I finally got a pair of decent 1080P televisions in my home and now CES is bringing news of upcoming sets with four times the resolution. The one percent did this, I know it! They can’t stand me feeling anything but poor.

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BioWare and 38 Studios have teamed up to offer bonuses to those who play the demo for each upcoming title.BioWare is run by a pair of doctors who are making a science-fiction opus. Rhode Island's 38 Studios is run by a baseball player who wants to make a fantasy game. They couldn’t be more different, but now they’re teaming up to help each other out! That isn’t the plot for a mid-season replacement sitcom on ABC; it’s the reality of Mass Effect 3 and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Gamers who play both demos will earn a Reckoning-themed assault rifle and armor in Mass Effect 3 and Omni-blade daggers in Kingdoms of Amalur. You got your shooty space man in my swords and sorcery! You got your black magic in my hard-science star opera! Oh, what an odd couple! The Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning demo will be available on PS3 and Xbox 360 this January 17.

Sony won’t be making a PlayStation 4 announcement at the next E3. Recent reports suggested that both PS4 and the third Xbox would be unveiled at this summer’s trade show, but Kaz Hirai, Sony’s next company president wants to stop that talk. “We are not making any announcements at E3,” Hirai told the Wall Street Journal. “I’ve always said a 10-year life cycle for PS3, and there’s no reason to go away from that.” Well, I wouldn’t say “no reason.” Sure, Sony’s console has finally found its butter zone, but is it really going to concede so much ground to Mirosoft? Also, the PS2 spent, like, five years of its decade-long existence co-existing alongside the PS3, so I can’t see why the PS3 can’t do the same. Unless Hirai was just using his Jedi powers on us...I doubt it, but if you’ll excuse me, I think I’m going to play Riiiiiiiiidge Raaaaaaacer. [1UP]

A Gaikai executive is predicting that either Microsoft or Sony will drop out of the console-manufacturing business before the next generation. “Not all of the current console makers will have one more generation,” Gaikai Chief Product Officer Nanea Reeves said. “That will be the big news at E3.” While that would be big news, I doubt that’s how it will go down. Gaikai is a game-streaming service similar to OnLive. Obviously, a company like that would have a vested interested in one of the big hardware producers dropping out of competition. That would be like me predicting that Kotaku is gonna stop being a website next week because they saw all my next-level stuff. I’m just too real for ‘em. [IGN]

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