Sony hopes to fix the PlayStation 3-stalling 8001050F error in a day. But, if you have a fat PS3, do not use it for 24 hours. The news came in Sony's first comprehensive statement about the error plaguing PS3s worldwide.

Federal agents typically used $11,000 computers to crack passwords to the seized hard drives of suspected child pornographers. Now they're using $300 PlayStation 3s to pull off the same task.

This was lost amidst the other Sony stuff coming out yesterday, but it bears back-tracking: Sony announced during their TGS keynote yesterday that the PS3 Slim has sold 1 million consoles since launch.<

Yesterday was the PS3 Slim launch in Japan. It was a rather low key launch. It was so low key that it's possible to spot the same guy over and over again.

Time to play where's flannel shirt man.

In videos from last weekend, we learned that the PS3 fat boots itself faster than the Slim, but the Slim had the edge when

The royal we have updated our PS3. There are little things we've noticed, little things we like, little things we don't. What about you?

Things that stuck out: More sparkly, less smokey. New PS3 logo. No more Spider-Man PLAYSTATION logo when you start up a game. We kind of miss that! It had an awesome jingle chime. We love that jingle chime. It relaxes us.

No, they didn't get those guys. Who wants stuffy businessmen when you can get other stuff? That's right other stuff.

Who knows! That didn't stop me from calling five Japanese retailers to find out.

Game retailers in Japan run the gamut of small, independent Mom 'n' Pop style shops to the larger, nationwide chains. Since the chains get larger product shipments, I called five shops in Osaka and Tokyo. I called one in Kyoto, but no one answered. Sorry Kyoto!

A slew of videos out this weekend have revealed the unthinkable: PlaySta

Yes and no, say some comparison videos that hit YouTube yesterday. In the startup (above) and DVD loading, you see the Slim marginally trails the Phat.