"Why It Rocked: If you can only have one title on the Xbox 360 in 2006, Gears of War is it. Yes, there were plenty of excellent games on the console. There were so many that we could only thing of one question that could settle the heated debate between games like Rainbow Six: Vegas and Oblivion: If you could have only one title on the Xbox 360, what would it be?

Gears of War sets the standard for graphics and sound on the Xbox 360, pure and simple. Gears looks so good that games that once scored in the 9s in graphics are now 8s. Thankfully, Epic's awesome third-person shooter is pretty fun as well, featuring a different take on the shooter genre that had every writer in the industry typing "stop and pop" ad nauseam. Although the single-player campaign is a bit short and the multiplayer options relatively slim, playing with a friend in the seamless cooperative mode or in the four-on-four team deathmatch will leave you white-knuckled and covered in a blissful sweat. And we haven't even started talking about Insane mode.

Runners-Up:  
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion & Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas"

"Console launch years only come around twice a decade or so, and they're always guaranteed to be exciting years. The 360 matured dramatically since this time last year and its second-generation titles like Gears of War and CoD3 made the PlayStation 3's job of shocking the world with its immense power rather difficult.

Nintendo's Wii launched to massive mainstream applause and a lot of hope has been placed in the potential for gaming innovation via the console's unique controller. Nintendo disappointed some, however, by choosing not embrace HDTV or to compete with Sony and Microsoft in processing power. The Wii can't even play normal DVDs.

Judging the consoles based upon a broad perspective that includes software now available and coming in the future an entirely different argument could be formulated. However, from a hardware perspective, the PS3 is by far the more interesting console. Though the launch software hasn't blown anyone away, the 360's launch titles were equally unimpressive, and the system will certainly mature. Sony's embrace of the PS3 as a computer rather than just a console, and the availability of supported Linux distributions for the console will also develop and will likely bear entirely unexpected fruit in future.

Runner-Up:
Nintendo Wii"

As demonstrated with the iPod, in order to keep up with consumers insatiable appetite you have to upgrade your hardware to meet their demands. It seems that Samsung may have accidently shown Sony's next step during the launch of there new 1.8 inch N-Series Hard drives.

If you look at the picture above, the hardware may look slightly familiar . As CES is coming soon there is a possibility that a formal announcement may be coming soon… or like apple they could try to keep it a secret.

PLAYSTATION 3

For the first time ever, Adobe is delivering a widely available Photoshop CS3 beta to enable customers to more easily transition to the latest hardware platforms, particularly Apple's new Intel based systems. The beta is available as a Universal Binary for the Macintosh platform as well for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista computers, with the final shipping release of Adobe Photoshop CS3 planned for spring 2007.

I don't have it on my computer but I have tried it and it is really great. You can do so much more than with cs2, but its a little confusing at first so you need to put in some time. So you might want to stick with CS2 right now until CS3 is out or until you have some time to play around.

More Info Here

Key Features of the Blu-ray Disc

Here is what the Blu-ray brings you.

• High-Definition
  Vast storage capacity (50 GB BD vs. 5 GB DVD) supports the large data requirements of high-definition games and movies*.

• Pristine Picture Quality
  Pristine picture quality at 1080p – the highest-definition resolution available today.

• Theater-quality Audio
  Audio that redefines “life-like” with 7.1 channel surround sound and true lossless audio. This theater-quality "uncompressed" audio supports 8 channels of Liner PCM and up to 32 audio streams.

• Home Entertainment Content
  Delivers a broad range of home entertainment content – seven of the eight major movie studios have already announced titles for Blu-ray, including Warner, Paramount, Fox, Disney, Sony, MGM and Lionsgate.

• Recordable Media
  Blu-ray offers a recordable format with unsurpassed storage capacity to store your digital world: photographs, home videos, music libraries and data, as well as games and movies.

• Maximum Bit Rate
  With the overwhelming computational power of its Cell Broadband Engine™ processor, PLAYSTATION®3 is capable of playing back with ease content from BD at a bit rate of multiplex 48Mbps, the maximum bit rate defined in BD standards.

• Industry Support
  Supported by more than 170 of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson – Blu-ray has the broadest industry support for any disc format ever launched.

Key Features of the SIXAXIS™ wireless controller

Enjoy the incredible features made possible with the SIXAXIS controller.

• Motion Sensing System
  Breakthrough technology and highly sensitive motion sensing system, the controller becomes a natural extension of the user’s body motion.

• Bluetooth
  Bluetooth for wireless gameplay (the PLAYSTATION®3 system can support up to seven wireless controllers at one time).

• Wireless or Wired
  The SIXAXIS™ controller can be easily switched from wireless to wired.

• Analog Joy Sticks
  The tilting angle of the analog joy sticks have been slightly broadened to enable more delicate and dynamic manipulation.

• L2/R2 Buttons
  The shape of the L2/R2 buttons has been altered, enabling increased travel and precision for more subtle control in games.

• USB Charging
  Plug into a USB cable and automatically charge the controller through the system at any time. (Use any of the four USB connectors on the PLAYSTATION®3.)

• Ease of Installation
  Easy to set up and compatible with today’s monitors and televisions.

Last nite I completely remade the saved games interface! Thanks to ILoveGames we also now have a TON of saved games to choose from.

Take a look here and remember to tell me what you think. Hopefully this will be something that you can tell your friends about .

p.s – you xbox'rs its coming soon

This week has just kept getting better and better as newer PSP updates have been popping up! Dark_AleX recently released his new custom firmware 3.02 OE-A which brought excitment to many PSP users. Recently, he released 3.02 OE-B which has a major update in it! In this new custom firmware, you can now load almost any PSOne game on it. You can use popstation to convert a ps1 iso to a pbp file.

**Remember, the only way to get to 3.02 OE-B is to upgrade from 3.02 OE-A.**

Download: here