Lol, had my heart racing for several seconds there. Great prank. Funny thing is, I had just lurked Slashdot and witnessed their five weak April Fools articles and then I opened CAG and it was like, "WTF is this?? Oh...wait. Damn it." Haha.
I can understand Sony's rationale behind a release of this firmware, but not the way in which they're doing it. They are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I bought a fat ps3 because it had the OtherOS feature and that inherent flexibility (and I like the aesthetics of the fat models...
They have a buy one get 40% off on all PS3 games through tomorrow. From your list, they have GOW III, Heavy Rain and GOW Collection. You could get GOW III for $60 and then Heavy Rain for $36 bucks. Not a great deal, but a good one.
link to details...
Myibay bid sniper (a site and a firefox addon) is what I use...it's very easy to set and forget a max bid and snipe time and let the auction run without worrying about it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5571
Link to firefox add on
https://www.myibay.com/
Link to Myibay site
Those games sound good to me too with the B2G1...unfortunately Battlefield Bad Company isn't available used for the PS3 online....I'm starting to remember why I won't shop at gamestop lol.
Well, it seems like having my newly bought used 40gb PS3 shipped to my home instead of college was a good move...I have to wait until March 5th to play anyway lol.
The comic is called Shooting War. The protagonist is named Jimmy Burns, as you remembered. It appears that they have released a graphic novel based on the comic. The site is shootingwar.com.
You can get to the comic chapters from there.
Enjoy!
Chase