What to expect from PS3

Finally, there's the PlayStation Store itself, which took a minute to load up on our wireless connection. Once it does, thoug🧸h, navigating its blue-and-yellow interface is pretty easy (and also mouse-and-keyboard navigable). Here, you'll be able to download free demos, cheap games and other media, just like Xbox 3ꦉ60 owners have been doing on Live for a while now.

There are two irritations, however; when you're downloading something, you can't do anything else until the progress bar is done inching its way across your screen. And if you need to cancel the down🔯load for some reason, the system won't resume it from where you left off; even if you try to immediately grab it again, you'll start your download over from zero.

It's not perfect, but overall the PS3 is a formidable chunk of💮 hardware right out of the box, and with the now-standard firmware updates that Sony introduced with the PSP, we expect it'll only grow more formidable over the next year or two.

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After graduating from college in 2000 with a BA in journalism, I worked for five years as a copy editor, page designer and videogame-review columnist at a couple of mid-sized newspapers you've never heard of. My column eventually got me a freelancing gig with GMR magazine, which folded a few months later. I was hired on full-time by GamesRadar in late 2005, and have since been paid actual money to write silly articles about lovable blobs.