Rumours have been going around the internet about a PS3 motion sensing controller for quite some time now, but due to a leaked youtube video the rumours look like fact. The video was leaked by PlayStation Lifestyle, and it was them who gave us the original information about the new PlayStation controller back in June.
 
Titled the ‘Sixense', the Wiimote-like controller is based on the Nintendo motion sensing principle but the difference being the Sixense will include "precise tracking relative to the base station."
 
"Sixense designed this thing to use magnetic field detection so it can track both your hands on the controller position in full 3D real-time, with an accurate 10 millisecond refresh rate."
 
Nintendo and their vision carved the way for this new technology with the Wii being a massive success. With a unique style of gameplay that offers a physical way to interact with a console, the Nintendo Wii showed us the future of how to play games, and although the graphics are not up to the PS3's standard by far, it's the motion sensing that has kept the Wii at the top of the sales chart since it was released 2 years ago.
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...wait until Easter - the price is set to go down. According to rumours surrounding the Sony Computer Entertainment Staff Annual Briefing yesterday, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe head David Reeves said the pricing of the PlayStation 3 is set to get "more competitive" from Easter 2009. In some crazy, mixed-up world, that may mean that the pounds and the pence are going to have a race to see who's better. In our normal, mundane world though, that means a price cut.
 
According to PS3 fansite D+pad (http://www.dpadmagazine.com/2008/11/22/huge-sony-info-blowout/), Sony's console is outselling Microsoft's Xbox 360 in PAL territories, with a bigger installed user base. SCEE is currently the darling of Sony's games division, eclipsing SCEJ and SCEA in terms of sales. D+Pad's source added that sales of the PS3 in Europe have put the accounts ‘into the black'.
 
No exact date was leaked for the PS3 price drop but seeing as how the eagerly-awaited Killzone 2 is slated for a March release, don't be surprised if the two go hand in hand. Sony had better pray that there's a quick turnaround in the world economy or, price drop or no, there are going to be less and less people with money burning a hole in their pocket by the time we're tucking into chocolate eggs. And those hard-up parents who shelled out on a PS3 this Christmas in the vain hope of silencing their whingeing offspring are going to be plenty mad that they could have waited three months and saved some dough. Plus, the lure of a £130 360 may still prove too much for some, particularly in these economically tight times.

A 13 year old Italian boy, Lorenzo Amato, was admitted into a local hospital after showing stroke-like symptoms, Ananova has reported. The doctors at Italy's Lecce hospital said Amato couldn't speak. They thought he could have had a severe brain disorder after the youngster didn't understand anything that was going on around him.
 
Later the medics learnt that he'd been playing on his Sony Playstation for an unbelievable amount of time; a "marathon session" in fact.
 
The news travelled fast and a local politician, Antonio Buccoliero, was concerned for the boy. After speaking to the doctors Buccoliero said "They eventually managed to take care of him once they understood that this was a strange kind of mental detachment connected to his Playstation."Nevertheless, the teenager, Amato, told his father to throw out the console and games, and stated "If I even think about it I want to throw up."
 
It's a sad time when children are being affected mentally by video games. They are supposed to be seen as a source of entertainment, pleasure, and nowadays even education (video games not children). What would happen to the industry if this changed and we started to see video games as an addictive influence like smoking or alcohol?
 
Back in 2006, a clinic for addicted gamers was opened in the Netherlands. An eight week program was started by the ‘Smith and Jones' addiction consultancy, with the knowledge of around 20% of gamers, including some children, could develop a dependency on their gaming habits. They say that this compulsion resembles symptoms of gambling addicts and risk damaging relationships, health, education and their careers. One patient said "I have no social life; I have no friends - only cyber-friends"
 

With Apple recently announcing the launch of the iphone 3G plus itunes 7 around the corner with an iTunes application store allowing you to download, amongst other things, games, are Apple about to shake up the handheld gaming market?

Sony have agreed their first in-game advertising deal this week with IGA Worldwide to open up this so far untapped revenue potential for the PS3. IGA already serve hundreds of millions of ads a week within premium retail pc and console games and have no added PS3 gamers to their reach.

The Future's Bright, the Future's Sony?

This week nearly a thousand games journalists gathered in London for a peek at Playstation's future. I'm bringing you some of the key points below direct from the Sony press center.

According to a Sony spokesmen, some PlayStation Network users could have had their passwords changed and personal information exposed after unauthorized users may have gained access to their accounts.