Because the 360 is wholly our platform of choice, I guess it didn’t occur to me to do a post about PSN being down for over a week now. However, now it’s getting ridiculous. What began as an outage turned into an intrusion and then to a security analysis and now we’re learning that the personal information of millions of PSN users has probably been compromised. Which, in a turn of events that should be surprising to absolutely no one a class action lawsuit has been filed on account of countless angry gamers for Sony’s herping to the point of derp.
I suppose I haven’t paid a horrible amount of attention to this development because that’s how little I use my PS3 and even when I do I could care less about PSN. However, that doesn’t mean it’s not important and while at first I kind of laughed at Sony and shrugged it off for the fumble, with each passing day the shit gets proverbially more real. I actually feel bad for them as one estimate believes this blunder will cost Sony a cool $24 billion dollars. That’s billion. With a ‘B’. Ouch.
Crappy as the situation is I can feel only so much remorse for a company that releases a new firmware update with the same kind of regularity as my cockatiel’s bowel movements only to have such a massive security problem manifest itself this way. Making matters worse is that their only real response has been to tell us that there isn’t a real response but they’ll keep us posted. I guess you do what you can, but the more this escalates the uglier it gets.
In response to Sony’s $299.99 PS3 Slim, Microsoft has confirmed that they are indeed phasing out the Xbox 360 Pro and are leaving the public with two options (giggle): the $199.99 Arcade system or the $299.99 Elite system. The big change here is that the Elite is $100 less than it used to be, but still comes with the 120GB hard drive. In fact, the only difference between the $399.99 Elite and the $299.99 is that the Elite will now come with standard component cables, no HDMI cables. No worries to the high-def gamers like Joshua and me though: you can get most universal HDMI cables for around $40, and used at 
You’ve heard the rumors for so long, but on Tuesday, August 18th, Sony officially announced a new model for the PlayStation 3… the PS3 Slim. You can read the full story 
It sounds like blasphemy to even utter those words in the same sentence. Microsoft? Ending? But how?! But since Apple’s boisterous return in 1997 and Google’s overwhelming popularity over the last decade, it seems those two companies keep spitting out nothing but success while Microsoft is stuck in third gear.
Good evening boys and girls! Nicole and I just wrapped episode 4 and it’s live now for your listening pleasure. We mainly talk about everything that happened this past week at E3 and I also explain my brief hiatus to celebrate my birthday. Speaking of which, I’ll be sure to post some pictures tomorrow of the nerdiest wine charms you’ll ever see- but for now? I’ve gotta go watch Simon Pegg in