All of this E3 stuff reminded me that I still hadn’t updated my PS3’s firmware, so I did that and redownloaded Super Stardust HD as well, since the new version of it adds trophy support.

Trophies are the new PS3 equivalent of the 360’s achievements and, well, they act pretty much the same way. The main differences are that there’s no point value to them (which doesn’t really matter to me, and Steam’s achievements are the same way), but they are divided into bronze, silver, and gold categories, to reflect how hard they’re supposed to be to get.

So I played SSHD for a while and got two trophies, one for clearing a planet and another for not using boost (I’d just forgotten that there was a boost ability). When Home is released we’re supposed to be able to show off our trophies in a virtual environment, but I’ve never really understood that aspect of it. Are people really going to hang around in Home rather than actually play games, and drag their friends into it just to show off their trophy collection, or go visit a friend just to stare at theirs?