PS3 Price Cut 'Imminent'

There's lot of news stories floating around the internet that Sony will be announcing a 100 euro/dollar/pound price cut on PS3s in the next couple of days.

According to Janco analyst Mike Hickey, Sony needs to slash the price of the console to "effectively restart unit velocity at retail." He sees this cut taking effect in "April or by June at the latest." Without the cut, he predicts PS3 sales will continue to steadily decline.

So if you're thinking of getting a PS3, hold off a few days!

Two Sources: Yahoo Tech and Engadget.

How To Make a Game For the iPhone

In 43 seconds (might take the average person a little longer) ....

8-Bit Minutemen Experience

This is a really cool intersection of film, comic book, games and music. Promotional material for the upcoming Watchmen film has been very inventive so far, with fake news report, online magazines and a healthy supply of film-maker video podcasts (Anthony Burgess, could we call these viddycasts?).

Anyway, the best one yet is just out - a playable video game within a film. Veidt Industries have made an 8-bit game of 1940s superheros The Minutemen. This is of interest to students of Entertainment Systems as it shows the intersection of multiple media formats. Musicians - take note of the nostaligic 8-bit music!

I love the Double Dragon-esque feel of this game. Have a go and see who can get the highest score?!

Flash Coming For iPhone (No, Really)

Once thought to be building Flash for the iPhone mostly on its own, Adobe has mentioned at the World Economic Forum that it's not only continuing work on the animation plug-in but has teamed up with Apple to make it a reality.

Read on ...

Microsoft Surface

For those of you who missed Liam Cronin's talk yesterday, he showed a few videos of Microsoft Surface in action. This kind of technology has thousands of possible uses, as I'm sure you can imagine.

Can you think of any entertainment applications? Games? What about using the surface as a musical instrument? Or possibly a controller?

Microsoft Talk at WIT

Liam Cronin, Microsoft Academic Engagement Manager, will be in WIT this coming Wednesday, 4th Feb. He will give a talk to students about some Microsoft initiatives such as the Imagine Cup, Dreamspark and the MSDN Academic Alliance. He will also do some technology demos.

The talk will be in D16 at 1:15pm.