A Wonderful Day for Consumers

What a glorious fall day it is for consumers, especially if you enjoy being sued or not allowed to play your game in sngle player. Today I found two interesting and controversial stories about game companies taking your rights away to do what you please with your games and consoles.

The first story comes to us from the lovely folks at Sony, you know the guys who also tried to put a rootkit on your computer back in '05, yea those guys. Well lately they have been very pissed off at the people who are trying to hack the PS3. Well recently a hack for the PS3 has been discovered and devices have been sold that allow the PS3 to be hacked.

Sony has recently threatened that it will send cease and desist orders to anyone who buys the PS3 hacking USB sticks and force them to pay fines of at least 5100 Euros. But what if I don't sign the papers and ignore Sony? you may say. Well enjoy getting sued for 50 000 Euros, yes you read that right a 50 000 euro lawsuit in litigations just because you wanted to put your own custom firmware on your PS3 so you could play some homebrew games. The good news for those of you not living in Germany is that Sony won't be threatening you, for now at least. The joys of companies thinking they control what you can do with your console, that you bought and own, not lease as many companies probably wish happens instead.

Now that I have scared you with legal threats let’s talk about the fine folks over at Blizzard. Blizzard is one of those companies with a relatively good track record. They have made such wonderful games like Diablo 2, Starcraft, Warcraft III and of course the most successful MMORPG of all time, World of Warcraft (if you ignore WotLK). Unfortunately Blizzard, despite all your great accomplishments in the past you still can act like a total dick (read: no LAN support in SC2 and requiring a constant internet connection to play).

So what did Blizzard, a company which is normally seen as one of the greatest developers of all time due now. Well first they decided to sue the people who made some cheats for Starcraft 2. Now I understand that this is somewhat reasonable, though I disagree but what they did next was absolutely asinine. They are now banning people from playing all of SC2, even singleplayer because they used cheats, not in multiplayer where that actually has an affect on other players, but singleplayer. You read that right banned from singleplayer, of legally purchased games due to using cheats in singleplayer.

Want to hear Bliz's reasoning for this? 'When users of the Hacks download, install, and use the Hacks, they copy StarCraft II copyrighted content into their computer's RAM in excess of the scope of their limited license, as set forth in the EULA and ToU, and create derivative works of StarCraft II.' So Blizz is claiming that hacks cause people to commit copyright infringement now.

Congratulations Blizz but you just lost one customer for good, let's see how bad you can screw up on Diablo 3 ok?

Flying Cougar PSP Backgrounds

If there is one thing I hate, other then MW2 fanboys, that is shitty wallpapers for the PSP. Well being slightly artistic I have decided to cure said problem please enjoy share edit and do whatever you want with. All the bands I am doing are metal so if you want a specific band post in the comments. (Seriously post there it's kinda lonely over here)

All backgrounds are not currently customized for unique GUIs of various custom firmware and some will not work well if your text is black. Their dimension are 600x340.

In Flames PSP Background


Cradle of Filth PSP Background

PS3 Hacked WIth an Official Controller

Sony hates people who hack into their consoles and change the official firmware. They have recently been engaged in a long battle against people who wish to liberate their PS3s from Sony's obtrussive firmware so they can use emulators, run homebrew applications and so "other" things you can do with custom firmware. (Flying Cougar Productions does not condone video game piracy in any way.)

After updating the firmware to prevent USB devices from being used hackers have figured out a way to jailbreak their PS3s using Sony's official Dualshock 3 controllers. Now I am not a PS3 user myself so I cannot explain how this works for you but if you wish to learn more about hacking into Sony's consoles I highly suggest you email our resident jailbreaker Udunnojack at gt.udunnojack@gmail.com.

UPDATE:
The english guide on how to hack your PS3 has been released. For those of you who don't like to solder you can also use your iPod.

A Simple Guide to Being the Biggest Dick in World at War

Call of Duty: World at War, perhaps the greatest game in the Call of Duty franchise, with only a single flaw preventing pure perfection, the god damn MP40. Everyone uses the MP40 due to the simple fact it is fully automatic and kills everyone not using juggernaut in three shots. If you want to be competitive in CoD:WaW you will eventually need to pick up the MP40.

Now you may be saying but Tyaust I have morals and using the MP40 is a sin, etc. etc. Well here's what I have to say shut the hell up and use that bloody gun because your game will improve a lot, trust me because I'm a random guy on the internet who blogs about video games.

So now that I've convinced you to throw a large chunk of your morals in the trash can I will get rid of the rest once I teach you young padawans how you can raise your K/D ratio with a few simple perks and attachments.

Your primary weapon is the reason why we cannot have nice things, the MP 40 with dual magazines. For your secondary weapon It doesn't matter at all, just pick up another gun like a Type 100 or PPSH from your victims. Your first tier perk can be anything you want really other then bandolier due to the fact that everyone uses an MP 40 so ammo is not a problem. I personally recommend using bomb squad so you don't die from a random bouncing betty.

Remember how I said you had to get rid of all your morals, well I wasn't joking so stop your whining and use juggernaut like the good little asshole you are about to become. Udunnojack uses double tap on his MP 40 class, which does work well, but I prefer juggernaut due to the fact that you will be getting shot at 24/7 for being public enemy number 1.

For your third tier perk use steady aim. Now this is how you will become the biggest asshole in the game and cause people to rage quit while getting a very nice K/D ratio. Because we have steady aim on and dual magazines your iron sights will become fairly useless so just point the cross hairs in the general vicinity of your enemy and spray. Repeat as necessary until everything, everywhere, has become a corpse.

Congratulations, you have became the reason why we cannot have nice things. With this class you will be receiving threats of physical violence against you, your family and your pets. But hey, you just went 41 and 6 on Makin Day and made half the enemy team quit so who cares.

YouTube Channels to Visit

Hey, whats up everyone! Udunnojack here, I just want to give a shoutout to some of our friends... Climax Studios 515. They have a great channel full of Hi Def Modern Warefare 2 (MW2 if you will) videos (Amazing commentary!) Do us and them a favor by checking them out and subscribing!

After you watch Dan and Alex's awesome videos check out our friend Dion's YouTube channel, XBL: AnorexicGlint for many great videos of video game commentary.

Thanks to everyone who has been following the blog also!
Until next time... Have a nice day.