As if Heavy Rain glitching on me last week wasn't enough, PSN is now down for phat PS3 users.

Kotaku's Article

I'm currently watching Twitter for any PS3 updates.

Just to let you know: trophies are disappearing, no connectivity to PSN, date reverting to 1999, not being able to play games, etc.

This is a big problem...

Remember my last blog saying how great I thought Heavy Rain was? I still think that. But now my experience has been brought to a halt.

I cannot load my saved game.

All I get is a black screen and the PS3 freezes up. I've tried Chapter Select. The only thing I haven't tried is a new game but even if that does work, I couldn't continue knowing all my personal choices were put into the other save.

So this sucks. I can't play this awesome game, meaning I will probably get behind on my "games I need to beat" craze.

I just hope there's a fix before a spoiler hits.

Kotaku's Article on the Problems

I beat Assassin's Creed 2 about fifteen minutes before I left to pick up Heavy Rain. Mission 1 done. Phew!

Well I just played about an hour of Heavy Rain, up to where Ethan's chapter ended and Shelby's chapter started.

Wow.

Simply wow.

No movie, game, book, anything narrative has made me felt the way this game just did. Yeah I got the smile of picking the child up; it was infectious, I couldn't help it! But what I am talking about is after the mall scene.

Never have I felt so sorry for any character in a medium, let alone video games. But Heavy Rain hit it. Bringing Shaun back and just seeing how much he had changed since it all went down. Living the different atmosphere that Ethan now lived in; how it was such crap compared to what he had. His life was hell.

You could see it with the actions. Urging to get some time with his child but Shaun wants nothing to do with Ethan. And then sitting Ethan down at the kitchen table while Shaun watches cartoons, you could feel all of Ethan's pain right there.

I'm having a couple little control issues with the game and then the voice acting could be better for what this is, but otherwise it has already wowed me.

Wow.