More Wii launch details:

- no DVD playback
- system will be region free
- A seperate Wiimote is $40
- a seperate nunchuk is another $20

It sounds pretty definitive the Wii will retail $250, will be released November 19 and will come package with Wii Sports.

I am totally sold.

Lego Star Wars 2 for the XBOX 360 will allow users to download characters from the previous game for a fee.

Like or not pay for play is here and its just going to keep on coming.

Recent reveals that hackers have broken into and gained acess to a number of Second Life accounts. Normally, dull news except for the fact that Second has a well published population of users who take advantage of the services anonymity for various kinds of online trysts.

Doublefine, publisher of Psychonauts has found a home with Sierra Online, makers of many classic adventure games. Ironci because their orignal home Lucasarts was Sierra's old shcool competitor in the adventure game field.

"This is why gamers have such heated debates about save mechanisms: They're metaphoric stand-ins for the way life works. Playing a game with frequent save points is kind of like being the child of a billionaire: You can soar through life without worrying about financial problems because if you fail, there's a "restore" point waiting for you. Games with few save points force you to live like a scrappy, coming-from-nothing immigrant: You embrace scary amounts of risk to get ahead because you've got no safety net."

The above post is from Wired News on the debate over save mechanisms in videogames.

I think I will just let it stand on its own without comment.

Apparently the news of the PS3 European delay has caused 1-4 percent drop in Sony's stock.

Maybe now is the time for Sony to come forward, admidt they made some bad decisons and announce what they will do to rectify them.

Maybe.

More good news for potential PS3 owners. Check out this incredibly technical explanation as to why the PS3 may have slower loading times then the XBOX 360.

According to a number of videogame blogs, there is a growing concern that to actually take advantage of the high defintion nature of the PS3 you must buy the more expensive model.

Even if you you do purchase the $600 version of the console you still need a cable that apparently runs fro $25-60.

Former Virginia Governor and potential 2008 presidential candidate Mark Warner gave a speech recently in the online social game Second Life recently.

This has pretty intresting untapped potential. Using online games as a mass communcaitons tool has many applications, from advertising to education.