Since being first announced in 1997, this sequel has been delayed for many years. In fact, the original release date was May 2011, which was again pushed back to June back in March.

Duke Nukem and “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” are 2 of my all time favorite games, for different reasons. Although this new Duke is getting really bad reviews, I’m still going to get it anyway for nostalgic reasons, and because it’s rated M (Mature 17+) and it has babes and a strip club scene. That’s why I got GTA4, and that’s why I’m getting “Forever.”

Checkout this video to see some of the babes in the game.

After weeks of Playstation Network being down because of hackers stealing private information, Sony has turned the network back on and is offering free PS3 games as a way to say “sorry dudes.”

Free PS3 Games

Unfortunately for me, I already have inFAMOUS and LittleBigPlanet, and the other games don’t seem that interesting to me. In fact, I didn’t really even like LBP.  And inFAMOUS was great but inFAMOUS 2 is coming out so it’s basically a dead version.

I decided to pick WipEout and Dead Nation. Both were very forgettable and I can see why they are free. I would never pay for either. WipEout is a futuristic racing game on rails (read boring), and Dead Nation is a birds-eye-view zombie shoot-em-up game that was a little more interesting but not even as fun as Angry Birds on my phone.

Yeah. I’m not feeling the love here.  Hey, Sony. How about 2 free movie rentals and let us choose the movie we want to see.  That would give me a little more warm and fuzzy.

After trying out Redbox, I decided to try Netflix on the PS3, which streams movies directly to your HDTV for only $7.99 (streaming only with no DVDs by mail). Using the PS3 to sign up turned out to be a little harder than I expected. First, I got the error below:

Not a good start

Restarting didn’t fix anything so I deleted Netflix, and re-installed it with the same results. The only way I was able to fix it was to go to the Netflix website from my computer and sign-up, then delete and re-install the app on the PS3 and try again. I did finally manage to get things working but if a techno geek like me had some problems, I hate to see what would happen when the typical grandma tries this. I guess she wouldn’t have a PS3 anyway.

Once I got everything setup, I noticed that a lot of the movies available on DVD (via snail mail) are not available for streaming. But right now, they have a one month free trial period so it’s a good time to try it out.

My main concern was the quality of the stream. To my surprise, the video starts to stream in a few seconds and although not full HD quality, it is very good. The quality is about as good as what I got on my Tivo via Amazon Unbox, except that version had to download the entire movie first before viewing. My HDTV says it’s in 1080p mode but I think that’s the PS3 upgrading the video to that resolution.

When the video first starts, there’s a slight resolution deterioration, but after a few seconds, the resolution will improve to an acceptable level. Once in a while, there’s some color artifacts, especially when the scene is very dark, but for the most part, movies look fine. If you are in love with your Blu-ray high resolution movies on your 70″ screen, you might have a problem. Otherwise, you’re good.

The biggest problem is the lack of brand new movies. But they do have a long list of older movies, including a lot of classics that you may have missed. There’s plenty of content to check out, especially if you’re trying to do it in the one month free trial period.

Also, don’t forget you can still stream movies to your computer at home or at work, as well as to your iPhone.

When the Kinect was shown at E3 last year, I thought it was a stupid ripoff of the Wii. Now, I take back everything bad I said about it. If you’re a perv, looking to grope without getting arrested, this hack is for you.

At last year’s E3, Sony showed a demo of their motion control device, to compete with the Wii and Microsoft’s rumored motion control device (also shown at E3 last year).

Well, a whole year has gone by and at this year’s E3, both Sony and Microsoft are now showing off their motion control devices and the games that will use them.

Sony decided to go one step further and demo the devices at the local Best Buy. They will be showing it today at both Culver City Best Buys and the Burbank Best Buy.

It’s so funny that both Sony and Microsoft are playing catch-up to Nintendo after calling the Nintendo motion controller a “fad.”

Yes, it’s just a fad. A fad that allowed a “kids” game console that doesn’t even have HD to kick your respective asses.

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed a reduction of posts here. The reason for this has been that I’ve been working on Palm WebOS games and a corresponding website mobigamedepot.com.

This new website will be the portal for the games that I will be developing and I will post some behind the scenes details about the development work here on Cochinoman for your reading pleasure.

For starters, why did I choose the Palm WebOS platform? When the iPhone first came out, I wanted to do development work for it but since I’m not a Mac user, there was that learning curve and the SDK was not available at first. Then before I realized, everybody and his brother was on the iPhone platform and it was too late to get in the game.

Fast forward 2 years and when the Palm WebOS was announced at CES last year, my interest was again peaked. I followed the SDK development closely and managed to get on the software developer program as an early developer.

The WebOS SDK has a lot of limitations, especially for real-time games, but it also makes it less likely that the big boys will be getting on this path. As it turns out, there is a new PDK that was announced at this year’s CES that allows for low level C/C++ coding and the big boys (e.g. EA) has come out with their 3D games for the WebOS.

This last move still doesn’t deter me from working on my games because the big budget EA games will have to sell for $7-$10 and I will target the below $2 market for my games. There’s no way that EA could sell their games for 99 cents and still make money because of their overhead in developing these heavy games.

My first released game is “Lunar Attack,” which is basically an upgraded “Missile Command” with more features. In the future, I will post about the decisions that were made regarding this first game.  The second game I am working on is a scrolling sprite based game that takes place in a Pyramid.

If you are thinking about developing games on any mobile platform, you may find the articles interesting.  Even if you are thinking about non-game development on a mobile device, you might find something interesting in there.

By now, it’s old news that there are hot girls in Solid Metal Gear 4 for the Playstation 3.  There’s a camera hidden behind the little girl’s desk that you can use to take pictures of these hotties.  You can find detailed instructions in one of the cheat websites.

The models used for the game were Yumi Kikuchi, Scarlett Chorvat, Lyndall Jarvis and Mieko Rye. I read a rumor that they had to pose nude to be scanned for the game but that sounds like a geek’s wet dream and not reality.

In any case, enjoy the pictures.

For Christmas, my friends gave me a bunch of PS3 games.  Nice.  One of the first things Bioshock does, is to try to download a newer version of the game to the hard drive.  However, everytime I tried to do this, it would fail.  My WiFi Internet connection was fine and I am able to use the browser to look at website.  Hmmm.

Upon checking the Playstation website, one of the recommendations they have is to disable the media server connection. To do so, just go to “Settings,” “Network Settings,” “Media Server Connection,” and select “disable.”

After making this small change, the download worked perfectly.  I guess I can’t have both going at the same time.  If I was an Internet wizard, I’d be able to figure out why this is the case.  But since I’m not, I’ll just turn this feature on and off as needed.

After waiting for what seemed like months (wait, it was months), Amazon finally sent me the PS3 wireless keyboard attachment to my controller.

Pairing it with the PS3 was a no-brainer. Just plug it into the PS3 via a USB cable (not provided), then turn on the keyboard and the pairing happens automatically.  Although the keyboard portion is a separate unit with it’s own rechargeable battery, the SELECT, START and PS3 buttons just presses the buttons on the controller unit itself.

There’s a red LED on the left side to indicate when the unit is on, and when left without use, it will automatically turn off to save battery.

There are also 3 new buttons (located right below the SONY logo) on the keyboard. You can directly access the PS3 message box with the one on the left, go to touch pad mode (middle), and display the friends list (right).

The touch pad mode is somewhat interesting.  When this mode is on, the middle button has a green LED that is lit. While in this mode, you can use the bottom 3 rows of the keyboard just like a touch pad.  You don’t have to actually press on the keys at all.  Just roll your finger over the keys and it acts the same as a touch pad on your laptop.  It’s a little strange at first because your finger goes over keys but you can get used to it after a while.

Also, at the top left is a “blue” button, and on the right is the “orange” button.  If you press the orange button with the CAPS button, you will enter caps lock mode.  Blue button plus RETURN gives you a line break.

My main gripe is that this is yet another thing that has to be recharged via the USB, and as you know, the PS3′s USB is turned off when the unit is turned off.  So to charge the keyboard, you have to leave your PS3 on, or use your laptop or computer to charge it.

Also, the Katana charger adapter does not work with the keyboard because it gets in the way.  You have to unplug the Katana from the controller to connect the keyboard to the controller.  This is a big buzz kill for me.  Not sure if I’m going to keep this keyboard.

Take a look at the gallery below to see close-up views of the keyboard. You can see larger views by clicking on the picture.

All in all, if you’re used to using small keyboards on your cell phone, you should have no problems trying to use this tiny keyboard with your thumbs. It works as advertised and the added touch pad feature is a nice touch.  Except for the incompatibility with the Katana charger, I’m very happy with this unit.

As you probably already know, there’s a strip club in the North area of the city in GTA 4.  In case you were wondering where the cochino part of this website was, here are some screen caps from the game.