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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.

Real Life Pacman and Mario Cart

Barely Hanging On — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:43:59 +0000

Some people have a lot of free time on their hands as is evident in these two videos I found this morning.

MARIO KART (REMI GAILLARD)
by nqtv