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I really don't get the issue here.   Being from the UK and working in a video games store I see how our system works... or well doesn't work really but thats down to the parents.
 
Like others have said the BBFC currently rates games for sale in the UK.  They slap either a U (Universal), PG (Parental Guidance), 12, 15 or 18 rating on it, it goes out on sale and if we the retailer sell say an 18 to someone who is 12 and get caught doing it the store clerk gets fined £200 on the spot and the store gets a shit storm thrown at them.
 
The system still doesn't really work though as, like I said, parents either don't give a crap or don't know really what they are buying their kids.  I don't know how many times I've seen parents coming in with like an 8 or 9 year old and saying "Grand Theft Auto IV please"... and you'll ask them "Is he going to be okay to play an 18?"... more often than not they either say "He plays all the other ones with his friends" or "Is it really that bad?" at which point you get to explain about what you can actually do in GTA games.
 
I think really it's the parents that need regulated.  I wasn't allowed to play anything rated above my age till I had proven to my Dad that I was mature enough to handle it and if he thought after playing it I was going a bit loopy or whatever he'd take it off me.  Kid's need more of that now, not a government telling them what they can and can't do... just leave it to the parents but educate them better on what their kids are doing/playing in their spare time.

Would just like to point out... the longer this continues to be down, the PSN I mean, the more it will hurt Sony in the long run.

Working in the video game store, I've already noticed and influx in people trading-in PS3's for 360's claiming if they can't play online then the machine is dead to them.

The sad but true story of how console gaming is all online now, single player offline would seem to be dead in the water.

I also have to echo the statements of the international and non-USA users here.
It's nice that Microsoft is getting these kinds of services for 360 but really it does seem a bit lop-sided.
The US seems to get a lot of extra stuff that the UK never gets.

We pay more in some cases because of currency conversion rates etc... and get less content.

Although I heard a rumour that the BBC iPlayer was meant to be coming to 360 but because Microsoft wanted it to be a Gold Members only thing... and with the BBC being paid for already by the public through a TV licence... the BBC wouldn't allow them to charge for access to it and it was dropped all together.

Side Scrolling Shooter the new Dual Stick Shooter ?

Well not as far as I can see no.

The only custom character you could load was the one on the currently logged in profile.  Kind of sucks really.  Can't believe the PS3 can't do something this simple.

Quick Question.

I've got a 360 but my Brothers bought a PS3 and a copy of Virtual Tennis 2009.  We both have profiles on his PS3 like we do on the 360 and both have created characters on Virtual Tennis. 

Thing is I can't figure out how to have my profiles character vs his profiles character in a 2 player game.  I thought it would be as simple as logging into our respective profiles on each controller but it would appear that unlike the 360 you can't do this.

So does that mean that I can't load my save if he is logged in and visa-versa ?... or am I just missing something here ?

So how'd you Manual then ?...

This Video just makes me think of the missed potential in Mirrors Edge... I get the whole first person perspective... but 3rd person would have been spectacular.

IF... and this is a big if... that is in game footage... and i'm willing to bet my house it isn't... then thats going to blow Mirrors Edge out of the water.

Wow... I can make a better looking 3D mock-up than this...