PSGroove, the free open source PSJailbreak alternative, is now available. Days before the offical PSJailbreak has been shipped to the distributors.

This is based off of a dump of an offical PS Jailbreak sample with a couple modifications made. The major modification to the PSJailbreak code was the removal of Blu-Ray emulation which effectively kills Backup Manager, the other modification however is a nice upgrade that allows you to disconnect the USB key from the PS3 after its done booting. You can also edit the code to enable BR emulation however I will not get into that here. Google is your friend.

The work was done by well known hacker/developer Mathieulh and the team of anonymous devs he collaborates with. He had mentioned on Twitter a few days ago that he had successfully cloned the PSJailbreak and that a release would be coming within the next week. It requires the use of a Teensy++ or Atmel AT90USBKEY. These are development boards that most people are not going to use for anything outside of this but they are cheap so its not a big loss and its not a bad piece of hardware to have laying around either. Never know when one will come in handy.

For most end users however I’d recommend holding off. As I type this @brandonwilson is working on a version of PSGroove for the TI-84 series calculator which I’d imagine a few of you may still have laying around. Musclenerd of iPhone jailbreak fame also mentioned on Twitter that a PSGroove app is possible on the iPhone but that it would take some time to develop.

Now that the general public and more important the talented developers around the world have access to run unsigned code on the PS3 things should start heating up quickly. I have an x3Jailbreak coming within the next week so hopefully there is some homebrew other than Backup Manager to test with it. If another solution comes up sooner (iPhone, PSP) I’ll post an update ASAP.

Looks like removing OtherOS didn’t do jack shit…other then piss off a bunch of people.

For those who don’t know yet, a group of hackers have managed to release an exploit for Sony’s Playstation 3 console that allows the system to run unsigned code. The exploit makes use of a hardware USB adapter that you plug into the system, kind of like a plug and play mod chip. When you boot the PS3 you press the eject button immediately after pressing the power button. This tells the PS3 to read the code from the jailbreak adapter before reading the internal boot code.

Once its all done loading you’ll come up to the XMB like normal.

For most people now this means backups of games that you own can now be saved to the internal hard drive of the PS3 and played directly from there, saving wear and tear on your Blu-Ray drive and game discs. This is a great feature that I’m sure any parent can appreciate. The thing that excites me the most though is being able to install unsigned .pkg files.

Time for the Homebrew.

These .pkg files are programs that boot from within GameOS. Most of the time they’re games but now with homebrew being wide open we can start to expect a lot more. For example, PSP Rhythm is a great little digital audio workstation for the PSP. A similar program for the PS3 would be great as I’d love to produce some tracks using the PS3’s sound chip. Another homebrew possibility could be a dedicated Hulu player or an advanced web browser that identifies itself as IE or Firefox to get around the Hulu PS3 block. This is all speculation and just scraping the tip of the iceberg but the potential here is huge with the type of power the PS3 is packing.

Very exciting indeed.

Now with all this goodness there is one big problem…you need to kiss PSN goodbye…for now at least. If you really want this but can’t give up PSN I recommend getting yourself a second PS3 that way you have one for online use and one for homebrew use. If you can’t afford another PS3 right now you need to accept that you’ll be without PSN for a while and take your current system offline immediately. Your PS3 needs to be on firmware 3.41 to work properly. I can assure you that Sony is going to do everything in its power to minimalize the effectiveness of this hack by patching it out via firmware updates and also revising the hardware in the system. There is no guarantee that you’ll be able to get a system capable of using this exploit in 6 months.

In my opinion its a no brainer. I’ll gladly give up PSN for all of the advantages the exploit provides. I rarely play multiplayer but if I get the bug I’m sure xLinkKai will be setup for PS3 soon which will more then suffice for me.

The only real question is which jailbreak device to buy. There is the original, the PS Jailbreak, which costs $130 last I checked. Pretty expensive although not really out of line. Some supposed clones have popped up over the last few days however and they’re talking much more reasonable pricing. I am currently working on acquiring one of these myself to test. Expect a full video review and demonstration on one of these tools in the near future.

In January, Rockstar Games was putting the final touch on their Playstation 3 release of Episodes from Liberty City.  While some PS3 gamers no doubt have embraced this year old pair of expansions for the good but still quite disappointing Grand Theft Auto IV, many saw Rockstar’s deal for timed exclusivity with Microsoft as a slap in the face of the very users who provided the financial security that Rockstar enjoys today.

When faced with the backlash from PS3 users over the release, due to the fact that it had been released for the Xbox 360 a year earlier, Rockstar claimed that they would be “very good” to PS3 users in 2010.

Well…here we are, it’s going to me mid-June, E3 starts next week, we’re halfway through 2010 AND PLAYSTATION USERS HAVEN’T SEEN FUCKING SHIT FROM ROCKSTAR.

Rockstar…seriously…are you fucking kidding me??  What the fuck is your idea of “being very good” to PS3 users??  You released Episodes from Liberty City.  Is that honestly supposed to fucking mean something to me??  You ported out M$’s sloppy fucking seconds to us A MOTHERFUCKING YEAR AFTER THE FACT, and that’s supposed to be cool??

Is that your idea of “being very good” to PS3 users??  Because quite honestly, you need to fucking do better than that.  Not even 600,000 of those wretched discs have sold, and it’s not because the expansions suck…I hear they’re actually quite good…it’s because Playstation users have collectively lost interest in your stupid bullshit.

Well, you think…maybe there’s something else.  Some huge chunk of awesome that Rockstar is going to drop on PS3 owners that’ll just make them all shit themselves in delight.  Surely something of this nature eludes us…surely the people at Rockstar aren’t all Human Stain Douchebags.  Hmmmm…let’s brainstorm:

Okay…Episodes from Liberty City…nah…if that’s what they meant when they said they’d be very good to PS3 users, then they all need an ass whipping.

It could be Read Dead Redemption…but wait, that’s a multiplatform title.  If that was what they meant when they said they’d be very good to PS3 users, then they’re really telling us that we’re lucky to be getting anything at all, and that would be a BIG problem for the Sony userbase, which Rockstar owes the overwhelming majority of its success to.

So no…it couldn’t be that…was there some PS3 exclusive skin or some shit for RDR??  …because last I checked, PS3 users weren’t getting any timed exclusive DLC for that, either.

Hmmmm…let’s see, there’s the whole L.A. Noire game, which Rockstar says is going to be legendary…but that USED TO BE a Playstation exclusive until Rockstar reneged on that promise as well.  So no, it can’t be that…because that would go back to the whole “Rockstar spitting in the face of the people who made them successful” thing.

Then there’s the whole AGENT game that Rockstar claims it’s developing for Playstation 3 exclusively.  It was supposed to launch THIS YEAR, but they haven’t said anything about it.  Well, you know…with E3 coming up, maybe they…

…oh wait, Rockstar pulled out of E3 and will not show any new games there…so it’s safe to say that AGENT probably won’t release this year and…let’s be honest…chances of it being a PS3 exclusive (and thereby being a game that fully optimizes all of the PS3’s power and capacity for data ala Uncharted 2) are 50-50.

…if it even comes up at all.

There were also the dark horses:  Max Payne 3 is confirmed for Multiplat release this year…perhaps they were holding onto some PS3 exclusive DLC for Max’s next gen debut.

…but then again most gamers don’t fucking give a shit about Max Payne, so no…that doesn’t work either.

Of course, there has been talk that Rockstar could reveal Grand Theft Auto 5 at E3…there’s always the possibility that could be a PS exclusive…

…wrong.  First of all, no way M$ lets that happen.  Secondly, even if M$ wasn’t able to stop such a thing from happening, that’s not “being very good” to PS3 gamers…that’s taking something away from 360 gamers that they have reason to expect to be able to have for themselves…and that’s fucking bullshit, any way you stack it up.

Sure, some PS3 users might get some kind of personal satisfaction out of that, but I absolutely wouldn’t.  Fuck that…that’s just being a cock to the 360 userbase.  That doesn’t do anything good for me personally…that doesn’t bring me some new kind of enjoyment…all that does is piss off Rockstar’s 360 userbase…and shit like that is the reason that Episodes from Liberty City has sold miserably since it became available to PS3 users.

Seriously Rockstar…are you fucking kidding me??  I wouldn’t even give a shit if you wouldn’t have come out and said that you’d do right by the PS3 userbase.  For a moment, it seemed like you knew that you’d turned your back on the people who made you a household name, and you were intent on doing right by those people.

Apparently tho, that was all just a big fucking crock of shit, posted online as a last ditch effort to reach out to people they’ve alienated, right before offering them a second run product that they should’ve been able to buy six months previous at most.

It is in light of this ridiculous fact that I proudly declare that I have NOT bought Episodes from Liberty City, and I will not pay for that particular piece(s) of software.  Again…I’ve heard they’re good, so it’s kind of a shame, but fuck that.  Some people respond favorably when they hear BOHICA, but I don’t.

So yeah, we’ve seen jack fucking shit along the lines of Rockstar “being very good” or really just plain old “good” to PS3 users in 2010, despite their claim to the contrary.  Now Rockstar has pulled out of E3 and will not have any new games there, which suggests any potential PS3 exclusive offerings are most likely not going to become available until fiscal 2011.

So really…Rockstar…Sam Houser…THIS is your fucking idea of “being very good to PS3 users??”

…well yeah fuck your mothers too, then.

So here we are. A week and 2 days after the release of what was expected to be the best video game of all time. Kratos has FINALLY made his way to “next-gen” and he does so in a big way.. both literally and figuratively. But, does the game really deliver? I’m here to say.. “No.”

Now calm down just a second. I’m not saying that the game isn’t good, it is, very good, but it’s not even close to being great. Ok, maybe it’s close, but it don’t quite reach the mark.

I’m not going to get into all the reasons why I like the game, I’m sure you’ve probably read your fair share of those, and what I can only assume is a very good one written by my counterpart (or am I his? Either way..) Glue.. check it out

I’ll admit, I was just as excited as anyone else about this game. I grabbed a copy of it, drove very quickly home, sat down and was blown away by the opening credit sequence. And then it started with the quick fight, and when the first “cutscene” started I took a huge breath as I was FINALLY playing God of War III. And that’s pretty much where my excitement ended..

I guess I kind of have a feeling that I, along with pretty much everyone else who’s played this game, was expecting this game to practically wipe our asses for us. The hype was crazy huge, and it had to be. God of War and the sequel were both incredibly great and hugely successful games. Every hack-n-slash since has tried to mimic the formula if you will, and not one has even scratched the surface of what GoW accomplished. And now God of War III is here, promising everything we know and love and then some, and to me it just feels incomplete, which I understand SCEA has admitted this much. But aside from the ending, there’s still much to be desired here.

Of course the first thing I noticed where the controls. Right away I realized that they didn’t feel like GoW. To me the two button combo thing was just irritating. If you don’t understand what I’m talking about it’s needing to hold down L2 plus a face button for some crazy new thing, and because it’s a “new thing”, you’re naturally not used to it. There were plenty of times when I had to completely relearn the controls in my head, sometimes in one play session. Now, this may have something to do with my terrible memory, but it’s not like I’m new to video games. The whole control system seemed very clunky to me to begin with. They are nowhere near as fluid and precise as the previous two games.

As far as gameplay, there were a few new things I really did like. The new spell-tied-to-the-weapon-you’re-using thing was handy enough. Instead of needing to level up two things, you’re down to one. The three gorgan eyes/phoenix feathers and now minotaur horns instead of 6? (damn it’s be a looooong time ) is an improvement, but at the same time it evens out since you’re not likely to just walk right by a chest containing these items anymore. The puzzles were certainly not on the same level as the other two games. Right now, I can’t think of one puzzle that I was honestly stuck on for more than a few minutes. With the exception of the Garden nothing really stands out in that aspect.

The combat provided plenty of “holy shit” moments (centaurs anyone?), but since the controls play such a big role here, it also felt really lacking. There was no “huge fight with a bunch of monster thingys before the last boss” scene, which was a real let down to me. I will say that the boss fights (with the exception of a BIG one) were really really well done. I think the Hades fight seems to be a big favorite right now, and to me it don’t get any better than that.

The last thing I want to touch on right quick is the blood. It may have been my tv and I know that it was supposed to be fake looking, but FFS.. make an attempt. I know I’m nitpicking here, but with so much of it you’d think they’d take the time to at least make it look good.

You may notice that I didn’t touch on graphics. To me, graphics should be an afterthought to any game. Good Graphics Do Not Make a Good Game. But, I will say that the game looks great, and you can tell they put extra overtime into Kratos himself. Which is a problem because they obviously didn’t put nearly the same amount of time into Zeus, who’s role is just as big and just as important.

Overall, is this a good game? Yes. It is absolutely not the worst game I’ve ever played, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. But it’s far from perfect. There is so much room for improvement that DLC is almost a gimme. I can only guess that DLC is going to fix the ending, in which case I would say go buy this game, but wait until then. For now, it’s a rental at best. There is just nothing here that screams $60 to me.

Good job Stig.

When Sony added Trophies to the landscape of PS3 gaming, I was initially unimpressed.  Kinda like with Home…although not as creepy.  I knew that it was pretty much a spin on the Achievements on the Xbox 360, and I didn’t really see any practical application or use for Trophies.

But then the fact that I’ve got a cock kicked in, and much like Muscle Cars are for Gearheads, PSN Trophies have pretty much become an extension of the PS3 user’s wishes for his penis.

So, PSP users…join me if you will…I drew up an online petition just for this purpose.

…okay, it wasn’t THAT much a waste of time, it took like 5 minutes.  Don’t judge me.  Instead, stand up and tell Sony that you want your eProps for throwing down on your handheld as well as your PS3.  Extend Trophy Support to PSP games.

Seriously, I don’t care if you’re someone who has to take the bus every day, someone whose PS3 went YLOD on them, or just someone who prefers to play games on a handheld…if you play the PSP, then you know you’ve spent just as much time and effort into those games as you do into PS3 games.

Sure, some games are fairly watered down, even from their previous gen console versions…*cough cough…Liberty City Stories…cough cough*…but really, PSP games have come on.  They’re bigger, tougher and best of all better.

The DS, DS lite and DSi are vital cogs in the Nintendo War Machine, and while the PSP probably has no realistic chance of “catching up” to Nintendo in the handheld market, if they want to continue to claim their handheld platform is a success, then the suits at Sony Computer Entertainment will go ahead and make the PSP as PS3/Blu Ray user friendly and compatible as possible.

Seriously, it’s kind of odd that in 2010 someone has to jump on a blog to let Sony executives know that intuitive and value added cross platform integration between the PS2, PS3, Blu Ray Devices and PSP is something they should pursue in their self professed quest to deliver the ultimate home entertainment experience…but there it is.

Seriously, Sony…you have all these devices out there in their “life cycle,” as you like to call it.  PS2, PS3, PSP, Blu Ray, Walkman, Bravia Smart TVs…let them talk to each other.  Give them cool features and allow them to share.  Be like the oriental rug that spurred The Dude forward…

…bring it all together.

That is the bane of PS3 fat owners worldwide today.  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…the apocalypse.

Sony has released a statement just prior to 9:30am Eastern Standard Time, available on Sony’s Blog, stating that a fix is in the works and should be available for download within the next 24 hours.

In the meantime, Sony urges users of the PS3 fat to not use their consoles until an update is sent out.  Apparently there was an error in a significant amount of non PS3 Slims with the internal clock.  When the date switched to 03/01/2010 at midnight, the problems started.

Of course thousands of users have taken to Sony’s Forums to complain about the issue, only to be called trolls by the people who aren’t affected by it.  This is of course typical of the Sony userbase.  Anytime a certain number of users are affected, they complain as is their right to do so.

Then for some reason, a bunch of people who aren’t affected by the problem crash the threads and complain about people complaining.  Of course, these people are the first to complain when something affects their experience, but when other people are affected, then they just need to shut up.

Seriously, I wonder about the Sony userbase.  Why are there so many idiots?  Sure, XBL got all the 10 year old neo nazis, but honestly is having a userbase chock full of people who are just plain stupid any better?

Question to ponder.

Bungie and it’s megaselling Halo franchise is to the point where their name is almost synonymous with Microsoft and Xbox.  However, once Halo: Reach is released, Bungie is free from any obligation to Microsoft and the Xbox 360 platform; they will be able to develop games for any plat they like.

In an interview with CVG online, Bungie’s Brian Jarrard was restrained about the company’s future, pretty much refusing to say yay or nay to potential development on the PS3 platform:

“I mean, I think our whole future’s kind of undefined right now and it’s definitely not something we’re going to be comfortable getting into too much detail about.

“We’ve had another team internally [other than those making Reach] for quite a while now – they’ve been working on the genesis of what will become our next big thing.

“It’s a little premature to get into specifics, but you know I think we have a really good mix of old blood and new blood in the studio.”

Now, I know he didn’t say “PS3″ in that blurb, but he didn’t say “PSP, Wii, DSi” or “PC,” either.  He just said that he was uncomfortable talking about their next project and/or what/how many console(s) it’s headed to.

So naturally, there’s a bunch of articles and blogs online speculating that they’re going Sony in the relatively near future.  It’s actually kinda funny to read the comments below said articles of speculation…I’ve seen very little in the way of PS3 fanboys saying anything…however there are quite a few 360 fanboys out there reassuring themselves and each other that Bungie will continue to give M$ the right of first refusal on all upcoming games…

…which if you look at it, is a completely stupid thing to do.  Anyone who thinks M$ didn’t pay Bungie bookoo dollas to NOT release anything multiplat or PS3 exclusive is an idiot, fanboy or both.  Bungie would be a bunch of chumps if they refused to at least look at multiplat releases without being paid for it.

However, that would require another long term deal with M$.  Now, even though Bungie has been independent of M$ since 2007, the release of Halo: Reach frees them from all obligation to M$.  One would think that if they weren’t interested in entertaining a multiplat release in the future, they’d have signed on for another 6 years and 4 Halo games with M$ exclusively.

…after all, they might as well get that fat cash M$ hands out at the drop of a hat, right??

So common sense says that Bungie will at least entertain the thought of developing a multiplat release (if they haven’t already) when Reach drops, and again, it’s not a fanboy thing;  they’d simply be stupid not to.

Here’s the thing, tho.  I don’t really care.  Shocker, I know…right?

Listen…I’ve played Halo 2 and Halo 3: ODST.  Now, because I’m not going to give a review of either game, I’ll keep my exact opinion of the two to myself.  I will say that while I don’t think they’re garbage, they haven’t given me any additional motivation to buy a 360.

But really, I just fail to see why the dust is being stirred over this.  Again, it makes no sense for Bungie to not explore all of their options.  Hell, they may re-up with M$ for another 6 like I said before.  After all, the Halo franchise has done pretty well for them as a M$ exclusive over the last 2 generations.

But the fanboys just need to leave them alone.  They’re trying to finish Reach, they’ve got a secondary team working on their “next big thing,” and the last thing they need right now is a bunch of no life nerds asking “Are you going to dev for PS3?  Are you going to dev for PS3?  Are you?  Are you?  Huh?  Huh??”

Seriously…back away.  Let them finish Reach, and if they haven’t already explored all of their options for the future, allow them to do that without cornering them into a “yes” or “no” answer to multiplat development.

The last thing Bungie needs is to become the half assed piece of shit dev that Valve is, and it seems to me that harassing them about “if” they’re going to dev games for the PS3 in the future would be a good way of pushing them in that direction.

Just let them be, give them room to breathe, and honestly…don’t read into it.  Bungie does a hell of a job, but if they don’t make a PS3 game it’s not going to be the end of the world.  Honestly it wouldn’t even affect my day one way or the other.

Please…stop being fanboys…stop instigating the fanboys…just let Bungie be.  They’re clearly uncomfortable speaking about it before Reach’s launch;  let them do their thing.  We’ll all find out soon enough.

A couple years shy of a decade ago, I woke up from a weekend nap to find my wife and then toddler son Trey telling me to come see what was in my Living Room.  Our apartment at the time was rather smallish, so I didn’t have to walk far to see the Playstation 2 and brand new copy of Silent Hill 2 sitting on top of my entertainment center.

To this day, it remains one of my most fond memories.  A big part of that is the fact that I don’t get to take naps anymore…but also just the feeling that comes when a loved one gets you a present that they know you want, but of which they themselves have absolutely no interest.  I imagine it’s what it must feel like for women to get jewelry or several dozen roses from their man “just because.”

Now at the time I was practically addicted to the Madden and NHL games I was playing on my Playstation, as well as Wu-Tang Clan’s fighting game, Shaolin Style.  I was glad the PS2 was backwards compatible because I didn’t think I could go without those games.

Thing is…I did.  The original Silent Hill is one of my favorite games and Silent Hill 2 was absolutely immersive to me.  Madden and NHL were forgotten, and pretty much all of my gaming time was devoted to Silent Hill 2.  By the time I’d finished Silent Hill 2, I’d purchased more PS2 games to play…and the more time went by, the less inclined I was to play games from the Original Playstation.

I’d always meant to go back and play certain games…but I just never did.  After a while, games on the PS became kind of unwatchable for me…it seemed like the pixels were constantly shifting and came close to hurting my eyes.

Then a few years ago, I got my PS3.  Since then I’ve played exactly one PS2 game on the PS3, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.  Now, I’d amassed quite the library of PS2 games and was quite fond of most of them.  Some were relatively new to me and unfinished when I purchased my PS3…most notably The Godfather and Resident Evil 4.

I never played them.  It just never occurred to me…PS3 games were just so much more, both graphically and in terms of gameplay, and the system was just so much more in tune with accentuating different features of the games and the Playstation Network that I simply had no desire to go back to the obsolescence of the previous generation.

Which is why the whole uproar about the PS3 not being backwards compatible after the first generation of PS3s is puzzling to me.  Yet, it’s something that emo Sony fans love to lament and something that overzealous Xbox 360 fanboys love to tout.

But is it really an issue??  Seriously??  My PS3 is (was…I’m getting a Slim to replace my Baby Grand) fully backwards compatible.  I’ve stuck PS and PS2 games in there once or twice, but again, MGS3 is the only one that got more than an hour’s worth of playtime.

Yet every time there’s a thread on the internet critical of Sony, the B/C issue pops up, if nothing else just for mere mention.

Seriously, intern00bs…stop…fucking…crying.  If you miss playing your PS2 games that fucking much, then by all means…hook your PS2 up to your TV and have at it.  I know…some of you sold your PS2 when you got your PS3…but why would anyone have done that if backwards compatibility was a serious sticking point for them??

Maybe I’m assuming too much in that people have common sense when they in fact have none, but if backwards compatibility mattered to PS3 buyers, they should have damn well known if the model they were buying actually had that compatibility.

When I bought my Baby Grand back in Feb of 08, I knew that the 80GB and either the 20GB or 60GB were fully backwards compatible while the others weren’t.  I thought backwards compatibility would be a feature I could use so I went to great lengths to grab the last 80GB PS3 left in Monroe County (that’s where I live).

But the fact is at the time the PS3 was $500, and since I was buying an HDTV with it, I made sure to do my research before going out and spending what ended up to be almost $1300.00.  That’s because I’m what Bill Cosby would refer to as “an intellectual.”

So really…if you got rid of your PS2 and bought a PS3 without backwards compatibility, then just shut up about it, already.  You were the one who just flung hundreds of dollars around (in a global recession no less) without knowing exactly what the hell you were buying.  Sony isn’t to blame here, you are.

If you’re one of the people that didn’t wise up to the PS3 before the second quarter of 2008, then oh well.  You genuinely missed out.  Don’t expect any sympathy from me, though.  Given the fact that you only had to pay $400 for your PS3, why don’t you take the $100 you saved and buy a brand new PS2 for $100, which is what they’re priced out of the box, these days.  You can probably get a used one in good condition for $60 to $75.

At the end of the day, backwards compatibility is just not enough of an issue to make a big deal of it, but emo PS3 fanboys and insecure 360 fanboys continue to harp on it.  I suppose it’s too much to ask these clowns to grow up, get their balls out of their grandmother’s purse and move on with their lives, so I’ll just say this:

If the PS3’s lack of backwards compatibility is a problem for you that you need to voice regularly, then you are a LOSER.  You lost out on it, either because of your stupidity or your inability to make a timely PS3 purchase.  Either way, it’s on you and if you could all please stop crying and act like you have a cock for a change.

Thanks for playing.

Okay…so my PS3 went YLOD on me the other day.  I went online and youtube had several informative vids illustrating home fixes…but that shit just didn’t pan out for a motherfucker.  I tried, too.  Believe me.

It was cool and all…disassembling the PS3…but disassembling stuff is always cool.  It was however less than cool, in fact it was significantly below average when I put that bitch back together only for it to give me the Yellow Light again when I tried to turn it on.

So I’m like…okay…it’s 2 years old…it’s not covered under warranty…get a Slim.  I was looking for an excuse, I happen to have the money available…so I went to make that happen.

Only thing is that there isn’t a store carrying a single PS3 in the entire county I live in.

Oh well…I went online.  Right to Sony’s PS3 page.  It redirected me to a couple of different sites…NONE OF WHICH had any PS3 Slims in stock.  Fucking Amazon.com said if I ordered and paid with my credit card yesterday that I’d have it delivered between March 15th and April 21st.

BETWEEN MARCH FIFTEENTH AND APRIL TWENTY FUCKING FIRST??!  SONY WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU??

Seriously.  It’s none of my concern, and I typically don’t bother myself with tripe like this but THERE’S A FUCKING CONSOLE WAR GOING ON.  HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU MUTTS GOING TO RISE UP OUT OF THIRD FUCKING PLACE IF YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE ANY FUCKING CONSOLES ON THE SHELVES??

Now again…I don’t give a shit.  I’m not a Sony stockholder, so it really doesn’t impact me if they “win” or “lose.”  However it seems to me fairly odd that in the midst of such a heated competition, that Sony wouldn’t have it’s product on store shelves.

I know, I know…they intentionally created a shortage to artificially inflate demand once God Of War III comes out.  Like I gives a fuck.

I’ve already bought God Of War III, Sony…all I need is A FUCKING CONSOLE TO PLAY IT ON, YOU NUMB FUCKS.

…finally.  Called Gamestop.  They’re getting more on Sunday.  I’m pre purchasing to ensure I gets mine.  Looks like I picked the wrong week to go YLOD.

Bitches.

Okay. So Sony’s motion controller for the PS3 (codenamed the ‘Arc,’ not quite official yet) will be coming to March’s Game Developer’s Conference. I haven’t heard word if it’ll be available for handling, but Sony’s pink tipped motion controlling dildo will at least show up and wave to the fans.

Anywho, if you’re reading this then you’re probably already aware that Arc and Project Natal are both scheduled for a 4th quarter launch. Happy Holidays all over again.  The flame wars should be both hilarious and sad…just in time for Santa.

Sony and Microsoft will no doubt have a more responsive and exacting set of motion controls than the Wii does, but weather or not this move pans out to be any realistic blow against Nintendo’s War Machine regardless of the quality of the devices, has yet to be seen.

Lost in all of this…is the fact that some of us…don’t…mind…sitting.

Seriously. While I have no doubt that I and probably 65 to 70 percent of the American population could do with a little extra physical activity…having been a boxer in my youth, I am aware that I’m no longer quite the sculpted presence that I once was.

But the truth is that I play games to relax.

Jumping around in my basement like some retarded parkour enthusiast walking in place is not my idea of relaxation.

Now I understand that the so called “Casual Gamer” is the absolute apex of the Gamer Demographic, and I totally get that Sony and MS want to get themselves a piece of the action that Nintendo and the iPhone have somehow been able to mine.

But please God don’t make this thing something necessary or even seperate from regular games as it is.   Goddamn it, I don’t want to have to mime LeBron James when I’m playing NBA Live. If I could mime LBJ’s moves, I’d be on a real court playing real B-Ball in front of real bitches who would toss my real salad after the game.

Seriously, a hearty thank you to Sony and Microsoft for taking the time, effort and investing the capital into providing gamers with a deeper experience, and honestly I hope both companies meet with success in their endeavor.

I just personally have no use for it.