After spending our Saturday around Downtown Vancouver (and Metrotown), tonight I have unpacked the box… The box of the playstation 3 Game console. I took it in a test drive with the free game it comes when I bought it – Resistance: Fall of Man.

The verdict? Fantastic!

Here are some pictures of the Playstation 3, taken before powering it in.

That’s the complete package (but the DELL Latitute D630 Laptop is not included, I’m chatting with Lois).

This cool gadget has wife so it can connect to the internet (and dowload stuff) which means that it could also have mp3 streaming on website.. It has other features too. The most important feature for me (nope, it’s not the coolest gaming console, Im no gamer) but the capability to play BLueray discs… Also tried the internet browser, and checked out utube, it displayed ok.

There’s a new budding browser game that is getting a lot of attention in the past weeks. The online game is called IKARIAM.

From the official website’s own words:

Ikariam is a free browser game. The player´s challenge is to lead a people through the ancient world. To build towns, trade and conquer islands.

Ikariam is an online real-time strategy game where you have to manage your resources to extend your imperium from a small settlement in a forsaken island to a complex network of cities and colonies.

This is just like any other full commercial strategy game available (WarCraft, starcraft, Civilization and Red Alerts are some examples)

IKARIAM‘s  theme is based around the Mediterranean coast. Perfect! Since history shows that the MEditerraneon is the place where many civilizations come and go, trade and fight.

Keeping this very spirit, Ikariam is bases around two concepts: trade and fight your neighbors to get the desires and rare resources that your cities need to keep expanding.

Interesting isn’t it? Interested? Rules of the game can be found here. See you there!