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It appears that after years of rumours Sony has decided to get into the iTunes scene and start there own cloud based music system. At IFA 2010, Sony has revealed that its system will be called Music Unlimited and will be launched later this year. The reason that this is exciting and gaming related is because Sony will be pushing the system as much as possible, be it in the PlayStation 3, their VAIO laptops, Bravia TV’s and perhaps the PSP. Details are still scarce at the moment but stay tuned for more information. Personally, I am hoping Sony topples Apple. What about you?

Well well well, it finally came the day of the initial court hearing over the PSJailbreak and it turns out that it’s actually been delayed. According to recent court filings, it appears that for whatever reason the Judge has decided to delay the case until the 3rd of September. While that is not to long away it is when we are anxiously awaiting the massive impact that this case will bring.  However that does leave us some time to see the outcome of some of these clones including the potentially free one from Mathieulh.

Proof at: Federal Court of Australia

For anyone who has recently been doubting the initial letter and court order that OZModChips received from Sony due to the part where it claims Sony can have the stock of the device legally it turns out it was indeed true and they can have the device for “examination which includes destructive analyst”. All I can say is that I hope the guys behind this get lucky in enabling Homebrew but please, don’t allow us to load isos!

(a)     an order that such limited number of PSJailbreak Devices as to the Court seems appropriate be released to the Applicants and their advisers (technical, legal or otherwise) for such analysis, including destructive analysis, as the Applicants think fit, upon the payment to the applicable respondent of its retail price for each such PSJailbreak Device.

It appears that MAG will be following the list of games that are gaining Move support from Sony as part of its plans to sell the new motion controller. With MAG being an online shooter I think that this could be very interesting as a mode and it is going to make some people “suck” and others rise high above the rest for being skilled. As part of the initial announcement (below) you are also subtlety informed of a beta, which will be on the PSN store next week in advance, and that more modes are coming to the ever expanding game!

Personally i still play MAG a fair bit and love the game so i am looking forward to more updates and seeing move support in action on a decent game. What do you think though? Are you fed up of everything getting move support suddenly? Please tell us in the comments.

That’s right, later this Autumn MAG will offer full compatibility with the PlayStation Move! This added support means that users have another way to experience the most ambitious first-person shooter out there. Pinpoint accuracy and easy access to all of the game’s mechanics ensure that players of any type — be they hardened veterans or new recruits — can enjoy a shooting experience unlike any other.

What are you going to play and test, you ask? How about the oft-demanded “Clan Deploy” feature that allows clan leaders to choose any game type and queue up to 128 clan members for matches as a team? Sure, that’s a great start but we’re also bringing in a brand-new Skill tree system that improves how our character customization system works — complete with new skills and new abilities. What’s more is that we’re introducing an in-game economy system that allows users to earn “Credit Points” by completing objectives, finishing missions, and killing enemies. They can then spend those points to purchase new weapons and gear.

MAG Beta testers will also have the opportunity to try out our upcoming DLC game-type, “Escalation,” well before it becomes available. The most frenetic MAG game mode yet, Escalation offers three brand-new faction-neutral maps with never-before-seen environments that pit a total of 96 players from all three PMCs against each other simultaneously. For the first time ever, Raven, Valor and SVER will be on a single map going after the same objectives at the same time. It’s complete insanity and a whole lot of fun, and we can’t wait for you to try it out. As an added bonus, we’re including nine all-new weapons that add even more firepower to your already-sweet arsenal as well.

It appears that despite the massive “flop” of what Microsoft call the Avatars that we may well be seeing more of the little guys and gals. The official Xbox Magazine has been told that avatars will be redesigned for Kinect. Apparently it is due to the players perception of avatars not controlling very realistically when you are the controlling “kinecting” with them. As such the whole avatar system is having to be redesigned to make them more realistic. personally I don’t ever use the Avatars except to make them burp so unless they add more burp effects and stuff I’m not fussed. But what do you think? Please tell us in the comments!

Nick Burton, senior programmer at avatar creators Rare:

“They’ll become more realistic and will essentially be ‘Avatar 2.0′.

The proportions will be made more realistic because hand-eye co-ordination broke when using the old cartoony proportions – not in terms of hardware but rather, player perception.”

Well Star Wars fans can be happy in that knowledge that the Almighty and wise Master Yoda (Why is Yoda not in the dictionary?) will be appearing in the Force Unleashed 2 game. The official details will be shown in the next issue of Playstation: The Official Magazine, but you can check the video now and get excited in the thought of trouncing people as a little green man.

Well it appears that Valve is being it’s usual generous self and is giving out L4D2 to anyone accidentally banned recently from Modern Warfare 2. I feel that this is quite nice of them and a nice way to make up for this mess-up but I do wish things like this didn’t keep happening.

Letter from Valve after the jump:

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Well it appears to be that time of year again, the time when Crytek come out and actively promote there game like mad. As we all know they have made massive claims about their Crysis games before but have only met up to them in the graphical department. Now with Crysis 2 on the way to consoles as well as the PC Crytek are obviously eager to be heard and hoping for a major success. I personally wish them luck and hope the AI really is good but more importantly that its not just he graphics that we play the game for this time. Though, It will give me another game to brag that i can run on x8AA. Are you looking forward to Crysis 2? Let us know in the comments and introduce yourself. We want more commenter’s to liven the place up guys!

Crytek Quote:

Source: CVG

When asked about the poor sales of the recent racing game, Blur, Bizarre Creations’ Nick Davies has said that poor sales of Blur are down to it being released at a time that was “very busy” for racing games. Whilst personally I don’t remember many racers coming out lately and don’t know why a game that good has flopped I am glad in what he follows it up with. He then said that Blur is the start of a big franchise for Bizarre and the plan is for Blur to return in the future.