Ha ha! This is a spoof of the original Tom Cruise video, so the video below makes more sense if you’ve seen the Cruise one.

If your a fan of facebook, myspace, etc. But ever thought, man I wish there was a gaming version of this. Now there is, MyGameMug.com. It’s a great place for gamers to get together to play and chat about games.

Profile Page

It can show the game your currently playing. Any games you tag show up as your favorite games in your profile. If your part of any Guilds/Clans it will show in your profile as well. Your reviews & uploaded photos show up here. People can also comment on your profile too.

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Metal Gear Solid 4 & Metal Gear Online (MGO) will be one game. MGO will be integrated into MGS4. Online will support 16 players in the following modes: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, King of the Hill, and Team Sneak. You can customize your character with up to three skills from a large selection. A couple examples are “Marathon” which allows you to run faster or longer (not sure), and “Narc” which reveals the location of the enemy trying to kill you. They’ll be over 100 different weapons you can use online.

The magazine includes a 2008 PlayStation calendar, nice too. There are some tips to creating custom classes in Call of Duty 4 as well.

But the biggest surprise is the photo below!

MetalProxy noticed that my Kanji Theme was in the latest issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine, Jan. 2008 with MSG4 on the front! I’m on page 11 in the bottom right. Here is a scan of it, click on the image for the full version.

Last Friday at work we had our Information Systems department LAN party (the image above is the department Christmas card I made). We had three PS3’s, and one 360, all running on projectors. Sadly they are all 480i projectors, but it was still fun. After I had the PS3’s set up, I tried to get them all connected so we could have a massive Warhawk battle. I was kind of bummed that the Omega Dawn booster pack wasn’t out in time for the LAN party though.

We have a huge Ethernet hub at work. So we connected all the PS3’s up to that, but the weird thing was the PS3’s couldn’t see each other. The PS3 basically said, I need the internet, where is it? Luckily I remembered that in the office next to us, they had wireless. So I tried that and it worked, and we got all the PS3’s to connect to each other that way. But I think it’s pretty stupid that you “need” the internet just to play a LAN game … at least with Warhawk you do.

Anyway, once we had them all connected it went very smoothly. At one point we had all the PS3’s running Warhawk. We only had 7 people playing Warhawk at once, but it was possible to have a total of 12 people on three PS3’s. We had enough controllers, but not enough people. I like how you can jump in and out of Warhawk on the fly. Great feature, wish more games used it.

But the big hit of the night was surprisingly PAIN! I loaded that up on my PS3 and had a few people try the multiplayer on it. There was 3 modes: Horse, Bowling and a mode where you see how many explosive boxes you can hit. They played that for a couple hours, constantly laughing. It was a great party game! A couple people said they would buy a PS3 just for PAIN, lol.

I tried Rainbow Six Vegas & Call of Duty 4 via LAN. And you can only have one person per screen, which got old quick. But we jumped online with CoD4 and invited the other PS3’s into our party, that was fun! After a while I tried out Rock Band on the 360. I’ve never tried those games before, took some getting used to of course, but very fun. I used to play DDR a lot so the concept was similar. So I picked up on it pretty quick. A couple times in the night the 360 had trouble reading the rock band DVD, had to reset the 360 and clean it off to continue. I’ve never had that issue with the Blu-ray discs, which I like

Through out the night people tried various demos and PSN games. We started at 5:30 and went until 11:30. It was a fun night.

I know that this is totally off-topic, but I don’t care! I’m a big big Star Wars fan and have been looking forward to both the live-action TV series that’s coming up, and also the computer-animated one. To be honest, I’ve always brushed aside the animated one in my mind, thinking that live-action is where it’s at. But after seeing this video, I’ve totally changed my mind. It looks great! From what I understand, the animated series is due to premiere in the fall of 2008. I can’t wait, and I hope it’s in HD!

Star Wars: Clone Wars Video

I’ve finally put together the final pieces of my newest PS3 endeavour - MULTIPLAY3R!

From MULTIPLAY3R’s home site (www.multiplay3r.com) you can now access this site, plus a PS3 Wiki, a PS3 News site, and PS3 & PSP forums! I hope you all enjoy the new sites, and use them. I’m open to suggestions, but please start using my sites!

MULTIPLAY3R
PS3News @ MULTIPLAY3R
PS3Wiki @ MULTIPLAY3R
PS3Forums @ MULTIPLAY3R

Hey everyone. Don’t forget about our new news site - PS3News @ MULTIPLAY3R. We gets tips from readers occassionally about stuff we’ve missed - now you can post it yourself! PS3News works on the Digg.com model - readers submit news that other readers then vote on. Right now it only takes one vote to publish an article - just enough to confirm that it’s decent news. (This may change in the future, I don’t know yet.)

So head over to PS3News @ MULTIPLAY3R to read all the latest PS3 news you can, and contribute as well! The more people contribute, the more PS3 news you get!

PS3News @ MULTIPLAY3R

As you, my awesome readers, are most probably aware, this site is a blog where four of us express our opinions about the latest PS3 news. Often we post pure news articles, but this site is really a sounding board for us, hence the name “PS3Blog”.

The four of us just don’t have enough time to write up posts about every bit of PS3 new, unfortunately. For this reason, you may not see all the latest information here. I’ve been thinking about this, and I decided to create a new site for news. The site is PS3 News by MULTIPLAY3R. This site allows the readers to submit stories, so hopefully many of you will paricipate to make it the best news site for the PS3 around. Of course we will be pointing to articles on PS3Blog.net as well, to make sure that you don’t miss out on them if you end up only monitoring PS3 News. Readers often contact me to tell me about PS3 news, and this is a great way for you to tell fellow readers immediately about the news!

This is an exciting endeavour for me, and I hope all of you enjoy the new site.

PS3 News

This is just a post to wish all of our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Thank you for taking the time to read our ramblings (especially mine) and for commenting on our posts.

I will try to post any news I find (if any) during this *cough* boring *cough* period of the year so try and visit us once or twice in-between you stuffing your faces full of food and getting drunk!

Look out for our end of year musings which should appear at the end of the month.

I hope everybody gets what they want and have a great festive period whatever you are doing.

Me? I’ll be playing MGS3: Subsistence and watching whatever DVD box sets I get, whilst shoving mince pies, trifle and various chocolates down my throat until I feel sick and regret that last chunk of Dairy Milk. Happy times!

IBM has shown a roadmap for the Cell processor. The cool thing is that it may foreshadow a bit of information about the PS4. It reveals that IBM plans to have a Cell processor capable of a terraflop of performance by 2010 or so. Currently they’re doing just over 200 gigaflops. That future Cell processor will have 32 SPE’s and 2 PPE’s.

IBM unveils Cell roadmap

Like I promised, today is Tuesday and I’m announcing the winners of the HDMI cable contest brought to you by this site and eHDMI.com. The winners were chosen with a random number generator, but their names both happen to start with a ‘D’. Here they are:

Dingo
dogday

Congratulations to both of you. I will be forwarding your e-mail addresses on to eHDMI.com, who will take care of contacting you for you shipping information. Congrats, I think this was a fun contest!

This is our first-ever contest here at PS3Blog.net, and it wouldn’t be possible without eHDMI.com.

eHDMI.com has graciously offered two of their 6 foot HDMI cables to the winner of this contest. All you have to do to enter the contest is reply to this post, saying why you’d like a free HDMI cable. (I hope it’s PS3 related!)

The contest will end December 2nd, when we’ll draw two names at random, and eHDMI will ship those two winners their cables! We’ll announce the winners on December 2nd, so the winners will know what’s coming to them. Very simple. You don’t need to include your address in your post, just make sure you use a valid e-mail address so that we can contact you.

[Edit: Sorry, I forgot to mention. For USA and Canada only.]

Contest closed one week early. Winner of the HDMI cable contest announced here.

Yeah, I know there are problems with this site when viewed in IE. To fix this problem immediately, just use Firefox instead! If that’s not an option right now, be patient. A solution is forthcoming.

Man I hate IE.

Hmmm. Should I get one of these? Or should I make do until I have a new pre/processor or receiver that can switch HDMI? Once I get my PS3, I’ll have two HDMI devices, and only one DVI/HDCP input on my TV. So I’ll have to use a component connection for my PS3 or my SA8300HD PVR. Or both (which is a valid option). But the cool thing about this switcher is that you don’t actually have to push any buttons. It’ll automatically detect an incoming signal on one of its inputs, and switch to it upon detection.

The only problem with thing looks to be the fact that it costs 300 bucks. But Audioholics thinks very highly of this HDMI switcher. They tried to trip up the Radiient switcher in several ways, and it performed flawlessly. The picture quality also suffered no degradation going through the switcher, which is good.

Radiient Select-4 Four-Input HDMI Switch/Repeater

Longtime readers will know that I’m a big Guitar Hero fan. One annoyance is the good old chord chaining you to the PS2. Now Red Octance has announced a new wireless guitar controller for the PS2, and it’s white. A nice glossy white at that.

See old controller above. New controller below. Note that the select button doesn’t seem to be placed any better. Doh!

The suggested retail price will be $59.99. My question is this: will it work with the PS3? My answer is this: probably not. While there have been rumours of a PS2 - PS3 adapter peripheral, that would be for wired controllers only. The PS3 uses BlueTooth for its wireless, and this controller probably does not.

IGN: Red Octane Premiers Wireless Guitar Hero Controller