what's worth buying for the PS3 lately?

with machine guns

what's the best first-person shoot 'em up zombie game on PS3? any consensus pick?

Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas are both good and relatively zombie-esque (apocalyptic mutants), but not exactly a shoot-em-up. New Vegas is supposedly quite buggy but might have been patched by now? Borderlands is similar but much more of a shoot-em-up.

Bioshock 1 (not Bioshock 2) is first-person and has a lot of shooting. The bad guys are zombie-esque but are actually just crazy humans. Ditto to the inferior but also good Condemned 2.

Red Dead Redemption is a great game and has a shoot-em-up zombie mode add-on, but is third-person. Dead Space is another good atmospheric third-person game.

Half-Life 2 is an excellent first-person game with lots of shooting, but not really a zombie game. Aliens rather than zombies. And I'd suggest getting The Orange Box if you want to pick this up.

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the state-of-the-art first-person shooter but you'd be killing actual humans.

Black Ops has a zombie mode.Only got to play it for a few minutes but it looks amazing.

Nerd question (obviously): what's the BBC iPlayer like on this?

Really good if you've got a fast connection.

hmmm think this game is going to break my not-buying-anything-through-PSN streak (at least 12 months long at the moment)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyRiBdQgXoM

I guess I'll resurrect another 7th gen thread since the Xbox 360 is apparently back in vogue.

I bought a PS3 fairly late in the cycle, but I've dedicated myself to making it (and a Vita, for on-the-go fun) my platform of choice for as long as humanly possible. I've accumulated a metric fuckton of games (I'm just eyeballing the fucktonnage, mind) and will be able to keep gaming on this thing for a long time to come. Maybe even...forever?

Just recently cracked open Motorstorm: Apocalypse. And holy shit! My general thoughts on racing games are either 'yeah, okay, this is mildly diverting' or 'this is too much like racing an actual car and I don't know what I'm doing but crashing into a wall over and over is fun I guess'. But this is like the racing version of my beloved Vanquish inasmuch as it's like being inside the most batshit action movie ever. Trying to steer an ATV through burning rubble as skyscrapers collapse onto the road ahead? Yes, please. The fact that I feel like it's preparing me for daily life in the near future is just icing on the exploding cake.