With all the hoopla and wahoo about Sony’s Playstation 3 getting passed around like a hot potato, it can be difficult to keep things in perspective. It’s also easy for little details to get lost in the shuffle. Have no fear, though, because GamePro is to the rescue with a handy cheat sheet of little known facts and new information about Sony’s Cadillac of a console. Can you dig it?

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My main mission in checking out Sony's launch titles was to check out how the games looked. Graphics is a kind of obsession of mine. I'm looking for that console with perfect animation. The PlayStation 3 isn't perfect in this regard. But it's pretty darn good looking.

If you'll recall, Microsoft had high hopes that Sony's first-generation games would look cruddy. Sony had given so little time to developers to work with the development kits that, the theory went, developers would not have enough time to make games. One developer I spoke with said that developing for the PS 3 is harder than for the Xbox 360. He said that everything came in late and many companies had harsh deadlines. Electronic Arts had nine months to do Fight Night Round 3 for the PS 3. The companies that are repurposing Xbox 360 games are having an easier time getting done for launch.

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 Hoping to leave an even bigger imprint on the Internet, Google Inc. is opening up its vast online index so other Web sites can build their own specialty search engines.

The free service, unveiled late Monday, marks Google's latest attempt to expand its lucrative online advertising network and extend its influence on how people navigate the Internet." Now people can get the power of Google search even when they're not on Google.com," said Shashi Seth, group product manager for the custom search engine.Mountain View-based Google already dominates Internet search, with a 45 percent share of the U.S. market through September, according to comScore Media Metrix.

The custom tools will allow other Web sites to limit the range of material that they want to include in their search indexes as well as rank the importance of specific pages. The concept mirrors the approach of a small startup called Rollyo.com.

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"The creative team are dedicated to ensuring the Halo movie becomes a reality" says Bungie

Even though Fox and Universal recently pulled out of the Halo movie as recently reported, Bungie says it will happen.

The studios were due to fund and distribute the Halo film, but pulled out after Peter Jackson and co refused the studios' demands to have their deals improved.

In an official statement via its official website, Bungie said: "We are disappointed that Universal and Fox wanted to significantly renegotiate the financial points of the deal. But the Halo franchise is hugely popular and our goal remains the same - to find a partner that shares our passion and will creatively collaborate with us to best represent the story and spirit of the Halo franchise."

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Sony has confirmed that it will stop imports of the PlayStation 3 into Europe ahead of its promised release in March.

Last week Pocket-lint reported that Sony had won a lawsuit to stop Asian exporter Lik-Sang from shipping the PSPs into the UK. At that time it wasn't clear if the ruling would effect the PS3; however, now it seems that the case against Lik-Sang has set a precedent.

Sony told the BBC, “The law is clear, and grey importing PS2, PSP, or PS3 into the EU without the express permission of SCEE is illegal. Therefore, we'll utilise the full scope of the law to put a stop to any retailers who choose to do this.”

Sony's position is that it's just trying to protect the consumer from buying hardware that doesn't play older European software for PlayStation and PS2, and won't play European Blu-ray movies or DVDs.

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Three hardware manufacturers will embed file-sharing software BitTorrent into their consumer products.

Asus, Planex and QNap will include BitTorrent's peer-to-peer technology in products such as wireless routers, media servers and network storage devices, BitTorrent said in a statement Monday. Two of the devices made by Asus can be configured to download digital files via BitTorrent without the use of a PC.

"These are the places where people will store their media in the future," said Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent's co-founder. "People don't want files to clutter their home PCs. Our technology working with these devices allows an entire family to share a jukebox."

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Antivirus software maker McAfee, perhaps Redmond's most vocal critic over the issue, said it remains concerned that Microsoft is waiting far too long to disclose the information McAfee needs to protect customers who will use the 64-bit version of Windows Vista.

McAfee blasted Microsoft last week, charging the company with making "hollow promises" and claiming that Redmond has "locked out" competitors from the Vista kernel, the most basic component of the operating system.

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Biologists would like people to stop talking about "therapeutic cloning" because it gives too many the heebie-jeebies.

Instead, a group of biologists would like to refer to the process as "somatic nuclear cell transfer", New Scientist reports. This would distinguish the process of cloning embryos for harvesting stem cells from other kinds of cloning, such as reproductive cloning.

But the nomenclature just seems to have confused people.

Researchers at the Genetics and Public Policy Centre in Washington surveyed 2,000 people, seeking their views on deriving stem cells from cloned embryos. They asked 1,000 whether or not they approved of using cloned embryos and 1,000 about their feelings towards somatic nuclear cell transfer (SNCT).

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