That mysterious PS3 glitch that kept consoles shut down worldwide is fixed. You have the green light to power up.

Update: This issue has been reported fixed as of 3/2/2010.

Read this article. If you have a non-slim PS, please do not turn on your system to avoid problems. Sony's working on a fix. It seems Heavenly may have encountered this problem.

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We had to chuckle when we read this story on the official forums. Especially since it supports my theory that "Not all level 1's are noobs, and not all noobs are level 1's."

I'm a big fan of proactive patching. A developer must fix what's obviously broken. They help their game even more by tweaking things that ain't broke but can be improved.

That's what Zipper's doing with the MAG patch 1.02 (which is automatically installing February 17, 2010 at 1am Pacific/ 4am Eastern/ 9am GMT). The team is taking a solid crack at improving the med support in MAG.

Jack Tretton, the suit that runs Sony America, just posted his year-end review, "Thank You For A Great 2009." We'll overlook the fact Jack that 2009 ended a almost 6 weeks ago because of the good news included about MAG.

"Over half a million of you have already chosen your allegiance in MAG, and have played over 270,000 games in the Shadow War," he says.

One of the most frequent gripes since the release of MAG relates to faction balancing. We can't count the number of times we've heard pleas SVER is overpowered.

Well, you're cries for help have been answered. Zipper is making changes to the faction strengths that will affection the game "quite noticeably."

Here's something that will come in handy this week when you're stuck at work/school/juvenile detention and get the sudden urge to tweak your MAG character loadouts. Best of all, it will look completely legit since it involves Excel.

Over on the official MAG forums Valhades and its girlfriend put together a loadout simulator spreadsheet. It's a nifty tool that lets you quickly test out different weapon, armor and accessory combos.

We've got a new feature to announce: a chat room. The end goal of this is to give the clans on the site another means to communicate.

Right now, I'm still testing it but I would appreciate if you could swing by a sample one I set up and let me know if you have any problems. If you do encounter something, just "add a comment" to this post or at the bottom of the chat page.

MAG is outselling that gaming behemoth known as Modern Warfare 2 in the U.K. Chart Track released their UK PS3 game charts today for the week ending January 30th and MAG sits atop (chart below). Magnificent.