Update: It looks like firmware 2.4 was taken offline after several unfortunate users had their PS3’s “bricked”. Thank goodness mine updated without a hitch. Even if mine was bricked, apparently it’s a simple matter of removing, re-inserting and reformatting the hard drive.

It’s just after midnight and my PS3 was given the prompt to update firmware 2.4. The much anticipated 2.4.

To celebrate, PSN’s flagship game, Super Stardust HD was given the update with Trophy support and a new add-on for $5.99 CAD. The team pack add-on consists of:

• Ship Editor
• Orchestral Sountrack
• Split screen co op
• VS Match

Since I’m a sucker for anything SSHD, I’ll be picking this one up later on. It’s worth it for the soundtrack and ship editor alone!

As for the update itself? Aside from Trophy support, I believe it came with a slightly remixed soundtrack if I’m not mistakened. I haven’t noticed any other major changes.

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Battlefield: Bad Company, the console exclusive spin-off of the Battlefield series, is a game I had no interest in. The modern warfare genre was blindsided by Call of Duty 4 and for good reason; the game plays phenomenally. Fortunately for DICE and EA, Call of Duty 4 doesn’t tread over the entire modern warfare territory; they’ve left the large landscapes and vehicular based combat arena wide open. I asked our dear friend, Robocrotch, to try out the game on the Xbox 360 while I awaited the PSN release. Since this week’s Playstation Store update was late, I got my hands on it last night and gave it a whirl. Is it as bad as Robocrotch so bluntly stated? I found half of it to be terrible and the other half? Competent.

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Welcome to the first RSRSG (Robocrotch’s Shitty Reviews of Shitty Games).

So I pretty much hate writing, but I like you, so I’m going to warn you about this shitty demo. I put as much effort in these reviews as the developers put in the games I’m reviewing.

I played the demo for about 20 minutes and I have no idea how I lasted so long.

• the controls are crap
• the graphics are crap
• driving mechanism is crap
• healing yourself is crap
• the guns are crap
• the sound of guns is crap
• the rocket launcher is crap
• the tank that you have to blow up with the rocket launcher is crap
• this review is crap

The only good thing was the destructable terrain/environment.

So the Penguins lost, this game came out, worst day of my life.

Final word
Play COD4 instead

This article reveals that there is a WiiWare game coming out that could be a very successful merger between the power of the Wii as a social gathering console and drinking.  Seems like a natural step to me considering I see the Wii being played at most parties nowadays where alcoholic beverages are being served.  Big ups to these WiiWare devs…

It’s been awhile since I was excited for a demo. Today, the Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit was released for both the PlayStation Network and the Xbox Live! Marketplace. But why be excited for a Dragon Ball game? Well, I for one was/am a Dragon Ball fan. Secondly, this is a DBZ game developed by Dimps, the talent behind DBZ: Budokai 3 and co-developer of Street Fighter 4. So, I downloaded the 478 MB demo and desperately held hope for a spiritual successor to Budokai 3 and you know what? It is.

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I had a chance to load up Boom Blox last night for the first time and I must say I was very impressed.  The overall polish and presentation of the game alone are enough to keep you drawn in.  The very intuitive menus made it easy to go in an quickly run through the tutorials in under 5 minutes.  Immediately after the tutorials I dove into some quick multiplayer games with my girlfriend who was also extremely impressed with the game even though I would not consider her to be a gamer. 

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Along with the Haze U.S. demo, which I talked about earlier already, this week’s U.S. PSN update boasted another demo of interest. No, I’m not talking about The Bourne Conspiracy demo. I’m talking about the demo for Codemaster’s GRID. It’s their new racing franchise. I went into this demo under the false pretense of expecting a non-rally version of DIRT. How wrong I was. It’s not DIRT. It’s not even Project Gotham Racing. It’s some sort of bastardization between Ridge Racer and Forza.

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This article details that the previously rumoured Little Big Planet open beta will not occur suggesting that it ”would be suicide” to release a fully functional version of the game to public for free.  However, there is speculation that a demo could come to the PSN to further whet our appetite for this little gem that we can’t wait for Sony to put out the door.

Coinciding with today’s PlayStation Day, European PS3 owners were given a chance to take Free Radical’s Haze for a spin. I admit that after many delays, which pushed this title well into 2008, my interested waned considerably. However, I’m a gamer of patience and thus I downloaded the 1.5 GB demo – I deliberately set GTAIV aside just to try it out so you people better appreciate this. My thoughts? It’s not that bad or that great.

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Note: This is a continuation from my MGO beta impressions. 

On Monday, the folks at Konami unlocked a bit of content for the Metal Gear Online Beta: Sneaking Mission gameplay mode and the Midtown Maelstrom map. After spending a bit of time with it, here’s some of my thoughts on it.

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