Sony Computer Entertainment America announced today that it has been given top honors by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as the recipient of a Technology and Engineering Emmy Award for the PlayStation 3's SIXAXIS controller. SCEA will accept this award at a presentation held tonight during the International Consumer Electronics Show 2007 in Las Vegas.

"The overwhelming consumer demand and critical acclaim for PS3 is a testament of the platform's strength and the industry's desire for a true next-generation entertainment system," said Jack Tretton president of SCEA. "The full potential of this powerful machine has yet to be realized — what you've seen so far is just a taste of what will be on the table for 2007 and years to come."

The SIXAXIS wireless controller features motion-sensing to detect body movements and interpret them into in-game actions. The PS3 will be on display during the International CES tradeshow, January 8-11, in the Sony Electronics Booth.

3.03 Open Edition Release A' (or A2)
A few fixes, and cpu speed for umd/isos:

This is the update from 3.03 OE-A to 3.03 OE-A'.

Execute this only from 3.03 OE-A.

Changes:
- Added cpu clock selection for umd/iso games. (not for vsh yet)
- Fixed various bugs regarding the recovery menu, one of them made "rare text" appear when
entering in plugins if pops plugins existed, the other one caused a crash when pressing triangle.
- Fixed a small part of code in umd emulation that was not multithread safe.

Download

Currently these drivers allow you to connect your controller to the computer. However as these are NOT sony drivers the motion sensing will not work.

Here are the installation instructions:

When the PS3 was introduced many people were displeased with the controller design. Some were unhappy due to the fact that the rumble had been taken out, others felt that Sony had simply "copied" some of the ideas of another company, some people probably didn't care as long as the controller worked for their system. The fact of the matter is this, the SIXAXIS controller has received mixed responses.

A not-so-recent patent by Sony has been unearthed for all the world to see. The patent is for a remote input device for a gaming console. A note from the abstract:

An input device providing users with a pointing capability includes a sender portion and a receiver portion. The sender portion is adapted to be manipulated by a user to specify a target point within a target area. The sender portion projects a light beam including a pattern on to the target area. A receiver portion includes one or more sensor units located in or near the target area.

Sound familiar? Sounds like the a description of the Wiimote technology, but it's a Sony patent.

What are you're thoughts on this? You can discuss them here

For some people, strmnrmn created the essence of N64 Emulation, mostly just for PSP, but Windmillhas transformed that essence for Dark Alex's 2.71 Homebrew enabler (HEN-D). Using PatchSFO, he

was able to mod the eboot for xloader under the PSP/GAME directory (in this case, Daedalus on the xloader) and so he did.

Same as always, put the folders in the designated directories, and roms too, and

you're good to go! If you are unclear read the readme or come and ask about it at out forums .

None the less, enjoy!

[ Daedalus R-8 for 2.71 HEN-D ]

The BBC have entitled to list 2 wii games for game of the year. Darren Waters who is the
technology editor for BBC gave his vote for Wii Sports for its accessibility and overall entertaining factor:

Now a lot of people know how RPG's can be quite exciting, while others do not. The BBC thought this certain
RPG was more fascinating then we thought. Neil McGreevy gave his account on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
for its outstanding performance in the great over acheiving Zelda series game for Wii:

Not as senseless as you thought eh? Well there you have it folks, happy new year!