It's not quite the game streaming announcement we expected, but Sony certainly seems to be putting the technology to good use.
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Irrational Games has released the first five minutes of their upcoming title, BioShock Infinite (BI), the not-quite prequel game to BioShock I and II.
For the most part, I found this aspect of the game quite rewarding, though I wish more of the treasure chests were actually hidden rather than telegraphed on the in-game map.
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No other game has created quite such a life-like game world as regards the movement of hair, breakable objects - anything and everything - and the sheer amount of eye-candy.
But the wicket of the other opener, Salman Butt, changed the game quite dramatically.
The Tigers have been around for over a century, and nobody has had a game quite like this.
Sometimes if you're not high on confidence you can't do that, you don't see the game quite as clearly in your mind and it becomes easy to lose sight of your strategy and style of play.
Vasella has been playing the waiting game quite a bit--analysts love to speculate that Novartis will buy another drug company, like Roche or maybe Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ).
The game, which launched today on Kickstarter, is not quite an MMORPG and not quite a single-player game.
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Better, there are quite a few different game modes, from free-for-all to capture the flag to team objective.
Nintendo's "Tennis" game was quite enjoyable by comparison, but it automates a lot of the control such as the movement of your character.
My theory on why sales of the Madden franchise have declined is both counterintuitive and quite simple: the game became TOO good and TOO realistic.
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Soon, you discover that Tomb Raider is quite literally an Uncharted game with a teenage girl as a protagonist instead of a wise-cracking grown man.
This is great news for the gaming community at large, but creates quite a headache for game publishers that have been doling out DRM-protected games for years now.
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Still, the game handles quite well overall, and the combination of offensive combos, rolling and parrying, and running along walls all work at least almost as well as they do on a home console.
The spirit is willing, but the material is never quite there, despite game performances from Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Queen Latifah, Leslie Nielsen, Jenny McCarthy, Pamela Anderson, George Carlin, and the Michael Jackson impersonator Edward Moss.
The game looks quite interesting, actually.
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While this shows confidence of big money in these areas, it is quite late in the game to be betting on commodities, high yield bonds or the emerging markets of Asia, especially when leverage is being used.
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"We saw that when they were able to speed up the game, they were quite dangerous so we didn't want to get into that kind of game with them, " said O'Sullivan.
Woodgate was superb for Boro, with his reading of the game at times quite imperious.
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Quite a hit to the game's image, but probably not owners' wallets.
So while the console port may not look quite as good as the game does on your custom-built gaming rig, it still looks amazing.
"The match summed up the whole season - when we don't hit our game we look quite ordinary, when we do we look very dangerous, " said Corry.
The game did not quite work out the Kings' way.
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It's also changed our game playing habits quite a bit, as many games on the GamePad screen are mirror images of the TV -- we found ourselves indulging ADD and flipping to the evening news while trouncing goombas.
The game world is also quite large, apparently, at least compared to the first Torchlight.
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