From Ziggytek: Based on reports from RTLinfo, Sony is planning to release a PlayStation 3 Slim at this year’s GamesCom expo in Cologne, Germany. Reports say that the specifications and features will remain the same but the design is the main focus and will probably be introduced at Sony’s pre-event press conference. More »

Every now and then you’re going to see posts appearing on the Ningin blogs from other blogs. Right now, these blog posts are just from Ningin’s sister sites but later on we could very well start syndicating from sites outside of our network. The idea is that, while our sister sites may focus on different subjects, there will be overlap from time to time. When there are overlaps, we’ll cross promote them across the network, like we did yesterday with the Chinese-Obama-Blackberry post from Ziggytek. More »

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Masi Oka, of Heroes fame, is planning to produce a family-friendly movie based on mmorpgs (massively multiplayer online role-playing game). The story revolves around a group of teens that only know each other through the computer until something threatens the safety of the world and they have to meet up in the real world to save it. More »

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Happy Easter everyone! Hope you all bought your own little baby chickens and rabbits. Or not.

Social news is back up if you didn’t know! We’ve completely revamped how it works so that it’ll be easier for you to be the little newscrawler that you are. Also, we’re still looking for bloggers for our gaming website!

Here’s this week’s wrap up! More »

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Even though the economy has been pretty bad, things are pretty good here for Ningin and our parent company. So we’re looking to do some expansion. One immediate expansion that we have in mind is a new gaming site which we hope to launch in the next couple of weeks. We’re going to have both paid blogger positions and a couple of internships which won’t be paid. More info after the jump. More »

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My weekend started early when I got to chat with Anime Matsuri’s security director, Elias Romero. He had some really interesting things to say about the on going updates at this year’s convention. This premiere anime event will take place April 10th-12th in Woodlands, Texas and is one of the largest conventions in southern part of the US. More »

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Sony’s recently-released third revision of the PSP touts a better, brighter screen, but at what cost? While the new screen eliminates the ghosting (smearing) effect with lower latency, an arguably worse problem seems to have popped up - interlacing (jagged appearance). The issue is systemic as it has been reported in all PSP-3000 units, and the interlacing effect is so prominent it can even be seen while navigating the PSP’s XMB operating system, not to mention any game with any sort of… motion. Joystiq reports that the problem is slightly less noticeably when the “Wide Color Space” option is turned off, but turning off the only reason to get the new PSP isn’t exactly the best fix.

When asked about future patches to fix the issue, Sony replied that the interlacing is a “feature” of the new LCD, and there are currently no plans to get rid of it in a firmware update as it is hardware-derived.

I’ve been looking to get a PSP Brite to replace my 1st generation fatty, but as one that opted for the PSP instead of the DS for its graphical superiority, this is the worst kind of news I can get. Did Sony seriously not think this was an issue during their testing phase? Or did they just not notice it? At any rate, calling a fault a “feature” is not convincing anybody, and I’ll be switching my attention back to the PSP-2000…

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