At Least We LOOK Impressive …

There’s a bit of an issue with STAR WARS Battlefront‘s DLC (the ones you need a season pass or pay separately for).  The new one, Outer Rim, came with two new heroes, at least one new game style (that’s not yet available on the other maps), and some additional new maps.

Thing is, much like the Night Ops addition to Battlefield 4, it rotates the game mode as well as the maps … and only the new maps.  So, after playing a round or two of, say, Extraction, you end up playing a round of Heroes vs Villains … and not everyone is always up for that …

A Day With The PlayStation 4

There was a time when I was working diligently on my CCIE studies, but it was slow going; I’ve been drawn to Battlefield 4 on the PS3 because I’ve found a few people to play with who are kind of cool to hang out with in game.  Then came the impending expiration of my CCNP, so I studied up a bit, took an exam, and passed.

So things went downhill from there … in the sense that I’m still kind of “celebrating” the recertification, but haven’t yet gotten back into studying properly. Continue reading A Day With The PlayStation 4

inFAMOUS for the PS3

So, for a while there, the PlayStation Network on the PS3 was unavailable.  Seems some hackers broke in and stole credit card information, and it took Sony around a month before PSN required features (which may have included some games) were available again (thankfully this did not include Netflix streaming, or else someone would have died a slow, horrible, painful death).  Along with some other things (like, say, credit monitoring protection), Sony gave PSN subscribers two games for free (from a very limited selection, at least one of which I already had and most of which I didn’t want).  One of those was inFAMOUS, which I decided to download.  One might suspect that Sony, aware that inFAMOUS 2 [was due to|had] launch[|ed] on June 7, might use this as a way to drum up interest in and sell copies of the sequel. Continue reading inFAMOUS for the PS3