The new map is also a welcomed site to sore eyes. Not nearly as large as Omega Dawn (Thank goodness) and no where near as bright as Broken Mirror. In the middle of the map, it appears that there is a giant space ship that has fell from the sky (Hence Fallen Star, eh.. eh?), which I can only assume is one of the ships that were meant to be in the single player campaign the game was originally going to have.

On a quick side note, I want to give kudos to the team that created all the names for the trophies. They have all made me chuckle, and I hope to some day have the Platinum, All Your Base Are To Belong Platinum.

As of 12:53 am this morning, the newest Warhawk Patch, version 1.5 was released. (At least that was when I noticed it) So I just had to try it out, wanting to see what trophies could be acquired, what trophies I would start with. (Since they did announce some of the trophies would be acquired upon installing since some of them you wouldn’t be able to re-acquire)

Other than trophies, the game now supports in-game music. Finally you can go on a murdering rampage while listening to your favorite boy band super-mega-death-metal that is so rough the cat devourers his own fur.

Of course with all patches, there are new paint schemes for your Warhawk and new insignias. Which reminds me, I need to see if any that my friend and I submitted where ever selected.

There is also a new tab on the main menu which allows you to go into a training mode. I didn’t bothering checking in out, having been playing the game since I was in the beta and having to figure everything out the old fashion way. Trial and error. (Remembers back the first few times. When I too made the rookie mistake of not knowing, Triangle takes you out of hover mode) Ahh… memories.

So you might be wondering why there is a picture of a hot dog stand on top. Very easy explanation to this. Upon reading about the new Booster Pack that is due out tomorrow, the new vehicle is a jet pack. Apparently the way you get a jet-pack, is you walk up to this dispenser and press Square. Then dispenser then begins to make a jet-pack just for you.  So in conversation, someone asked the dev, “It’s much like a hot dog vendor?” And once you too see the dispenser, you too will come to the same conclusion.

The booster will also bring about a new map, this time in a more forest-esk setting. So come back tomorrow and hear my thoughts on the new map. Safe flying!

As of Wednesday, the new 1.4 patch for Warhawk was released. Why it didn’t contain the new trophy patch (That will be the 1.5 patch that should be out “soon”), but instead it contained two very nice new game modes.

The first new game mode has to be my favorite of the two, Hero.

Yes, this is what it looks like when you are the Hero for your team (Change color when needed).
Basically the game mode plays out like this. Team Death Match style, but on each team there is one hero. The hero is randomly selected and upon becoming the Hero, your backpack becomes full with all the fun weapons you love. On top of this you get a bonus to your armor(health?) All in all you can take a whole lot more damage, and you can dish TONS of it out. Your weapons become much stronger, for example, I blew up a tank with my assault rifle!

Once you die, a new hero will be randomly selected. If you manage not to die, about after two minutes you will lose your hero status and a new player will be selected.  So far I have become the hero at least twice a game.

The next game mode is called Collection, which takes capture the flag and puts a twist on it.  If you look closely on the map above, you will see four little biohazard symbols. These are where the cores are. Your job is to grab a core, and take it back to your base. Here’s the catch though, the points improve the more cores you have. So if you turn in one core, you recieve one point. Two cores = three, three cores = six, four cores = twelve I believe. Although I have yet to see four turned in at once. It’s different, but a little odd feeling. If you’re a fan of base defense like Mike K. is, you might find you need to adjuts your play style, since the bad guys will never come into your base unless they are chasing you down.

This patch brought in a few other features and tweaks, but I mainly wanted to go over the new game modes.

Well it only took nearly two years for Sony to bring this feature to the Playstation 3, but they finally did it. As of midnight, I was able to download and install the new 2.40 firmware update. So now, I’m off to play some Super Stardust HD so I can check out these new trohpies.

Not exactly as I invisioned, but I think it will do.  Something they can always improve on right? I’m not going to be one of those people that say they’ve been wanting it, but then complain cause it’s not exactly what I want. I’m thrilled Sony is finally taking care of their users. I mean… later is better then never, right?

So here you are, and this is all coming to you live, Wednesday.

I won’t rant about what I like and don’t like, I’ll wait till they bring out all the videos for 2.40 before I cast my judgement. So far though, I approve.

Myspace apparently is making changes! New interface skins… new API’s for developers. My imediate response to hearing this was ‘I dont give a flying fuck!’

You want to know what might make using myspace more enjoyable? Maybe if every other day I didn’t have my email inbox half full of fake user profiles named ‘candy’, ‘bambi’, ‘hotTamalile47′, and ‘looking for love’ spamming me to check out their nude pics. You know what… Im already on the god damn internet. If I want to look at nude pics, here is a better way than surfing myspace – PORN! It already comprises more than 3/4ths of the internet, do I really need LoveToSuck31′s help to find these naughty pics? Do I really want to install malware on my comp to view a few boob shots I could have easily found on google image search?

Social networking was really cool when it was new… now, there are 40 bagillion different pages wanting you to post your pics. The key to success here is specialization. Flicker is used for pics cause it does pictures very well… and THATS IT! If one site tries to take on too many hats, it just fails. I stopped using facebook when user apps sent me twenty thousand invites a day to be a damn pirate, robot, vampire, or have my ‘Heroes Power’. There is only so much bullshit I can tolerate. Facebook is solely used for stalking people… to get on and see what your friends or that chick you dig is doing without actually talking to them. Why the fuck would I use facebook instant messanger when AIM has been around for years? When gMail integrates so elegantly a messanger thats unobtrusive?

Social networking is out of control… I think it’s the Web 2.0 fad that just wont die. I think it’s evolving, and will continue to evolve, into more and more useful and integrated services that will usher in a new era for the web… these are called YouTube, Flicker, Twitter, etc etc. They will be integrated into your phones, desktops, laptops, Ultra-Mobile Systems, TVs, and toasters. And guess what… my money says that Facebook, MySpace, and any other social network that fails to evolve in more ways than user interface and vampire applications will fall to the wayside.

As for now, if you load up your PS3 (and haven’t done so before reading this post) you will be greeted with the 2.36 Firmware update which:

“…improving system stability when playing select PlayStation format software titles.”

So there you have it for those of you that believed in game XMB was like the cake.

Kotaku’s Story
Playstation’s Blog

I awoke last night in an urgent panic. Something wasn’t right. I stumbled to the bathroom and unleashed the full fury on my piss against the porcelain. After a full night of boozing, unlike last time, I made it to the toilet in enough time to be rewarded with dry sheets when I returned to the sack. As I headed back to the bedroom I noticed that something else was afoot. The living room had an alien glow to it. My ninja skills immediately kicked in. After falling over the dining room chair (I was still drunk) I prepared to bust a roundhouse kick to the source of the disturbance. I did a wicked combat role into the living room and crushed the intruder. To my dismay it was only the Wii alerting me to update 3.3.

To the dismay of all Nintendo Wii homebrew/import fans, update 3.3 apparently destroys the homebrew scene, Freeloader, and the Twilight Princess exploit (similar to how alcohol has destroyed my liver). In all seriousness, for the .01% of Wii owners involved with or every plan on getting involved in homebrew or importing games; avoid this update.