Modo hockey.summertime blues

Recent news for Modo hockey during the summer have had both it´s up´s and downs.
Obviously one cant except everything to be as shiny as the sm gold that Modo won this year but loosing Robert Döme was and still is sad, despite how his personal life was outside of the rink he was a cherrished and loved ice hockey player in Modo hockey and a realy good one aswell, always positive and feeding emotions and energy to both the team and audience.

And of course since he had one year on his contract and Modo recently powned all the competition in the playoffs it was quite surprising to see Robert leave Modo in the middle of summer, and i guess we all know and understand that something else was the reason for the abrubt breakup.

But to counter that low, Modo announced that Jari tolsa had signed a 1 + 1 contract, and since Jari is another high energy, emotional player that´s a good thing.

And another thing of beauty is happening next weekend, august 11 to be more precise and the happening is Modo´s first public training, we´ll also get to see some classic Modo jerseys being hauled up in the air + an internal game and of course we´ll be there.

ps3.a how to for changing the internal ps3 hd

Gamepro posted a frame by frame guide covering how to change the internal playstation 3 hard drive to a bigger one, which is real easy btw, and affordable, but if you feel insecure on how to do it, check out this to the point article + it´s not every day that you´ll see gamepro posting something worthwile about the ps3.

gamepro article

vue. at siggraph, 6.5 in the works

i usualy dont post vue related news that isnt publicly available, but this is already spreading so vue 6.5 will be showcased on siggraph and will feature even more and better atmosphere features, the interim .5 upgrade is free of charge for all v6i users.

console sales: japan

Ps3 is continuing it´s global sales increase and this time it´s japan that´s starting to move, ps3 is now at 28,829 units sold for the past week, while xbox 360 only sold 4000 units.

Psp and ds both sold 35000 units during that week in japan, so Sony for sure has had some realy good summer sale´s number throughout the world.

And from the top of my mind, that put´s ps3 at more then twice the total global sales for the past week compared to xbox 360, a realy strong performance considering virtualy no games have been released during this timeframe, granted tons of high profile ps3 games are just around the corner for august,september and october.

ps3.warhawk´s gone gold

yep, it´s set in stone, both the blu-ray version and the psn version is 100% done and both will ship on august 28:th.

price is low, damn low: warhawk will ship for just 59.99us$ for the blu-ray version, which will ship with more video content, manuals and a jabra bluetooth headset.

The psn version will ship for 39.99 us$, great price and big, big thumbs up for sony, deciding to set such a low price for both the download and the blu-ray version, great value being able to download a full blown next gen game for such a low price, or pick it up in stores with a jabra bluetooth headset (which usualy costs quite alot).

rage and quake zero, id quakecon speech

Quake zero is virtualy QIII for free and with the new tech 5 engine, so big thumbs up, could prove to be a major dm,tdm,ctf game.

rage is id´s new IP and is still a fps game but alot more open and it will feature open landscapes and tons of driving aswell, think mad max meets motorstorm to make out with unreal tournament and quake in a foursome :)

Some highlights

- tech5 wont make use of dx10 atleast not yet, since according to carmach, we´re not even close to maxing out dx9.

- rage will hit pc, ps3 and xbox 360

- rage will make use of blu-ray and dvd, but unless costs is transparent it wont be released on hd.dvd.

- rage will have co.op

- tech5 games will have it´s own physics engine and not make use of havoc, which carmack never wonted to do with quake4 since he thinks using havoc is a bad idea.

- id prefers the open platform of ps3 compared to xbox´s closed down philosophy but finds the ps3 more challenging, but believes that in the end, the ps3 tech 5 engine will be even better.

media creation. ozone 3.0 ple edition

ozone 3.0 ple is on it´s way and it will feature the hyper real atmosphere´s from v6i straight inside max,maya,lightwave,c4d and xsi.

Ozone 3.0 will feature all the atmoshpere technologies that e.on supplies to the world with it´s industry leading v6infinite and Xstream apps, inlcuding spectral atmospheres.