It's not a good day to be fat. A fat PS3 owner that is.

If you haven't heard, the PSN has gone down.  Let me rephrase that, the PSN has gone down for owners of the original fat model of the PS3.  The vast majority I would wager.  No one online knows for sure what is going on, but from personal experience, trying to log into the PSN comes up with a constant error.  Attempting to log into a game that uses trophies comes up with a different error that makes you quit the game.

In essence, my PS3 is worthless right now.  Sony has acknowledged the problem on their twitter account,

It's been over 5 hours since I first saw the problem and I'm desperately hoping this isn't a diabolic ploy by a greedy executive to get PS3 slim sales up.

Sega, you suck.

I saw a 2D Sonic. I saw a highly acclaimed Japanese game being ported to America.

I really thought Sega was trying to get back into the 90's kick ass track.

Of course I was getting way too confident too quick.  Sega announced they are cutting content from Yakuza 3.  Specifically, the Hostess Club and the Japanese history quiz.
Subsequently, I am announcing the cancelation of my Yakuza 3 pre order with Amazon today.

Thank you Sega. Moves like this keep me in check. Expecting you to do something more relevant than just cutting content than, I don't know, reworking the aspects of the game. Change the history challenge to American history? Change the hostess club to a night club? The game was out in March of last year in Japan. With this much time, you could have improved on it in a number of ways. Now, we get Like a Dragon (the original title resonates better with me) in the same month as the million seller series FF. Is ANYONE awake at Sega?!?


Yu Suzuki, Yuji Naka - where have you gone?!?

Fallout New Vegas

After seriously doubting that Fallout New Vegas would be released in Fall of this year, it seems my doubt may be unwarranted.



Coming to the PS3, XBox 360, and PC. And to celebrate this wondrous occasion, allow me to show you another teaser trailer of the game.



Okay, so maybe I lied about that.

Your Heavy Rain Shipdate

Hello from Amazon.com.

We have received new release date information related to the order you placed on August 25 2009 (Order# XXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX). The item(s) listed below will actually ship sooner than we originally expected based on the new release date:

  "Heavy Rain"
   Previous estimated arrival date: January 04 2012
   New estimated arrival date: February 26 2010

For more details, please visit the "Your Account" section of our web site (http://www.amazon.com/your-account).  You can also reach "Your Account" by clicking on the link in the top right corner of any page on our web site.

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Whew.  For a second there, I thought I was going to have to wait two more years to get my hands on the NA Heavy Rain release, thanks Amazon!

The Gaming Bra

So I really don't want to prejudge the KOR-FX sound immersion thingy, but wow, that looks like a gaming bra. 

A $180 gaming bra.  So the concept behind this is simple.  Strap a subwoofer to your chest and hope your pacemaker holds out.  We've seen chairs with this concept before, and having your body rattle with bass can be entertaining at first.  Just keep off the hip-hop and low rider tunes or you will be in a jiggling world of pain for the rest of the day.

Also, apparently the vibrations on your chest help induce, umm, sensual feelings.  The O-Face from the website is disturbing and hilarious all at once.

 

When the original just isn't good enough

Zelda fan? Sound track fan?

 Confirming to either of these questions should point you in this direction, http://www.zreomusic.com/2009/12/25/ocarina-of-time

The fine folks at Zreo Reorchastrated have been putting together music from the Zelda series for a few years now, and their latest addition of Ocarina of Time is a fantastic release worth checking out. 

What makes these sounds unique is the time and effort ZREO takes into recomputing all the original Zelda music into a synthetic orchestra for your listening pleasure.  The quality is great and it brings back tons of great memories.  Head over to help make it through the work day with a little Hyrule melody, you won't be disappointed!