I woke up early enough this morning to read the annuncements, but not early enough to post it to the site, so here’s the round up.
PS3 is coming in November, PSP is getting a price drop
While some look at the PS3 launch as a delay, I was skeptical it would even come out this year so it looks to me like things are going better than I thought.
There is the very likely possibility that Sony wouldn’t let Microsoft and Nintendo have a holiday season without them and no matter what kind of loss they might take selling the machine in November, it better than losing the market to the competition.

Found this on GoogleVideo last night. With Crazy’s day o’ TF posts, might as well numb your mind with this.

History Channel provides a remarkable special as part of their outer space week of programming, championing Star Trek (indirectly via Shatner) as being responsible with many, many common devices and innovations. Top inventors from JPL to Motorola speak of Trek episodes inspiring their young minds to produce the very things the crew of the Enterprise fictionally used.
Aside from the interesting history lessons, William Shatner hams it up as a tongue-in-cheek host and narrartor making it a pretty enjoyable affair. I don’t know anyone who isn’t at least amused by Shatner and/or technology, so I’ll make this a highly reccomended program.
Keep an eye out for a rerun

According to a post on Ain’t It Cool News of all places, Sony may try to take the fight harder to the DS and other non-gaming devices by releasing a slimmer, high capacity, more functional PSP by Winter 06.
Here’s the relevant quote from the post:

Seems Sony’s current internal plans call for a release of a refitted PSP around Christmas this year. The device will, indeed, be streamlined (thinner), lighter, boast 4 gigs of memory and a camera. Proteus indicated Sony is having a hell of a time with PlayStation 3 on several fronts (between PS3’s Cell processor and its built-in Blu-ray DVD, cost effectiveness has pretty much gone out the window). Seems the ever-phantasmic PS3 may well be delayed until next year, with Sony’s reworked PSP being positioned as a lead-in to its release (in the same way Nintendo’s release of the oh-so-sexy DS Lite heralds the coming of Revolution).

Better PSP revealed at E3 could be just the sort of distraction Sony needs if the PS3 delay ends up being until 07. Its cold comfort, but if Sony does in fact rededicate efforts toward the PSP hardware maybe more software will follow.

A new Reuters article claims the 21st 007 film “Casino Royale” will play closer to an origin than I’d thought. The director’s claims of “no-CG” sound exciting, but taking out Q, Moneypenny, and most of the gadgets makes me wonder if this will be a refreshing change or a colossal mistake. Whatever the case may be, I’m glad they’re going to try something different with the new Bond. I didn’t dislike the last few ones, but they felt closer to sci-fi action movies than any kind of spy game stuff Bond is known for. Driving the invisible car in the castle made of ice wasn’t really a bad, just didn’t seem like a Bond idea…

Oh, and by the way, this new “Casino Royale” is not to be confused with the 1967 “Casino Royale”, which starred Peter Sellers, David Niven, and Woody Allen as variations of James Bond.

Pixar’s Cars gets a shiny new trailer.
I’ll be honest, if I had to make a list of my favorite stars of all time, Paul Newman and Owen Wilson would be at the top, and they’re both in this movie. And Pixar has yet to release a dud. Who doesn’t want to see this movie?

While Capcom fighters have always been easier to find (with many Street Fighter releases going back to the SNES), SNK titles tended to be every bit as good and sometimes better. Naturally, these 2 companies had to pit their characters against each other sooner or later, and the results are a mixed bag.
Dragonsama of the Penny-arcade forum offers a history and tribute of these games, going from the silly chibi card battles on the Neo-Geo pocket, to the graphical delight of CVS2, and ending finally with the last game ever on the Neo-Geo MVS.

In what may be the single highest winning bid for the rarest game in existance, the unreleased, unfinished, virtually unplayable, Sega Saturn game Sonic X-Treme has been sold. Via a middleman from a Sega employee who wishes to remain anonymous, its claimed this is the only copy of the game outside of Sega’s offices, and that he personally destroyed all the others.
You can read all about this lost Sonic game at Lost Levels, and view the terms of the auction here