Nowhere near as exciting as a wardrobe malfunction, but still very important to our key demographic.

Sony has encountered another SNAFU with one of their recent firmware updates.  It appears some users who have changed their PSN ID or their Password have encountered data corruption issues.  In some cases, these corruptions will not allow the player to run the game.

CVG has reported the following fix for some instances:

Delete your Game Data (that’s the install files for a game, NOT the Save Data).

Use the Backup option in the PS3’s XMB to create a full backup of your hard drive.

Restore your PS3 from the backup.

You trophies will all be gone but don’t panic – that data will be stored on Sony’s servers. Just reinstall the game, install the Trophy data and the sync should work fine. Maybe.

The best solution is prevention, which means you should not change your PSN ID or your Password until this gets resolved.