Alessandra Ambrosio: Mommy at the Market

Looking to be adapting to motherhood quite nicely, Alessandra Ambrosio was out earlier today (July 11) in Brentwood, CA.

Clad in a colorful, flowing dress, the supermodel mommy seemed to be having a lovely time with her fiancé and their baby daughter, Anja Louise.

The family of three enjoyed an afternoon out at the 26th Street Marketplace while their little one worked on her walking skills – with the help of her parents, of course.

Meanwhile, earlier this week, Alessandra and Jamie out on a house hunt looking for the perfect home in Beverly Hills.

Kim Kardashian: Flaggin' for the PepsiMax Bullrun

Up bright and early today (July 11), Kim Kardashian participated in the PepsiMax Bullrun 2009 event in New York City.

The brunette beauty threw on a figure hugging black jumpsuit before waving and dropping the green flag, signifying the start of the race.

Kim patiently posed for pictures before and after then headed to the airport to catch her flight back home.

And according to her Twitter page, it sounds like Ms Kardashian has a full day ahead – she tweeted, “Heading back to LA now! Playboy Mansion party tonight!!! Charity Poker Tournament.”

Jason Priestley's New Baby

Jason Priestley’s wife, Naomi, has given birth to a baby boy.

Naomi gave birth to the couple’s second child — and first son — on Thursday in Los Angeles, a rep for the former “90210” star confirmed to Access Hollywood.

“Jason and Naomi Priestley welcomed a healthy baby boy to the world yesterday, Thursday, July 9th. The baby was born in Los Angeles, California,” Jason’s rep, Marla Farrell, told Access.

No further details about the baby, including his name and birth weight were immediately available. However, he was born almost two years after the birth of the couple’s first child, Ava Veronica, who came into the world on July 2, 2007.

News first broke that Jason’s wife, a make-up artist, was expecting, back in April.

The two married in 2005.

Jason, who has returned to the halls of West Beverly High School as a director on The CW’s “90210,” will turn 40 on August 28.

Kendra Relaxing on the Beach with Hubby

Kendra Wilkinson was spotted chowing down on the beach while vacationing with hubby Hank Baskett.

The newlyweds, who recently announced they were expecting a baby, weren't shy to show their affection playfully hugging and running around on the beach.

Jack's Encounter with the Cops

Jack Osbourne was pulled over last night on his way to Bar Deluxe. The son of Ozzy, who has had very public battles with drugs and alcohol was driving a silver Aston Marton when he was popped by the cops.

Luckily for Jack's insurance he was released from the scene without a citation.

PlayStation 3 Firmware 2.80 Hidden Change

Strange how Sony never releases a full change log. ps3attitude.com found out one new thing.


The first change comes via the new Text Chat feature that launched with the last upgrade. Instead of a meagre 32 character limit for each line of text, you can now type – wait for it – 64 whole characters on every line!


Good that it includes more characters, anyone else find any "hidden" features?

The Agent is a 1970’s Espionage Game

"It’s a completely different storyline, there is completely different character development. It’s a game about espionage, set in the 1970s. GTA is obviously more about an urban experience, a typically rags to riches experience. Very, very different storylines, very different character development. It’s going to be very fresh for gamers."


It’s not much Info to go on, but at least it’s something. Sounds like the game could be pretty far off though.

Interview article

G4TV: God of War III Demo Full Preview

This is the same demo that was shown at E3, but this is the whole demo. They cut it short at E3. So you can just skip to the 6:00 minute mark.

Be forewarned it’s extremely gory, so it’s not for the weak at heart. A guys heads gets ripped off in extreme detail. Man this mans looks epic! Must have it.

Video Game - E3 2009 - Game Previews

Activision Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick says they ‘might have to stop supporting Sony’.

Bobby Kotick has warned that Sony risks losing support of the mega publisher unless it decides to issue a price cut for the PlayStation 3.

“They have to cut the price, because if they don’t, the attach rates [the number of games each console owner buys] are likely to slow. If we are being realistic, we might have to stop supporting Sony,” Kotick told the Times Online.

When prompted as to when the firm may consider dropping support for Sony, the executive added: “When we look at 2010 and 2011, we might want to consider if we support the console — and the PSP [portable] too.”

“Games generate a better return on invested capital on the Xbox than on the PlayStation,” he said.

Kotick went on to say that his company forked out $500 million to Sony in royalties and other goods back in 2008, which he said “probably still worked out at 400 percent of the profit they made”.



Shortly after this statement their stock drop 1.18% costing them over a billion dollars. Hmm..

For the first quarter ‘09 Ubisoft posted 15% of sales were for 360 and PS3. Namco reportedly made more on Sony’s systems combined than the Xbox for fiscal year ‘08-’09.

Playstation 3 - 3.273 million, Playstation 2 – 4.630 million units sold,PSP – 4.202 million units sold ,Xbox 360 – 2.704 million units sold) .

Sales of MGS4 boosted Konami’s profits for 2 quarters on a system that was the highest priced and boosted the sales of the PS3 over the 360 for 2 months. So is the XBox brand really more profitable than the Playstation at this point? I don’t think so.

Myth: Game Development Budgets

CNBC reiterates a common development budget myth during an interview with Ubisoft:

Games for the Wii typically cost much less to create, due to the system’s less than cutting-edge components

Wrong. Games for the Wii generally require smaller budgets because they are simpler games.

God of War 2 used a huge development budget on the PS2, which is even older, lower-spec technology than the Wii, but the game used massive quantities of high quality art and animation assets. Something like Mario Party of Wii Play use far less art and animation assets and far simpler game logic despite the fact that the Wii can handle more complex art assets and game logic than the PS2.

Secondly, PS3/360/Wii cross platform titles like Guitar Hero or Call of Duty, probably share most of the man hours of development effort across the different platforms. The PS3/360 versions probably require slightly more because they have richer feature sets and the higher quality art assets do require more labor to create, but overall I suspect that most of the development efforts are well shared.

The audiences that buy fancier hardware generally demand fancier software, but the fancier hardware itself doesn’t generally require more man hours of development given that the complexity of the game is held constant.