I'm gonna let home evolve some more and see what happens.

Right now I'm not impressed at all.

Some mildly amusing crap:

there's a glitch that lets you get a sofa outside of the harbour studio apartment, and since the camera follows the furniture you are placing, you can go wander the harbour via your flying couch. Out on the end of the pier by the big yacht, there is a plaque that reads "You really shouldn't be able to read this." And in the white bell tower, there is a mine from Warhawk stuck to a pillar.

same here, if anything these rooms like redbull will provide some entertaining minigames to kill time. But if I have to pay for a TV to watch streaming movies or listen to music with friends online then that will probably be the losing edge. They better come up with another form of payment for these imaginary product. Fake money for fake furniture sounds fair to me

Honestly, if the sponsor rooms are anything more than Yaris quality bullshit I'll be extremely surprised.

Unless Virgin magically reappears and makes another Cool Spot game, fuck yeah.

I wonder how long it'll take army recruiters to start recruiting people through PSH (yes...I'm calling it psh, not PSHome)

After all...they're doing it through secondlife.

Once Sony starts charging for more stuff, I'm going to call it PlayStation SecondLife

I got extremely bored playing it for 30 minutes. Going to the cinema to watch a trailer is not my idea of "fun". Neither is watching 10 creepy avatars doing the 'Running Man', because its so funny lol.
I'm taking a look at it when the full version launches, but until then I'll just delete the whole shebang.

Besides the fact that PSH sucks ass per se, it's pretty sad that it's region locked. The only cool thing you can do is creating a hot looking female character and wait for all the jerks to invite you to their home. It is ridiculous.

OK, so I saw links to videos showing female avatars being surrounded and mobbed by dancing guys... WHAT THE FUCK?! I really hate people sometimes and shit like this just brings out and exaggerates the most idiotic elements, which is why I couldn't give a flying fuck about it all. As much as I like the PS3, this really is a major case of "Sony, lol".

Home's Home. Not sure what anyone expected, but I was never really thrilled about the whole idea. Never really saw the point and still don't. Should've just scraped it and stuck with the publicly displayable trophy room. Go to view someone's trophies and you're tossed into a virtual representation of it. Would've been mighty satisfied with that, more so than the entirety of Home.

this surprises you? Playing a multiplayer game is no different. Female gamers will have male gamers flocking to them at all times. But instead of hearing "YOU SOUND SO HOT" you just see a group of guys huddled around a female avatar. If it's online and "anonymous" you can't avoid it.

This has been around the days of chatrooms.

If you put that you're female in your profile, you'll get a crap load of messages in less than 30 seconds.

I tried out Home for a spin a few nights ago. Holy shit I have never seen such a wellspring of trolling opportunities. My first avatar was an extremely obese dark-skinned lady with no neck and a magenta mohawk. There's nothing to prevent players from spamming the predefined text commands over and over and over again forever (so you can spew an endless stream of "I have no keyboard" without retribution).

As an experiment, I came up with a more pleasing-to-the-eye buxom chick for a second profile and went around the main plaza hitting "Follow me". Suddenly I had gangs of twenty following me around. And dancing. And saying hi. Some of them through their headsets.

Once there are more areas - and an opportunity to turn other people off altogether - I will consider giving it another go.

No, the fact that a female character gets mobbed isn't all that surprising, however, it's very easy to see when one avatar is surrounded by a bunch of people. The fact it's a far more 'real-world' style of representation would have made me think that it was less likely to be so obviously mobbed, because wouldn't you be embarrassed to be in the middle of a gang of people all huddling around some female character. Evidently people aren't, and perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, but I was a little.

Sony PS3 IR Upgrade - PS3IRX1

I'll look into a new sundress tomorrow.

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This warrants it's own thread (like Uncharted 2), but I'm too lazy right now.

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same for every game-related online service. My buddy's gamertag used to Armychick and didn't matter the game, he'd always get private chat invites and friend requests almost immediately. People are just horribly desperate for any kind of contact with a woman it seems. Even if there's a fairly big chance that she's a dude.

Yeah, I know what you mean. But it's still anonymous. You may have a name and an "identity" but rarely do either correlate to the person they actually represent. So, really, why should it be any different? Just because you can hear someone's voice, it doesn't mean they won't shout a flurry of slurs and shit at you. And hell, that's closer to a real person than an avatar and text bubble, right?

Hey. Suikoden on my PSP. Cool.

Amazon.co.uk apparently wants to boost their video game sales before this year ends.

Amazon.co.uk PC & Video Games Bestsellers: The most popular items in Games. Updated hourly.

Thanks to the incredibly weak British Pound, you can get games like Little Big Planet for 17 GBP (25 USD), Mirror's Edge for 15 GBP (22 USD), Fallout 3 for 24 GBP (36 USD) and so on and so on. You should check it out!

Soo uh.. anyone here playing wipeout hd ?

I have a question to anyone who messes with the Japanese PSN.

1. Can a US system play downloaded Japanese PS1 games?
2. If yes, is there a cheaper place to buy Japanese point cards besides play asia? They want 45 USD for a 3,000 yen card which is overpriced.

You don't play wipeout, man. Wipeout allows you the temporary joy of experiencing its presence.

Yes it can, downloadable PSN and PS1 games are region-free. As for the cards, you can get a 3000-yen card for 40.50 dollars on eBay. Probably not going to find it cheaper than that, unless you ask a friend in Japan to get one for you.

If you want to bring the cost down, you can try pooling with other people who want the same games (all PSN content, with the exception of some disc-based games like Warhawk or Gran Turismo, can be shared with four other people).

I bought Crash Commando because I was a big fan of Soldat, and I am very pleased by the gameplay and the new features they've added to the formula.

Unfortunately I can't get it to connect to online multiplayer games. At all :(

To get a PS3 or not
 

I still haven't gotten a PS3, the first reason for it is (was) that I can't play older PS2 games with it. If I'm right there was, for a short period PS3 made that could run older games, but they aren't made anymore because it was too expensive.
I've seen auctions for these 'early' PS3s on various auction sites, but I do not want to buy a consol through an auction site, in this case I prefter buying it from a store.
The second reason I've waited is of course the price, hope that it will drop. I think I will be buying an PS3 when FFXIII is released. (I love that game serie too much!) :D
A question, I have a DVD disc for my PS2 called 'Region X' which makes my PS2 accept all region DVDs.
I'm wondering if there is a similar product for the PS3 which makes so you can play older PS2 games.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want the early one, you're right, you'll have to get it online somewhere, because they're all gone from stores.

The price sure as hell better drop at some point. It gets harder and harder for them to convince people the PS3 is worth the expense when it's that far above the 360.

Speaking of 360, you are aware that FFXIII is coming out for that also, right? Unsure if you already have one of those, so just pointing that out.

And no, a region disc like that will not enable the PS3 to play PS2 games. A region disc doesn't magically make a system able to play anything you put in it. The PS3 is still a PS3, and without either the PS2's hardware or some kind of emulation built in, it simply will have no idea what to do with a PS2 disc. Without either of those components, which are impossible to install yourself or with any accessory, PS2 games won't work on a PS3.

There's still at least a year until the English release of Final Fantasy XIII. Though, there will definitely be a price drop by then, and maybe a software PlayStation 2 emulator.

There isn't. Not sure what you mean by older PS2 games. If you have a PS3 with backward compatibility, it will play PS2 games regardless of age.

Are you referring to a user-made one or one from Sony? Because they already put a software emulator into the later compatible ones (breaking some of the compatibility in the process) and took THAT out.