Life with PlayStation launched, then withdrawn

  • Posted September 17th, 2008 at 20:56 EDT by Eric Blattberg
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According to various online reports, Sony's "Life with PlayStation" had gone live and was available to download.

The reports were right, but not for long. The update was removed from the network soon after it had appeared.

“Today, while testing the application, Life with PlayStation was available for download temporarily, by mistake,” a spokesperson informed Eurogamer.

For those of you who don't know, Life with PlayStation provides dynamic web-based content organized into unique channels that can be browsed by time and location. While you browse any channel, your PS3 contributes to Folding@Home.

We'll be sure keep you informed when Life with PlayStation is set to launch... again. For now, check out the video below to get a better sense of the application.


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  1. Alpha2

    • 9:02pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 1

    interesting...

    not ground breaking or earth shattering

    Just... interesting

  2. Excesse | Excesse

    • 9:02pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 2

    sum kind of ps news channel with f@h working in background? well f@h is now definitely more interestin

  3. Hiemy | hiemy

    • 9:06pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 3

     Thats hot as Fuc

  4. SillyHatMafia | SillyHatMafia

    • 9:07pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 4

    Well it must ber releasing soon than 

  5. GINGI500

    • 9:08pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 5

    ok......

  6. Solrac | Solrac7688

    • 9:12pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 6

     I dont understand this at all

  7. jaybiv | jaybiv

    • 9:16pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 7

    I was able to dload and install.  It's pretty cool.  Playing with the globe is cool, nice graphical features.  My only critique is that the stories take several seconds to load.  Not a game changers, but will definitely wow your friends.

  8. NoMercy666 | Ask me...

    • 9:44pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 8

    This'll be awesome! Can't wait 'till I get my PS3 back.

  9. Fiddlesworth

    • 10:04pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 9

    Looking forward to this cool upgrade. The globe looks a lot nicer than Folding@home's.

  10. M-O-P-E-Y

    • 10:21pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 10

    looks cool. hope it releases soon

  11. Rauland | PPp_Killer

    • 11:09pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 11

    damn it i had the chance 2 downloaded tho i didn't want F@H sorry but i can't waste my internet on things i don't need

  12. ToyI3oi

    • 11:29pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 12

    Is there an option to turn off F@h ?? i dont want it on as it takes up bandwidth etc....

    Must they have F@H on for everything?

  13. evilmonkey501 | evilmonkey501

    • 11:56pm BST - September 17th, 2008
    • 13

    First of all, I downloaded and installed  the new system update to version 2.43 from my ps3 update feature.then(@ 5pm eastern time, 3 minutes after I read this story on n4g) I installed folding at home. I then proceded to the same spot and attempted to download  the same thing again.It told me the file name was changed to life with playastation and do I still want to download. I said yes and then downloaded and installed it. It worked.It still works and to be honest, I dig it.

     

     

  14. Stef Nighthawk

    • 2:20am BST - September 18th, 2008
    • 14

    @12, where the heck did you get the idea that F@H takes up bandwidth?  It downloads the info about the work to perform, then does nothing with your bandwidth while it takes at least 8hours of PS3's CPU power and then uploads its results.

  15. ONQ | onQ

    • 5:33am BST - September 18th, 2008
    • 15

    http://www.youtube.com/user/quincyonq

    I was one of the lucky people that got it before they took it down the first time

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