* How is PlayStation Network doing in PAL territories?
* One thing that has surprised us is in network purchases and the level of interest that has been shown around the network business. We've gone from zero to almost double digit millions in terms of what people have purchased in euros. And we're obviously very happy about this. I suppose you might ask whether the retail trade would be worried about it. But what we're seeing is that most of these purchases are incremental.
And we're working very closely with the retail trade, particularly countries like France, where Carrefour has its own online retail programme. Even in emerging markets some of the trade are already looking to work with us on joint marketing programmes.
We've now got about two million PlayStation Network registrations. That's about 40 per cent of users who are registering. We've also had about 33m downloads which is a huge, huge number. And we've got 25 stores up and running across the PAL territories. That, of course, is one of the reasons why it's sometimes slow to get some of the uploads onto the European PlayStation store; we have so many stores.

* What everyone is interested in, of course, are the top line numbers...
* Well, Sony Corporation will be announcing the full numbers shortly, so we have to steer away from installed base. But I can give you some figures...
I would call December something of a trinity, because we sold just over a million PlayStation 3s during the month. That's across all PAL territories and that's a sell-through figure.
About 20 to 22 per cent of that figure was sold in the UK alone; we're very happy with our performance in the UK.

http://www.mcvuk.com/interviews ...

GameDaily BIZ has heard from a corporate retail source - not from Best Buy, but at another major retailer - that something is definitely "afoot" but he "can't really comment (until the 80GBs are gone.)" [parentheses statement added by source, not us - Ed].

Moreover, we spoke with Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey who told us, "Sony is likely dumping the 80GB version because it has failed to meet internal sales projections."

UPDATE2: Well, this is interesting. We just heard from The NPD Group who told us, "In the last quarter (when both were on the market), the 80GB sold more units than the 40GB." When pressed for a more exact breakdown of the sales data between the two SKUs, NPD said they could not provide that. It's certainly a surprise to us, however, that the more expensive 80GB would have sold more than 40GB, which many have attributed the PS3 sales spike to.

http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/ne...st/19208/?biz= ...

I got a region A (American) copy of Shoot 'Em Up which is region locked (which i did'nt know about at the time).

After i put it into my UK PS3 and clicked onto the filmes icon (BDMV), the machine thought about it and a message came up in big letters saying REGION INCOMBATIBILITY. Then it goes back to the PS3 menues

Tried it a few times and it done the same over and over again.
So on the last try when the "region incombatibility" message came up i pressed the triangle on the controller, which brings up the pop-up menu and clicked on "TOP MENU" then BINGO the films menu came on .

Everything on the film works OK and the film plays all the way through.

I dont know if this would work on other titles?. But it works on this one

Other reported region A(region locked) titles that also work are (Which are all from New Line):
Hairspray
Mr woodcock
Rush Hour 3

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=687303 ...

PocketCM is a finger friendly contact application for PDA phone, it will allow you to scroll to you list of contacts, call them and edit them.
Actually it's the rewrite in native of ContactManager, a .NET version of a finger friendly contact.

What's different from other contact application:
It can be used with fingers, no need to get your stylus. Finding contact with your finger is really easy, it's different than other software: if you press you finger on the left or right border of the screen it will allow you to select the letter you're searching for, release the finger, it will show you the contact starting with this letter. Why does it work? Human being cannot point directly to the right letter on a small screen, however human are very precise while moving their finger. So you press the screen, see the feedback, adjust the position to the right letter... and you're done!
It's animated: the list scroll with your finger in a natural movement, the transition between contact detail and contact list are animated.
You can set contact as favorites, they will appear in the favorite list, perfect to get a quicklist of contacts under the finger.
You can edit your contact picture from the software, simply tap on the contact picture.
You can customize about everything by changing the setting.ini: color, font, background image, etc...

http://www.pocketcm.com/index.php ...

The port of Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe to the Nintendo DS has been updated, heres whats new:


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The port of Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe to the Nintendo DS has been updated, heres whats new:


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DekuTree64 has released a new version of Animanatee for the Nintendo DS:

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Sephiroth_FF7 has updated his release of TrailBlazer3D, heres the release info:



One of 3Disation TrailBlazer.

26/1/07 Version 0.3
- Adding a level
- Addition of 2 players.

How to play:
Use the stylus to move.
Let the stylus to slow.
Effects of cubes:
- Green: Slowing
- Yellow: Accelerate
- Purple: Stopping

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Sephiroth_FF7 has updated his release of TrailBlazer3D, heres the release info:



One of 3Disation TrailBlazer.

26/1/07 Version 0.3
- Adding a level
- Addition of 2 players.

How to play:
Use the stylus to move.
Let the stylus to slow.
Effects of cubes:
- Green: Slowing
- Yellow: Accelerate
- Purple: Stopping

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