Pretty interested in this business currently in development. Kwari is a first person shooter online game that allows you win cold hard cash, or as they put it:

"first person shooter skill-based cash for kills online gaming"

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This is from the Halo 3 website. They have created a massive scale model of the battle scenes depicted in the video game. Amazing detail. I took this movie but you can do a “fly through” and also do complete 360^o view of anywhere in the model. Must have cost a fortune.

Goggles is a very cool little Flash game that lets you fly a bi-plane around major cities using Google Maps satellite photos. Brilliant, I wish I had thought of it. Thanks Andy for finding this one.

Battlefield 2 is questionably one of the best online multiplayer military games ever released. It is really the only reason I have a PC at home. When my new MacBook Pro arrives I intend to install Boot Camp and then I should be able to play BF2 on it. I hope so, having just spent the majority of my Saturday night this week rebuilding my PC from scratch, I am ready to throw in my lot with Apple/Boot Camp for good.

It has been a while since there were so many options for gamers. Xbox 360 is out now, PS3, is months away the absurdly named Nintendo Wii will not be far behind. Then you’ve got portable options in the PSP, Nintendo Game Boy and Nintendo NS.

Price wise you are looking at (USD $):

Xbox 360 - Core System $299
Xbox 360 $399
PS3 - 20GB Hard Drive $499
PS3 - 60GB Hard Drive $599
Wii - $250 (rumoured, TBC)

So what do people think about the price? Check out the comments on Engadget.com they are very funny. Short story, is that people think the Wii is still expensive given that it will have lower spec hardware and not as many good games, PS3 is way too expensive, and some people question if Sony have actually lost the plot following Xbox 360 to market with an extremely high price point.

As for me? I just love PlayStation and have a natural affinity with the brand, I’ve been gaming on this platform for over 10 years now, however, the key to success is going to be 1) games (Xbox has got Halo 3 and GTA IV) 2) online communities. I think the second one is probably going to be more important, the vendor with decent game servers with loads of gamers is definitely what we all want.

I’m living in NZ at the moment so I’ll wait and see what the local pricing looks like before making a decision.

Check out this video of the PS3 interface, very familiar if you’ve seen a PSP.