The Xbox 360 had( or, rather has) the Red Ring of Death. But Playstation owners could play their system with reckless abandon, not a care in the world. Until now. Actually, they can’t play their system very much at all. I know this is old news by now, but It was the weekend when it happened, and I don’t post on weekends.

Anyway, if you haven’t heard by now, the PS3 had a little Error code of its own on February 28: Error 8001050F. Sounds ominous, I know. This malfunction caused the biggest blackout in the history of online gaming. It made Trophies corrupted, had the system clocks set to 12/31/99, and generally made the black box in your living room a paperweight. A fairly big one. It’s sort of like the Y2K scare for consoles.

Oddly enough, this system failure only affected the original PS3s and not the Slims. Curiouser and curiouser.