Isaiah's Tech

Expect Advent Children Complete to be available in North America starting on June 2nd of this year. Advent Children Complete will: be in 1080p Blu-ray video, have Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio, be in English / Japanese / French and will have a bunch of subtitle options, including: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, and Dutch. Advent Children Complete will have a bunch of Final Fantasy VII features, a sneak peek at Denzel's animated film, complete trailers, and also a sneak peek at Final Fantasy XIII. I'm hoping that this sneak peek will be a playable demo and not just a bunch of cinematics, but we'll just have to see on June 2nd.

[Joystiq Playstation]

By now, you must've seen Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, but if you haven't just come to my house and we'll watch it. Anyways, here's a 4-minute trailer on Advent Children that has some extended scenes, a preview of Denzel's anime (small boy in Advent Children), and also a preview to the Final Fantasy XIII demo. If you just want to see the Final Fantasy XIII stuff, just go to the end. I watched the whole thing though; I can't wait to watch the extended scenes!



[PS3 QJ]

In Japan, they're getting the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete package on April 16, but we (North Americans) got no love. Love is in the air folks, without the need for Valentine's Day. They've recently announced that the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete package is expected to touch down on June 7. It will have both English and Japanese soundtracks and will have the Final Fantasy XIII "sneak peek" which is the demo. It will also come with some regular extra features, too bad there is no word on the PS3 bundle, just like the Japs are getting.

[PS3 Blog]

The new Asus W90 gaming laptop is now shipping from Newegg. The laptop will sport an 18.4-inch (WUXGA resolution) screen with a 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 and has an ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card. It also comes with 6GB DDR RAM and 320GB of hard drive storage. This could all be yours if you're willing to spend $2,200 USD. I think it's a good deal, but it may be slightly overpriced.

As part of the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete package you will get a Final Fantasy XIII demo. How cool is that? I'm definitely thinking about buying Advent Children, but i won't get the complete package because i don't have a PS3. On second thought, i could get the complete package and head over to my cousin's house to play the demo. We'll see what happens.

Unlocked T-Mobile G1's can no longer download paid apps off of the Android Market. This was just implemented in the latest update. This impacts a number of users because this includes the Developer version of the G1. So, now developers can't even buy apps on the Android Market and they are outraged. We'll see what happens in the future, but as of right now, they can't buy apps which sucks. Hopefully, Google will change their minds about this, but as of right now, those people got owned.

Asus W90 (and picture): http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/asus-w90-gaming-laptop-now-shipping/
Final Fantasy XIII Demo: http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/693532/Final-Fantasy-XIII-Demo-Details-Emerge.html?utm_source=g4tv&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=TheFeed
Unlocked G1's Can No Longer Download Paid Apps: http://www.macworld.com/article/139045/2009/02/google_g1.html

It looks like USA will be receiving a new Final Fantasy Dissidia PSP bundle starting on August 25. This bundle will be exclusive to Gamestop and will consist of: a copy of Final Fantasy Dissidia, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, a 2GB memory stick, and a "Mystic Silver" PSP-3000. Yes, it's kind of upsetting that the bundle will not include the limited edition PSP unit that Japan got, but that's expected. It will be available on August 25 for $199.99 USD, so mark it on your calendars.

[Joystiq]

I'd really love to live in Japan right now because this upcoming news just is not fair. "The Final Fantasy XIII demo is hitting Japan on April 16 packaged with the Blu-ray Final Fantasy flick, Advent Children Complete." They go on saying, "Sony will commemorate the release with a new 160GB Playstation 3 bundle for $550 USD that includes the movie, demo and specially marked console." Talk about long quotations and juicy news. Oh yeah, i forgot to mention that there are no plans for the Final Fantasy XIII demo for consumers overseas. Great news, Square Enix. Way to go. Crush all of our damned souls, why don't you? Well, looks like we'll have to wait until 2010 to get our first hands on the next Final Fantasy. I don't really know what the art on the Playstation 3 is right now, so if anyone knows what it is, get back to me please. I could probably figure it out with some research, but i'm in a rush right now, since i have to study for exams.

Acer will be releasing a couple of new products. I'll start with their new 23-inch LCD monitor (see left picture). It will support 1080p picture and will have an overwhelming 40,000:1 contrast ratio. It will have "both HDMI input and a 3W stereo speaker array to take in video from Blu-ray players and consoles." This new monitor also has a mere 5ms response time and is on sale today for around $300 USD. This is pretty cheap, after taking a good look at the specifications. Next up is the new Acer X1700 desktop computer. It will have a 2.4GHz dual-core Pentium chip, 4GB of RAM, a 640GB hard drive and a DVD burner for only $410 USD. That's also really cheap, considering that it also has HDMI output. This will also be available today. "Acer has also provided a minor but significant upgrade to its Predator gaming PC, the G7710 switches to Core i7 and comes with a 2.93GHz Core i7 four-core processor as well as 6GB or DDR3 memory." This will go for $2,300 USD. I only have 2GB of RAM in my PC, but right now i don't feel that i need too much more, since i haven't played games on it in a while. Anyways, 6GB in a PC is just downright insane. It's incredible to see how fast technology evolves though, i love it.

Last, but definitely not least, some Starcraft 2 news. Blizzard has a "fixed date" for the beta, but they are going to keep it secret. Damn you Blizzard! I hope it's in the summertime and that it'll be an open beta. This is probably wishful thinking, but it would be nice to play the game that everyone has been waiting for.

Playstation 3 Bundle (and picture): http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/19/ffxiii-demo-special-edition-160gb-ps3-coming-april-16-to-japan/
New Acer Products (and picture): http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/01/19/acer.h233h.and.x1700/
Starcraft II Beta: http://www.starcraftwire.net/n/1792/starcraft-ii-beta-release-date