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What do GoW Ascension and The Last of Us have in common?

Absolutely nothing except that the demo for one will be bundled with the other. I always find these weird cross marketing tricks humorous because you know that they bundled one with the other because one is grossly more anticipated than the other. In this case, I believe they want to sell more copies of GoW
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January 25, 2013
The PSN FINALLY meets your web browser!

You read that right folks, Sony has finally made purchasing of games from the PSN available on your browser. Sure it might seem like a trivial thing, but it’s about damned time! The update is a little underwhelming since you can’t make it auto push a purchase to your PS3, but at least you
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January 24, 2013
Crysis 3 Multiplayer Beta to hit PSN 1/29/13 *UPDATE* 360 and PC too!

Lasting from 1/29/13 to 2/12/13, you can download and destroy your friends on the beautiful new Crysis game. I’m assuming that Sony and Crytek wanted to do the ladies of the world a solid by ending it right before V-Day. You’re welcome ladies your significant others will be available to take you out, just
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January 24, 2013
Sony drops prices on select games for everyone, up to 75% off for + members too

Sony is doing a large sale on the PSN this week for both games and movies. Some of the titles are meh but some are pretty good. Plus members get an addition 50% off the already discounted price game prices, making some of the deals EPIC! The movie deals are a little blah though. Click
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January 22, 2013
PSA! PlayStation network is still undergoing maintenance! *UPDATED*

What was originally only supposed to take 12 hours has now spread in to 24. The PlayStation twitter feed updated everyone last night that it was going to go in to the morning, but that was 14 hours ago and not a peep from Sony. We will keep you updated as more info is made
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January 18, 2013
ALERT! Bad programming still rampant with horrible foresight!

I thought that we were getting beyond this type of bad programming after horrible examples like the Y2k issues, but I guess not. Not only are these stupid mistakes still around but it seems like the time to catching them is getting shorter and shorter. Case in point; The Vita has been out for about
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January 17, 2013
REMINDER: PSN Down for Maintenance Until 8pm PST

As reported on Tuesday, the PSN is down for maintenance until 8pm PST tonight. Hopefully everyone looking to play games online logged in before the shit hit the fan.
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January 17, 2013
PSA: PSN maintenance 1/17/13, + members log in now

The PSN will be down for routine maintenance from 8am-8pm PST on 1/17/13. Normally you can just ignore the time and say “darn, I can’t play online during that time”, but Sony is saying something a little different. The PS Blog posted this part earlier today: The PlayStation Store and Account Management will not be
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January 15, 2013
End of the Line for PS2

It’s the end of an era as Sony announced the end of production of PlayStation 2 consoles in Japan. I know I’m known as the PC guy around here, but I do own a PS2. I’ve had many great times with the console and it’ll be sorely missed. Grand Theft Auto changed forever when the
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January 6, 2013
Sony hopes you got a lot of games for X-Mas, cause you aint gettin’ DIDDLY from the PSN this week!

Ok that might be a little harsh. Maybe Sony was certain that you would make out like a bandit and decided you didn’t need any help. That’s gotta be it, right?!?!?!? Click the READ MOAR for the EXTENSIVE list of games. Be careful though, your brain may explode from all of the excitement.
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December 26, 2012