PS3

I am going to be talking about something that is very near and dear to my heart. I didn’t think I would be revealing this to my blog audience so soon. I try to closely guard it because I’m not 100% proud of it. It is something that isn’t fully under my control, so bare with me while you read this… and please don’t poke fun.

I had 4 teeth extracted a while ago and for a few days after the surgery, I stayed at my parents, where after lots of haggling from my brother, I finally caved - I started playing a first person shooter on a game console.

Don't get me wrong, I love first person shooter games (big fan of Tribes), I'm just not good at them with the analog sticks on game pads. Give me a mouse and keyboard, and I can kick ass.

Since Warner Brothers is going to exclusively release their movies on Blu-Ray beginning May 2008, it looks like HD-DVD is going to die out fairly soon.

This means that my $700 CND investment for the PS3 when it just came out won't be going to complete waste. It might be a horrible gaming system/platform, but it's a pretty decent Blu-Ray player and the cheapest one you can buy.

So here is another instalment of a PlayStation3 tip to 'enhance' your user experience.

Some of my previous tips include:

I was getting bored looking at the same PS3 XMB (XrossMediaBar) - fancy word for your main menu bar/screen. Changing the colour of the default theme was fun for a while, but now the icons and background are getting a bit repetitive.

Since there is an option in the XMB for themes, I assumed that there is some way of uploading/installing/downloading/whatever a new theme.

So after a bit of research, I found the process. It's very simple - Just 10 easy to follow steps.

While I was playing NHL 08, I noticed that none of the teams had their revamped logos or new jerseys. I would have expected that to be the default since that was the big thing this season.

Playing around with some of the menus and option in NHL 08, I stumbled across a place where I could enter a code to unlock the jerseys. For a while I though this is something you probably have to pay for, but after a quick search, I found the code.

So, after playing about 10 games under Dynasty Mode, I wanted to be sure that my progress was saved, so here is a work-around that seems to work:

Once you load up your Dynasty Mode, and play a game or make a roster change, got into 'My NHL 08', and go to 'Save Dynasty'. Then select the Dynasty that you want to overwrite and save to.