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Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:41 AM

Level Up's Top Ten Gaming Tidbits for Dec 18th, 2007

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  1. LEO...nardo DiCaprio, the great white whale of game devs?
  2. Wii...reportedly overtakes Xbox 360 in the United Kingdom
  3. PSP...update 3.80 adds Internet radio, RSS support for photos
  4. PS3...update adds DivX support, remote play for PS1 games
  5. WHO...weeps for soft sales of Unreal Tournament III and Crysis?
  6. YOU...don't know Jack Tretton, but the San Jose Mercury News does
  7. MTV...Does the "M" stand for "mini-games"? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
  8. MAN...hunt 2 not out of the woods yet as UK censors plan appeal
  9. RND...A look at Facebook, thirty years into the future
  10. RND...How far is too far for a cause, or, I am Jack's smirking revenge
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Posted By: SuperEffective (December 18, 2007 at 5:31 PM)

On Crysis/UT3:

Am I going too far in saying that this is the first time (I can think of) that publishers pushing tech over gameplay innovation are actually being punished? I love UT as a general concept, but it no longer exists as a single, optimal unit. This goes along with my being skeptical of user generated content, but I think UT has gotten by for far too long by haphazardly throwing gameplay elements into the pot and then letting the players sort it out. An open system has a number of advantages, but it's starting to feel like Epic wants us to make them game for them, because what shipped was really about selling their engine instead of providing me with a polished experience.

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Posted By: Evilbaby (December 18, 2007 at 4:32 PM)

WTF!? PS3 spam?  I need an adult!

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Posted By: maimus1000 (December 18, 2007 at 3:24 PM)

Bomb: Error comparison between PS3 and Xbox 360 sites favored console from Microsoft

As all Playstation Fans would agree, the GS comparison between the 360 and the PS3 was a little biased to say the least. The PS3 graphics on every game in GS comparison were slightly poorer than the graphics of the Xbox360. How ever a lot of GS readers that own a PS3 believe the games were white washed and altered to benefit the Xbox360 over the PS3. Playstation owners (myself included) dont believe the GS comparison to be accurate as the PS3 games they own dont reflect the games representation shown by game spot.

However this is not an attack on the xbox360 as I believe apart from its failier rate it is an all round great console and I am a fan of many of its fine games.

This is more to show the general public what the playstaion 3 is truly capable of and that GS has been biased towards the 360 instead of remaining objective like any independent computer games website should.

For people who are intrested in a true comparison checkouthttp://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74502the site

shows the xbox360 and PS3 both in 720p and 1080p and as you will see it is quite truely stunningas to how GShave messed up there comparison of both of these trurly great consoles. Enjoy.

video of the true

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=5HvdRfUmoqQ

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