PS3 Informer

PS3 Gets a Gamercard?

The uber-awesome guys [and gals?] at Games Digest were lucky enough to get some time with Epic's UT3 at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival. They saw something very interesting on the game's menu.

"It’s called Gamercard and it doesn’t seem too unlikely a possibility that this will turn out to be a unique player identity system, not entirely dissimilar to the Xbox 360’s Gamertag system that manages player stats and achievements.

We quizzed Epic’s Mark Rein about and he did little to dispel our assumptions saying quickly “Oops, you shouldn’t have seen that”. We would have liked to grabbed a pic, and were little deterred by the venue’s strict no camera phone policy and dodgy lighting, however Mark Rein’s rapid covering of the projector with his hand put pay to that cunning idea.

Needless to say, we have little to go on. It is accessed with the Triangle button if that makes any difference to you. It is also anyone’s guess whether this is a future Sony project that will cover the whole of the PlayStation Network or whether it is simply a feature of UT3. But I’m betting that the secrecy surrounding it indicates a new PS3 feature. More news as we get it."

There were rumors floating around about "entitlements" Sony's answer to the 360's achievements about a year back. (not to mention the trophy system we saw in Home) My take? 100% legit. Games coming out in the fall/winter will employ such a system