INCOMING Playstation 4

Hey Everyone,

Playstation had their huge media event a couple weeks ago and the main announcement confirmed what the rumors had suggested for several months.  PS4 has been officially announced although not every detail has been released yet. 

The announcement revealed a collection of game previews along with the new controller pictured above.  The PS4 will focus primarily on gaming and will switch components and formatting to a more game developer friendly format. 

This new announcement is exciting but does leave a lot of information to be desired.  There hasn't been any reveal of the actual hardware that the console will look like, but we do know that the PS4 is set to arrive this year during the holiday season.  The information should give us a clearer picture of what the console will look like and what we can expect from the system. 

This announcement beat XBOX to the punch who is also set to announce their next generation console this year.  It should be an intense buying season and it will be interesting as it seems PS4 is going after gamers and Xbox is targeting home enteratinment and living room consoles. 

More to come, but it should be exciting to see where these new consoles are going and how it is effected by the new social gaming atmosphere and indie games that can be streamed online.

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if anyone wants to look in here is the entire 2 hour announcement 

Black Mirror is the Future Broken?

Just a check in wanted to mention an awesome UK Mini Series by Charlie Brooker called Black Mirror.  These are a collection of dark, twisted standalone segments that each run about 45min to an hour.
Each episode functions independently with no recurring characters from entry to entry.  In fact each episode features a new world and each is meant to show another way that our lives might be impacted by the natural evolution of technology.  Fair warning they are pretty dark stories, not overly violent or anything, but definitely not family viewing. 

The first three were released last year and were a huge success.  The second trilogy was released this last month and the 3 independent movies are just as good as the first year.  Again since each episode is their own story you can watch any episode in any order.  

EPISODE VIEWING GUIDE:

Personally I recommend all of them, but noticeably:
Season 1 Epidode 2 titled "Fifteen Million Merits" 
also this years 2nd episode was mind blowing titled "White Bear."  
 
Episodes 1.3 "The Entire History of You" and Episode 2.1 "Be Right Back" are both more focused on how technology could impact personal relationships between couples.   

Ep. 1.1 "The National Anthem" and 2.3 "The Waldo Moment" are more grounded in today's reality and have more to do with multimedia.

All six episodes are worth watching for a realistic human approach to where we might actually end up as a civilization. 

Here are the trailers for the first trilogy and the second trilogy.  These are sort of conceptual trailers each episode explores a different avenue of human nature and technology. 

Watch em.