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Expected to be released not long after the PS3’s launch in November this has many enhancements such as customisation, downloadable songs (and their videos), possible 4 player modes, more party games and eyetoy support to record your own video. As long as the tracklisting keeps on getting updated this could become one of the largest casual gaming franchises the PS3 will have for a long time. Can’t wait for this one…

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Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher won his third race in succession and his fourth German Grand Prix in Hockenheim. The German’s victory is significant in terms of closing the points gap to championship leader Fernando Alonso, who struggled with blistering rear tyres and could only finish in a distant fifth.

If Michael wins the last six Grands Prix then he will be the 2006 FIA Formula One World Champion. Unbelievable to say the least a month ago, when Fernando Alonso looked comfortable with a 25 points advantage. But after three poor races (USA, France and Germany), I believe the Spanaird is feeling quite tense about the form of Ferrari and Schumacher recently.

Schumacher’s 89th Grand Prix victory has reduced the gap to Alonso to 11 points. Ferrari scored a perfect 1-2 result with team-mate Felipe Massa doing a splending job in supporting his team leader. The Italian team is now ten points behind Renault in the Constructors’ championship.

Renault was left to trail home in fifth (Alonso) and sixth for Giancarlo Fisichella and for most of the race could not lap within one second of the flying Italian cars. The pace of the Ferraris at Hockenheim was impressive. Michael and Felipe could even lap the whole field if they wanted to, but decided to drive safely and finish the race.

McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonen finished in third place after starting on pole position. His qualifying lap was based on an unrealistically light fuel load, as was evinced when the Finn pitted on just lap 16. But the Woking-based squad seemed to have the legs on Renault throughout the weekend, and Raikkonen’s eventual third-place finish was a fair reflection on the two teams’ relative performance.

Jenson Button drove a good race in the Honda to come home fourth and even though he was beaten to the third place by Kimi Raikkonen (in the closing stages of the race), he was still delighted to finish in the points for the first time since May.

Toyota’s Jarno Trulli drove another strong race to charge from the back of the grid to seventh, making up much of his ground on an incident-filled opening lap. And Christian Klien earned his second point of the season with a solid performance (P8) at a critical moment in his contract negotiations with Red Bull Racing for next year.

Special mention to Mark Webber in the Williams. The Australian was driving superbly and was racing against Raikkonen and Button for the final podium place. Alas, the unreliability of the FW28 let Webber down and yet again under non-points finish. A shame really…

But the end feeling is that Ferrari are on a mid-season charge in it’s quest to win this season’s championship. Renault and Michelin are under pressure to return to winning ways and they needs to find a dramatic improvement in pace to keep their championship hopes alive.

The next race is the Hungarian Grand Prix at Budapest next Sunday (August 6th) and if Ferrari score another one-two result then we could have an exciting and tense championship finale.

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The Japanese Giant has learnt a lot from the current generation battle and has put down an aggressive set of cards on the table. While the specifications look meaty on paper (click here to know the specifications on the big three) there is no doubt that the potential is there to unlock. From the outset Sony has an ambitious strategy to make last year’s buzzword a reality – Convergence. The merging of home entertainment and electronic entertainment working in harmony from one small box is their ultimate aim and Sony do have the assets to make it happen. To break the game plan down into bite size chunks, we must first look into the $1.8 billion investment that is the Cell Processor.

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My dreams have come true! Animal Crossing: the movie is based on my favourite game on the Nintendo DS and will be produced by Japanese director Jouji Shimura. The animated film should hit cinemas over in Japan in December.

See the trailer here (it’s not that long but does feature the gorgeous Rosie the cat whom I adore!):
http://www.doubutsunomori-movie.jp/tokuhou/index.html

There’s still no word as to whether the Animal Crossing movie will make it to Europe… Despite that, I’m looking forward to seeing the movie and I wonder what the plot will be? Running around helping your animal friends and paying off that huge mortage to Tom Nook?

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This is a piece of lineart by Cheeb that was done somewhat recently. Her’s what she had to say about it.

“This was an exercise for me to see how anatomically correct I could draw a full body by memory. I like the look and the style - was thinking about giving her a headset and some sort of apparatus on her right arm, but couldn’t think of anything in particular in terms of purpose or design at the time. I’m roughly half-way through painting this one digitally as well.”

Be sure to check out her website and her other artwork ^_^

[www.cheeb.co.uk]

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Here are the current top 10 UK Music Albums from the official data gathered by the BBC.

1. Razorlight - Razorlight

2. Lily Allen - Alright Still

3. Paolo Nutini - These Streets

4. Kooks - Inside In/ Inside Out

5. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations

6. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open

7. Ray Lamontagne - Trouble

8. Nina Simone - The Very Best Of

9. Rihanna - A Girl Like Me

10. Zutons - Tired Of Hanging Around

From this list I only have the Muse album and I didn’t think it was that great… Its a bit of a departure from their usual material. Anyone heard or have the other albums?

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The former Soundgarden and current AudioSlave frontman Chris Cornell. It was announced recently that his music is both “soulful and tough” and “the perfect complement” to the film.

Casino Royale will premiere in London on the 14th November with a nationwide UK release 3 days later. I for one am a Bond fan and it will have to be something to better in what my opinion was the best Bond ever so far - Pierce Brosnan.

Chris Cornell will join an illustrious list of Tina Turner, Garbage, Madonna, Sheryl Crow, Shirley Bassey to sing the theme tune to a 007 movie. Will there be more ladies dancing in silhouettes to the song? I hope so as its pretty much a trademark now.

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