Newly released at Play Asia



features
All-New Leadership Control: Lead by example and control the action on the field as you increase your sphere of influence by improving your players' personal ratings on each big play.
Enhanced Recruiting: Utilize Dynasty Mode's all-new prospect search tool to hone in on incoming players with specific attributes.
All-New Campus Legend Mode: Attend practice, learn the playbook, and earn reps as a college freshman while utilizing the simulation engine system to fast-forward through events you're not participating in.
Relive Your Highlights: Revisit your top accomplishments in My Shrine, your personal Hall of Fame that stores your trophies, custom photos, video highlights and more.
Save and Share Your Greatest Moments: Create video highlights of your favorite plays and show them off online or download your instant classics to your PC to share with friends.
Weather Channel Updates - Get real-time weather from the actual locations of your favorite campuses when playing your rivals online.

description
Put your heart, hustle and toughness on the line and lead your program to the BCS National Championship Game in NCAA® Football 08. With all-new Leadership Control, boost the motivation level of your teammates by taking control and making big plays. Featuring an all-new Campus Legend mode and an even deeper Dynasty Mode, put your coaching prowess and integrity to the ultimate test. With all-new My Shrine, Home Field Advantage, and exciting new plays like the Statue of Liberty NCAA Football 08 is everything that's great about college football. What kind of legacy will you leave? ...

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Imagine Rice, Unitas, Butkus, and Singletary. In their prime, on the same field, or maybe even the same team. Imagine preparing a precision squad of mercenaries—even building your own players. Imagine football action the way football is really played. Now imagine the best gridiron game coming back for more. Imagine Football Resurrected. This is All Pro Football 2K8. ...

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The 1980s were a crazy decade when big hair, tight clothes and fresh attitudes ruled the music scene; represented in Guitar Hero™ Encore: Rocks the 80s™. Play totally awesome songs from the 1980s with Guitar Hero characters decked out in sweet retro outfits. Turn off that tape deck on your boom box, pick up and play Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s!

Choose from multiple rock characters and jam at concert venues that grow in size as your rock career progresses! You’ll start your rock career playing small clubs and bars, but if you play well you’ll work your way up to stadiums and arenas. ...

via engadget



The underground scene of game-created music is really thriving, with the latest example to emerge from under the radar being a drum machine hack for a GameBoy. A bright yellow GameBoy, 1MB of flash memory, a serial interface, and a custom ROM is all that's needed to put out some beats: with a little help from some solenoids and flat surfaces, of course. Putting it all together is the hard part, and half the fun we suspect.

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via engadget



The underground scene of game-created music is really thriving, with the latest example to emerge from under the radar being a drum machine hack for a GameBoy. A bright yellow GameBoy, 1MB of flash memory, a serial interface, and a custom ROM is all that's needed to put out some beats: with a little help from some solenoids and flat surfaces, of course. Putting it all together is the hard part, and half the fun we suspect.

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via engadget

Oops, researchers just unveiled a pretty serious security vulnerability in the iPhone. More specifically, it's Apple's Safari web browser which exhibits the vulnerability. Researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have used the vulnerability to take malicious control of the iPhone from rogue websites loaded with the exploit. Once in, researchers have full administrative access over the phone allowing them to listen in on room audio or snatch the SMS log, address book, call history, email passwords and more -- we're talking full access to your phone. Researchers note that the only way to stay safe is to check those URLs and only visit sites that you trust (which isn't very reassuring) and "may or may not be exploitable" from Mac and PC versions of Safari -- the same vulnerability exists only they haven't written the proof-of-concept exploit to test it yet. Apple has been notified of the vulnerability and a proposed fix with full public disclosure coming at the BlackHat conference on August 2nd.

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The 1.90 Firmware update just hit Japanese PS3s. Let's check out what the update features:

• Ability to rearrange games on the XMB
• Option menu now includes "eject disk"
• Press triangle to eject games/CDs/movies in the XMB
• XMB backgrounds
• Change the folder classification
• Emoticons
• Change CD output to 44.1/88.2/176.4kHz
• Force 24Hz output for Blu-ray over HDMI
• Change PS3 video settings in-game
• "Bit Mapping" in the "Music Setting"
• Save AVCHD type animations from a Memory Stick
• Change settings like upscaling while playing PS and PS2 games
• Add bookmarks
• Web browser security function in the browser's tool section
• Avatar moves during audio visual chat

The customized backgrounds and the emoticons are nice touches. Quite good update if you ask me. Everyone in Europe, and probably US, will be able to get this from tomorrow (July 24th).





Source: Kotaku & Three Speech ...

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The beloved Tales series is coming to the PlayStation™ Portable system.

With its fast-paced, real-time battles, beautiful 3D graphics and extensive character customization, it is the ultimate handheld RPG. Engulf yourself in a world full of quests and heroic adventures anytime, anywhere!

The beautiful and prosperous ancient land of Terresia is being destroyed by the Devourer, a demonic creature from another planet. The World Tree, which created and protected this magical land, is wasting away from the Devourer's continuous attacks. The World Tree uses what's left of its strength to call on the world's last hope in a dark battle of survival – you.

NamcoBandai Games' Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology for PSP™ is now shipping as US version release at US$ 39.90 only.


Game features:

Character customization - Customize your ideal character by changing your clothing, voice and more.
An array of items – With over 1000 items the selection of equipment and weapons is endless!
Pick your class - Choose from various character classes, such as Warrior, Thief, Priest, Mage and other higher level classes.
Endless gameplay – With up to 300 quests, Tales of the World promises endless hours of non stop gameplay.
Action packed real-time battles - The Tales series' signature Flex Range Linear Motion Battle System allow you to unleash stunning attacks and devastating combos in real time from anywhere on the battlefield.
New and old Tales characters! - Enlist help from Luke and Tear from "Tales of the Abyss" and "17 other Tales characters from the previous Tales games."
Ad hoc functionality – Wirelessly exchange weapons and armor with your friends! ...

via IGN

Thanks to the incredible success of the DS, it's possible Nintendo may be waving good bye to the Game Boy - which has been going strong since 1989 - as George Harrison confirms the company may never return to one of its best know brands.

Speaking to GameDaily BIZ, senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications George Harrison revealed: "This year in our marketing you really won't see much push against Game Boy itself, so it will kind of seek its own level. It's hard to say in the future if we will ever bring back the Game Boy trademark."

Back in 2005, Nintendo launched the DS as the 'third pillar' of its hardware line-up, alongside Game Boy and its home console. However, the DS's meteoric rise has apparently put the kibosh on any plans to release a Game Boy Advance 2.

However, Harrison noted that dropping the Game Boy name in favour of the untested DS brand wasn't an easy decision. "It was a big risk for us to actually pass on it and call the new product the Nintendo DS," he revealed, "but it was part of Mr. Iwata's philosophy that if we're going to make a radical difference and try to reach a new audience, then we have to change the name... we had to make a break even though we had one of the greatest trademarks in the history of the industry." ...