"Recent Playstation advertising has been described, by some circles, as being creative, effective and memorable. By others, down right controversial. In the beginning, the advertising for the original Playstation was reasonably conservative, and demonstrated with ease the product they were selling, without trying to shock or mind blow anyone. Nice and simple. With the arrival of the PS2, and perhaps realizing that the vast majority of the PS2 sales were for adults, the advertising took a downw..."

With update 2.4 nearing release (no date officially announced), we're bound to get some leaked bits of information and MaxConsole's Medran has done just that, giving us a glimpse of how the 2D Trophies will appear in the game with a screenshot and two videos that were unfortunately taken down. Take a look at the image to the right...

...And note that the game that we see trophies for is Bioshock and the images are from the dev version of 2.4 that has been released to game developers.

The current Playstation Network isn't the friendliest of places when your looking for something specific, and god knows that it can definitely be tweaked to appeal more to the masses. But how exactly should it be tweaked? Well StuntF50, a member of the GameTrailers forums has created a mock-up of how he thinks it should look (and I'll state it now, it was inspired by XBOX Live).

Personally, I would love for my Playstation Network to look similar to that, but I wouldn't mind this design eit...

It seems that some member of the PSU forums has managed to find themselves a picture of the PS3 being able to support a "Chatroom" feature. Could this very well be a new feature which will be released in upcoming versions? Or is the picture the handywork of someone with some Photoshopping talent? Take a look at the picture below, and decide for yourself.