Well I finally went out and bought Grand Theft Auto IV for the PS3. Of course I was excited to starting playing the game on a Friday night while enjoying a couple of refreshing Heinekens. Unfortunately I ended up spending about an hour trying to get the game to work.

The game booted up fine and installed over 3 GB of data to the hard drive. Then there was a black screen with words Loading New Game….. . And that was it. I tried rebooting the system, and deleting and re-installing GTA IV but no luck.

I finally disconnected my internet connection and the game started working. Of course this is okay for single player gaming but in not much of a solution multi-player. According to the post below this issue does not effect 60 PS3 machines. The article also explains how to disconnect your internet settings:

http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?t=389388

This is the only technical issue I have experienced so far but I have only been playing for a couple of hours. Now I can focus on more important things like my GTA driving skills.

Troy