Today the PlayStation 3 launched in Brazil. The country will be getting the 120GB PlayStation 3 Slim with a one year warranty. The supply of PS3′s currently limited to Sony Style stores, but other retail outlets will be getting it in stock in the next few days. The real story here is how much the console is selling for. If you thought a launch price of $600 was too expensive in the United States, try $1,126.

Is there enough room for another gaming console? Some consumers are already confused enough with the current hardware we have plus the economy may not be in the best shape to take a risk on another video game system. That’s exactly why the latest game console, called the Zeebo, won’t be released in the United States (at least for now).

Tectoy’s main focus is releasing the Zeebo first in Brazil and later in Mexico and other parts of Latin America.

The Zeebo has some pretty basic technical statistics. A lot of power isn’t very necessary to run some of the older games the system will play. It has 1 GB of internal Flash memory, 168MB RAM, 3 USB ports and a SD card reader. It displays games in a 4:3 aspect ratio at 640×480 resolution.

The Zeebo will make games available wirelessly over a…

In a fresh development, a federal ban has been imposed on popular titles Counter Strike and EverQuest in Brazil.

It was in October 2007 that a Brazilian federal court banned the sales of the two games but it didn’t come into effect immediately. Carlos Alberto Simoes, the federal judge, found the two games to be antagonistic to public order and went as far as calling them “an attack against the democratic state and the law and against public security.”

The two games might have come under attack for being way too riveting – and addictive – but this is the first time that the games have been blamed for…