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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

2.40 Q&A Gives Us That Morning-After Feeling

12:20PM Luke Plunkett | Sony’s Eric Lempel has posted a somewhat exhaustive Q&A session on the PlayStation Blog, which details everything you may or may not have wanted to know about the console’s major, upcoming firmware update. While I’m sure it was meant to be helpful, a read down his list of responses does little but drive home the point that, as neat the implementation of the trophy system is, the addition of the in-game XMB is nowhere near as useful as most of you thought/hoped it would be. More »
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PS3 Trophies Not Applied To Old Saves

2:40AM Mike Fahey | You didn’t think it was going to be that easy, did you? The folks over at PS3 Fanboy are reporting that older PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Network games patched for support of the new trophy system, which goes live with firmware 2.40 this Wednesday, will not award trophies retroactively. The system will not scan older saves and award you trophies based on your progress. This means that you will essentially have to go back through and play the game all over again in order to earn your much-deserved Sony achievement points. More »
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