1up.com presents "1UP Presents"

I am a huge fan of print and was excited to hear that 1UP was going back into print. 1UP Presents is a magazine mainly about features not news, reviews, and previews. Still I can not wait to get my copy. It is a print only magazine, but you can't pick it up at a local news stand. It is part of HP MAgCloud print on demand so this means a %100 ad free magazine. There is no subscription model at the moment so you can pick up this issue for $11 and it is 38 pages. I think this is a good quality product for a good price.
Pick up your copy at here

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair Finally Coming to PS3

After almost a year of being an Xbox 360 exclusive game Castlecania:HD will be coming to the PS3. Siliconera has found 2 Sources that confirmed this. Castlevania:HD is a 2D multiplayer game that combines all the sprites and levels from past Games. These range from the DS games all the way to the 8-Bit games. Konami has released many DLC packs for the game since its release last summer. Hopefully Konami will bundle this in with the long delayed PS3 version.

Infamous #1 Review

-All Images are from DC Comics

I was a little worried going into the Infamous comic mini-series. I have heard opinions ranging from "liked it" to "hating it". Still since I am such a huge Infamous fan I couldn't stay away from anything cannon in the Infamous universe. A big pull was also the fact that the story connected the end of the 1st game to the 2nd game. The Infamous miniseries is broken up into 6 parts and all issues are priced at $2.99 each. I didn't have a difficult time finding #1-5, I couldn't find #6 but it had just released and I will get #6 this week. So you will not have a difficult time picking up a copy if you are interested. Written by William Harms, Art by Eric Nguyen, Letters by Wes Abbott, and Cover Art by Doug Mahnke & Jorge Gonzalez.

Presentation

I am not totally in love with the art for Infamous. As I put in my Assassin's Creed The Fall review I really liked how the cover art matched the art inside the comic book. There is not to much detail on the characters faces which is a bit of a turn off. The enviorment is drawn very well though and really brings out the feel of a dead and defeated Empire City. Also a major complaint with the art is the shading is over done quite a bit to the point where when you 1st see Zeke it looks like he has a moustache. So hopefully my complaints will be dealt with in later issues.

Story

*I have written these assuming you have beaten the 1st Infamous*

The story starts off 4 months prior to Cole getting his powers. It starts off with us finding out Moya (The government) had at one time been working with and funding Kessler and the First Son's development of the Ray Sphere. Kessler shows Moya that he has discovered that if a conduit (able to use powers from the ray sphere) used the ray sphere multiple time the conduit would gain new powers without losing their past power. The conduit being tested was a man called David who was a security guard for the First Sons. After all of these test David was horribly mutated.

Next we see what exactly happened to Cole when he was dropping off the package which contained the ray sphere. After Kessler gave him the wrong address he then told Cole to open the package and would then give him $500. After he opened it the ray sphere explodes immediately. We now skip ahead 24 days this is 3 days after Cole kills Kessler, Cole's girlfriend Trish is killed by Kessler, and the first game ends. The news is doing a special with a military official lying to them saying that everything is under control and the plague is almost completely cured, this was all just a huge cover-up by the government.

You now see Cole mourning the death of Trish, he has still not forgiven himself for letting her die. Cole is now greeted by Warden Harms who is one of the few people he can still trust. The two plan on destroying one of the last First Son's hideouts in the Historic district. you now go back to Moya present day and see she has captured Alden the dust men's leader who had supposedly died after jumping off a bridge. They are planning on some Invasion plan on Empire City and need to cut Alden open weather he is willing or not.

Cole, Warren, Zeke, and the Police take on the First Son's hideout and with Cole's help they are easily defeated. In the aftermath of their victory Zeke goes to congratulate Cole, but he has still not forgiven Zeke for betraying him among other things. The scene now goes to a First Son research facility where David was being kept. Now without anyone keeping watch on him he burst out and is now free to roam Empire City. You now see Cole and Zeke on the streets of the Warren District kicked out due to the danger of Empire City and now they can't live on their roof anymore. Zeke is now told by Cole what he learned from Kessler and why he is having such a hard time forgiving him. This was probably the best part in the whole issue. I am very interested to see what happens to Zeke and Cole's friendship after the first game. This Issue ends with David visiting his wife who he finds overdosed in their house. Now in a mad rage David finds Cole and thinks he is Kessler in disguise and plans on killing him for revenge.

Closing Comments

I was not terribly disappointed with the first issue of Infamous I was just expecting a bit more, but I can defiantly see an interesting story with David and Cole. I am hoping some of my complaints with the art are dealt with, but I don't expect much. Still I can get use to it and might grow to like it. Still I am a big fan of the background art and can't wait to see more of Empire City. I was a bit disappointed to see no real tie in with Infamous 2.

I give Infamous #1 7/10

I thought I would point out this weird little mistake I found. This says the Historic District, but that statue looks just like the one in the Neon. Oops

Assassin's Creed-The Fall #3 Review

-All Images are from DC Comics

I am a big fan of the Assassin's Creed games and the big reason I like the series is because of the story as well as the setting. I am very picky though when it to what comics to pick up myself. Although when I heard that back in January an Assassin's Creed comic set in Russia was coming out I couldn't wait. The Fall is a mini series broken up into 3 parts and are all priced at $3.99 also these might be hard to find, since this is quite a popular series. These comics are also suggested for mature readers so don't worry DC didn't dumb down the Assassin's universe. The story is by Cameron Stewart & Karl Kerschl, Art by Cameron Stewart & Karl Kerschl, and Color Art by Nadine Thomas.

Presentation

You know it is a good sign when the cover not only looks cool, but also is printed on a really smooth and nice paper. The art for the cover is still really nice and is used on the inside, which is very rare to see with many tie-in comics recently. The people are drawn very well and fits the setting as well. You can also tell a big difference from when you see modern day and the past when the main character goes into his periodic flashbacks. I am amazed by the artist ability to show me modern day New York and 1800's Russia.

Story

I will not catch you up on what happened the past 2 issues so you have been warned*

In the final issue the story is shot forward 2 years and you find out that it is the year 2000 around the US elections heating up in Florida. Daniel Cross has become a real assassin now and is going from base to base all over the world spreading the word about the mentor and his visions about his past assassin ancestor Nikolai Orelov with the help of Hannah. Just as things were staring to look bleak Daniel is abducted by a mysterious group of men who overwhelm him in his room. When Daniel wakes up he is greeted by a man who then reveals himself to be the mentor. As David is asleep you see that Orelov has been busy looking for the Staff of Eden after he narrowly escaped dying to get it last time when he killed Tsar Alexander III. He is now an old man who has tracked down Alexander III's son Tsar Nicholas II. He confronts him looking for the staff and finds he only has a fake.

The Mentor explains to Daniel that he has to take many extreme measures just to get him here and keep himself safe. Daniel finds out that the mentor was not the one giving him the visions of his past and couldn't stop it. The mentor wanted him to tell him all about them, but 1st the mentor gave Daniel his blade. After receiving the blade Daniel is bombarded by many flashbacks of his own past and what got him here. He finds out that he is actually a member of the Templar's who was brainwashed into raising the ranks of the assassin's and show the Templar's. After this sudden surge of information Daniel moves toward the mentor and plunges his blade into him. After this Daniel snaps out of it and realizes what he has done and is horrified.He then fleas through a window and leaps of faiths into the seas of Dubai.

After Daniel plunges into the seas you now see Orelov digging up Rasputin. Rasputin had a necklace that contained the last shard from the Staff of Eden. After this he was now free to live out the last of his days with his wife and son. They decide to go to America and make a new life for themselves. Daniel is now a shell of a man and comes to the realization that he can only go back to the Templar's. The assassin's are now in shambles rushing to move all of their camps now that the Templar's know where they are hiding all around the world. Daniel finds an Abstergo building and heads into an Animus, going back to work still regretting betraying his friends and loved ones with the assassin's.





Closing Comments

I was honestly surprised with how the story of The Fall ended and very pleased. Even though you don't get to spend to much with Daniel you get to see how he is rushed into the world of the assassin's and getting thrown into the world of the templar's. If you would have told me that Daniel would have switched sides and it would makes sences I would have laughed and walked away. Still I can not give enough credit to the writer for delivering such a solid script. As long as you are a fan of good writing, comics, or the Assassin's creed universe I would highly reccomend all 3 issues.

I give Assassin's Creed-The Fall #3 10/10

Reviews for Infamous Comics coming next week

I am a fan of Infamous (obviously) and Comics. I am very picky on what series I will actually pick up. When I heard about the mini series of six issues for Infamous would come out in March and actually lead into Infamous 2. I have stayed away from plot points and don't know what will happen or how it relates to Infamous 2 (if it even does). I have looked at review scores from IGN comics and got very low scores. I decided to review each issue since I will get every issue sent to me. So look forward to seeing those reviews next week and if you like Infamous, but don't know where to get this don't look at your popular bookstore chain and support your local comic book shop and pick up a copy.

Infamous Trophies Gives Perks to Infamous 2

Got one of these for Infamous? If your answer was yes well you are in for a nice treat when you play Infamous 2. If you are like me and spent many hours beating Infamous twice, collecting all of the dead drops, and the huge task of collecting all 350 blast shards hidden all over Empire City you really earned that Platinum and felt very proud of yourself. Now when you start playing Infamous 2 you will see an option that says "Import Trophy Data" and depending on how many trophies you collected you will receive these perks when you play Infamous 2.

•Have good or evil Trophies from Infamous: Start Infamous 2 at level 1 good karma or level 1 evil karma.

•Infamous Trophy for 25 percent of the Blast Shards: Free energy core in Infamous 2.

•Infamous Trophy for 50 percent of the Blast Shards: Two free energy cores.

•Finished Infamous with any karma standing on any difficulty: 1,000 bonus XP for Infamous 2.

•Specific Trophies for Specific Infamous decisions: Reflect side missions, Dead Drops and dialog variety in Infamous 2.

These are some great reasons to play Infamous if you haven't played yet before Infamous 2 releases.

Now I would like to thank Sucker Punch Productions for making these perks based around your trophies off your PSN and not your save files. So people like who have just lost there PS3 and all of their save data files. This makes the lose of my PS3 a little less heavy and now I don't have to play Infamous again before Infamous 2 comes out.

THANK YOU SUCKER PUNCH PRODUCTIONS!

Pictures of the Aftermath

When you look at it, it seems fine.


Then it beeps and turns yellow.

finally going to green

then it flashes red until you press it again.

This is just to show proof I'm not lying and that I am still screwed...

My sad story with Infamous 2 and my PS3....

As of this post Infamous 2 comes out in 15 days and for a really long time I couldn't wait until it is released. On May 23 2011 I was playing a game and all of the sudden my game freezes and turns off my system with a yellow light before it goes 100% off then flashes red. Now I am screwed I know what this means my PS3 has gotten the Yellow light of death for the second time in my life with a PS3. Ive had a PS3 since 2008 with the release of MGS4 and in the Xmas of 2009 my PS3 got the YLOD for the 1st time. Now then I spent my money on a system fix from Sony.

I am now here with a broken PS3 with my many hours of saves and to be precise my Infamous 1 and Sly 1-3 all 100% saves. So now even if I do get my PS3 fixed by June 7th I don't get to use the special features for having played the 1st game. I will not be able to get it fixed because I spent the last of my money on the Hero Edition for Infamous 2. So now I am broke and will receive a game I cant play on June 7th. Also with the PSN welcome back program I will probably miss out on that as well.

I will still try and keep you updated but at the moment I will have to keep the blog on hold until i know what to do.

Two Platinum Trophies in One Day? OH MY!!

-Sly3 was easy but long while Portal 2 was hard and long

This is just something I was quite proud of I was somehow able to get 2 different platinums in games I had been working for quite a while. Mainly I want to give big thanks to MrPants and Viceroy I couldn't have done it without their help. Your the best guys.

Infamous 2 Covers US and UK

With Infamous 2 so close to releasing something that has sort of bug me is the UK cover art is much better than the US art. Now I know you can just go and print the art from online but I am hoping Sucker Punch would release an alternative cover option on the other side of the box art if you flip it over like most Sony 1st party games. So I decided until they come out with an alternative for this problem I will make a new art just by switching the ESRB and PEGI rating logos. I also switched the UK to the US art if for some reason you wanted that instead.


US Box Art-ESRB


UK Box Art-ESRB


US Box Art-PEGI


UK Box Art-PEGI

When the back of the box is released I will post a change as well for each region.

Portal 2 Review

Back in 2007 Valve released a game called Portal with The Orange Box to see how people would react to such a different type of game. This was an extremely risky move for Valve and thankfully it was a huge success. Portal is a puzzle game in 1st person point of view and unlike most FPS (first person shooter). The 1st Portal was not a long game, but it was an extremely memorable game with a great character Glados voiced by Ellen McLain who talked to Chell (you), solving extremely complicated test chambers, and the ending song "still alive" by Jonathan Coulton. You solve each test chamber by using you portal gun which can shoot two portal and you go through one end and end up on the other side. It is a very simple concept but can end up being very difficult by incorporating momentum.

The 1st game worked as a stand alone experience so well when Valve announced they were making Portal 2 many fans were worried how this would work as a stand alone product. Valve has gone quite out of their way to make Portal 2 even better then the original by adding so many new features. As a big fan of Valve and the first game even I was a little worried about what they were gonna do with Portal 2.

-Stephen Merchant as Wheatly brings out an absolutely amazing character to life

The game still has you completing test in Aperture Science, but Valve found a way to make an unforgettable journey that last about 8-10 hours. I will not go into the story and spoil it for that ruins the whole point of playing Portal 2 which is to go through these test chambers and be treated to some of the most brilliantly written dialogue in video games for a very long time. There is a point in the single player that made me think I was about to beat the game, but instead I was only half done. I would have enjoyed it and not complained , but the fact that you get treated to even more tests isn't a bad thing because of the new little features that are added to Portal 2. Things such as Light bridges, lasers, and gels mix up the way you think while playing it will seriously get you thinking and don't feel bad if you get to a room and you need to sit there a bit and can't seem to get how solve the test.

The games twist half way through leads you to a sort of timeline for Aperture Science and takes you from its beginnings in the 1950's until you make it to present day again. This Journey upwards in time is voiced by Cave Johnson the Founder of Aperture Science (voiced by J.K. Simmons) who has many recorded quotes that feel like he is there with you.

After you beat the game there is also a commentary that you can listen to while playing throughout the main story. This is to give you an incite on how Valve came up with all of this crazy stuff in Portal 2. Now some people may find this boring, but if you are like me and enjoy DVD commentaries you will enjoy going through it all over again just to find some cool facts about the development on the game as well as how Valve focus test the hell out of their games.

-Now time for the reason this review is so late...CO-OP

I will not tell the story why I couldn't play Co-Op on PS3 again, but at long last I was able to beat the Co-Op story last Saturday night right as PSN got back up it was the 1st thing I did and 8 hours later I had beaten the story having not been able do it without meeting such awesome people to play with on Steam while I am on PSN. The story is a completely different story that takes place after the single player story. You play as 2 robots called Atlus and P Body. Each robot has its own portal gun making each puzzle needing 4 portals to solve so as you can tell things can get confusing, but that makes solving them even more rewarding. The main goal for the Co-Op story without giving anything away is that Glados is having you solve these test to free all of the Humans for testing so Glados can get back to Human testing.

Portal 2 gets a 9 out of 10

+ A good 8-10 hour story for single and co-op, Still looks good running off Half Life 2's source engine, Steam integration for PS3, and the voice talent is a huge stand out
-Loading between Chambers kills the flow between test

Credit for helping me in Co-Op goes to MrPants, Blackkristos, and CantF33LMyFacE87 I couldn't have beaten it without your help.

Infamous 2 Thank You Card by Torchwood4sp

^^Outside^^


^^Inside^^

At a Technical school I go to we have a a lot of free time with the year coming to an end and since it is a graphic design class I decided to make a Infamous 2 thank you card for people who preorder it. I would like to know what you all think and if you want the psd file I will put it up on the blog if there is demand.
*click on image to enlarge*

Infamous 2 Demo is still coming, but when?

Sucker Punch Production had previously said they were going to release a demo for Infamous 2 before release and the current rumor is that it will be out this Tuesday for the re-launch of the PS store. You are able to play it at some Gamestops but I have not been able to find any near me to try it out. Also to stay out of spoilers I have not looked up what will in the demo. I would enjoy it to be like the first Infamous demo give us the 1st island and a couple side missions, 1 main story mission, and a good/evil mission to try out the new powers. When the demo goes live I will give my Impressions on what it is like.

Heading back to Empire City- Update

As you might have noticed day 5 of heading back to Empire City did not go up last night. I have decided that since I beat my evil/hard playthrough and was going to talk my opinion about the end. Since the rumor that the Playstation Store is apparently going to come up this Thursday I will return with the feature when the story is live. This way more people can experience Infamous with me as well. I will start off the next feature with the beginning of my good/hard playthrough. So if for some reason the store doesn't go up next week I will resume like normal if there is no word from Sony.

There is good news to come out of this I will be able to make more post with news for you to enjoy and after a long delay I will be putting up my review for Portal 2.

P.S. Hope you like the new logo let me know what you think.

Sly's cane+more coming to the pre-order bonus pack

Today Sucker Punch showed off that there was even more pre-order bonuses coming to Infamous 2. The specific retailers for each extra DLC has not been announced, but all of these will be in the Hero Edition with the super voucher.

This new DLC pack contains

•Reaper Skin: Play as a Reaper from the original Infamous.

•Sly's Cane: Cole borrows Sly Cooper's classic weapon.

•Caveman Club: Just what it sounds like. Plus lightning.

•Samurai Sword: Honoring Japanese tradition.

Since I am already getting the Hero Edition of Infamous 2 I can't wait to get all this sweet DLC. I do hope that Sony releases this for other users not to long from the release to make it fair for everybody. Keeping it until August seems perfect , let me know what you think in the comments below.

Heading back to Empire City- Day 4

While playing Infamous today I have beaten Adler but unfortunately got betrayed by Zeke in the process and now he is on Kessler's side. So this leaves Cole in the Historic District alone having to fight the first sons, Kessler, and Zeke, your best friend. Now instead of it being Cole and Moya, Cole has finally met up with John and you then find out that he is not Moya' husband and doesn't work with the FBI. So as you can tell the game has really changed now.

-Finally we get more than just a dead drop with John's story

The main focus point for today's article will be about the positives and the negatives about the mission design for Infamous. Now lets focus on the negatives first. There are really only a few points that are disappointing about the mission design for the first game. My main complaint is some missions feel like a survival mission at some points where all you need to do is stay at on point and kill as many enemy's as possible for up to 5 minutes at the time and this can get very repetitive. A good example of this is the prison fight where you have to defend the prison from trashbaggers for almost 10 minutes and that's if you don't die and have to try over again, and if your on hard like me again, again, and again. There is also one quick point I wanted to bring up a bug in the game that really pissed me off. When you follow a helicopter to John for the 1st time and need to defend him against a monster made of trash that has a gas tank and if you want to be bad like me you need to blow it up next to him and the civilians, but for some reason no matter how many times I retried the mission it would never let me blow it up in time and start me off with the gas already flying at me. So I ended up just taking the good karma begrudgingly.

-Betrayal is never easy to take

Still there are still many good points about the missions that make them very memorable and enjoyable. A really good way the missions really mix it up so it doesn't get boring are when you need to follow the ghost of a dead persons killer until you meet up with them and are really good. Also cool fight settings include the train fights when getting their power back on. Just the rush of wind and bullets flying past you. When finding cover, holding onto the side of the train while hanging on for dead life and using Infamous's cool "shoot anywhere" game mechanic.

-Soon this long, hard journey will be over...

I am hoping to beat the game on my Evil/Hard playthrough tomarrow and them I will move onto the Good/Hard playthrough. I am still working some features besides this around to hype up the release of Infamous 2 on June 7th.

No Valve games to appear at E3

-Don't expect Half Life 2 Episode 3 anytime soon

In a bit of disappointing news valve has announced that they will not show any games at E3. To a huge valve fan such as myself I am greatly disappointed to hear this and am very surprised that they wouldn't even announce anything or show a trailer. Heck they could even say they would port the orange box over to Ps3 and include Left 4 Dead 1 and 2. Even porting over the Valve complete collections for $100 would be a cool collectors item for fans like me who have always wanted a way to play more valve games on console. Let me know what you think of this in the comments below.

Heading back to Empire City- Day 3

I have gotten quite a lot of progress done today in Infamous today I got 1 more Substation in the Warren back on, leaving 1 left until full power. I also have pissed off Trish and Zeke quite a bit. Also on a Karma update I now have reached the level of Infamous. This has warped and twisted Cole's body into a pale dark mess. I hope to take down Alden the leader of the Warren and bring him down to size. As well as getting into the Historic District (the final island).

-Don't let his size fool you his TK powers are dangerous

Now today I will leave a large bit of today feature focus on the Music for the 1st game and how it relates to the second game. Now I got a video from Qore which shows how I is done as well as my normal video update now in 2 parts.

Video from Infamous music behind the scenes in Qore *I did not take this video*

Daily video update Part 1

Part 2

Infamous 2 Music

In todays feature for Heading Back to Empire City I bring up the music in Infamous and slightly bring up the music for Infamous 2 as well as the differences from that and the 1st game. I found some videos that showcases the behind the scenes of making the music in Infamous 2 as well as a full song so you can hear what it's gonna sound like. *I did not take these videos and are not mine*

A song from the game



A behind the scenes video from Qore of march 2011


Let me know what you think of it below in the comments.

Sorry...

I still entended to keep Heading back to empire city feature going but with school finally winding down I got a bit caught up today and couldn't get around to playing Infamous. Still with bad news there is also good news. I will be back tomarrow with day 3 for sure, post my Portal 2 review this weekend (finally), and on May 26th I get out of school so I can spend more time on the blog posting and making it even better. Thanks for all your support with the site and leave feed back below.

"Welcome Back" to PSN and here are your rewards for waiting

-One of these don't belong, actually maybe two...

Finally Sony has announced their plans for the "welcome back" program and depending on who you are this is can be good or disappointing.

The following 2 games for each system will be up for 30 days when the PS Store is back up and be your permanently if you choose them.

PS3
•Dead Nation
•inFAMOUS
•LittleBigPlanet
•Super Stardust HD
•Wipeout HD + Fury

PSP
•LittleBigPlanet (PSP)
•ModNation Racers
•Pursuit Force
•Killzone Liberation

Now besides Pursuit Force and Killzone Liberation I have every game on the list. I hope sony plans on doing something about people like me, maybe give money in PSN as compensation. Now on that point this would the perfect time to pick up a copy of Infamous leading up to the release of Infamous 2 coming up and so you can experience an amazing PS3 game as well as get LittleBigPlanet.

For the rest of the Features here is a list of them below.
•A selection of “On Us” rental movie titles will be available to PlayStation Network customers over one weekend, where Video Service is available. Those titles will be announced soon.
•30 days free PlayStation Plus membership for non PlayStation Plus subscribers.
•Existing PlayStation Plus subscribers will receive an additional 60 days of free subscription.
•Existing Music Unlimited Premium Trial subscription members will receive an additional 30 days of free premium subscription.
•Additional 30 days + time lost for existing members of Music Unlimited Premium/Basic subscription free of charge for existing Premium/Basic members.
•To welcome users Home, PlayStation Home will be offering 100 free virtual items. Additional free content will be released soon, including the next addition to the Home Mansion personal space, and Ooblag’s Alien Casino, an exclusive game.

Hope you all are having fun now that the PSN is back up, I know I am.

Heading back to Empire City- Day 2.5

-Can't say good enough things about the art style

On my second I ended up making it into the warren and about to turn on the 2nd substation so you know what that mean? A BRAND NEW POWER! Also a new area of town has power again but that's just OK. I have focused a little more on side missions due to the fact I needed more experience and there were only a couple of side missions I had unlocked so far. I have opened the bridge that unlocks the neon district to me again so I will go back and do more side missions.

-For a Karma update lets just say I'm not getting a tan anytime soon

For today I wanna talk about something I love a lot about Infamous and that is the comic cut scenes. Now I understand most people think this is a cheap get around for lazy developers, but I think Infamous mixes the presentation of It story well with Comic book and in game cinematics. Although in the Infamous 1 engine the animations in game are sort of hit or miss. Now I know Infamous 2 is focusing on Mo-cap for their cut scenes as well as Comic and I hope they strike a nice balance when it finally comes out June 7th. In my video for this update you can get a taste of how they present the games story through motion comic.

Sorry for the delay in getting the actual article up to try and make up I mad this more up to date them yesterdays would have been. The video was filmed yesterday though just to let you know.

PSN update 3.61 is up and live and PSN services slowly returning to different areas

As of this current blog post this is the map for where the you can expect to see PSN back in your area. The map is finally been all colored in thanks to Jeff and his magic marker. Already playing portal 2 and loving it. So expect a review soon. for real this time.

Current features back now

•Sign-in for PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, including the resetting of passwords

•Restoration of online game-play across PS3 and PSP

•Playback rental video content, if within rental period, of PlayStation Network Video Delivery Service on PS3, PSP and MediaGo

•Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity, for current subscribers, on PS3 and PC

•Access to 3rd party services such as Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and MLB.tv

•'Friends' category on PS3, including Friends List, Chat Functionality, Trophy Comparison, etc
PlayStation Home

I will keep updating untill I get PSN back then I will go play co-op untill I beat the story after a long awaited wait. So what will you do with PSN now that it's back online. Put your answer on the poll to the side.

Awesome New Infamous 2 AD thanks to IGN

Heading back to Empire City- Day 1

-It's good to be back

As soon as i finished installing I couldn't wait to start playing after so long. Now I already have beaten the game, but was rusty on some of the smaller point and had forgotten all about who Moya was and the dead drops John has scattered all around Empire City. I am only 3 or so hours in the game and still at the neon district (the first island). I have met Kessler and am about getting close to fighting Sasha. I am very surprised by how much I am getting sucked back into the Infamous world. I have hunted all the dead drops like my life depended on them and remember collecting blast shards like a person with OSD.

Since I'm not to far Ill have a longer post tomarrow (hopefully). For a treat I recorded the first of many videoes show off whats going on in Infamous.

Great Deal ALERT!!! Infamous at BestBuy for $10

As of May the 12th BestBuy is offering Infamous for only $10 as opposed to paying $30. This is a hell of a deal coming from a fan of the 1st game like me. I bought the original game the 1st day it came out and loved it enough to get a platinum. Unfortunetly after a while I sold the game much like I use to do with games (thankfully I haven't sold a game in over 2 years now). When I heard about this deal on Podcast Beyond it made me track down acopy of it and can't wait to play it all over. I had my old PS3 lose all of its memory in december of '09 so even though I got a platinum my save files are all gone so untill Infamous 2 comes out I'll play this to bear the wait.


I will periodicly post updates from my latest playthrough of Infamous. For some background info it has almost been 2 years exactly since I last played. Also this is how I will play


1.Evil Playthrough on Hard
2.Good Playthrough on Hard
3.Finishing up any extra side missions, cleaning up the streets, and Blast Shards


I also be bringing features for Infamous leading up to the launch of Infamous 2 so come back to see what cool updates I have in store I have many cool ideas planned but can still take some from users if you have any. If so leave them in the comments below.

-25 Days untill Infamous 2

Soul Calibur V Announced

-Just a quick update

At Namco Bandau's "Level Up" event along with many other things Soul Calibur V was Finally annpunced after many months of rumors. As a fan I can't wait to hear more and see some gameplay. Leave your feedback in the comments below.

Blog/PSN Timeline

Well it lloksw like the Psn updates have now been boiled down to "It will likely be a few more day". Which is kinda sad this is all we are left with and isnt even worth linking to this post it is less then a paragraph. Hopefully these get more detailed and/or finally get PSN back up.

Also when it comes to the blog I know I haven't been updating much at all. My plan with this blog is to have at least one post up a sate. Since I have been winding down with school year, I have been busier than I had expected. I will try to post as frequently as possible and will keep you updated when the blog will be back to normal with the schedual.

As a way to make it up to anyone even reading this and a way to get some form of comment anyone who post a comment will get a chance for free DLC for Grand Turismo 5, Killzone 3, or Infamous 2. All you have to do is leave a comment and explain which game's DLC youb would prefeer and why.