If you own one of these fatties, then its possible your internal clock has been really confused lately.
It’s now officially safe to turn on your PS3, whether it was affected or not by the dangerous time warp of an issue.
Word from Sony and other ‘investigators’ on the web is that, for some strange reason, the Playstation 3 was for some reason, despite ‘CELL’, believing that 2010 was a leap year. This meant that as March 1st came round, it believed it was February 29th and basically, everything went wrong. Everything.
So basically in this period you couldn’t use anything that required any sort of network feature, from trophies to DLC, but as soon as the time hit 00:00 GMT (technically March 2nd) things started to fix.
However, it is clear that things still have not completely sorted out following the apocolyPS3 (it’s impossible to say that, believe me) and error 8001050F. Some are saying their trophies have vanished, others claim that their system has been bricked. Sony has given advice with regards to the problems with trophies syncage (turn it on, quit out, re-sync, then load again), but people are getting dodgy results.
That is all we know so far, and whether it’s going to mess up when the real leap year comes along, we’re just going to have to wait and see…
If you see this, it's time to run, the Terminators are coming. Skynet was true!
In the podcast we recorded today, though will most likely be up tomorrow, we talked about the evolving issues regarding a widespread and fairly serious bug. The issue, whilst originally being seen to simply stop players connected to the Playstation Network and viewing their trophies, it soon stopped users being able to play games online, to play games with trophies, online or offline at all. Other issues, such as the calendar randomly being set back to January 2000, seems to be crippling the system. However, it is only happening to the PS3 “Fat” versions, not the slimline versions.
Well, there have been major rumours floating about, and I’m not going to speculate on what is causing it, but I do have some very good advice from the Playstation.Blog. First of all, the errors they say have been happening are:
- The date of the PS3 system may be re-set to Jan 1, 2000.
- When the user tries to sign in to the PlayStation Network, the following
message appears on the screen; “An error has occurred. You have been
signed out of PlayStation Network (8001050F)”. - When the user tries to launch a game, the following error message appears
on the screen and the trophy data may disappear; “Failed to install
trophies. Please exit your game.” - When the user tries to set the time and date of the system via the
Internet, the following message appears on the screen; “The current date
and time could not be obtained. (8001050F)” - Users are not able to play back certain rental video downloaded from the
PlayStation Store before the expiration date.
So, serious issues, but they are assuring users they are working on it and a fix should be out within 24 hours to prevent losing any functionality. We’ve kept our PS3′s off for a bit of time, until this problem is sorted, but basically, KEEP IT TURNED OFF. Even if Heavy Rain is sitting there waiting to go in.
MAG is one of the few games that needs very little explanation, in fact I think “Massive Action Game” pretty much covers all the bases. The basic idea of this game was to take the multiplayer mode from a first person shooter and blow it up to MMO proportions. How big are we talking here? 256 players in one online game. I’ll give you a moment to process that. Most peoples initial reaction is thats its a great idea, but surely it couldn’t work. I mean, how can any server cope with 256 individual players at once. How can any multiplayer map support that many people without outright chaos breaking out? How is anyone ever going to know what they are meant to be doing?
Much of the original assets have been remastered, though can’t they just slip this part in…God of War III? Oh OK then.
Playstation blog have posted a first trailer of the God of War Collection. The collection, which has both God of War I and II, with 720p remastered graphics, is due for release before the end of this year. They are going to be bringing trophy support and all other goodies, such as exclusive access to the God of War III demo early to the game.
Check out the video below (HD for well, HD quality) and see if these last gen games stand up to their modern competition.
GAME: God of War
Developer
Santa Monica Studios
Publishers
Sony Entertainment
Platforms
PS2
Genre
Action/Adventure
Multiplayer Options
No Multiplayer
Release Date (UK)
March 22, 2005
