There are loads of geeky forums out there with threads like ‘post pics of your setup’. Well. I can’t help but join the brigade. Might aswell blog it too.
I’ve a few things missing since I moved house though, namely the Gamecube and Super Nintendo (oh and a new Wii I keep telling myself I’ll buy again). Dreamcast, Mega Drive & Master System are all sitting in their boxes too, never to come out again until such time as the desire to play Sonic arises.

But what is out is the Sharp 42XD1E 1080p LCD TV, PS3, PS2 (for Guitar Hero and SingStar, obviously). A shiny, free-with-phoneline Virgin Media vBox, my Sony STR-DB790 6.1 Surround Amp (soon to be upgraded for the STR-DB3200es 7.1 LPCM L33Tness) and those woofy little extended definition speakers. My materialism almost makes me feel sick. But dammit I love it!
Yes, and I know the floor is wonky. It annoys me too.

Hopefully this weekend I’ll be saying goodbye to the now ‘boxed up and ready to be sold’ U.S PlayStation 3. The do look quite nice sitting together though.

After months of having to troll through that horrid ‘This is Living’ marketing portal website, you know - the one where you have to click on little webcams 10px wide in order to find out information about games… EU gets a nice new PlayStation 3 website. One that’s a bit more informative, accessible and hopefully bug-free.

So, yes. uk.playstation.com/ps3/ is up.

The new Grand Theft Auto IV trailer went out this evening with a bang. It looks, well, exactly like Grand Theft Auto but prettier. Much prettier. Nice bloom effects, dynamic lighting etc, lots of things going on at once - a hell of a lot more people and cars. Oh, and not to mention New York city. Lovely.

Here are some screens from the HD trailer.

Three spiders. Spinning their webs on my balcony. Nice of them to space themselves evenly for the photo.

I like spiders.

It’s not particularly surprising that PlayStation 3 does not support the Microsoft based NTFS file formatting system. So those PlayStation 3 owners out there who happily plugged in their USB HDD’s to copy media across may have been disappointed to see that their drive does not appear - most likely because it’s formatted as NTFS.
FAT32 drives are fine however, but as Microsoft want’s you to use NTFS; Microsoft software like Windows XP, won’t let you format drives using FAT32, above 32Gb. This is frustrating.

So, to format your drive so that it works with PlayStation 3 - you’ll need some additional software. CompuApps SwiftKnife V3 does the job very well. It’s simple and easy to use and, most importantly - free.

I purchased Motorstorm for the PlayStation 3 back in January, completed it and just yesterday I got the PAL/UK version of the game. I was gutted to see my game save wouldn’t work. Not wanting to spend the same number of hours completing it a second time (despite it being an awesome game), I wanted to find a game save, so I could unlock the cars I had so rightfully earned, for online play.

Well, I managed to simply combine the U.S save with the E.U one and vóila! Done.

Enjoy!

You’ll need to copy it on to a memory device, and put it in the following folder structure: /PS3/SAVEDATA/BCES00006.
You can then import it under the PlayStation 3’s Game Data Utility under Game in the XMB.