E3 Update: Xbox Live awarded with record for the Most Popular Online Console Gaming Service

HUGE milestone for the Xbox Live! service over 20 Million users on Live!
Microsoft now has a Guinness Book record for this outstanding feat.

Live! is the most popular console online service..!

and Some Twitter sceenies…on XBLive!

More RISEN Screens..plus video

And now the Video…..

Playstation 3 and HULU video streaming

1st video post. Visit The Social Gamer on Blip.tv

The Social Gamer Youtube channel

Yeah rejoice…! The Social gamer now has a Youtube Channel. Stop on by and subscribe. More video game trailers in HD not that low res crap. I have new HD converting software. Just need to get used to all of the options with the new software but everything should be in order very soon. Peace

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Finally added E-Mail subscription

We have been looking around the web on directions for setting up a RSS feed for The Social Gamer blog. We were able to get the code for E-Mail subscribing. So now you can sign up for future updates via your E-Mail address. (read on)

SONY in denial of PS3’s failing sales numbers? I

I swear SONY will never admit that the PS3 is a failure regardless of loosing billions and even if it’s by 100,000 or over 1 million unites sold projected sales number. sad sad company..! (continue -> video)

I had a blast on The Bitbag podcast last night.

I was invited to join in on The Bitbag show last night and had a great time discussing and debating game(s). The Bitbag has become a regular part of my gaming incite and rumor mill news. LoL
But in any case the podcast should be on the site soon. The podcast was recorded late late night or very early morning depending on how you see things after 12am EST…! Go check out the blog
and listen in The crew is real talk fellas and it not for the kiddies at all.

The Bitbag

Playstation Network down for “maintenance”

Today I went to log into my PSN account and to my surprise I got a message. Servers unavailable

please try logging in later. Read the photo. The small box to the far right states the server down schedule.

West coast time down:  Oct.14th 11:00AM – 5:00PM

East coast time:  Oct. 14th 2:00PM – 8:00PM

So there you go. I thought my PS3 was broken since I didn’t get any E-Mail warnings or anything.

Every time XBLive! is gonna be down, I always got some kind of notice via a message on XBL or an E-Mail.

Hope this helps.

Oct.15th – PS3 System Software version 2.50

PS3 System Software version 2.50

• Improved Official Bluetooth Headset wireless headset support, including an on-screen indicator that shows volume, battery charge, and mute functions.
• Bluetooth Headset  Wireless headset High Quality (HQ) mode, which utilises advanced wireless technologies and the headset’s dual-microphone design to enable clear and wide-band wireless voice communication with PS3 system.
• An in-game screenshot capture tool – titles that support the feature will be announced in the future.
• PS3 Trophies user interface enhancement – When players acquire a Trophy, the in-game notification will now include the specific Trophy icon created by the developer, while more intuitive options for comparing Trophies with friends have been added, including an icon to represent each Trophy level.
• Video – Video scene search functionality will provide thumbnails to help you find a particular scene in a video more easily.
• Information Board – The Information Board will be able to include direct links to PlayStation Store, making it easier for PS3 owners to download content that they read about on the Information Board.
• Power save – PS3 owners will have the option to automatically shut-off their console or controllers after pre-selected periods of inactivity.
• Flash 9 content becomes supported on the Internet Browser.

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Playstation firmware update this morning

This morning I turned on my PS3 and was promted to update my system’s firmware. I downloaded it and noticed a few tweaks to the Playstation Store and a few update to the web browser. I am posting from my PS3 right now. I wanted to see if the new Flash9 update would let me post from my PS3 and it words great. Now if I am playing a game and I get any tips I can just pop up the Web Browser on the PS3 and post it. Great feature. Sony is really working hard to catch up tothe browsers on a PC or Mac. Seem like the update didn’t include the HOME virtual world interface. I was hoping to start designing my apartment and meeting people on the PSNetwork. I will keep you posted as information become available. Well take care and here’s hoping we get it

Call of Duty World at War Beta…!

Well I have been playing around with the Call of Duty World at War BETA for the last couple of days now. What I’ve come to realise is that it is basicly CoD4 with WWII skinned on it. The perks are all there with the exception to the extra Perk for vehicles. You can still climb over object with the A button and you still have the same Barracks and clan Tag options after a certain amount of exp acquired.
The game is just as fun and the special abilities like after 3 kills you can call in radar to find your enemies and when you get 7 kills in a row you can summon a large herd of dogs..lol yeah instead of the helicoptor you get dogs that hunt down your enemies. It’s quite funny to see the hounds let loose. Nothing much to add, at least from this portion of the BETA. Right now the level cap is at 11 but I see this getting raised once more people are let into the BETA. I am already maxed out but that means nothing with out the skill involved in playing the game. One more mention this is a BETA on the 360. I am not sure or have heard any news about any future PS3 BETA. Bottom line is that the game is great just like you’ve come to expect from CoD4.

Playstation HOME…November 19th to compete with NXE

Today I started seeing website posts sating that the Playstation HOME will be launching on the same day that the XBOX Live Experience for the 360. November 19th 2008 will be a huge day for both platforms as both offer similar interaction with friends. But once the system update get into full swing we will all really see the true differences from the good to the bad. I personally can’t wait for both. I just hope the worlds internets can handle the multi-millions of users for both platforms downloading at the same time. Who knows…LoL

Netflix raise your premiums $1

If your one of the now many “Netflix” BluRay movie watchers and loved renting unlimited BluRay movies for the same price of standard DVDs. Then you need to look at this E-Magazine artical. The price is still worth the premium unless you do not have or use a BluRay player. You need to go into your account and Opt-Out of renting BluRay movies or you will automaticly be surcharged $1 every month on top of what ever plan you currently have.

Here is the entire Home Media E-Magazine….

Fable 2 let’s you be friendly-er?

I am not sure if you remember a week or so back the report was that Fable 2 was not going to ship with Co-Op play on disk, but would be given as a game update shortly after launch. Today I saw this on the Official Lionhead Studio’s website:

“Remember a couple of days ago (or was it a week) where on a blog it was mentioned that Fable II would be shipping ‘without’ Online Co-op? And remember we said we were busting our balls to get it ready in time for a ‘Day One’ release? Well – news folks! It looks like we’ve done it…for all of you who are connected to Xbox Live, when starting up your copy of Fable II (on 21st October in USA, 24th October in Europe and 18th December in Japan). So all of you getting upset and all, you wouldn’t even have noticed… Sort of. Well done to the team.”

“Taken into account we don’t fail certification!”