I feel, as a culture, we’ve gotten really joyfully achievement-obsessed. We check our point scores as compulsively as we do our bank accounts, we demand to know what achievements will be available in games that aren’t even out yet, and we have anticipated the launch of PS3 trophies with fervour. Fervour, I tell you.
A big part of this is so that we can show our play habits and our performance off to our buddies; seeing a My Gamercard on someone’s website is like an instant badge of recognition. So it’s unsurprising that a company called Playfire has rushed to be the first to create a Gamercard service for PS3 trophies (hopefully 2.4 squares away soon). It’s currently in beta, and here it is!
The… trophycards? support themes, too letting you skin the cards with Killzone 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, LittleBigPlanet or SuperStardust HD.
Spotted at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival in a playable demo of Epic Games’ PLAYSTATION 3 version of Unreal Tournament III, the Gamercard is presumed by the eagle-eyed staff at Games Digest to be the johnny come lately equivalent to the Xbox 360′s Gamertag. The “Oops, you shouldn’t have seen that” feature is reported to be accessed via the SIXAXIS triangle button but is unfortunately thin on details.
Could the Gamercard be a facet of the just announced agreement with GameSpy to license its tech? Such a thing sounds not too dissimilar from the Gamespy “Sake” system. Or is it the “Atlas” feature? Regardless of the implementation, I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about the mysterious Gamercard soon.
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