We trust everyone in the London office of Sony Computer Entertainment picked up their free copy of Metro this morning?

You can get yourself a commemorative, high-resolution PDF version of this special day on Metro’s web site, to print out and keep. Link sent in by a man so protective of his identity he used a disposable instant email provider.

And here’s a close up of the text. With a bonus photo of a man as annoying and idiotic as Sony itself and his lovely wife.

They even did a cartoon about it. THE WORLD IS LAUGHING. THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD IS LOOKING AND LAUGHING. Sony says the bug has now magically fixed itself, which is a bit of a shame. At least we had some fun and some reputations got damaged.

Just one more update about this. Just one. Come on, it’s been a very big day. Here’s Sony’s latest advice to consumers regarding the APOCALYPS3 – don’t bother using your PS3.

“We hope to resolve this problem within the next 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have a model other than the new slim PS3, we advise that you do not use your PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data” – Sony blog mouthpiece.

Please let tomorrow bring news of this being irreparable and requiring a $1bn global recall scheme to be put into place.

It’s only 2.45pm but today’s already turning out to be one of the best days in history. Even if we lose a limb this afternoon and get food poisoning from the hospital dinner and some idiot trainee doctor accidentally sews on a food mixer instead of the severed arm, it’ll still be an average day, overall, thanks to all of this and this:

Imagine the panic. Imagine the internal meetings. Imagine the group email exchanges. It’s almost enough to warrant cracking out the blank ‘Hitler video’ template (oh).

Happy Doomsday, everyone.

There’s some amazing PS3 news being reported out there today, with numerous owners of the older, fatter model of Sony’s malformed shit-biscuit tin reporting the error message 8001050F – which means SYSTEM SELF-DESTRUCT.

The error message also seems to mean “don’t connect to PlayStation Network and corrupt all Trophy data”, rendering the PS3 useless (more useless) both online AND offline. It is as if the LORD ALMIGHTY has waved a finger and eradicated all disease from the face of the planet.

It would appear all older 60GB fat PS3s are exploding and corrupting data when games are booting up on a network-connected system, basically. Enjoy the ultimate tech-support nightmare unfold live, by reading Sony’s PS blog and its PlayStation Twitter page. It’s OK, you don’t have to sign up to just read it.

LINKS OF MERRIMENT FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD:

– Eurogamer
– MCV
– Gizmodo
– Kotaku
– Spong
– Cnet
– NeoGAF
– EU PlayStation Forum
– Joystiq

“Whilst waiting for my mum to finish washing my clothes I noticed this on the machine display…”

Couldn’t bear to go through the psychological ‘rinse cycle’ of writing a caption for each individual photograph.

PlayStation controller used to detonate bomb, via some pretend American “news” station. The PlayStation controller features at around the 1.47 mark if you’re still pretending you have something better to do and want to skip to the money-shot.

“YET MORE proof of the ENEMY and its treacherous links with INSURGENT MILITIA. I can’t think of a funny comment so you might have to yourselves on this occasion, that is if you even decide to go with this. If it isn’t of sufficient quality I can provide high resolution images of Natasha Bedingfield to soothe all complaints” – Ian-Ian.