Sony go through with "PSN Pass"

Sony has confirmed that a "pass" will be needed to play any used games on the Playstation network in the near future.  At first, this was just something that was going to be tested with the release of resistance 3, but now Sony has given the green light to push it on all Playstation games that have access to the Playstation Network.

What this system will do is assign each game a key, and each key will be assigned to a PSN ID.  Once this code has been used on a PSN ID, it will allow that player to access the game's online content.  If, for whatever reason, the game is sold or traded, a new key will need to be purchased at the price of $10 USD.

Essentially what Sony's doing at this point is grabbing at more money.  They want to get their hands in the used game market and leech just that much more money from their customers; a "moneygrab", if you will.  Now, I've never really been a big fan of Sony, but I never thought they'd pull something like this.  With this trend in gaming of things like Call of Duty Elite and this PSN Pass becoming acceptable, what can we look forward to in the near future?


Via:GamePolitics

Another Killzone... yay?[Rant]

If anyone has known me for an extended period of time, they'll learn that there are two things I truly hate.  Apple and Playstation fanboys.  The latter will be my target audience of this post.

First we had Killzone 1, a mediocre FPS with mediocre graphics and piss poor gameplay.  I rented it for my PS2 a week or two after it came out and I returned it the second day I had it;  it was just THAT bad.  Needless to say, I absolutely hated it.


Fast forward a couple years.  I'm just chillin', watching TV and I notice an ad spot for Killzone 2.  I'm immediately skeptical about the quality of the game, but I thought I might at least try it.  Again, I rent it, I play it, but this time my reaction was different.  Killzone 2 was actually pretty decent.  Huge graphics improvement, game play improved immensely and the online was great.  All in all, I'd give it an 8/10.  Then I hear these Sony fanboys talking about the perfection that is Killzone 2.  I tried to reason with them, I tried telling them that it was a good game and that's all.  They wouldn't hear any of it and immediately disregarded me as a Microsoft fanboy.  This stoked the fires inside me, telling me to grab a knife and rid the world of this infestation of stupidity, but I held myself back.



Now I'm browsing over some tech news for a story and then I see this.  Now, don't get me wrong, I'm excited for the game itself, but I'm not excited about the coming onslaught of fanboy bullshit.  Depending on how good KZ3 is, I may end up strangling several fanboys before being arrested and convicted of murder.

With that, I bid you farewell for the remainder of the weekend as well as Monday.  If anything is posted between now and then, it will be by my friend Sudatze.