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Atelier Iris kicking it old school

Everybody on the Internet gets all gooshy about those SNES-era RPGs like Final Fantasy 3/6 (down, nerds) and Chrono Trigger and complains about modern variations. For all those old timers now there’s Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana, being brought here by NIS America, a company known for introducing some games you might have heard of like [...]

PS3 may cost LOB (lots of bucks)

IGN reports:

According a an article published in the May 17th edition of Japan’s Mainichi Shimbun, the PlayStation 3 could be one of the most expensive mass-market videogame consoles ever created. Officials from Sony apparently told the newspaper that PlayStation 3s would sell in Japan for “less than 50,000 yen each.” That translates to [...]

And there it is

More processing power than God Himself has at his fingertips. You can pretty much count on me having it pre-ordered as long as it doesn’t have a price to match.

PS3 controller revealed

So you know all about the PS3 now (or significantly more than you knew before), but now here’s the controller, as seen on Sony Japan! Exciting!

Looks awkward to hold but at least it doubles as a boomerang.

Buckets o’ next-gen console info

E3 is so very close and the info trickle is already on its way to becoming a flood. GameSpot has the goods in news that the Xbox 360 will be out in November and their latest rumor column with bits about leaked controller photos, Revolution details, and more.

Katamari PSP

Take:

1 PSP 1 Logitech PlayGear Pocket Case 1 color printer 1 Mod My PSP website

and you get this:

It’s like it was meant to be. There’s other cool cases like this one and this one, but really, why settle for anything less than perfection?

Also you can get a Photoshop Image Manipulation Software™ file to make your own. There has [...]

Pepsi in Japan includes free Mario Bros. tape

I wish our Pepsi was this cool. It’s all part of a promotion tying in the “new” (for Japan) Pepsi Twist that includes a Pepsi-themed DS. [via]

At least Nintendo sells out in a cooler way than poor Sony, whose allegedly Coke-themed PSP just had a little Coca-cola logo on it. Good thing this is all [...]

Sony flips stance on selling of in-game goods for cash

Sony has opened up the Station Exchange, a place for Everquest II players to buy and sell virtual goods in auctions and pay with real cash. Apparently the fact that Sony gets a service fee with each transaction means that the old reasons for banning the practice just kind of went away. Naturally you have [...]

Motley Fool asks “Why so slow, Sony?”

Following up on initial reports, The Motley Fool wonders why Sony was so late reporting sales figures:

So why was Sony tight-lipped for so long? That Sony moved as many units in 48 hours as the DS did in seven days should have been shouted from the rooftops. Sony’s feat is even more impressive [...]

Sony patents technology to beam games into your brain

Via CNN, New Scientist reports that Sony has patented technology that allows sensory information to get beamed into your brain:

The technique suggested in the patent is entirely non-invasive. It describes a device that fires pulses of ultrasound at the head to modify firing patterns in targeted parts of the brain, creating “sensory experiences” [...]