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.

Life Lessons - Uncharted 2

I have not actually played Uncharted 2, but I did come home last night to two gamers playing two copies of said game on two different TVs with their two PS3's. We need insurance purely for gaming equipment.

I don't know about how it plays, but I can tell you - it looks damn pretty. The writing is fantastic as well, I've laughed out loud numerous times. It is like watching a movie. But really, the boys should be the ones to review the game - however, I wanted to let you in on a few life lessons care of Mr. Drake.

1. Ancient civilizations revered those with keen puzzle solving skills and super-human upper body strength. Oh, and insane endurance is nothing to spit at either.

2. Rock climbing is easy - even in the snow, ice, jungle.. all you need is convenient bricks to jut out, and a good running start for your jump to the next platform.

3. (Spoiler) Always trust/go for the down to earth, more "normal" girl. She's cuter by far, and funnier to boot. Well, I can't say that for sure since I haven't seen the ending.. But my gut tells me it's true.

4. When in doubt, shoot it. (I've learned this before, but it's a nice reinforcement.)

5. There are numerous underground caverns, and knowing history is cool. Wait, Indiana Jones taught me that first.. and number 4.. hey wait, and 3 too!

Hmm..

Chun-Li invades Playstation Home

Now for ONLY five dollars, you too can dress to impress with hair buns and legs of sexy thunder! Or you can buy pieces of Chun-Li's outfit, mix and match, and make home look like a rave for the confused clothing designer in all of us.


Sadly, that neon reflection is due to my camera and not some uber cool effect in Home.

Looks like every piece of Street Fighter flavor is going for a dollar. This is double the price for most of clothing being sold in the Threads store in Home (with some exceptions). Is a wig of Guile worth a whole dollar to you? If I could get my hair to stand up like that in real life I would easily pay a thousand. For an avatar in an online world, well, that's a whole different question.

Right now the guys can choose between Ryu, Ken, and Guile outfits. While the ladies can only choose Chun-Li. Personally, I'm waiting for the Sakura school girl outfit to come out. What? It has nothing to do with the short skirt, she's my favorite Street Fighter character. Really!

Lastly, there is a whole new room devoted to Warhawk that has opened up.


Welcome to Warhawk central.

Upon entering the room, there are info terminals along the side of the wall. Simply press X to enter them and start reading. Then you can press every fraking button trying to figure out how to get out with no luck until you realize the start button pulls up a menu for exiting. The "Start" button. As in, I want to start to get out? This is a bad button config. I wonder why Sony lets Home developers drink on the job.

The best part is the sandbox table for planning out Warhawk strategies. The first person on the table gets a long menu on the left side of their screen that allows them to place markers and troops from each warring side on the different maps available. Any other user who views the table there after becomes a spectator of the action.


It helps when Ryu and Chun-Li know what the frack their doing.


Finally got Ryu and Chun to go make out in the other room and leave the planning to someone who actually plays Warhawk.


As you can see the green arrow will come behind and destroy the red tank.


Blue Squadron Echo, you will drop off the pizzas at home base. Bravo will meet you with the payout and tip at 1900 hours.

All in all, this is a pretty sweet FREE update. You get to play commander on a big table and laugh at all the retarded Street Fighter mix and match characters. I hope in a future update, there is an option to upload a youtube type of animation for friends and clan members to view your Warhawk game strategies. Or a Sakura update. Yeah, that would be swell.

のびのびBoy - NOBY NOBY BOY first impressions

What is NOBY NOBY BOY?
It's a cool casual game where you take BOY, and stretch him anyway you wish. It's kooky, quirky, and pretty fun actually. Aside from stretching you eat up just about anything you can see and fart it out if you are not stretched long enough, like a snake, to hold it. Yes, I realize how bizarre this sounds.

One neat feature is the ability to create movies inside the game. You can create regular movies and also link up directly to a youtube account and upload with no hassles. Check out one of my first movies playing the games,



Another interesting feature is the relationship of BOY, SUN, and GIRL. As the player takes the role of BOY, you stretch him as far as he can and report your progress to SUN (which you can reach by flapping your arms and flying high enough!) SUN then tallies your length AND all the other players of NOBY NOBY BOY that are signed onto the PSN network and updates a world wide length. This length stretches GIRL and when she gets long enough, GIRL will be stretched far enough to reach the Moon and eventually other planets as well. Each new planet gives the player a new area to explore in. I'll write some more feedback as I get more into the game. That's going to be hard though since I have Flower on my to do list as well.

If you're looking for something simple and easy to play you can't go wrong with NOBY. It's a quick five bucks in the States and that can't even buy you a movie ticket anymore.