I'll be honest; I just couldn't get used to the old boomerang design. So this would be a good thing.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/697/697656p1.html

Problem solved.

If Sonic Adventure 2 pulled off multilingual speech and text, it's not to much of a stretch to assume some newer games will as well. With PS2 games, how many single layer PS2 DVD-ROMs even fill up all the way? I've noticed some games with less videos tend to be less than 3GB in size, more than enough for multiple text and audio languages.

Are the blu-ray movies going to be region free too or just the games?

Most likely just the games, like the way it is with the PSP. Movies are under a different copyright law than games are, so I've heard.

Region-free, eh? Nice to hear! However, would that apply only to PS3 games? What about PSone and PS2 games?

No it would not, because they (PS2 and PSX discs) already have a region coding in their specifications.

Wow, you said it SouthJag. Though Deadlocked's ending could be interepreted as either the end of the series of possibly the start of a new adventure, there was never any word of a next-gen R&C game being worked on. Guess that little teaser today all but confirmed it.

About the region coding and controller redesign, it sounds like great news. But both really aren't all that surprising, given Kutaragi's announcement that all PS3 games would be on BD. The U.S. and Japan are in the same region according to Blu-Ray so even if it wasn't region free, the games could still play. Oh, and everyone and their mother knew the controller wasn't the final one.

Any new pics of the controller (revised?) I sure hope Sony is smarter than that to keep the present boomerang thingamajig.

Great! R&C is one of my favorite PS2 franchises. Considering the graphics of the PS2 versions, the PS3 rendition will be a great sight to behold.
Do you have a source for this announcement?

Here's the teaser, Sega;

Remember the Blimp in Metropolis from the first game? Well, yeah and the robots and futuristic ships pretty much point to a new game. That and the R&C across the blimp.

Oh, and the new design hasn't been revealed, they're saving it for E3.

The controller is being revised? ZOMG NO WAIZ??!1111???ONE!!!! Did they officialy announce that it's gonna be revised or is it some kind of rumor? I havn't read anything about that yet.

About the Ratchet and Clank game -- I read somewhere that the city they were overlooking was similar to one in a Star Wars game; something that started with a C. Oh well.

Coruscant or whatever the hell it is? That's that massive city in Star Wars with the enormous skyscapers and endless number of cars. There have already been worlds like that in R&C, SouthJag.

I realize that, but having no idea what Coruscant looks like, the article made it sound as if it were some big deal. I 'unno.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Corus...00&sa=N&tab=iw

That's what Coruscant looks like, but why would it seem like a big deal? Sprawling mega-cities are extremely common in R&C and in Sci-Fi in general.

FIRST PIC OF THE PS3's RE-DESIGNED CONTROLLER!

RE-designed PS3 Controller

Looks cool.

That should be Miyamoto in the background. "AHH USE IT FOR ZELDA."

Well, Sony have been 'inspired' by Nintendo in the past, this could be the following 'inspiration'. The Magic Wand! :edgartpg:

Here's the link to that tech demo we keep hearing about. Pretty sure it hasn't been posted yet.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3148958

EDIT: Ok, it's A tech demo, not the one being discussed. Still perdy though.

PS3 to be region-free for games
 

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/697/697656p1.html

I don't know how much this will affect the wider gaming population, but especially for folks like us, many of whom are collectors, it means we can own any game, from any part of the world, without having to mess with modchips or warranty-voiding.

Which, more than likely, won't be a problem for the majority of large release games. I expect only some of the smaller studios to be lax in this department.

This will make my life much easier in the future. No longer do I have to play with swaps/mods to play legally owned import titles anymore should I want to grab an import PS3 title.

How I wish this would have been done with the PS2.

Certainly good news for eurogamers like me. I'm guessing PS2 games will still be locked so can't let go of the old console just yet.

Regardless, if I ever do get a PS3 (there is that new Ueda project), this ought to make life a whole lot easier.

Oh my, region free. <3 Could be the death of Square-Enix Europe's shit work!

http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/5747/ntscffx4zs.jpg
NTSC

http://img476.imageshack.us/img476/6467/palffx3mw.jpg
PAL

Ahahaha :tpg:

Though I think you mean:

http://myy.helia.fi/~a0400729/Pics/ntscffx4zsa.jpg

They allowed us to imagine we had a widescreen TV which we used to squish 4:3 picture into 16:9! =o