Listen and play along as Jimmy “Alex Quebec” Squires quizzes us about all things games. The categories and questions (or should I say answers?) are top notch all through out. We can’t tell you who wins or who we even play for so you’re gonna have to listen to find out.

We learn a lot about the crew on this one. Ryan’s complete and utter lack of how Jeopardy! works, Dan’s deep knowledge of the movie War Games, Kevin’s ability to pull answers right out of his ass and Jimmy’s unhealthy obsession with certain celebrities. Hopefully it’s as much fun to listen to as it was to record. Enjoy!

Thanks one more time to Jim for putting this together!

Download The Jeopardy Episode

This one could be fun/brutal. We’ll be playing for our readers during our next bitcast and you could win a copy of Jeopardy! on the PS3 if we represent you well!

Rules and entry information can be found here, so get to entering! It’s easy.

Remember, listen to the bitcast to hear all the action (and listen to me school all fools).

It’s be an understatement to say we’re excited here at theBBPS (well at least Ryan and I) about the realization that WipeoutHD is available to purchase on the ‘ol PS3. We’re been waiting for what seems like forever, and I for one am damn ready to risk seizures to play this damn game.

So to celebrate Ryan created this kick-ass desktop wallpaper, in glorious 1920X1200 cause he takes his shit seriously. Around here we just love to share and share-alike with you our faithful readers. So please, d/l and enjoy!

Not having ever really been on the LEGO gaming train, most of what LEGO Batman has to offer has flown under my radar.  Maybe that’s why I was so surprised last night when I was unloading a shipment at work and saw “Remote Play” mentioned right on the back of the box.

For those of you unawares, remote play is a PS3-exclusive feature that allows some games to be streamed to your PSP from your PS3 from any wifi location.  To the best of my recollection, it’s a feature that’s only been available for PS1 games and the occasional PSN download thus far.  As for full retail I think this might be the first title to support it.  If I’m wrong on this, please correct me.

So what does this mean to you the consumer?  While the PS3 version may not support trophies it’s essentially shipping with a free PSP version.  Given the nature of remote play, it’s also pretty likely that the game you take on the road with you will be running from the same save that you’re playing at home.

No word yet on how it actually stacks up against the real PSP version, though we can assume it’s probably a tad choppier by comparison.  Either way, if you’re on the fence about picking it up for the 360 or the PS3, this info should prove essential to your purchasing decision.

This is just weird. The already-venerable Folding@Home screensaver/protein folding experiment contained within the PS3’s firmware has now been fused with Sony’s strange new “Life” initiative. If you launch the Folding app from the XMB as of this morning, it will automatically update (twice) and in the process re-name itself.

What happens now is that the PS3 continues to fold in the background of this application. Apparently the graphics synthesizer is just sitting around twiddling its thumbs while the Cell tries to solve Alzheimer’s, so they have given it something to do. The old Folding app has become a back-end for this new suite of services. I say “suite” because, as of launch, it’s only one other mode; but this has obviously designed with expansion in mind. More on that in a bit.

It appears like the old Earth 3D globe from Folding, but now has a nifty realtime cloudcover overlay, which would have been great for watching Ike’s progress last week (see above) had they shipped this app before today. Oh well, next time. The IP lights of the various worldwide folders are gone from this view, and replaced with major city labels. Each city has current weather conditions, a live camera view, and Google News headlines for that area. You can click through the headlines to launch an in-line browser window of that story. So this is basically a very fancy pseudo-RSS newsreader with several pieces of flair.

You can also choose custom music to listen to while you browse (or let it do the “around the world tour”, BBC-style). The built-in music is straight from Polyphony digital; i.e. slightly absurd Japanese elevator muzak, which comes in an assortment of “moods”. Needless to say, I recommend you import your own songs.

Holding down square will allow you to cycle between the old Folding “channel” (as in, view) and the new Live one. There are currently only the two channels in this menu, which is why I mentioned earlier that we can expect several more channels to land within this thing in the future.

LwP is pretty much a high-def, slightly more functional version of the Wii planet weather service, except with the whole fighting-cancer-in-the-background thing. As both a map and world news freak, honestly, I will probably use this a lot. It’s just so very nouveaux 21st century.

(The current webcam view of Toronto they’re using sucks, though. I volunteer my new balcony view for service.)

Going into Soul Calibur IV I must admit I was a tad nervous. See I’m slowly but surely realizing I’m not nearly as hardcore about some game genres as I used to be. Role playing games and fighters, specifically. So while I was head over heels in love with (and awesome at) SoulCalibur for the Dreamcast and later with part 2 on the Xbox, I’ve sort of waxed and waned on the genre since then.

But there was so much interesting here that I decided it was better to not wade back into the water but to dive headfirst into the deep end. Do I manage to stay afloat or do I end up drowned at the bottom of the pool? Continue Reading »

This isn’t exactly game related but since a good number of PS3’s out there double as Blu-Ray players so this will at least apply to some of your out there. Hell even Criterion uses the PS3 as their Blu-Ray player of choice.

While trolling Blu-Ray.com for some info on the upcoming Wall-E set I stumbled upon news of Criterion Collection prepping their first few discs release on the HD format. Now if you’ve ever bought a Criterion disc in the past (save for a few major releases) the prices have never been what one would call “competitive.” While a copy of The Royal Tenenbaums might only be $20, most of the other foreign films I bought were in the $30-$40 range. Crazy I know.

The Last Emperor, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Chungking Express and Bottle Rocket are priced to move at $27.95 (sadly the going rate for Blu-Ray).

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