3 AM MST is when it should be back on...or 2 AM on the PST schedule. Should be up and running in about 6 hours or so..just over 6 hours...6 hours and 15 minutes to be exact...hopefully.
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you pay for xbox online though, but PS3 is on par with it for sure...xbox live is still $50 a year I believe..as much as a game..PS3 online is a free basic service with it...but it goes down on occasion for 'maintainance' and to prevent hackers and the like from breaking in and stealing all the games...oh noz!!
there should be some cool stuff coming to PS3 and Xbox...not sure about Wii u though...I heard they lowered the price of Wii u a little bit, but nothing on there that jumps out and screams 'buy me'..same games as other systems, but in HD now...wank wank...awesome..show me some good stuff though before I dole out all my hard earned cash man...enough with the 18 and under crowd, holy cow Nintendo..all of your core gamers from the 90's grew the hell up while you catered to little teeny boppers and forgot about the first and second generation of gamers essentially...hard to spend all my cash on something that can easily be tinkered with shall we say.