Man, Sony’s gone crazy with the hardware announcements this morning. No more PSP or PS3 bundles to announce, but I do need to tell you about this, the new Wireless Keypad for PS3. Scheduled for North American release in the busy (and getting busier) month of November (it’ll also be out in Japan, Europe and Asia by end of the year), the Bluetooth keypad clips onto the face of any existing Sixaxis or DualShock 3 controller and adds intuitive text chatting to replace the PS3’s rather unintuitive soft keyboard. It’ll support text chat across all online titles — LittleBigPlanet and PlayStation Home being the two big guns Sony’s mainly hyping the product for — and feature two shortcut buttons to instantly jump to XMB features like your friends list and message box. At the push of a button, the “entire surface of the keypad” can also somehow magically turn into a finger touch pad allowing for easier web browsing. Neato!
A specific ship date and retail price have yet to be announced, but you can expect to hear regional availability info from Sony soon.
Matt Litten is the full-time editor and owner of VGBlogger.com. He is responsible for maintaining the day to day operation of the site, editing all staff content before it is published, and contributing regular news, reviews, previews and other articles.
Matt landed his first gig in the video game review business writing for the now-defunct website BonusStage.com. After the sad and untimely close of BonusStage, the former staff went on to found VGBlogger.com. After a short stint as US Site Manager for AceGamez, Matt assumed full ownership over VGBlogger, and to this day he is dedicated to making it one of the top video game blogs in all the blogosphere.
Matt is a fair-minded reviewer and lover of games of all platforms and types, big or small, hyped or niche, big-budget or indie. But that doesn't mean he will let poor games slide without a good thrashing when necessary! 
