Okay this is not really news, just giving a little heads up what was cooking in the past couple of weeks. I was actually offering myself a little luxury good: A PlayStation 3. I sold my Wii with all the stuff I got for it and was able to finance a PS3 this way. So far I’m quite excited.
The best parts are a) the small Indie-Games I came across in the PSN Store and b) using it to playback video content. Honestly, the PS3 is quite a nice solution if you want to playback content stored on the network. Accessing content via uPnP works flawless (and MKV works, you just have to use the fantabulous PS3 Media Server which is OpenSource and available for Windows, Linux and OSX).
My first try using MediaLink worked nicely too, the only problem was the lack for MKV transcoding. After browsing the web for 4 hours, I stumbled across the software mentioned above and I’m happy ever since. No use for modded appleTVs anymore. Honestly, for the money, you get quite a lot more with a PS3 than you get with an AppleTV. Renting movies is nice tho, but this will soon arrive on the PS3 aswell.
Games I’m planning to give a try sooner or later include “Demon’s Souls”, “Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising”, “Little Big Planet” and I am already waiting for the next “Ratchet&Clank” adventure.
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Nice. The best game i’ve played so far is Uncharted 2. The game will be released in a couple of days. We will discuss Uncharted on our next games to listen podcast (episode 30). It’s a fantastic Adventure/Action Game. Think about an awesome Indiana Jones like experiance ;)
I wanted to download the demo sometime, didn’t had the time yet to do so and try it out. Indy already sounds cool. Any lasso-action? :)
I see, you prefer the hard games ;-). When you start playing OPFlash or Demon’s Souls be prepared to die a lot. And I mean a lot. I’ll do a review in our podcast in 2010 of Demon’s Souls for sure.