Fanboy chatter weekly: February 26 - March 5
A selection of some of the best posts from the Joystiq Network of Fanboy blogs:
Cars will be an adaption of Pixar's upcoming animated spectacular while Trauma Center graduates to the Revolution after finishing medical school on the Nintendo DS... more»
The company apparently plans to release a motion-sensitive controller that would cooperate with the Eyetoy and thus turn the PS2 into a bastion for weird and unique games... more»
A reader sent us this picture of a rather heavily priced DS Lite that he came across in the region of Akihabara. That price converts to about $360, or worse yet, a hefty 10,025 Russian Rubles... more»
...they've lifted the curtain on a fully functioning web browser, months before Nintendo releases their own Opera browser. This one's actually a specially compiled version of retawq, a text-based browser intended for Unix environments... more»
Christened PlayStation.Spot, the service provides downloadable content like demos and other software via hotspots around 150 locations. It takes advantage of the "gameshare" function to get the content to your PSP without having to tap into a memory stick... more»
After major upsets at both the Golden Globe Awards and the People's Choice Awards this year, all eyes are on the 2006 PSP Fanboy Redesign Awards. Who will win? Who will lose? more»
Finally, some images of the enormous bus that will be touring New Zealand to promote the Xbox 360. Local gaming site, Gameplanet, got a first-hand look at the "largest bus ever seen in New Zealand" during Microsoft's media preview at Auckland's Viaduct Harbour... more»
Will the Xbox 360 camera have tracking abilities similar to the Sony EyeToy and motion-sensitive Revolution controller? German blogger Erzengel360 dug up a recently updated Microsoft patent for "relative range camera calibration" that would seem to support the notion... more»
