The PSP installment of James Cameron's Avatar places the player in the role of one of the giant, blue-skinned Na'vi warriors after the RDA has destroyed his village. From the description in the magazine (as reported by IGN), the game sounds a great deal like the Wii version we reported on previously. One feature that stands out, however, is the ability to transfer "Effort Points" from the PSP version to the PlayStation 3, augmenting your characters in the console version.

PSP to PS3 connectivity? That James Cameron sure knows how to exploit untapped resources.

Avatar PSP Details [IGN via Joystiq]

The "Father of Pokémon" Tsunekazu Ishihara believes in Pokémon, even saying that the hardware with Pikachu and company will win. Company grandstanding is nice and all, but what exactly about Pokémon Battle Revolution will be so special?

To put it simply, if you have a DS with either Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl inserted in it, and you are playing with your Pokémon and you have a copy of the Wii's Battle Revolution, you will be able to use your Pokémon in the Wii version to fight against other Pokémon. In effect your DS becomes like the controller for the Wii.

Ishihara Talks [Spong]

Most of the information on the site is already known, but there are a few tid-bits of note. First the page has this to say about PSP connectivity with the PS3:

The HDD will become a storage space for the massive amounts of media you will be sharing with your PSP (movies, music, TV shows, game content.).

That's right, they list TV shows, music and movies, which has me hoping that the PS3 will have the ability to stream television, music and movies directly to your PSP live over WiFi. That would be sooooo sweet.

There's also a bit on the site about Sony's online service for the PS3. Something we know next to nothing about.

Unfortunately, the information is presented in a laundry list. Instead of trying to figure it out and risk getting it wrong, I'm just going to present it here.

_PS3 ONLINE_ *Communication/Community:* *Voice/Video Chat* *Messaging* *Lobby/Matchmaking* *Score/Ranking* *Friend List/Avatar* *Game data upload/download

*Commerce: *
*Shop (accessible from inside games)*
*Content download*
*Micro payment*
*Subscription*
*Entitlement (user access rights) management

A couple of things pop out to me. It sounds like it's going to offer just about everything that the Xbox 360's Live offers, though it's not clear what the interface will be like. I'm not too happy about that word subscription in that second batch of descriptors. And why are they calling Entitilements "user access rights"? I thought they were supposed to be like achievments, or did I miss something?

Well Sony only has a month and a half left to explain PSP conncectivity and PS3 online to us. I expect the info to hit something in the next few weeks. Brian Crecente