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Sony Offering Additional Incentives To Renew PlayStation Plus Membership

admin — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:00:35 +0000

There are a number of gaming consoles that each has an exclusive line of alluring games. Most of these games are offered in the three dimensional mode, and some are equipped with motion sensor equipments too, which make game play even more exciting. With so much to choose from, gamers have been torn between entertainment companies, as to which one to stay loyal to.

In spring this year, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) realised a successive down time to the external nuisances of the PlayStation Network. To retain their gaming fans, they decided to introduce something called the ‘Welcome Package’ that holds a small array of favourite games, with a short subscription to the PlayStation Plus – all of this is offered at no cost.

Those players, who opted to renew their purchased subscription of 12 months, could be among the contenders of the members-only prize draw. Additionally, they would get an extra three months immediately added to their subscription package, and at no cost. This would mean that they pay for 12 months and get 15 months worth membership in return.

Sony Offering Additional Incentives To Renew PlayStation Plus Membership

If this is not what they would term as exciting, another feature was offered to tempt them. They could opt to download a free package of SEGA Rally Online Arcade. This bonus promotion, to lure its fans with more attractions, was valid till 3rd August 2011. Anyone of the two freebie alternates could be selected at the time of renewing their subscription, and would be activated immediately, once the payment cleared.

Those fans that let temptation take over them are now enjoying all features of the PlayStation Plus as an added benefit. These features include dynamic dashboard themes, special discounts, and also allow subscribers the option to save data in storage space.

Mednafen PS3 Updated – Multi-System Emulator

admin — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:42:14 +0000

PlayStation consoles are expensive. Their upgraded consoles are even more expensive. By the time we wait for their price to go down a notch, we are sure that Sony will introduce a new version of its PlayStation in the markets. Not everybody can afford them. For this reason, we have emulators. Emulators are smart software designed and created for gamers who do not wish to purchase gaming consoles but prefer to experience such games on their workstations instead. When the emulator runs on your operating system, it fools the gaming CDs to believe that they are being operated on the original console for which they were created.

One such emulator is Mednafen. This was created by Robo Hobo. It was originally created only for PlayStation 3. However, the updated version of the Mednafen emulator makes it a multi-system emulator. Apart from PS3, the Mednafen emulator allows emulation of consoles like NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Sega Master System, Game Gear, PC Engine, PC-Engine CD Lynx, NeoGeo Pocket, WonderSwan, and Atari 2600.

Mednafen PS3 Updated - Multi-System Emulator

Mednafen is portable and employs OpenGL and SDL, argument (command line), and offers a range of advanced features. Mednafen allows users to track and log hotkey functions and virtual system inputs to a keyboard, joystick, or even both at the same time. To document a favourite gaming stage, gamers can take a screenshot too with just a press of a button. These shots are saved in the most commonly used PNG format.

More to offer by Mednafen are features that allow loading of uncompressed or zipped images, saving and loading of save RAM and save states, file browsing, saving your game on a USB flash drive, and even FTP them to the internal drive.

In less than a month, Mednafen has come up with 30 updates of its original version. This software is promising to gamers looking to enjoy an uninterrupted gaming experience.