Hey guys! What’s up? It’s just little ol’ me back again for another installment of Twisted Gamer Radio. Did I catch your attention with the title of today’s podcast? Hope so, because today’s is episode is a PS3 filled show, with nothing but stupidity, studies, and weird gamer news to fill your ears. Enjoy!
Look, we all hate Sony’s firmware updates. They take forever to download and install and they happen way too often. I have friends (<cough> Scuba </cough>) who haven’t been online on the PSN for over 4 months because they don’t feel like updating the firmware every time they turn on their PS3. While the update frequency has slowed a bit, I have a feeling it’s about to pick up, full speed ahead. Those damn pesky hackers are to blame.
What’s up guys! It’s time for another great installment of Twisted Gamer Radio. We’ve got all kinds of crazy shit going on in today’s show because Dalyn is back! We usually try to make up for lost time when he’s gone and the shows after he comes back are hilarious. Enjoy today’s golden nugget!
– Louis Sings Mario World
– Valve Accidentally Bans 12,000 Gamers
– Rare Fansite Goes Down
– Why Muslims Shouldn’t Play Games
– Sound Clip Corner: This Guy Runs For Governor?
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PS3 owners can now grab a firmware update bringing their systems up to v3.40 to support today’s launch of PlayStation Plus, the new for-pay service on the PSN that brings you all kinds of gaming goodies in addition to the already free multiplayer. But just exactly what will you get in the first month? Here’s the skinny on all the free and discounted content coming your way today:
inFamous game trial (60-minute trial)
WipEout HD (Full Game) FREE [normally $19.99]
Rally Cross (PSOne Classic) FREE [normally $5.99]
Age of Zombies (minis) FREE [normally $4.99]
Warhark Fallen Star (Add-On) FREE [normally $1.99]
Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom $7.99 [normally $9.99]
Mahjong Tales Ancient Wisdom Booster Pack FREE [normally $4.99]
Smash Cars $11.99 [normally $14.99]
Smash Cards Virus Run FREE [normally $2.99]
Wakeboarding HD $11.99 [normally $14.99]
Added up, that’s roughly $88 worth of free or discounted value. Considering you only pay $50 a year, it’s not too shabby. However, how many of you out there really give two shits about half the games listed above? Are any of you even still playing Warhawk?
So, now that you know exactly what you’re getting in month one of PlayStation Plus (along with a golden d-pad icon on your PSN account for everyone to see), will you be making the jump? I’m personally on the fence. One one hand, I already get free multiplayer gaming on the PS3. On the other hand, someone at Loot Ninja should subscribe so we can bring you full coverage of the new service. Decisions, decisions…
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– Awesome Elementary School Music Program
– Even More Designers Leave Infinity Ward
– Sony: The New Dictator Of Updates
– Guess The Game!
– Sound Clip Corner: Whiny Man Cries
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Sony has had its fair share of ups and downs with the PS3. What happened yesterday can be seen as one of the lowest lows. Due to some insane firmware issues that have yet to be 100% determined or confirmed, PS3′s around the world all cried in out in anger. Errors causing no PSN connectivity, preventing offline game play for those with dynamic Trophies, and general system crashes are spreading. Apparently it doesn’t affect PS3 Slim owners, although I haven’t turned on my system since last Thursday, so I can’t say for sure if my Slim is affected.
What’s really disturbing is that this “bug” is affecting debug PS3′s as well, meaning developers are stuck in endless reboot cycles and unable to test and develop their games properly. Great way to start your week leading up to GDC. With crunch time here for a lot of studios, it’s not a great time to be sitting around not able to do anything because all your test kits don’t work.
Some say it’s an issue with the internal clock, others say Gremlins. While Sony has stated they’re working on the issue tirelessly, it still leaves gamers (and developers) with a very sour taste in their mouths. Come on Sony, get your shit together. If you want to pull yourself out of last place, and it’s obvious you do, there can’t be these major issues repeatedly. I’m going to play my Xbox 360, because at least that works right now.
Just when you thought it was safe to get a new PS3… A few months back, I bought a new PS3 to replace my launch console. If you haven’t read about how transferring all my data went down, go take a look in this direction. The big complaint I had surround protected game saves and the inability to transfer them to my new PS3. I lost all of my progress in Killzone 2, Street Fighter IV, Fat Princess and others. Fast forward to yesterday and the announcement of the Transfer Utility included in firmware v3.15. Everyone thought the world had righted itself. Wrong. According to Sony Europe’s James Thorpe, you still can’t transfer protected game saves with the new system.
[..] you can copy all PS3 save data except for game saves that are protected by the game publishers through the transfer utility. Please check in the game manual for Killzone to find out if the game saves are protected
Looks like people thinking of grabbing the smaller, sleeker, less power hungry PlayStation 3 need to think twice about what content they’ll lose by moving to a new system. I wish I knew how much I’d lose before I made the plunge. I played Street Fighter IV almost every day before getting the Slim. Now I don’t even touch it. I don’t want to bother unlocking all the characters again.
So, Sony, if you want people to get your new system, please make it a bit easier to move data between consoles. When I bought my Xbox 360 Elite, I was able to transfer everything from my old 20GB hard drive to the bigger 120GB drive with zero problem (and there are locked game saves there as well). Maybe one day they’ll get it right…
Sony is ready to deploy firmware v3.15 for the PS3 “very soon”. It’s not currently known if this new firmware update fixes the dreaded Bluetooth issues, but we do know that it will bring support for Minis on the console as well as a data transfer utility to move all of your content to a new system. That’s something that would have come in handy two months ago when I lost a lot of game saves.
Since Sony says it’s coming “very soon”, I’d expect to see this firmware tonight or in the wee hours of tomorrow morning. It’s an optional update, but you should rock it out anyway.
Leaked pictures last week turned out to be true. In an effort to not be left out in the cold, the PS3 is getting Facebook integration “soon.” Sony posted a little walk-through of firmware v3.10 last night. Still no cross-game voice chat. And for fuck’s sake, Sony, can we please get auto synchronization for Trophies? Anyway, how do you all feel about the update?
With the launch of the PSP Go today, Sony has gone ahead and release firmware v6.10 for the system. Whether you’re rocking the old school PSP or the new PSP Go, fire up your internet connection and grab the new firmware. Most notably, you’ll be able to tether your cell phone to your PSP Go with Bluetooth to get internet access when you can’t find a WiFi connection. Pretty cool, as long as you pay extra for a tethering plan or have a phone that supports it (sorry US iPhone users at the moment).
Media Go, the PC based application which allows you to access the PlayStation Store and sync music, movies, and photos to your PSP is being updated as well. An all new interface is being added to make it easier to browse all the goods to download. Since Sony is promising and explosion of content for the PSP Go, being able to browse easily is key. Now if only they’d release this for the Mac…
Lastly, Sony is introducing SensMe channels which scan all music added via Media Go to and put them into one of 12 categories (such as “Relax” or “Newly Added”). Some people may find it worthwhile, but I don’t see myself using SensMe on my PSP.
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