According to reports flowing in from all sorts of sources, things are not all hunky-dory at Infinity Ward. It all started with rumours about the studio’s CTO Jason West and also possibly Vince Zampella, being unceremoniously ejected out of their office by scary looking guys.Activision filed an SEC earlier today that, among other things, also mentioned an issues about “...breaches of contract and insubordination by two senior employees at Infinity Ward”. It further goes on to state that this “internal human resources inquiry” may lead to “departure of key personnel and litigation”. While Activision has not released any official statement detailing the incidence, social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn offers insight into the fate...
Looks like all the owners of the older PlayStation 3 models had to do was to simply wait out the calendar bug. According to an official announcement on the PlayStation Blog, users should now be able to safely use their consoles without the danger of losing any data. Users ay be required to adjust the XMB clock if it is reporting and incorrect date, and from there on after connecting to PSN, the console should be able to fix any and all corrupted trophy information. Even though the sources at Sony did not specifically mention the issue with downloaded games becoming unavailable; the official statement does mention that all "...symptoms are now resolved" and "users are able to use their PS3 normally." ...
Discussion boards and Twitter network is rife with reports that pre-slim generation of PlayStation 3 consoles are refusing to gracefully enter the new financial year. Official sources and the community are still unclear as to the exact nature and cause of the problem. However, reports indicate that the issue is triggered when the console's internal clock switches from the last day of February to the first day of March. The bug is mostly affecting games and services that require a connection to the PlayStation Network. The theory so far is that between the console's hardware clock, XMB clock and the time on the PSN servers; the three are unable to synchronize, and this is making some of the user's data unreadable by the system. For instance, users are reporting that their trophy...