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After posting on his blog that he was searching for someone to take the reins of the EVE Blog Pack and the EVE Blog Banter, CrazyKinux has decided to leave the EVE blogging community to do their own thing and finally hang up his spurs as one of the leading voices of the EVE Online blogging community as well.

His recent move to Director of Development for the video game company Behaviour Interactive along with parental responsibilities seemed to be taking up more of his time, and while he plans to continue playing EVE as well as other games, he's making a new start by basically closing up the blog and his @crazykinux twitter account.

The soft-spoken CK first joined us over three years ago on Aeropodcast Episode 36 to talk about the Drone Bay Podcast he was part of back then, and he later went on to wish us well on Episode 50 and continue his rise to internet fame as one of the more public faces of the EVE player community.

Good luck CrazyKinux, and maybe I'll see you fly by in EVE someday or give your Corp a try. It's just that 99% tax rate that I have a hard time getting past.

Color me surprised, but Sony's next handheld is going to get official Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare support as free PlayStation Store downloads. I had my doubts about us seeing Skype on a Sony platform again, and I'd sure like to see Skype come to the PS3, although they'd probably make it a PlayStation Plus exclusive feature, but I'm happy to see Sony lining up mobile application support for Vita.

Sony has also started talking about the lineup of upcoming titles for the system at Gamescom in Germany today, including Resistance: Burning Skies, which stars a firefighter and is set between Resistance 1 and 2. For more hit up the PlayStation Blog.

From Aeropause.

The PS3 has drifted down fifty bucks to $249 for the 160GB model, according to Sony's Gamescom announcement in Germany today, and they're offering up a 320GB model with now-first-party-developer Sucker Punch's Infamous 2 bundled in for $299. Oh they're also throwing in a 30-day pass for PlayStation Plus, too.

Details are on the PS Blog.

From Aeropause.

The official Minecraft: Pocket Edition is out now for the Xperia Play in free demo and USD$6.92 full versions of the game and for the first mobile version of the game it seems to have quite a lot going for it. Not only does it feature the "Classic" gameplay of the regular desktop game of building, mining, and looking out for creepers, it also offers local LAN multiplayer. If you happen to have two Xperia Plays on the same LAN.

While I don't have Sony's gaming phone available to me, I do have an Android device, and now that it's launched, the limited time exclusivity clock is ticking down on this game. I'm looking forward to being frustrated with a touch screen phone's controls for this game because really, how do you do this right without a mouse and keyboard to fall back on?

For more details you can hit up DroidGamers or check out the listing on the Android Market.

From Aeropause.

Kazuo Hirai has confirmed in an interview that the Vita will launch in 2011 in Japan, but will appear in the US and EU in early 2012. They're also sticking to the $250 price on the WiFi version. Why the wait? To allow a stronger lineup of launch titles in these territories.