PS3's latest Wii feature-rip-off Life with Playstation is exactly as user-unfriendly and unintuitive as you've read. Firstly, news and weather is sorted by cities, rather than just some hand categorized list for news or a smattering of major cities for the weather. Unfortunately you only get a small handful of cities. Not even all major ( Read more... )

Hmm... SCEE's new [ VidZone video download service ] vs. my [ VidZone Network ] branding. Sure, I'm not the top Google hit (that belongs to the other VidZone music video download service), nor is it particularly up-to-date, but I've used the name far longer than either--since middle school.

..."wow, that's a big box ( Read more... )

[ Sony gives free 46-inch HDTV's and taxi rides home to people who stood in line for PS3 London launch ]

Again, I reiterate: cock monkey. That's the first thought that came to mind.

There's a very well written account on Kotaku about the sort of madness surrounding the PS3 launch in Japan. It's very eye-opening and you'll learn some things you most likely never would have expected. For those of you who don't care about video games, you could probably still take something about politics and economics away from reading it.

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Guess what cool things happened at work today...

Our PS3 demo unit kept freezing.

Totally awesome!

As much as I hate Sony, I still wanted to own an Aibo (though not one of the ugly-faced new ones). Thanks to the company's continued financial troubles (the Playstation division is the only part of the company that makes a profit), they're discontinuing the robot dog and its other robotic pals. This only means second-hand prices could actually ( Read more... )

What the fuck is this?! A Biggie tribute slash call out for bootie?

ADDENDUM: I was also going to give a dubya-tee-eff to why the old Pets.com sock puppet is now hocking car insurance. It makes sense at the end when he says "because everyone deserves a second chance," but it'd only make sense to those up on their pop-culture. And it comes at ( Read more... )

The new PSP commercials make so much sense! Even when people are magically given a PSP, they fiddle with it for a few moments and quickly realize how terrible it is, then chucking it away. The boy at the beginning who first received it is dumbfounded and disappointed to find that it has returned to him at the end.

Dear people who came in with Janel and were possibly saying "hi."

I apologize for not really hearing nor noticing you. Burnout just got more crack-like!

--Carl
I picked up the new Burnout for both Xbox and PSP. (That's my first PSP game I bought since launch, and it's still not much more than a port.) Like I said, Revenge is so much more giddy ( Read more... )