2008 to 2010 with the Orioles. He batted .220 with nine homers and 22 RBIs before undergoing season-ending surgery in July to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder.

“Luke has established himself as one of the better power hitters in baseball, with consistent success in a variety of roles against both right- and left-handed pitchers,” Rays executive vice president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said. “He’s shown he can perform in the American League East and we expect him to be healthy and productive again in 2012.”

While Scott doesn’t anticipate being ready to play in left or right field before May or June, he and the Rays are confident he’ll be able to handle the designated hitter’s role — and possibly even play first base — by opening day.

“I’m very happy where my shoulder is. I’ve taken all the necessary precautions, everything that’s in my control to get to where I’m at right now,” Scott said. “I’m very pleased that I’ve got full range of motion, and my strength is really coming back very quickly. I’m a little bit ahead of schedule. … I don’t see why I shouldn’t be ready.”

Friedman isn’t sure where Scott, who also has played for the Houston Astros, will wind up in Tampa Bay’s batting order but stressed it will be in a “meaningful” spot. The acquisition likely also means last year’s primary DH, Johnny Damon, won’t return for a second season with the Rays.

Damon hit .261 with 16 homers and 73 RBIs in 150 games in 2011, helping Tampa Bay reach the playoff for the third time in four seasons.

“Johnny was a big part of our success on and off the field. … Luke was a guy we’ve had interest in for a number of years. We saw an opportunity to add him to our group, and we’re excited to add his profile to our existing personnel,” Friedman said.

A resident of De Leon Springs, Fla. who graduated from Deland High School before heading to Oklahoma State for college, Scott said a chance to play closer to home for a pennant contender was only part of the lure in signing with the Rays. So was Tampa Bay’s interest in him.

“They were very passionate about having me become a Ray,” Scott said. “At the end of the day, I want to go somewhere I’m going to be wanted.”

Over seven seasons with the Astros and Orioles, Scott has 112 homers and 341 RBIs. He had a combined 84 doubles and 75 homers in his first three seasons with Baltimore. The best overall season of his career was 2010, when he hit .284 with 27 homers, 29 doubles, 72 RBIS and a .535 slugging percentage.

“I had a great experience in Baltimore,” Scott said. “The fans were awesome. They showed me a lot of support. … My teammates were awesome. I wish them the best of luck except when they play us.”

Indians sign RHP Ray

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Indians have signed free agent reliever Chris Ray to a minor league contract.

The right-hander will be at training camp with the Indians, who have one opening in their bullpen. Ray, who turned 30 on Thursday, is 18-19 with a 4.10 ERA and 51 saves in 283 major league appearances. He has pitched for Baltimore, Texas, San Francisco and Seattle since 2005.

Ray spent last season with the Mariners, going 3-2 with a 4.68 ERA in 29 games. He did not pitch after July 30, when he went on the disabled list and was released on Aug. 15.

In 2010, Ray went a combined 5-0 with two saves for the Rangers and Giants, that season’s World Series participants. Ray had 33 saves with the Orioles in 206.

Down to work with Yankees’ minor leaguers

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Rick Down has rejoined the New York Yankees’ organization as a minor league roving hitting instructor.

Down has been a coach at the major league level for several teams, including stints with the Yankees from 1993-95 and 2002-03. Down was a minor league hitting coordinator last season with the Seattle Mariners.

Also, Tom Nieto is the new manager of the Yankees’ rookie-level Gulf Coast League team.

South Korea’s Kia Tigers to train at Royals’ complex

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals will host South Korea’s Kia Tigers at its spring training complex in Surprise, Ariz., from Jan. 16-Feb. 19. The Tigers will use the minor league facility and back fields at the complex, the Royals said Thursday.

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MLB owners delay sale of Padres to Moorad

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Major league owners have put off approval of sale of the San Diego Padres to Jeff Moorad.

Commissioner Bud Selig said Thursday that baseball’s ownership committee and executive council unanimously decided to defer action “to get more clarity and technical information.”

Moorad, who could be seen talking with Selig on a balcony outside the owners meeting Thursday, said he and the commissioner tried to work out an “11th-hour” agreement to get the matter presented to the full session of the 30 owners but were unable to do so.

“We’ll support the process and are proud to be part of the process and look forward to addressing some technical questions and moving along,” Moorad said..

Moorad was a prominent sports agent before becoming a minority owner first with the Arizona Diamondbacks, then with the Padres. His group owns 49 percent of the Padres and is set to buy the remainder from majority owner John Moores.

Selig pulled the sale from Thursday’s agenda, a move that upset Moores so much that he was the only one of the 30 owners to vote against Selig’s two-year contract extension, according to a person in the room who asked not to be identified because the details were supposed to remain confidential.

Selig said he wants the questions involved in the sale to be resolved “expeditiously.”

“There’s no hidden agenda here. There’s nothing else,” he said. “There were a lot of economic concerns. The most important thing that we do is bringing in new owners, so we have really become very, very fastidious about the economics of who can make it. And I’m not suggesting there were any negatives. There were just questions that we didn’t have time to answer here.”

Selig said Jonathan Mariner, MLB’s executive vice president for finance, “frankly had been raising questions to me since last Friday” about the sale. Those questions intensified during meetings of the ownership committee and executive council.

“Both groups really did their homework,” Selig said. ‘They were ardent supporters of Jeff and everything else, but there were questions they kept saying, ‘Well, we need answer to that,’ so I’ve already instructed our guys to meet with them and begin to develop answers, and they’ll come back to us.”

Moorad said he was not surprised that nothing was resolved on Thursday.

“We got the word that they had some technical questions,” he said. “We tried to resolve them this morning. It just wasn’t possible to work that quickly, and that’s it. I’m happy to defer and have it taken up at a more appropriate time.”

Selig said it wouldn’t be necessary to wait until the owners’ next scheduled meeting in New York in May to approve the sale, that it could be done by conference call.

Moorad also said that the franchise wouldn’t necessarily have to have the sale complete in order to sign a crucial television deal with Fox before the season begins.

Selig said the fact that Moorad was once an agent, on the other side of the bargaining table with owners, had nothing to do with delaying the sale.

“This was about economics,” he said. “This was not about personalities.”

Santana not sure whether ready for opening day

NEW YORK (AP) — Sixteen months after shoulder surgery, Johan Santana hopes to be back on the mound for the New York Mets when the season starts. He just doesn’t want to commit to it.

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DiasFlec | Chatroulette Kinect! and Four More Games That Will Never Be Made | (1/28/2012)

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In today’s truly inspired edition of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter DunnCarnage shares with us five top secret video game concepts he might have completely made up.

Through sources I’m unwilling to reveal (Brian Hetting is refusing to let me acknowledge him, he asked for anonymity in case he loses his job at EA) I am capable of revealing cutting floor concepts for games, titles which simply failed to live up to the high standards of a gaming landscape with triumphs such as AMY on the visible peninsular of excellence. Here are the top 5 games that never made it passed the conceptual table. (That is a table of concepts, not a table of a conceptual nature. The table is real. It is made of teak.)

1. Death of a Salesman After the supposed success of the Black Friday simulator Dante’s Inferno, EA seeks to purge more classic literature in the hopes of confused and curious sales. After googling “popular tragic play” EA marketing executives pitched this greatly misjudged FPS, where you play Willie Loman, a depressed and suicidal salesman with a shotgun, a motorcycle and a badass attitude. Play as Willie as he mows down those who made him feed his loyalty to a worthless cause. It was to be developed by DICE, but the project was abandoned when it was discovered that the original text still has copyright claims on it.

2. Wii-G! After viewing the success of Monopoly, Scrabble and Space Marine, EA once again looked at popular table top games for inspiration. Seeing the unparalleled interest caused by Paranormal Activity the idea to make a virtual Ouija board was conceived. With over 200 demonic forces to contact, Wii-G used a special skin to place over your balance board to make your family friendly party machine into a conduit for the gates of hell. The project was abandoned after the QA staff all died in mysterious circumstances.

3. Twitter Wars An attempt by EA social to make Twitter an integrated part of some RPGs, the idea was that you got bonus experience every time you tweeted about the game you were playing. The idea was tested in a Pokemon-esque collectors RPG where characters each raised up their own whales and made them fight against other players. Unfortunately two of the testers got somewhat carried away and have since been tweeting, non-stop, about their whales. As a result EA has had to abandon the project as Twitter has threatened to sue EA on the grounds that those two people alone have crashed the site over 1000 times. The Twitter fail whale is a constant reminder to EA to resolve the war between these two testers before Twitter hires its own assassins.

4. Chatroulette Kinect! Cancelled after a single test.

5. Perfect Fear: Reckoning of Man An ambitious survival horror title developed by the then new studio Adren-a-leen, the concept consisted of creating a game that would literally drive the player to madness. After using every known horror trope in the book, lead designer Alexander Furor decided the game still failed to achieve its major goals of creating genuine terror in the player, and so began his search of the perfect solution. His research led him to discover the ancient texts of Sythorion, a medieval monk who found passage to hell through an incantation that must be recited over a pool of virgins blood. Killing the testing team Alex begans the incantation, and discovered to his delight that the monk had been telling the truth. Calling upon the demons of hell, Alex managed to convince Satan into forging a gaming code that would strike fear into any gamer. Sadly, however, the demons refused to work under crunch time conditions and the project was axed for taking too long. The original plan was to have crossover DLC with Wii-G, though the developers of Wii-G were unaware of this.

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Nintendo Network Wants To Rival Xbox Live And PSN – Platform Nation

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A few days ago a leaked image from a twitter user got a rumor shuffling around the internet that Nintendo plans on announcing a unified online service in preparation for the Wii U’s launch later this year. The box (pictured above) is for an upcoming 3DS Final Fantasy spin-off called TheAtRhythm: Final Fantasy, and clearly shows a new online-related logo in the top-right corner of the cover. But now, according to a Nintendo blogger, Nintendo Enthusiast, an anonymous source has confirmed the Network will rival the two current online console giants, Sony and Microsoft. Here’s the full quote, and remember to take all of this with a grain of salt:

“A source that wished to remain anonymous has told us that Nintendo will launch a website accessible from any web browser that will handle configuration of your Nintendo Network account for use on the Wii U or 3DS. He also stated that Nintendo Network will include many new features that haven’t been used before by Nintendo. According to his accounts: Nintendo Network = Sony PSN = Xbox Live.”

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DiasFlec | Wii U To Be Released This Year | (1/28/2012)

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At E3 last year, Nintendo reveled their new console, the Wii U. At the time they also announced a release window of holiday season 2012.

Since that time, there has been little to no news on the new console. many wondered whether or not the release date was even possible and that Nintendo may have to push back the release to later into 2013. Well, it now appears that Nintendo has just been quiet on the subject and has been hard at work on the new console.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has confirmed that the company is on target to achieve that release goal. The Wii U will be available to gamers in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan in time for the 2012 Christmas buying season. Specific dates are not known at this time, but don’t be surprised to hear some major announcements from Nintendo at this year’s E3.

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DiasFlec | Using Multiple Xbox 360 Consoles Just Got a Whole Lot Easier | (1/28/2012)

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It’s not often I have good things to say about Microsoft, but I believe in giving credit where credit is due. The fall ’11 dashboard update for the Xbox 360 brought a shiny new user interface (that I absolutely despise, mind you; here is a good reflection as to some of the reasons why), but also some significant changes under the hood. One of the most exciting being Cloud Storage. This allows you to save games on a remote server and access them from any console you’re logged into with your Xbox Live account.

I’ve owned an Xbox 360 for nearly six years, and for five of those years, there has been at least 2 consoles in the house. Initially, the second console served as a back-up for when the main TV in the living room was occupied. I would remove the hard drive and pop it into the second console, then continue playing elsewhere. It was simply easier than unplugging and moving the entire console. Then, as my wife and daughter grew more inclined to play video games, we found ourselves with an actual need for a second console. It was no longer a back-up console; the two were being used at the same time, in different rooms by different people.

This is Where Things Got a Little Messy

Thankfully, at this point USB storage devices were supported, so we weren’t bound to using the archaic first party 64MB memory units. Since I was the one who typically played on the second console, I would keep my profile and active game saves on the USB stick. So, I was portable, but there were still issues.

  • The USB stick couldn’t be removed when the console was running; it would prompt you to re-insert it, even it wasn’t being used.
  • If a game had DLC, I would need to re-download it on the second console (if it was relatively small, as it only has 4GB internal storage), or bring the entire hard drive to the second console.
  • Most importantly; having only my profile mobile, meant that I was the one who got bumped to the basement. I may sound a bit spoiled here, but I invested a lot of money in a pretty decent home theatre setup, and I like to make use of it.
  • For a while, we had my eldest daughter’s account on the USB stick as well, as she would often play in the basement when she got home from school while the living room was occupied. But this became a problem when both of us wanted to play at the same time, as both profiles were in the same place. It resulted in having to constantly move profiles from the USB stick back to the internal HDD.

Enter Cloud Storage

It really is our saviour. It’s as simple as enabling an option in the main console settings, then selecting it as your save destination when prompted, just like any other device. You are given 500MB of storage space, which is enough considering it’s only used for game saves. Data can be moved from the server to your HDD, so you can migrate old games that you’re no longer playing without worrying about running out of space, or having to delete the data.

“But hold on a sec, what about profiles?” Ah, I was hoping someone would ask! Also included in the fall ’11 dashboard update, is a change to “gamertag recovery”. Previously, if you wanted to migrate your profile from one console to another, you would use a USB device as previously stated, or you could “recover” your profile by downloading it. This was a fairly painful process, which took upwards of 20 minutes to complete. Now it’s labeled as “download a profile”, and it takes no longer than a couple of minutes.

Multiple Console Bliss

It really is a beautiful thing when you can log into a console, fire up a game, and continue playing right where you left off, without having to dick around with USB devices or the console’s portable hard drive. It works as well as you would expect, or likely better given the manufacturer’s track record.

Over the holidays, my wife suggested that we move our second console to the bedroom, along with the 40″ LCD TV that was collecting dust in the basement. We live in an old house, and it gets very cold down there during the Winter months. We couldn’t have done this at a better time, as Cloud Storage has made owning multiple Xbox 360s a truly enjoyable and painless experience.

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DiasFlec | Nintendo Wii U Possesses Twice the Power of Xbox 360? | (1/28/2012)

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  • (Photo: Reuters / Mario Anzuoni)Reggie Fils-Aim, president of Nintendo of America, presents the new Wii U controller at a media briefing during the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, in Los Angeles June 7, 2011.

However, a game developer that recently spent some time testing out the new system seems to think differently about the power and possible potential of the system.

This developer told tech site Develop that the next-generation Nintendo console could achieve roughly twice the processing and graphical potential of Microsoft’s current generation machine, the XBOX 360. He also commented on another developer who was disappointed with the Wii U.

“I’ve heard [a project designer] complain it was underpowered compared to what Nintendo announced, resulting in people having to de-scale their plans,” said the anonymous game developer.

It still has not been confirmed whether the developers of games for the Wii U have received final versions of the console and if they know the actual performance and capabilities of the machine.

Without a finalized product, a full assessment cannot be made on what the Wii U will actually be able to do.

An example of this is when John Carmack stated that the Wii U would be able to run advanced games for a hardcore audience back in July. This claim was made in July, and was probably was based on preliminary hardware.

The Nintendo Wii U console will combine motion sensing game play with HD graphics, something that is missing from the current Wii console. The system is said to be based on a custom IBM Power microprocessor as well as a modern custom AMD Radeon HD graphics processing unit with high-definition graphics and video support.

However, the main attraction of the Wii U comes from its controller that features a 6.2-inch touch-screen, accelerometer, gyroscope, rumble functionality and a microphone. It can also be used to play Gamecube and Wii games.

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DiasFlec | Free PSP Themes | (1/28/2012)

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PSP themes permit you to give an individual touch to your PSP by installing your preferred themes onto your machine. PSP themes do what desktop wallpapers do for your Pc, therefore the partnership is fairly easy to comprehend and fairly indispensable as soon as you believe that of it. With no superior theme your PSP product can search ordinary, to say the least. In spite of this, you may very easily download free themes through the net and set up them on on your gadget in order to perform your favored video clip games in your PSP which has a touch of class!

On the net web sites and community forums should have many hundreds of marvelous costless themes. When you’re an Anime fan and want the photos of one’s beloved anime characters to get exhibited in your PSP display display as its pores and skin, then that is greatly possible. Regardless of whether you are intrigued in characters of Deathnote or Nauruto anime cartoon sequence, you’re able to track down PSP themes relevant to all your preferred anime characters over the internet.

In contrast, diehard films fans also have a great deal to look ahead to so far as absolutely free PSP themes for sale as a result of the internet are involved. Most PSP consumers demonstrate superior curiosity in themes connected into the Harry Potter sequence, The Chronicles of Narnia, Spiderman and also other most current Hollywood blockbusters that have rocked the Box Office.

Do you think you’re a music fan and religiously stick to the songs developed by your preferred songs bands? If this is certainly legitimate, then you can certainly even get to put in no charge themes of the preferred new music bands such as U2 and Coldplay exactly where as classical themes for fans in the Beatles and Elvis Presley can also be there for your taking. Now you are able to turn out to be the greatest audio enthusiast by setting up your preferred themes in your PSP as an acknowledgment of one’s really like for your beloved pop stars.

Likewise, themes linked to a multitude of other niches this type of as sports activities automobiles, landscape, skyscrapers, prominent monuments, national flags and film star photographs and many others. are up for grabs. You don’t even really have to incur a penny to have hold on the hottest PSP themes on-line on the grounds that an enormous majority of internet sites will offer you them.

With such a star-studded collection of themes on hand using the web, your PSP is most certainly gonna rework into a trendy gadget designed to have the ability to woo all child over the block! So what are you watching for?

You can still now get Complimentary PSP Themes or Download PSP Themes for your PlayStation Portable from Sony PSP Themes.

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DiasFlec | Daily Scoop: January 24, 2012 – All-day Gold Box Event! | (1/28/2012)

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Wee! Amazon’s got an all-day Video Game Gold Box Event for us! Here’s the dilly, yo:

6 AM PST/9 AM EST: Bring your eyepatch and sword for this exciting DS adventure – It’s Lego Pirates of the Carribbean for Nintendo DS for just $14.99!

8 AM PST/11 AM EST: A multiplayer Dance-Fitness game for Wii that gives players a great full body workout in a fun dance class environment!

11 AM PST/2 PM EST: Enjoy the biggest game release of all timeOur guess… Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, duh!

3 PM PST/6 PM EST: Enjoy this Wii fitness game with your entire family!

6 PM PST/9 PM EST: Rock out with your own guitar.Our guess… Rocksmith

8 PM PST/11 PM EST: “I Gotta Feeling”… this game will make you move.Our guess… The Black Eyed Peas Experience

And their Deal of the Day all day is Dead Island, which you can get today only for $25 on the PS3 and Xbox 360. Whew. Scoop ‘em up!

Today’s gamer t-shirt is sure to make Dr. Who fans happy:

It’s from Shirt Punch, and it’s called “Choose Your Doctor.”

Clever! Too bad I’m not a fan of the show, or I’d have a million more shirts than I do already…