Yesterday it appears that a patch was released for Bionic Commando: Rearmed over PSN. The update is a bit of a blended bag, unless you’re a total wuss and can’t beat the game as it is. See it does allow for Trophy support, which is good. However, along with the Trophy support comes some changes to the games basic gameplay. Players now have unlimited lives (no starting levels over from the beginning), can swing into walls without falling to their untimely deaths and can reel out their line if it is too short. These features make the game immensely easier, betraying its old school roots.

Thankfully the update only tweaks the simple and normal levels, but that doesn’t really excuse it. Who was out there complaining that BC: Rearmed was too hard, especially on easy and normal? Nancy-pants girlie men that’s who. For now 360 owners can walk around claiming they have more massive nerd balls as the update does not appear to have landed on LIVE yet. PS3 owners, your cred is in question until the 360 wusses out too or Demon’s Souls lands.

Via Destructoid

I love my Xbox 360 just as much as I love my PlayStation 3. It’s got a great library of games that I’ve invested a considerable amount of time and money into over the past few years, and it’s a system that’ll likely still be serving me for some time to come.

That stated, in a significant parallel to the PS3, my love for the system seems to come at an inverse proportion to my love for the company behind it. I am of course talking about Microsoft, otherwise known as the poster boy for corporate greed and everything that is wrong with America. Not my words, the words of other people … probably.

Despite bringing out a good console that many true gamers have flocked to, Microsoft has also helped to ruin fun for everybody. Perhaps you don’t believe me, and are preparing to call me a “bias troll that’s trying to get fired” already, but please read the article before making your accusations.

Nobody ever asked Microsoft to get into the console gaming market. In fact, the company’s motivation for doing so wasn’t even out of demand, or necessity, or consideration for the market, but simply to try and stick it to Sony. The Xbox exists to halt the PlayStation brand from succeeding, and MS essentially stuck its massive nose into an industry that it didn’t really have any business getting involved with. Now that it’s here, we have to deal with it, but unfortunately Microsoft brought a lot of baggage, especially with the current generation.

The most important bit of baggage is one we all know about by now, the fact that the Xbox 360 is a technical piece of shit, as far as hardware goes. Not even mentioning the red ring of death, the Xbox 360 is home to all manner of technical errors and random crashes. Each major update seems to bring with it a fresh slew of reports from gamers who now have a glorified brick sitting underneath their televisions. Be it red rings, E74 errors, or any other number of things that could go wrong, Xbox 360 ownership has been ruled by one dominant emotion – fear.