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PSN Network is Online In North America

Barely Hanging On — Sun, 15 May 2011 12:12:33 +0000

Yeah! Now I don't have to play MLB The Show with my crappy Yankees roster from April. I can download and play with their current crappy roster!!

I did a quick system update and then changed my password to login and I am back in business. The PS Store is still closed but at least I can kill zombies online. Life is good again.

According to Sony, these are the services that will be initially restored for customers:

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
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‘Toylet’ Games in Japanese Urinals

Barely Hanging On — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:02:15 +0000

This one caught my attention. I often get bored for the 30 seconds that I stand in front of a urinal but now I have reason to stand there even longer. It's urinal video game time!

TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese toilets are famed for functions such as posterior shower jets and perfume bursts, but entertainment company Sega has gone a step further by installing urine-controlled games in Tokyo urinals.

Four types of "Toylets" games are available to be played during a test period ending this month at four male bathrooms in pubs and game arcades, in a project aimed at drawing attention to digital adverts.

Each urinal is fitted with a pressure sensor, and a small digital display is placed at eye level. Digital adverts are shown after the games.

Games include "Graffiti Eraser" in which a user tries to aim at the pressure sensor in the urinal to erase virtual graffiti on the display.

Or there's "Mannekin Pis" — named after a Brussels fountain depicting a urinating boy — which measures the volume of the user's stream.

Another is called "The North Wind and The Sun and Me", in which the strength of a urine stream determines the extent to which a virtual girl's skirt gets blown up by a digital wind.

"Splashing Battle!" pits the user against the previous urinal user in terms of stream strength.

Yahoo! News: Offbeat – AFP

Force Unleashed 2: Darth Vader Falls Through Map

Barely Hanging On — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:32:44 +0000

This is great. Playing The Force Unleashed 2 and fighting Darth Vader for about 5 minutes before he decides to fall through the map and do the disco duck. Great time wasted. I couldn't touch him. Or could I? I actually started to nail him with lightning bolts and had him close to death before I froze and had to quit the game. It never froze, I just couldn't move anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPF3LcFYeyo

I realize the video sucks. I am just holding my iPhone 4 up to the tv when these things happen. I need to get a stand or something to get a better view. Suggestions?

COD Black Ops: Care Package Sinks into Map

Barely Hanging On — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:53:51 +0000

I taped the tv with my iPhone so it's not that great. The game keeps getting better and better. Today it froze on me and it still kicks you out of a ton of games everyday. This is the care package sinking into the map. That's quality. It was a pretty good kill fest after the fact when everyone on the map raced to steal the crate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU6vYAfHb_w

COD Black Ops Blows……..

Barely Hanging On — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:32:34 +0000

If you are thinking about buying COD Black OPS for the PS3 you might want to save your money and flush it down the toilet or give it to a local crack head living under your nearest bridge. You would get more enjoyment that way.

See this little image below? That is pretty much what you get 4 billion times a day when trying to play online.

This error isn't even the worst of it. It also likes to freeze mid game and you have no choice but to have to turn your PS3 on and off and reset it.

NHL 11 Pretend You Are Matt Cooke

Barely Hanging On — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:46:33 +0000

I love the new NHL 11 from Ea Sports. It is so realistic. I almost feel like I am an NHL player. This morning I felt like Matt Cooke. Nice eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Mxmkuruc8

A Couple COD WM2 Ownages

Barely Hanging On — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:03:41 +0000

Here are couple of recent games I played. I didn't catch the death count on the one screen shot I took. I can't remember what they were. I have a feeling it was about five or six if I remember correctly. Still 30 is a decent body count. If you can digest it I would be up for playing a few rounds. You can see my name on the screenshots. Hook me up on the PS3. Just don't give me the lame chain letters that have been floating around. I have had about a dozen of those over the weekend. Don't be lame and leave the other gamers alone.

Owning on COD MW2

Barely Hanging On — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:46:40 +0000

Just so you know, I am not just another pretty face. Deadly with a shotty and snipe on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. An emergency air drop on Wasteland with a helicopter attack, a B52 strike and two Sentry guns to throw in the bunker doesn't hurt. A couple of deaths because the shotty ran out of bullets.

Wii Remote Breaks TV on Shopping Channel

Barely Hanging On — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:04:46 +0000

A few weeks ago we had some couples over and we played some Wii Bowling. One of my friends was busting my hump about wearing the wrist strap. I told him he was worse than the kids and finally forced him to put it on.

Take a lesson from the HSN. Wear your wrist straps.

Rock Band Nirvana

Barely Hanging On — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:17:19 +0000

We have a few guitar heros sitting around the house collecting dust but I don't think I would be running out and grabbing this version of Rock Band Nirvana for the kids just yet.

Source Penny Arcade

If you still need a fix of Nirvana check out this video by Richard Cheese I think? It's kind of snappy.