Unboxing the PS3 was a simple process, but wiring it up and powering it up was going to be a headache so I decided to do that at a later point. So I went to Ace Hardware to pick up a voltage regulator to handle 2x110V connections and 2x220V connections smoothly since I also had the XBox 360 running on 110V. I wired up the PS3 Slim to the Home Theater A/V (Onkyo 875) using the HDMI cable of the Onkyo DVD player since it didn’t come with one as a temporary solution, then I connected to the network and switched on the power regulator to switch on the PS3. While I was there I sorted out the network cable connections and power cable connections, my cable management skills are close to zero, I like seeing clean jobs but I just can’t seem to do clean wiring myself but overall it wasn’t too bad.
Switched it on and I started roaming about the Operating System not sure where to go, but just poking around. I wanted to create user profile and thought to make PSN user profile so I can use it for online game but it seems that I had to update to the 3.0 software which took me over 10 minutes to find where to update it. Sony’s way of doing things seems interesting and I remember it from the PSP but this time around its alot more options and menus. After updating the system, creating my user profile, I opened up Kill Zone 2 and decided to play the famous FPS game of the PS3. I was having fun, and I have to say the graphics are amazing, loaded up the game and went to shooting and I am enjoying it but its far from Halo.
I bought a couple of other games for the PS3 and XBox 360 while I was there:
- Kill Zone 2 – PS3
- Batman – Arkham Asylum – PS3
- Need for Speed – Under Cover – PS3
- Section 8 – XBox 360
- Red Faction – Guerrilla – XBox 360
The order was placed the day of the announcement of the PS3 slim with one day delivery from Amazon, luckily it was delivered a few days earlier then the suggested September 1st release date, so I received on September 1st. The packaging was very compact and simple, I didn’t expect it to be this small in comparison the normal PS3. Now I have the PS3 even though all my games are in XBox I do have a few games in mind that I want to play with PS3, so I will pick and choose from that selection when I have a chance to head over to rehab, I will buy two games which are easy to play and not too involving so I won’t get too caught up with it.
Now I just have to get a suitable HDMI cable and plug it in to try it out, I haven’t really had the chance yet to play around with it but I’m hoping for sometime over the week to check it out, and I will update it to the latest software edition to get used to that from the start.
The worldwide leader in family entertainment is about to get a great deal more entertaining, as the Walt Disney Company agrees to acquire iconic comic book company Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion.
Now this is an interesting development, after all these years of rebuidling the brand Marvel went ahead for a sale. Comics as many know were having a tough time over the last decade, it wasn’t like it used to be and then Comics were losing ground to a lot of different media and a lot to Manga but they made it big with Spiderman and X-Men, from there they expanded. The easy part for them is that they already had the storyline and depth to make this amazing movies and so many in the horizon, and I think they made a great business move to sell while they are on top. Disney does have a lot to offer and they do have some interesting ideas, I just hope they don’t change the direction that Marvel Universe is heading in or slow down any development of the upcoming movies.
Link: Kotaku
I think Guitar Hero has transcended most games and advanced into a whole other realm, I know of people meeting up to play the game, practicing as if they are real bands, and all these competitions. We even played it for some time, its addictive as hell and there so many songs you can play, and suddenly you just have them memorized and we throw the people who aren’t up to par and there was a time I even outted. But this ad says it all, now even all the playmates are in on it and as usual Hugh is having all the fun.
Sony comes out of the closet and anounces the release of the Sony PS3 Slim, coming out in the september. For $300 you get the 120GB slim with all the bangs and whistles of the normal PS3 but about a 1/3 smaller. After all this time without a PS3, I have decided to go ahead and purchase this one when it comes out, after all that Sony has worked out this is one cool looking machine and now I can get to enjoy the games that Sony has available.
Link: Engadget
Batman: Arkham Asylum – XBox 360 – Aug 28 – This is probably the first Batman game I ever looked forward too.
Halo 3: ODST – XBox 360 – Sept 22 – Its Halo, I have to try it, I bet there are going to be some surprises.
Borderlands – XBox 360 – Oct 23 – Four person co-op FPS shooter with RPG character upgrades, seems interesting
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 – XBox 360 – Nov 10 – I enjoyed the first one so I bet this one is going to be better.
Assassin’s Creed 2 – XBox 360– Nov 20 – The first one had heart but was lacking a few points, so I’m assuming the developer improved upon it with this release.
X-Box live is probably what made me the X-Box experience so much better then the PS3 multiplayer games, its a hell of a lot of fun and easy to use. I’m still sticking to the X-Box 360 and enjoying the graphics, I’m curious to see what other upgrade they have in mind, but there are a few annoyances that I think that should be adjust but probably won’t.
- Really Annoying Sign-In – Once you sign into one location you can’t sign into another machine without going through the process of password recovery which is painstakingly annoying. I don’t know why you can’t just sign in normally and can’t be signed in at two locations, its that simple instead of this ridiculous process.
- Region Locked Trailers – Its trailers not movies, people just want to enjoy a movie’s trailer to see whats coming up next why do they have to lock it so you can’t see the trailers, you can see any trailer on youtube so it makes no sense to lock the out X-Box players from seeing trailers.
- Region Lock Downloads – I’m trying to download the new maps and features of Gears of War 2 and it says that you can’t download it due to the region I’m in, even though I have US region game and XBox. I have to program the damn router to show route through the VPN in states so the XBox sees a US IP address. This really makes no sense why they do this, everyone would pay for Microsoft points to download more additions to games or themes.
I have been wanting to go to Rehab for some time now, but going to Hawally at night just isn’t appealing. So I had a chance to go early saturday morning and so I went, I want to go in and pick up a few games and head out. Usually I just walk to the Kuwaiti Center knowing which games I had in mind, then I spotted the Gamespot shop, I never knew that Gamespot had a retail store in Kuwait, I think they would be interested to know. I picked up a few games that I wanted to get for some time now, one of them is HAWX, I just can’t resist a good fighter pilot game, and then there is Red Faction which is a must.
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X
Red Faction: Guerrilla
Prototype
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
I consider myself to be a Halo fan, pretty much anything to do with Halo interests me but what Ecko has done with the T-shirts is a crime against humanity. I want to buy these t-shirts but they do look horrendous, couldn’t the designers think of any way possible to make these t-shirts less ugly. I was thinking about a Halo t-shirt for some time now but I would not pick up any of these.
Link: Kotaku
Klue offers you a chance to find out. Heart-stopping, mind-blowing, adrenalin-pumping fun and an experience you are not soon to forget. We send you on a custom-made adventure around Kuwait made especially for you and your friends.
A game across Kuwait, I remember doing something similar like this a while back and now this has come together. It looks like something interesting and different to do with a group of friends, I hope their games are indoors for the next couple of months. I was the driver of the last group so I pretty much broke every driving rule to make sure I won.
Link: Klue