If any of you happens to be a suicide counselor, we need you to go over to Mike’s apartment. His PS3 has broken down and he’s sequestered himself to his room, playing Shenmue in some kind of self-flaggelating apology to himself. We’re pretty Sony-oriented over this way, but we’re not anywhere near the evil counterparts of Kotaku; second generation Shack News ctrl-c, ctrl-v reporters who now have the foresight to punctuate press releases with joyous thanks to Bungie. No, we’re not afraid to take our preferred company to fucking task for absolutely failing to acknowledge their own yellow diagnostic light for fear of getting a Sony contemporary to the RROD that plagues each and every 360 on the planet.

It’s okay, Sony. You’re running the field on this and you always have. There’s already a hardware update to the PS3. Microsoft? Apparently they can’t update their rudimentary design banged out on leftover Sears hardware without fucking up their compatibility worse. Stop being an infobitch and you’ll be back on top, Sony.

Speaking of Shack News, two tidbits I noticed on a cursory glance. LA Noire has emerged after four fucking years, dumbed down to go multi-platform and not looking good for the time they’ve taken. More interestingly, the incredibly incomplete Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun was released for free with the Firestorm expansion. I’d link to Fileplanet except I’m sure you could find a more secure torrent. Really worth it for people who love strategy games or who want to see James Earl Jones acting racist.