Another contest is coming at you from your friends at Loot Ninja. We’re giving away three PS3 games in this contest. Yes, that’s right, three games together! The games are: Heavenly Sword, Lair, and NBA 08. We want to thank Sony for sponsoring this contest by providing the prizes!

To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment in this post stating your current favorite feature of the PS3 and what they’d like to see most out of the PS3 in the future. This is limited to things achievable with a firmware update only, not “more games” or anything hardware related.

The contest ends at 11:59pm EST on Wednesday November 7th. That gives you a full 4 weeks to enter. Only one entry per person per day is allowed, and a winner will be chosen at random after the contest is finished.
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Conan is coming to consoles and you get a chance to play through a few levels. The game 100+ fighting moves and combinations as Conan decimates his foes using a variety of deadly weapons, hand-to-hand combat, and even his surrounding environment. This could be a decent button masher with some intense violence or just another mediocre Xbox 360 release. We will see.

The demo for Xbox 360 is available now and the PS3 version this Thursday, Oct 11.

The new guitars for Guitar Hero III have an important new feature: they come apart for easy storage. The necks of the guitars are removable. Pretty cool. The Wii guitar also has another feature: the Wiimote is embedded in the guitar.

Check out the video for how it works. I’m guessing the Xbox 360 and Wii won’t need that dongle like the PS3 does.

I have to say, I think will move will bite Sony in the ass. In a statement to CVG, Sony stated they plan to stop supporting Backwards Compatibility in future PlayStation products.

I’m a big user of BC on my PS3. I put PS2 games in there all the time. With the Xbox 360 and Wii, it’s not so much. But with a large number of good PS2 games still coming out, it’s hard to completely get away from the system.

With the introduction of the 40GB PS3 in Europe, which does not support even software BC of PS2 titles, users will be forced to pull the PS2 out of the closet (or even possibly buy a new one) if they wish to play any titles from the last-gen console. Sony will be phasing out the current 60GB model in Europe and only leaving the 40GB PS3 (which includes everything from the 60GB model except no backwards compatiblity, no memory card readers, and only 2 USB ports).

I think the market may demand that Sony change their mind. Since the BC is software based anyway, it’s not like it would be hard to add this feature back into the system. If Sony tries to implement this in the US, I hope they have a plan to deal with the enormous back-lash they’ll face. If they’re trying to save their image and the system, this isn’t the way.

Ummm, so I guess wireless now has a new meaning? To mean, wireless means you don’t have to plug anything in. The PS3 version of Guitar Hero III must have a different definition. The game requires you to plug in a USB dongle to use the wireless guitars. Not the most ideal situation.

For whatever reason, the game’s guitar controllers don’t take advantage of the PS3’s built in Bluetooth. I’m not sure if it’s a technical issue or if Activision just wanted to use RF instead. Either way, you’ll have to live with the dongles if you’re picking up this game for PS3.

Why is it that after every game or demo download from the PlayStation Store, you have to sit and install the file? I know it gets taken care of if you don’t download in the background, but who does that anymore? Queuing up downloads is a must, especially when there are lots of things you want.

So why after spending a long time downloading something do I have to spend 10 more minutes staring at the screen as the game slowly installs? You’re handcuffed while this going on, as you can’t do anything else on the console (and can’t cancel the process if you feel the need). Can’t Sony work this into the background downloading? I sincerely hope this is a feature that gets implemented in a future firmware update.

[Update] I’m not referring to installing Game Data when you first load a retail game disc. I’m talking about downloading titles from the PlayStation Store.

Heavenly Sword is probably the biggest hyped game on the PS3 thus far. The game has an epic story and beautiful graphics, but does it live up the hype? After a few play throughs, I’m happy to say it does. Here is a breakdown of some of the facets of Heavenly Sword for the PS3:

Presentation and Graphics: Heavenly Sword is flat out beautiful. Period. The game runs at 720p natively and has hands down the best character modeling, especially facial details, or any game I’ve ever played. The motion capture for the game was headed up by Andy Serkis, who is most famous for playing Gollum in the Lord of the Rings movies. Andy also served as the dramatic director on the game, and it definitely shows. The facial expressions and emotions shown by the characters really come through. When Nariko furrows her brow, you can tell she’s angry. The little details that Ninja Theory put in the characters really does an amazing job of drawing you into the game. The environments are equally as beautiful, with terrific draw distance in all areas. If you’re standing atop a cliff, you can see everything happening for miles. There are a few framerate issues which cause some screen tearing, but they are minimal. Otherwise, this is the most beautiful game on the PS3 to date. 4.5 of 5

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Today’s PlayStation Store update on the PS3 doesn’t seem too terrific, at least in my eyes. Here’s what will be available in the coming hours:

• Go! Sports Ski Game ($2.99 US)
• The Simpsons Demo
• Bladestorm: The Hundred Years’ War Demo
• NBA 08 key control play calling tutorial video
• Eye of Judgment tutorial video
• Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune BTS
• Haze Dev interview
• Tekkonkinkreet video
• Surf’s Up BD trailer

Simpsons demo FTW, but there’s not much else there to get me too excited. There were about 3-4 weeks in a row with killer content, and now we’re just waiting. Hopefully next week will remedy that when the Ratchet and Clank Future demo is released.

Can you tell a difference? I could not even with in the HD version.

If you still want the backwards compatible version of the PS3, it is still out there. Looks like Amazon is sitting on a few 60 Gb consoles and ready to unload.

Another tip thanks to Fragloser, busy readers are our friends!