With all the industry analysts extolling the reasons you should not buy a PS3, I thought it might be interesting to take a look back at what the pundits thought of the PS2.

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For those of you that can’t get enough squad-based combat action, you’ll soon be able to take it with you. SWAT: Target Liberty is coming to the PSP. It’s the same SWAT-team based squad-shooter formula that has served the SWAT series since it was called Police Quest: SWAT back in the day. Now, you can take down the bad guys in class, on the bus, or while driving*, if you’re really good. Enjoy the trailer!

*Note: Gaming Today recommends that you do not try to play your PSP while driving, unless you’re gridlocked. All we gamers need is for someone to wreck while gaming. Then they’ll make the DS and PSP illegal.

Yesterday brought a big update to the Playstation Store. First off, there’s the Super Rub a Dub stater pack and full game. There’s a free demo, and if you like it, you can grab the full game for only $7.

Next, they’ve added a ton of PS1 titles that are now playable on the PS3, and it’s an impressive list.

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Robbie Bach, the president of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division, says that he expects the company’s console business to turn its first yearly profit in 2008. Bach said, “It’s a business that will be profitable next year. We’ll make money next year and that will be the first time, which is pretty exciting.” Last week, we told you about the losses that the division had posted this year, totaling over $300 million.

Bach also said that he feels that Nintendo and Microsoft are the leaders in the console wars, “I think Nintendo and Microsoft are clearly in the driver’s seat on what’s happening in this generation,” he said. “Sony I think has some real challenges. They’ve got a pricing problem, they have a cost problem, they have a content problem, and they don’t have an online service.”

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Ahhhhh the 80’s…. huge hair, spandex pants, hair-bands, Union Jack muscle shirts, androgynous men, androgynous women, Aqua Net, and the obligatory high-top Reeboks. What is there not to love? If like me, you grew up in the 80’s listening to bands with lead singers who looked more like a woman than you did (I mean YOU Brett Michaels), you will be pumped on July 17th when the “Guitar Hero 2 Rocks the 80’s Expansion Pack” for PS2 is released. Better start saving for your carpal tunnel surgery now folks. Read the full article »

Blockbuster store employees in High Street, London got a bit of a shock when a man came into the store, pulled a gun, and demanded they empty the cash register. The situation got even stranger once they handed over the money, as the robber then demanded a PlayStation 3. After being informed that there was no PS3 in the store, the man asked for an XBox 360 instead. He then left, but not before grabbing a few 360 games on his way out.

Just be thankful he wasn’t looking for a Wii. I’ve seen people without guns get violent in the search for that console.

Those who publish on the internet are not known for their accuracy, present author excluded. So when it comes to this technology news site posting about a PS4 being made, you really begin to wonder about the crap people will write just to get attention.

Do they really mean Playstation? Maybe they’re talking about the next generation of a Microsoft console? They seem pretty confident about it, and describe the device as including “the same chipset as the current PS3 but where it will differ from the current model is in the drive bay and in the attachment area. It will also include an extensive software suite for the managing of content being streamed to a TV or Hi Fi source.”

It sounds pretty sweet, except for the fact that it doesn’t sound realistic. It sounds like a really bad business move, actually.

Lucasarts and their development partner, Day 1 Studios, recently sent out a press release to unveil their new project, Fracture. Drifting away from the usual Star Wars and occasional Indian Jones fare, Fracture will take place in an entirely new universe, where the United States has been split into two factions after the melting of the polar ice caps. Think of it as a futuristic East Coast vs. West Coat thing, but without Biggie or Tupac. Players will take on the persona of Mason Briggs, a cybernetically-enhanced demolitions expert in the year 2161, who fights on the side of the Atlantic Alliance. On the opposing side – meaning, the guys you shoot/blow up – are the genetically-enhanced soldiers of the Pacifican army.

But the main ground-breaking (literally) feature of the game will be a new terrain deformation system, where players can use different weapons to morph and reshape the terrain almost like a ball of Play-Doh:

“When Briggs throws a tectonic grenade on a level battlefield, the ground blasts upward to provide access to an otherwise unreachable area. Moving on, when he comes across what appears to be an impenetrable structure, Briggs utilizes the alt-fire functionality on his rocket launcher to create enormous craters to burrow underneath the wall.  Surrounded on all sides by enemies, Briggs heaves a vortex grenade, creating a swirling tornado-like mass of boulder, dirt and debris to dispatch his foes.”

A trailer for the game also shows these different weapons in action, and it definitely looks like something PS3 and X-Box owners can get excited about, when the game ships in Summer 2008.

From a development standpoint, going for both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 is not setting the best stage for Rockstar Games.

Word on the street, or at least from 1up.com, is that the team putting together Grand Theft Auto IV is having quite a bit of trouble putting things together smoothly for both of the consoles. One of the key developers on the project says his people have a few technological limitations to tackle.

But there is no word on any sort of delay, so the game just might meet any deadline they set. It’s understandable, though–the Playstation 3 has quite a huge chunk of hardware wired into it, and the Xbox 360 may already have at least two layers of dust on some gamers’ shelves after sitting for a year and a half.

Devil May Cry 4 `Nero` Trailer
Devil May Cry 4 features the return of Dante, the original badass from… wait, you don’t play as Dante in this one? You play as newcomer, Nero? Eh, they’ve got the same hair. As I was saying, Nero is stepping up to take a walk in Dante’s ass-kicking boots, and doing a pretty decent job from the looks of it; though Dante will make a playable appearance as well. If you’ve played any other Devil May Cry game, then you know the drill: you’re part demon, you get to hack and shoot you way through hordes of baddies, and it will all look really really cool. And since Capcom recently announced the game will be released for the PS3, X-Box 360, and PC, it looks like even more people will get a crack at this awesome series come Fall 2007.