The Guildmasters

For those of you who are Playstation Plus members Uncharted 3 Drakes Deception is now available for download via the playstation store.

Beta testing multiplayer online only there are some extra rewards for those participating in the beta testing which can’t be got anywhere else.

This basically means everyone who owns a PS3 can give it a go as the welcome back package gave us all a 30 day free trial of Playstation plus.

Tony:)

Yes the playstation store is finally back online so if you had any money in there you can finally check to see if it is still there. Mine is, not too much but it’s still money all the same, i’m glad to see it wasn’t missing.

There are a few error messages, in fact quite a few error messages, i’ve had to go back and try again probably more than a dozen times and that was just to get my free game. I chose Infamous and it was a mega download, over 7000 MB which actually took around 8hrs to download and after that I had to delete a bunch of stuff so I could install it.

Totally worth it for me as I rented the game but never got all the trophies so now I can, I was going to take Little Big Planet also but to be honest I don’t have the room on my old 80Gig so i’ll probably leave it.

Again I got errors when I tried to get the playstation plus 30 day free trial as I think that will be worth it but as yet it hasn’t let me get it.

So the store is back up but with many errors, unless of course it’s just my machine, which it could well be, let me know how you do.

Tony:)

Hi all,
I’ve been messing around in the playstation home and for those who haven’t tried it out yet it’s pretty cool.

There is quite a lot to do there and more people than I expected hang out there, so what’s so special about playstation home?

First of all you have to create an account, it’s free (at the moment) and you just need an email address, it’s only for ps3 owners and it’s a fairly unique experience.

Once you sign up, you have to download the playstation home, then you will get your own crash pad which you can decorate to your liking, wallpaper, furniture, it’s all pretty basic to start but as you play games you can earn some cool stuff to put in your pad.

One of the things I did was play resident evil 5 and it gave me three of the character figures to put in my home at playstation home, they look pretty cool too, since then i’ve unlocked quite a bit of other stuff by playing games at playstation home.

There is a mall, theatre, bowling alley and much more, I even played a game of golf which won me a model boat and a t-shirt, not real, these are virtual products for your playstation home, there are tons of other ps3 owners there so most will have at least one thing in common, you can start your own club and buy upgrades for your playstation home, like a penthouse suite but these require real money.

Another cool thing is some items are rare and the latest news is that some of these rare items are actually being sold on ebay, a reaper outfit sold apparently for $66, how that works is you get redeem codes for certain things for playing certain games, the code is only redeemable once so if you want to sell your code you can, i’m not sure if it’s meant to be used like that but if it’s your code and you want to sell it you can make some money, cool eh?

I’m going to play some texas holdem poker at the EA sports section to try and win a bracelet for my apartment so if you want to pop over and try the playstation home out come and give it a go.

Oh yes and by the way, please forgive me if I don’t talk to you as I don’t have a headset or a keyboard for my ps3 yet so i’m not ignoring you ok? If I get enough people start to hang out at The Guildmasters then i’ll consider starting a club at playstation home, oh and another thing, you can even invite people back to your pad, how cool is that?

Pop on over and check it out, and if you notice me say hi, see you there.

Tony