One of the surprises from E3 if you ask me. When I first saw the demo I was a bit put off by the teeth and lip-sync. So I almost dismissed it right away. I also watched it streamed so the quality wasn't all that good.

But when I downloaded the HD version of the video and watched that, I actually started seeing what the video was about, understanding the subtleties in which Mary Smith carried herself before the end of the "casting".

Just the way here voice was a bit "over the top" at the begnning of the video, and the progressively getting more emotional, and more natural as the scene goes on. The way here hair flows and the lighting in the kitchen with the rain and lighting, and ofcourse the music comes and everything goes to hell.

In the end of it, I started feelign for Mary, and I think they kinda struck a cord, because many people have been trough something similar, having someone cheat on them, or hurting them. This was just perfectly executed.

Quantic Dream gets two thumbs up for having something so visually appealing and beautiful like this showing at E3. If the game from which this is made, get's to be half as emotional it's going to be great.

If you havn't seen it, do so now!

So I was in Oslo yesterday with some friends, and I remember we got  talking about the Sony conference, and what Kaz would reveal to the public. Also made jokes about Kuturagi (insert 4D joke here).

Anyway, I remember saying "They will never release the croissant, they most likely just release the Dual Shock 2 and change the name to Dual Shock 3 or something. Atleast it will look exactly the same as it did with the first and second generation Dual Shock. Because, why fix it if it aint broke, and let's be honest, the Dual Shock is one of the best controllers ever made."

My perseption was right, the new controller looks like the old one, with some added functionality. Gyroscopic action (like Wii), small PS logo (like Xbox 360), better shoulder buttons, wireless, and according to Jeff the thing weighs nothing.

The thing still looks like a grill, but I'm fine with that. Looks nice, glossy, pretty, powerful. What you would expect from the PS3. The games are there; FFXIII, Tekken, Virtua Fighter and so on. Let's just hope Sony dosn't bite more then it can chew this time around. "Super realistic movie quality graphics that will imerse you inside the game. You won't be able to tell the difference between the PS3 and real life!" Also what you would come to expect from a guy like Kuturagi. And what's with the 4D Ken?

All in all what I expected from Sony, but meh, the 599€ price tag will put a lot of people off. We'll see. I'm going to buy it though, that and the two other machines.

Next show; Nintendo. ^^

I think I have posted this before on the forums, but spring cleaning my harddrive I found it - yet again.

Tell us a little about yourself Jeff.
OK, well, I'm 23. I have never broken a bone. The left side of my jaw hurts quite a bit right now, and I play and review videogames for a living. Oh, and I'm 6'2" tall.

Do you think of emulators as a negative thing?
No, personally, I think emulators are pretty amazing, especially from a technical standpoint. The fact that people can reverse engineer so many different types of hardware is really pretty amazing. Being able to play old games is just a really nice side bonus.

When you hear the word Emulator, do you then think of Piracy?
No, not really. It's not an immediate connection to me, though there is obviously quite a bit of piracy involved with the actual playing of games on emulators. I mean, like it or not, the copyright laws (at least here in the U.S.) are pretty clear, and no one owns original copies of all 1100+ games that MAME supports. And most people don't own most of the SNES games they're loading up in ZSNES and SNES9X every day.

Like it or not, that's piracy, plain and simple.And then there's stuff like UltraHLE. I mean, I think UltraHLE is a tremendous technological leap for emulators, but the element that it brings to the emulation world (warez kids, IDSA crackdowns, rom begging idiots that can only manage to type "NE1 GOT ZELDA?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!111") is where the real problem lies.But again, the emulator itself isn't piracy. It's perfectly legal. It's the copying and transferring of the ROMs that are illegal.

Do you play emulators yourself?
I have been known to mess around with an emulator or two from time to time. (MAME is, by far, the most impressive emulator out there.)

Where do you see the emulation scene in a year?
That's hard to say. I don't really see any emulator authors getting into legal trouble. The big companies may try to scare authors with the threat of a lawsuit, but I don't think any such suit would stand up in court. The various authors, for the most part, are careful to not break any laws. I see some more commercialization happening, similar to the Sega Smash Pack and the rumors of MAME arcade consoles popping up with licensed ROMs. Maybe we'll see some more commercial emulators, like Bleem and Virtual Game Station.What game companies need to be doing is stopping piracy. Not emulation. People really need to get it through their heads that emulation and piracy are two different things.

The console piracy scene has been around a lot longer than software-based emulation, and with all the high-speed bandwidth going around these days, it's just going to get worse. Companies like Nintendo need to step up and create carts that can't be copied. And CD-based emulators should, obviously, only work with original discs. As for the older, discontinued stuff, it'd be nice if companies would release some of these ROMs into the public domain, but don't count on it. Instead, they'll probably just keep pumping out half-assed poorly done collections of older games for the newer consoles and feel all good inside because they're "catering to the retrogaming community. "In short, companies will try to make money off of the popularity of emulation, and the leeching warez kids (you know, the kind that send out an e-mail to as many different MAMEDEV members as they can find with the text "U SUX!!!!11 MK2 IS SLOW!!!!!!!1111") will unknowingly try their hardest to destroy emulation from within.

Thank you for answering my questions.
No problem, but where exactly are you going to post this interview?

I did the interview for then existing Emulation/Gaming site Exposure2k.com that I ran. Which has since become a porn site I think (Well, last I checked the domain anyway). I think most of the Emulation community actually went "WTF!? How the hell is This Jeff dude?!" Seems I was the only one a member on this site back then. :P

Anyway, good times.

I have no friends on here, wanna be my friend? :P

Anyway, not long til E3, getting everything prepped to watch the entire thing from the comfort of my living room (although I wanted to go, as I have since the first show). Some friends are there right now, well, Las Vegas to be exact. They'll be there from the first Press Conference.

How are we going to do that? Me and some friends are going to watch everything GS does on the big screen. Should be fun enough!

Have fun guys, and make the show good (like you guys could make it bad)! ;)