Without a doubt, the PS3 Slim has been a huge success for Sony, which has had the best selling console ever since it was released a month ago. And, as expected, it has become the top selling console in Japan for the month of September, beating Nintendo’s Wii for the first time, where the Slim sold a shopping 309,939 units. the DS and DSi came in close second, with the Wii trailing in third.

While AMD launched high-end 5870 graphics card, it became not only the first and only DX11 card on the market, it was by far the fastest single-GPU card on the market. Now, AMD has released the budget version, which costs $100 less (retails at $250), but is clocked less and has a few less shader cores than the big brother. However, don’t expect the card to be a lot slower — it’s still one of the fastest on the market, and given that Nvidia’s next-gen GPUs won’t be out until next year, AMD looks to dominate the market this holiday season, especially considering DirectX 11 cards.

While AMD launched its next-gen graphics card with DirectX 11 support, the Radeon 5870 a week ago, Nvidia has revealed details of its graphics chip. The new GT300 will have over twice as many cores as the previous GT200 generation, and will be packing a whopping 512 cores into one chip. Coupled with up to 6GB GDDR5 memory (4GB for graphics cards, 6GB for HPC cards) and will be the first graphics card to include support for C++ code execution, and the first chip to include L1 and L2 cache.

All this contributes to the chip holding the largest amount of transistors of any chip: 3 billion. Unfortunately, the new graphics cards won’t be released until early next year, which gives AMD almost a six month advantage on the DX11 scene.

Japanese publisher Namco Bandai has officially launched a division which will solely focus on online games, most notably, MMOs. Currently, Namco Bandai only has two MMOs on the market, Gundam Network Operation 2 and Pro Baseball Famista Online.

The Namco Bandai Online Divisoin will expand on that presence with development on new titles, however for time being, the new division will only focus on Japan and the rest of Asia.

BioShock is generally regarded across the board as one of the greatest games of 2007. Those of you who are fans of the game (I know I am) will be happy to hear that BioShock 2 will be hitting store shelves for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on February 9th, 2010.

Yup, that’s it, mark your calenders and be excited because it’s coming.

If you were one of the lucky people who got accepted in the All Points Bulletin beta you should be happy to hear that the beta will go live sometime next week.

News of this comes to us from Realtime Worlds CEO Gary Dale who took center stage during the Tech Media Invest conference to let us know of the beta’s next week appearance. Furthermore, he said that those who didn’t get accepted into the beta need not worry as Realtime Worlds plans on accepting more and more people as the game’s release date grows nearer.

via eurogamer

Today, Sony has announced that version 6.10 of the PSP firmware is now ready to be installed on hand held consoles everywhere. This update includes several big features such as SensMe which chooses songs stored on your PSP based on different moods you select.

Another interesting feature of 6.10 is the ability to tether a PSP Go with a Bluetooth capable cellphone for internet connectivity anywhere you can go.

That’s about it in terms of exciting features so get downloading!