Hot on the heals of the GTA IV iFruit parody comes another console gaming nod to Cupertino, though this time with considerably less snark. The upcoming PS3 presumptive blockbuster Metal Gear Solid 4 will apparently feature some interesting equipment to augment Solid Snake's already impressive arsenal: a 5th generation 30GB iPod. The French video game site JEUXFRANCE has high resolutions images (front and back). It now remains to be seen if Snake can execute his signature stealth kills with an iPod headset garrote.

[via iLounge]

I know many of you out there are Xbox 360 owners who use Nullriver's Connect360 to stream audio and video from your Macs to your 360. Now Nullriver has stepped up to the plate for PS3 owners as well with MediaLink. It basically has the same functionality as Connect360 allowing you to stream audio and video from iTunes as well as pictures from iPhoto directly from your Mac to your PS3. The developer says that it supports non-DRM content in all of the following formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264, AVI, WMV & ASF, DIVX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP including high-definition video.

MediaLink is $20 and a demo is available from Nullriver.

Update: I've now had a chance to play around a bit with this software and I have to say it seems somewhat buggy, crashing repeatedly on my iMac. That said, when it works it makes streaming a cinch. Nullriver also posted a note on their site that says "AAC support is coming soon."

[via PS3fanboy]

As the resident Xbox 360 fanboy I had reservations about touching this one, but my Mac love triumphs over all and so I bring you news of a cool tutorial on streaming media from your Mac to a PS3. This method is basically built around the MediaTomb open-source UPnP media server. The tricky part is installing MediaTomb on your Mac with fink and setting it up for the PS3 from the command-line. But once you do, you should be able to stream audio, video, and pictures from your Mac over the network. Needless to say, I haven't tried this myself, but I am intrigued by this note: "Currently MediaTomb does not fully support the XBOX360 as it acts differently from the PS3, but the code is already there to make it work in future versions." I guess we 360 users will just have to make due with Connect360 for now.

[via Digg]

Joystiq, a sister blog, has been following an odd story about an Apple logo and a Sony PS3 site. As you can see from the image, an Apple logo *blips* at the beginning of a PS3 Flash promo movie at Sony's site (it has since been 'fixed', but Joystiq links to a copy of the original movie here). Their investigation has more or less resulted in dead ends; at first the logo was thought to be a watermark left by creating the movie in a trial version of Shake. As it turns out, trial versions of Shake don't allow saving to begin with.

The issue has turned into a bit of a mystery, as Apple (of course) hasn't made any sort of comment, and Sony apparently promised a statement but has yet to deliver.

In the meantime, we'll forgo speculation and leave the rumoring up to you readers.

[thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Is there really life beyond our Macs? Well, I guess I could find something else to occupy my time if pressed...like obsess over the (elusive) Playstation 3. Please welcome PS3 Fanboy to our big, happy Weblogs, Inc. family. Consider the site your one-stop source for all things PS3. There are some great posts up already, like this great collection of screenshots, an Xbox Live vs. PSNetwork showdown and a report from GDC.

All I want to know is, does Sony plan to ever ship this thing? My Playstation 2 is getting a little long in the tooth.