Friday, July 25th, 2008

This sh*t is true! I’m not f*#king with you. My brother sent me this article from gamepolitics.com.
I went on to research it further and came across this article on towardfreedom.com. It seems that Sony used a metal ore called coltan to produce a bluish-gray powder called tantalum, which is defined as a transition metal. This tantaum was used to make the PS2 and other products. This coltan was being mined (exploited) in parts of war-torn Africa by Rwandan Militias looking to finance their war. The Militias used POW’s and children to mine this coltan to sell to many companies (including Sony) to make everything from cell phones to laptops and… PS2s. I am not bullsh*tting you check it out:
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Tags: Africa, Blood Diamond, coltan, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, government, Japan, metal brokers, military, militias, PlayStation War, PS2, Rwanda, Sony, tantalum, UN, western-based mining companies
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Monday, July 7th, 2008

So if you read my last post you saw that Sony’s PS3 firmware update 2.40, f*#ked up some peoples consoles. Boy…would I be pissed as sh*t! Almost as pissed as my Xbox 360 getting the Ring of Death? Well lets not go overboard. Life without a gaming console for a month f*#king sucked (especially since I was midway through The Darkness)! Well get ready Sony fanboys… firmware update 2.41 is coming your way mid week. It supposedly will fix everything… not your love life (or mine for that matter… boo hoo hoo). Check this little snippet from PS3fanboy.com
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Tags: 2.41, console, Customer Support, fanboys, firmware update 2.40, PS3, Ring of Death, servers, Sony, The Darkness, Xbox 360
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

So today Sony released it 2.40 firmware update and I read on kotaku.com that it may f*#k up your PS3… Check it out:
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Tags: 2.40 firmware update, Computer Entertainment America, controller functions, Icons, PlayStation 3, PS3, Sony
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