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We have found out that the Sony Playstation 3 (Sony PS3) are now available to pre order and delivery will start around November.

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The Sony PS3 is the most advanced system to be released to date and will vastly improve the gaming experience with it's very fast processor and nice clean rendered graphics. Just check out the technical specs below and check out some of the images that have been drawn up below. The Sony PS3 is seriously one awesome games machine as well as much more.

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Gran Turismo 5

Tony Hawks

*CPU: Cell Processor
*GPU: RSX
*Sound: Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-based processing)
*Memory: 256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM
*HDD: 2.5" Serial ATA (60GB)
*I/O: USB 2.0 (x4) – MemoryStick/SD/CompactFlash
*Communication: Ethernet (x1 / 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) – IEEE 802.11 b/g – Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
*Wireless controller (Bluetooth)
*AV Output: Screen size 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
*HDMI OUT – (x1 / HDMI NextGen)
*AV MULTI OUT (x1)
*DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) (x1)
*BD/DVD/CD Drive (Read Only): Maximum Read Speed BD 2x (BD-ROM), DVD 8x (DVD-ROM), CD 24x (CD-ROM)
*Super Audio CD 2x
*Dimensions: Approximately 325mm (W) x 98mm (H) x 274mm (D)
*Weight: Approximately 5 kg

Nintendo have launched the DS 1-Seg TV Tuner (compatible on Japanese TV networks only!!!). This device is very small and fits in to the cartridge slot on the DS.

For those in Japan… this is a great deal at just $89 USD.

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Wixzer have launched the WXP350 PMP which has a built in 1.3M camera, 20 or 30Gb drive, comes with a 4 inch widescreen display and runs Windows CE 5.0. The device looks like another decent contender in the market and it will be insteresting seeing how this actually performs.

Source: DapReview

Someone (Marshall) has built an N64 named the L64 and has provided instructions on how he built the games machine. It’s rather bluky as it’s an N64 chopped up and put in a smaller case with a screen and battery. Still good fun to read through.

Source: The L64

The Odd-i is a nice looking 7″ screen media player. It features no drive but allows for SD cards and other sources to be connected to it.

Tech Specs at DAPReview

Acer have now made the MP-500 official on a German website according to Dapreview. The device is pretty much a standard PVP but comes with a detachable battery which is great news for consumers.

*Video Format: DivX, Xvid, MPEG2/4, WMV(9)
*Audio Format: MP3, WMA
*Picture format: JPEG, BMP, GIF
*Records Audio & Video
*Voice recorder built-in
*Line-in/line-out
*TV-out
*3.5-inch TFT Display, 320 x 240 pixels
*User-replaceable Li-Ion battery, 3.7V, 1800mAh
*Plays videos for about 4 hours continuously, audio for about 8 hours continuously
*Picture Viewer
*1.8″ HDD (20GB)
*SD/MMC Slot
*Measures 126 x 82 x 24mm
*Weighs 220g with battery

More details at dapreview