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At the GamesBeat portion of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this morning, Steve Perlman, CEO of OnLive, finally announced details for the launch of the cloud computing gaming service. A year after the service was first unveiled at GDC in 2009, Perlman was able to point to E3 2010 as the official launch of OnLive.
June 17th is the date, and according to Perlman the service will be up and running in all 48 contiguous United States at that time.
One of the more common complaints heard about the recently released Cooler Master 690 II Advanced, was the lack of an optional side window, leaving the quality black interior and excellent cable management hidden behind metal.
Starting this month, Cooler Master has begun shipping limited quantities of its windowed side panel through its own CM Store with a price of $19.99 USD. The panel fits both the Advanced and Basic models and includes a single space for a 120mm fan.
Cooler Master is shipping to both Canada and the USA, however, costs to major urban centres in the great white north hover around $20 USD. No word yet on if North American retailers will be stocking the panel.
The unit can be purchased from the CM Store: http://cmstore.coolermaster-usa.com/product_info.php?products_id=460
Sony is still hard at work supporting PlayStation Home, and is planning to roll out a new update tomorrow that will add several new features. The PlayStation.Blog outlines the additions, which seem to focus on ease of use for the virtual space. This will bring Home up to version 1.35, and Sony is touting it as a “streamlined interface.” The feature list includes:
Favorites: Personalize your own section to make locating your favorite places quick and simple.
Personal Spaces: Your clubhouses and personal spaces are now right at your fingertips. The personal spaces you own and the clubhouses you belong to will be viewable in one convenient location.
Friends: Finding your friends in PlayStation Home has never been easier. View the current location of your friends in PlayStation Home, and then navigate there to enjoy the action together.
Explore: Browse all the spaces PlayStation Home offers. Finding a space that suites your taste and mood has never been easier.
Recommend: Keep up with what’s hot in PlayStation Home. This regularly updated category will feature the newest and most exciting additions to PlayStation Home.
Though the new features focus on making Home faster and easier, it may not be enough to bring back the lapsed user base. We’ve heard recent reports that advertisers are pulling away from Home, so Sony is probably hoping this will bring in enough new users to attract advertisers. The company boasted over 12 million registered users of the virtual space, but didn’t specify how many of them use it regularly.
Streaming service for PC and Mac for US$14.95.
Game streaming service OnLive is set launch in the US this June on PC and Mac for a subscription of US$14.95.
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New multiplayer maps hit Xbox Live on March 30, Activision confirms.
The Modern Warfare 2 ‘Stimulus Package’ – the first DLC for Infinity Ward’s behemoth shooter – is official.
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OCZ today unveiled the OCZ Onyx SATA II 2.5″ Solid State Drive (SSD) Series, an ultra-affordable MultiLevel Cell (MLC)-based solid state storage solution designed for consumers looking to take advantage of flash-based storage technology. Offering a faster and more durable alternative to traditional hard drives in a cost-efficient SSD, the Onyx delivers reliable performance without the high price normally associated with SSD drives.
“As new technologies become available, OCZ continues to expand both our enterprise and consumer SSD lines, and one of our goals is to make SSDs more affordable to end-users. Our new Onyx series SSD does exactly that and is a perfect solution for netbooks, laptops, or home desktop PCs,” commented Ryan Petersen, CEO of the OCZ Technology Group. “Designed to offer the best of both worlds, the new OCZ Onyx SSD delivers the speed and reliability of solid state storage to mainstream consumers at an aggressive price point that makes the technology more accessible to customers who want to take advantage of all the benefits of the SSDs without incurring the high cost normally associated with the solution.”
With a sub 100 dollar MRSP (read $99.99) the aggressively priced Onyx 32GB SSD delivers an enhanced computing experience with faster application loading, snappier data access, shorter boot-ups, and longer battery life. Onyx SSDs feature HDD-dominating access times, up to 125MB/s read and 70MB/s write speeds, 64MB of onboard cache, TRIM support and unique performance optimization to keep the drives at peak performance over the long term.
Long-term and short-term projects in concept phase.
Sony’s Santa Monica Studio is taking little time between finishing God of War III and finding its next project.
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Banging things into other things has been a major form of entertainment since the pilot episode of “Caveman Jackass” back in 20,000 B.C. There’s just something endlessly appealing about controlled destruction. So, if you’re stupefied by slaughter, dumbfounded by demolition, and enthralled by evisceration, you’re sure to be tickled by Slick Entertainment’s new XBLA title, Scrap Metal.
Sitting somewhere between a straight-up arcade action title and a lightweight racing sim, Scrap Metal has drawn comparisons to Rare’s R.C. Pro-Am — but the similarity to that old classic is mostly skin deep. Really, Scrap Metal’s casual-game veneer hides a robust (if somewhat overly sensitive) physics engine, more levels than a Byzantine ziggurat, and a grip of imaginative set pieces. Both multiplayer (Scrap Metal offers local and online) and single-player are challenging without being too intense, offer plenty of tweaking without being overly detailed, and feature charmingly over-the-top graphics.
Of course, we should note that this is units shipped, not sold. We won't really know the sales numbers until next month's NPD data comes in. But it's fair to assume Square will be putting at least a few million units into the U.S. retail chains during the month of March, and the Final Fantasy name should have no problem selling most of them. Check out our review and details from the launch party for the anticipated RPG.
Square Enix has shipped over five million units of Final Fantasy XIII globally, according to a report from Adriasang. This includes three months of availability in Japan, during which the company apparently shipped about two million units. The other three million were sent out this week for the North American and European releases. Square also boasted that the Final Fantasy series as a whole has shipped over 96 million units.
