Sony’s PS3 Games Offline Tomorrow

We thought it usually took years, maybe even decades for war veterans to start performing reenactments of their famous battles. Apparently things move along a lot faster in this day and age and Sony is more than ready to relive its darkest hour, as well as risk reminding their customer base of that time they almost had their credit card number stolen. Or totally had their credit card number stolen, depending on your knowledge of statistics and/or gambling disposition.

“Please note for the duration of this period SCEE titles only will not be available online, and there may be additional downtime after for testing purposes,” said Sony, referring to the planned weekend PSN shut down period. This will not affect your ability to sign in to the PlayStation Network, and you will still be able to play other titles online.” The “maintenance” only lasts from 5:30 to 10:30, however, so unfortunately this will barely feel like a proper commemoration of the heinous events of June 2011.

Kinect for Windows SDK beta to roll tomorrow?

Microsoft's been talking up its forthcoming Kinect for Windows SDK for quite a while now, and it looks like developers might soon finally be able to get their hands on it. WinRumors understands that the company plans to release the beta bits during a special developer event on Thursday. Microsoft is planning to stream a Channel 9 special event at 9:30AM PST on Thursday which will celebrate the release of the Kinect for Windows SDK beta.

something that's now been backed up somewhat by the Channel 9 website itself, which is simply promising a "special Kinect focused event tomorrow." WinRumors is also reporting that the President of Microsoft Spain said during an appearance at a conference today that the beta SDK would be available "this week." So, it certainly seems like things are lining up for a release -- it's just a shame that "Kinect applications" doesn't have the same ring as Kinect hacks.