I didn’t bother reporting it on here simply because I thought it would be only temporary but its looks to be staying for longer than expected.

The Sony Playstation network has been shut down indefinitely following an attack on the system. Not only is this a massive inconvenience for all gamers it also proposes a level of security risk. This comes straight from the horses mouth:

For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.

To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant, to review your account statements and to monitor your credit reports. We are providing the following information for those who wish to consider it:

Read the full article here

Check your credit cards and don’t respond to suspicious emails. Most gamers I believe are well adapted to the online world and can figure out a scammy and potentially dangerous email from a mile away, but be more careful than ever.

Talk more about it in the forum thread here: http://gt5cheats.com/forum/index.php?topic=1686.0

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Another glitch using online play. These are definitely quite popular. I find it a little odd however.. does look fun.. but hey, you get cashed up and a load of experience!

Interesting question there. But a little bit of background:

• Logitech G27 Steering Wheel – $2.06 plus shipping
• Shift 2 PS3 Game – 0.72c plus shipping
• Logitech Playstation 3 Driving Force GT Racing Wheel – $3.27 plus shipping
• Playstation Move Starter Bundle – 0.16c plus shipping.

Scary thing is.. this isn’t a joke! These are genuine won items and will be sent to their winners within 14 days of the auction finishing. Winners come from UK, US, Australia.. pretty much anywhere!

Its all at Games for Pennies.com so Sign up today and start bidding!

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A little off topic but it looks like the Nintendo 3DS is finally out and causing a bit of a storm. This is possible the first handheld console I have ever really been excited about since the original Gameboy! I’m not joking, this just looks really cool.

For heaps of stuff about the Nintendo 3DS you can check out http://www.compare3dgames.com/.

I posted the other day about a glitch where you get a GTR and travel around in circles for a few minutes for a couple of million bucks.

Well since that was found the guys and Polyphony have patched it.

BUT this one hasn’t been patched yet!

Check it out:

Saw this video on Youtube and even though I reckon the patch fixed it.. its pretty funny. Check it out:

Only a week ago or so, the latest GT5 update was released. In a surprise move an update for the update (or so you can call it) has been released. Official notes can be found below:

[Major Changes and New Features]
-Friend Rankings
In Drift Trials and Time Trials, you can now display leaderboards that shows only your friends. While it was difficult before to locate your friends in the general leaderboards, this now makes it easier to compare laptimes with them, allowing you to compete just between your friends for the best laps and scores.

[Correction of Known Issues]
- The calculation of performance points (PP) which is an index of a car’s performance, is now calculated without taking into account the tyre selection.You can now combine the performance point restriction and the tyre restriction when setting the regulations for a lounge.
- Fixed the issue where the performance of electric cars increased/decreased after a certain amount of driving.
- Downloaded replays from Seasonal Event Rankings can now be viewed properly.

[Other Changes]
- Cars worth over 1,000,000 Cr. (Including those in a gift car ticket form) are now prohibited from being traded to prevent issues during the trading process. When lending and borrowing cars between friends, please utilize the car loan system

In case you haven’t heard of it yet, some PS3‘s are falling victim of the ‘Yellow Light of Death‘ or ylod for short. It’s probably not as infamous as the Red Ring of Death (RROD) bricking thousands of Xbox 360 consoles worldwide.

Lately there have been people in forums, and even our forum, talking about how GT5 cause the dreaded ps3 yellow light on their system.

So what is the deal with this dreaded yellow light and is it an easy fix or is it the end for you beloved PS3 and the poor GT5 disc stuck inside. Well there is a simply way of getting the disc out so don’t worry about that but even fixing the yellow light problem itself can be a relatively simple fix if you know what your doing and are happy to get your hands a little dirty.

Again, with the Xbox 360 RROD, the main underlying issue here is the console overheating. Some have heard the fan go into overdrive the weeks or days before the yellow light comes on and shuts everything down. Also the options so far are not very desirable, you either buy a new PS3 or send it back to Sony. Buying a new one will set you back quite a bit and sending it back to Sony will cost you over $100 plus taxes and will take 1-3 weeks to be fixed and note, you will also lose your saved data. However if you are under warranty it should be free so if that’s the case, I’d recommend just sending it back unless you can’t wait that long.

Of course with the springing up of the Yellow Light of Death there are now many products on the market which claim to guide you in helping your PS3. I thought I would check one of them out so I bought a copy. The information in this product was very comprehensive and included detailed images and videos to help you fix your machine. I recommend you read my review before you go out and buy one. And if it doesn’t work, you have a 60 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to lose!

Ok want a GT5 simulator?

How about this one???

I heard Bestbuy has these in stock.. not!

A few people have complained about how ‘loose’ it looks. Remember the screen moves with the whole machine so it won’t necessarily look like your facing ‘up’ but rather more like your accelerating with the feeling of being pushed back. Same thing with turning. I’d imagine you’d need to be in a room with the same colour walls and no objects for this to have the best effect.

Whatever.. its pretty awesome!