News from Lik Sang

Sony's PlayStation 3 is only one month away, with its official release date set to November 11 in Japan and November 17 in the USA.

Virtually place yourself in the waiting line at Japanese videogame shops and let Lik Sang do the dirty work for you. Conditions are quite flexible and there is strictly no money involved. No need to wait for the department store next door to finally get its stock a year later. The price at Lik-Sang.com will remain $0 until we have secured the best possible purchase prices, as many units as possible, and until further details emerge from our suppliers all around the world.

You'll also find a number of official launch titles for the same $0 pre-order price tag in our PlayStation 3 category, but please take into account that some of these games may still be delayed or new ones may get added by Sony to the official launch title list. In any case, you'll always have the final word of what games you want us to ship with your console. By the way, if you have already placed your Special Pre-Order, you can now head over to your my Account page and add them to your list.

Special Pre-Order Terms & Conditions:
1. Your pre-order is not binding and you can cancel at any time.
2. Once release and price details are known, you will receive an email that you need to confirm.
3. As long as you don't cancel, you will keep your position in the pre-order list.
4. Unit price and features are not confirmed and can change at any time.
5. Release date is not confirmed and might change.
6. The product is listed with a dummy price - your credit card is NOT charged.
7. All special pre-orders are limited to a maximum of 1 unit.
8. Depending on release schedule you will be offered choice between US and Japanese systems as Premium or Basic PS3 Pack.
9. Choices and changes are also allowed if several editions/colors are made available.
10. Confirmed launch titles can be added to your order; if a title is delayed, orders can be changed.
11. Again, you will not pay a penny until the minute we ship out your order.

Zip in, zip out, time to make a quick move if you want to catch one of the last remaining spots.

Extra note: Be prepared that the day-1 prices will be much higher than the manufacturers suggested retail price. Experienced and veteran hardcore gamers, who are not importing a system for the first time, know that buying a PS3 at launch or a PSP at launch is not the same thing as simply buying a mere PlayStation 3 or a random PSP off some supermarket shelf. You're paying for the privilege of getting it two months before the massive overflow. Especially with the long forecasted shortages (only 100.000 units for Japan at release date), MasterCard would call that 'priceless'. There is never enough of the good stuff on a launch day, and Lik Sang is required to pay premium pricing to get earlybird stock in sufficient levels for everybody. We can only extend these offers to you during the first couple of months, while waiting for the market to stabilize. But that's the beauty of the No Money Down Special Pre-Order system, you can always ignore day-1 prices and wait for a few more days, a few more weeks, or even several months, until the price goes down to an acceptable level. Without ever losing your pre-order position!

If You Have Already Placed Your Special Pre-Order

If you have already placed your Special Pre-Order Without any games or accessories, you may now head over to your My Account section and add available games to your order. Simply enter the Item Number in the blank field.

• Genji : Kamui Souran (Japanese) (Item No. 9660)
• Mahjong Kakutou Club (Japanese) (Item No. 9661)
• Mobile Suit Gundam : Target In Sight (Japanese) (Item No. 9662)
• Resistance : Jinrui Botsuraku no Hi (Japanese) (Item No. 9663)
• Sega Golf Club (Japanese) (Item No. 9664)
• Ridge Racer 7 (Japanese) (Item No. 9665)
• F.E.A.R (US) (Item No. 9666)
• Madden NFL 07 (US) (Item No. 9667)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (US) (Item No. 9668)
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (US) (Item No. 9669)
• Call of Duty 3 (US) (Item No. 9670)
• Genji : Days of the Blade (US) (Item No. 9671)
• MotorStorm (US) (Item No. 9672)
• NBA 07 (US) (Item No. 9673)
• Need for Speed Carbon (US) (Item No. 9674)
• NHL 2K7 (US) (Item No. 9675)
• Resistance : Fall Of Man (US) (Item No. 9676)
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (US) (Item No. 9677)
• Untold Legends : Dark Kingdom (US) (Item No. 9678) ...

Jamie MacDonald, VP of SCE Worldwide Studios Europe, has told GamesIndustry.biz that he believes digital distribution will overtake discs within the next five years.

Speaking after his keynote at GDC London this morning, MacDonald said the industry is currently experiencing a "paradigm shift" as the cost of games production increases and there is a move toward a "network-centric world". This, he argued, will have significant implications for the way developers make games, the revenue streams they are able to exploit and the way products are delivered.

"In five years' time, my belief is that the majority of content won't be delivered on disc. That has many implications for developers and the way we organise our industry," MacDonald said.

"It also brings with it great opportunities because it means you can touch your consumer in many different ways and at different times - it's not just a one-off relationship where a consumer buys a disc from the store.

"In terms of object sales, episodic content, in-game advertising and merchandising, there are many, many opportunities to have a relationship with the consumer - which is a great challenge to us as developers because that's not what we're used to."

This is not the first time a Sony executive has predicted the end of the road for disc formats. Back in August, Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison said he would be "amazed" if the PlayStation 4 featured a disc drive - causing some observers to question the validity of launching the new Blu-ray format with PlayStation 3.

But according to MacDonald, "The thing about Blu-ray discs - and this is the crucial thing - is that not any time soon will you be able to download the amount of content you need for a big triple-A title down a typical 2, 4 meg broadband connection. That's not going to happen now or in the next year.

"So Blu-ray is absolutely needed for the high definition content in the games that we'll be producing. The network-enabled world, for the initial period, is much more about updated content, object sales, but also titles which are not these blockbuster titles."

The full interview with Jamie MacDonald will be published on GamesIndustry.biz later this week. ...

New from Divineo China



- 5 different versions of super mario bros characters
- Total 10 boxes in a factory sealed container
- 4cm - 9cm height for each figure
- Candy is included in each box ...

Divineo China have new for sale a 8.0 inches Digital LCD Monitor for PStwo, heres some more details:

Exclusively for use with the "Slim-line" PStwo console, the new 8 inches Digital LCD Monitor allows you to play your DVDs or PS2 games on the go! Featuring an impressive
8 inches TFT display, in-built Stereo Speakers, SRS 3D Surround Sound and even a Remote Control.

Specifications & extra information

Features
- 8.0 Inch (20.3cm) Active Matrix TFT Panel
- Wide 160 degree viewing angle
- Integral stereo speakers with stereo SRS? surround sound
- Remote Controller
- Two stereo earphone outputs
- 7 Inch Fantastic Monitor ...

PDC World Championship Darts is coming this Christmas and it'll feature all the heavyweight champions of the oche, a smokey room and warm bitter on tap.

Look out for arrow-lobbing legends including Phil Taylor, Dennis Priestly, Wayne Mardle, Mark Dudbridge and Raymond Van Barneveld.

Check out the screens below while we organise a special event with Oxygen to see how accurate its darts game really is. More soon.

Screens Here ...

Metal Gear Solid 4 is without doubt one of the biggest games currently in development for PS3, and after being impressed by the latest gameplay footage that sneaked out last month we're more than happy to be thwapped in the face by 20 - yep, that's 20 - new screenshots this afternoon.

Solid Snake fans still have around a year to wait before MGS4 arrives, with it currently expected in Q4 2007. Still, you can ease that wait by checking out this heaping helping of new in-game pics. Enjoy.

Screens Here ...

Shoometsu released an updated version of the AES4All (aka Neo4All/AES) ROMRC datafile! With this you can convert many many more NeoGeo games for use with AES4All:

after some weeks of work I have already done. the sets were tested with aes4all b1, and each game is commented when not working, you can see if your game is working before convert/burn it, some sets may have specific data that need to be decypted and/or descrambled, wich is also mentioned in each game. just test it

Download it here and place it into your /Convertneo/ folder, then start converting your games.

Updated: the local AES4ALL download now also contains the conversion tool and the new ROMRC


Source: Chui's official forum ...

FIFA 07 has stormed the number one position in the Chart Track All Formats charts on no less than seven different formats, with the PS2 version responsible for 84 per cent of sales.

Eidos' new IP Just Cause continues to perform well on its second week of release, holding the number two position and stopping Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 from advancing past number three in the charts.

Last week's number one, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, drops three places to number four, while Square Enix's RPG Kingdom Hearts II debuts at number five.

Codemasters football sim LMA Manager 2007 drops a couple of spots to number six, just ahead of another new entry, THQ's PC exclusive strategy title Company of Heroes.

The rest of the top ten consists of chart stalwart Cars at number eight, EA's The Godfather at number nine and Dr Kawashima's Brain Training at number ten.

The only other new entries in the top forty are Capcom's special edition of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening at number 32 and Nintendo's compendium title, 42 All-Time Classics at number 36.

Via Gamesindustry ...

Some new screenshots of the game Charlotte's Web have just been handed to us from Sega Europe.

Check em out via Comments ...