Brain Assassin

Finally, we’re able to buy the long awaited PS3 in Europe too. On Sat­ur­day, my room­mate decided to go and get one of the infa­mous Playsta­tion 3 con­soles. Of course, we needed a sec­ond con­troller and a HDMI cable too, to enjoy the graph­ics galore. Any­way, every­thing went accord­ing to plan until my room­mate tried to inte­grate the PS3 into our wire­less net­work. It absolutely didn’t work and for some rea­son the con­sole insisted that “A con­nec­tion error has occurred (8013013E)”. Yes­ter­day I had a look at the set­tings and deemed them quite fine, so what exactly is the problem?

I typed var­i­ous com­bi­na­tions of “Linksys”, “PS3″, “net­work”, “issues”, “wire­less” and “error” into Google but I didn’t find con­clu­sive infor­ma­tion. By the way, the offi­cial site doesn’t offer any help­ful advice too. Any­way, I tried chang­ing var­i­ous set­tings but noth­ing worked out. In the end, I changed secu­rity on my router and sud­denly I was able to estab­lish a con­nec­tion. I went from WEP – which isn’t very secure, I know – to WPA2 and that was all the PS3 needed to work. Well, strange that it didn’t work with WEP enabled. Ulti­mately, the goal was achieved and the PS3 is fully func­tional. I’ll think about wiring it when I next move my fur­nish­ings, I promise.

After­wards, I spent two hours play­ing Ridge Racer 7 and then I hooked up to MotorStorm for another three hours. I enjoyed both games but MotorStorm is much more fun. The next games I’d like to test are Tekken 5: Dark Res­ur­rec­tion, Vir­tua Fighter 5 and Resis­tance: Fall of Men. We only got the lat­ter gamer so we will have to pay our local PS3 games dealer a visit. That’s all there is to it for now. Have a nice day