Update: Calendar bug confirmed. PS3 lives. The ApocalyPS3 is over until next time. Fix it, Sony!
Xbox Live! goes down and so does PSN. But today’s outage was different for Sony’s console.
For one, it seems to be affecting the “fat” and older PlayStation 3 consoles and not the Slims. And then there are the symptoms which include:
Corrupted Dynamic themes
Error code 8001050F which means “Hardware Failure”
Inability to launch games with Trophy support
Inability to utilize purchased downloadable content
This seems to be more than a simple login issue since many of these games can be played if you logged out of PSN normally. So what’s going on here? Clearly, this is unacceptable, but it is an interesting problem.
I’ll update this post as I find out more on this bizarre issue.
February 28, 2010 – 9:50 PM Update: Members of GAF are suspecting that this is a calendar bug which resets pre-Slim PS3 dates back to 12/31/1999. This may be Leap Year related? Funny, if this is the case.
February 28, 2010 – 5:34PM Update: Sony is asking us to sit tight and hopes to “resolve this problem within the next 24 hours.” Are they letting time sort this one out?
If Sega was in the business of selling hope to gamers, this month would have been quite the profitable one.
Following the promise of a new 2-D Sonic game and the glimmer of hope for a localized version of Yakuza 3 comes a plethora of possibilities. These supposedly “leaked” minutes from a meeting between Sega and SCEA reveal everything from the possibility of Sony re-releasing PS2 titles on the PlayStation Network to Sega evaluating the idea of re-releasing Sega DreamCast titles on said network. I recommend you all to read that document.
A lot of these items are possible and would make a lot of sense. Digital distribution allows for this kind of catering. Your average gamer who waltzes into BestBuy to pick up his copy of Modern Warfare 2 on launch day may not care, but there’s a significant audience out there like myself who would love to play ChuChu Rocket again. So I’m hoping at least half of the ideas documented in these minutes turn out to be true.
Thanks to GameLoft and Interplay, Earthworm Jim is heading for PSN, WiiWare and XBLA this holiday 2009.
Will it be the original or will it be a remake like GameLoft’s other notable remake, Prince of Persia Classic? The press release doesn’t say. I was excited about the prospect of a sequel or a remake of the original, but a rerelease is a tougher pill to swallow.
I don’t recall the gameplay of Earthworm Jim being very good. I remember being amused by the goofy animation styling and the soundtrack, but not the gameplay itself. And if the game was sketchy then it must atrocious by today’s standards. Either way, I’m curious to see what will come out of this news!
Capcom have been busy writing press releases over the past couple of days. Most of it is good news.
The first piece of news was today’s confirmation of Lost Planet 2 for PlayStation 3. It was confirmed for Xbox 360, but not for Sony’s console. Unfortunately, no release dates were set in stone.
A value triple pack containing Dead Rising, Devil May Cry 4 and Lost Planet: Colonies was announced yesterday. It’s for the Xbox 360 and it will be in stores on September 8 for $39.99 USD. I’d actually pick this up, but I already have two of those three titles.
Finally, the last piece of good news comes from Capcom’s Unity blog. They’ve announced a plethora of PS1 & UMD legacy PSP games are on their way to the PlayStation Network. Capcom wants that free money and good for them for providing their fans the opportunity to acquire these classics.
It’s not “Dungeons”; we already knew that. It’s some kind of Choplifter type thing? That’s the game which came to mind when I watched the unveiling trailer. There are also additional details courtesy of Blu-ray.com of all places.
If Sega was in the business of selling hope to gamers, this month would have been quite the profitable one.
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Capcom have been busy writing press releases over the past couple of days. Most of it is good news.
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