For the purposes of this conversation, we will posit that there are two types of gamers: Those who care about Achievements and Trophies in games, and those who do not. (A third category, ‘Merely Curious,’ could be added, but we’ll leave these fence-sitters out for now.)

Which are you? Do vehemently track down every last collectible and objective to earn all available Achievements and Trophies in a game, or do you simply not care about these rewards? Furthermore, this Question of the Day zeroes down and asks:

Do you check Achievements and Trophies before playing?

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Sony has thoughtfully popped a video demo of how the next PS3 firmware update will work on to SCEA’s PlayStation blog.

In case you missed Sony’s recent big announcement, the next PS3 firmware update v2.40 will include the long awaited XMB access in-game as well as Trophy support.

Firmware v2.40 Walkthrough Part 1 details the XMB while a second video outlining the Trophy feature in action was promised shortly.

Still no word on a release date for v2.40 but apparently it is ‘coming soon.’