Stop the Presses! 3/17 part 2!

Whoo, forgot that I wanted to mention some interesting news tidbits.

First off, this is old news by now, but Sony officially pushed back the PS3's release date to November. Not that I'll be getting one at launch anyway. That honor belongs to the Nintendo Revolution (hopefully).

Speaking of the Revolution, Shigeru Miyamoto claimed that The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess will be able to "take advantage" of the Revolution controller. Of course, this is a GCN game that will be using the Revolution's backwards-compatibility feature to add more to the game. No word on how the controller will work out with Twlight Princess, but we'll probably see some sort of unveiling at E3 later.

Final Fantasy XII was released in Japan yesterday. How have I not yet played the demo? I will have to acquire this. XII is actually a game I'm rather excited about. After being severely disappointed with Tactics Advance and not even playing XI, I've been in somewhat of an FF drought. This and Kingdom Hearts II coming...mmm...

Rumors are flying around that there will be no Halo 3. Well, not exactly. Some "well connected" sources claim that the next game in the series will be known as Forerunner, a nod to the ancient civilization in the Halo universe. This is just rumor at this point, but the source claims that there will be 4-play co-op and a gigantic world that will be affected by events. In the source's example a mission could be something like infiltrating a munitions dump. Succeed, and you get the guns. Fail, and the Covenant forces enjoy a beefed up armory. Sounds interesting, but I wouldn't take this as the truth quite yet.

Finally, a fun little bit of space news. There's been a lot of that lately what with the orbiter around Mars and the geysers found on one of Saturn's moons. Now it seems that the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has uncovered some evidence that proves that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate rather than slowing down. It seems that the universe has now been dated as about 13.7 billion years old. Though this really has no effect on me, it still amazes me to learn about this stuff.

Well, that's really all for now. Remember remember, the 5th of November...