It's Thursday, August 11 2011 and In 5 Minutes is here to give you your trice weekly bashing of gaming news in, well around 5 minutes obviously.
This episode only has a smidgen of a mention of the London riots today, but don't worry because it's actually a pretty heartwarming story.
In the show:
THQ find the need to announce coop in a video game.
PlayStation 3 owners not only have new firmware to download, but will also get exclusive access to the Assassin's Creed: Revelations beta - take that Xbox 360 owners!
Sony help a young lad who was mugged during the riots, by giving him a brand new Sony PSP.
Nintendo's 3DS gets a nice price cut in the UK, whilst the PS Vita price remains rock solid
All that and more in the next 5 Minutes.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that it is ending the Sony Rewards program on December 31, 2024, and as a result that date will be the last time possible to redeem points and access your account.
This is a shame. I've been using it since the start. It had a few problems and issues but overall I did end up saving a little bit over 60 dollars using this program. There was probably not enough people using it.
This is not playstation stars. Sony Rewards is a US rewards program linked to a visa credit card.
I just checked... I have 144 points at the moment. Not even enough to get a $5 PS card. I can get a $1 digital gift card to Target or home Depot though.
I thought they were been done with this, I redeem some good stuff with this in the past. Wonder how much i got its been awhile
I've gotten so many free games throughout the years w this program, this sucks. I've been with it since the beginning.
I just run a majority of my needed purchases through it and pay it off immediately instead of using cash or debit. The most recent was on Tuesday I got a $10 dlc free. It was great as long you're not borrowing out large amounts of money that you don't have.
Realistically, those weren’t free games. You could have used another cards rewards points or bought Sony products on sale and then used the savings to buy PlayStation games.
Well there was a large boost on any purchase made on PSN, so there was an incentive to use over other cards' rewards. It used to be better, then they lowered it. I forget the exact multiplier though.
I pretty much got this $10 DLC free this week just by resubbing my PS+ Premium. (On sale during Days of Play) Not a lot of other cards would give that much back
Right. I can do the same thing with my credit card rewards, but I have much more flexibility in what I can redeem those points for, including buying PS games.
i remember getting Assassin creed black flag for free with Redeeming my Points for 10 dollars when it was on sale this is very sad news.
I actually believe that was one of my first cashouts on the program! haha
I remember I had just gotten the PS4 and I used it on Black Flag or Battlefield 4 to go with it.
I'm pretty sure I remember it being Black Flag though! (Great choice, as it became my favorite AC of all time)
It should come as no surprise that Nintendo is pretty protective regarding its IP. Going after emulators, ROM hacks, and reproductions is one thing, but it looks like the firm is starting to aim its sights on something rather surprising: sheet music.
this reminds me of that nintendo facebook social media question where they asked people what their favourite nintendo song was and people posted yt links. EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS TAKEN DOWN
You want to kill a party fast just invite Nintendo. But we are talking about a company who took down pictures of a strategy guide that has never appeared in the west. You don't see Square taking down music or sheet music to Aerith's theme, Tifa's theme, June Mermaid. Memorable tunes stick with fans to great games. Nintendo games have fans that have been routed since the NES. People have Youtube vids showing how to play Zelda's lullaby on piano, violin or my favorite the harp. Nintendo taking down sheet music or those curious about a Japanese strategy guide makes Nintendo look like an asshole to those fans.
Torrent and Usenet is the way. Imagine if all these people just share game music, roms, fan remakes in that way instead of on a website. Nintendo would be so helpless and cannot do anything we all win LOL
Out of spite those people should now out put all that music in a torrent upload and share it (I will seed for them🤣) Then email Nintendo the link to it lol. Good luck taking down a torrent. Torrents and Usenet is the only way to get around anything Nintendo tries to take down because they can't. This is the way to preserve games and game music, without anyone telling you otherwise.
The latest Switch firmware update kills off support for the Elon Musk-owned social media company.
Social garbage should be abandoned altogether.. the world is stupid since these things got introduced
I would say YouTube was more to blame for this weird unrest we are seeing at the minute. That platform has given license to some of the stupidest people to build advice channels for kids growing through their formative learning years. It's no wonder there are so many incels around.
It’s for posting content like game captures, not responding to your boo’s pool pictures.
But F twitter anyway
correction, was a cesspit,
now more of just a swamp / everglades / marshland
Being mice about Sony and its PlayStation devices is really one hell of hard work here in North America. And that is just so sad.
I find it really crazy insane that whenever people loose to a PS3 argument with the Xbox 360, they call on the Wii and the DS stuff for reinforcement. Specially when sales figures are involved.
And if that isn't enough the losers use the PC for reinforcement.
And now if that isn't enough they use Apple and the iPhone and iPad for reinforcement just to bash on the PS3.
While the 360 haters only use the PS3 for defense?
Why so much hate and hatred for the Sony PlayStation brand?
Are you Sony haters descendants of Sadako or (Samara if you live in the USA)?
What next? You PS3 haters gonna call on the very source of hate himself- Satan just to bash a piece of plastic & semi-conductors.
Face it, when it comes to sales figures just let Microsoft have it. There is no way you can beat Microsoft to it. But when it comes to variety of games, exclusive or not Sony PlayStation can't be beat not even by Nintendo.