Lord knows Ashcraft has been working his ass off in Japan over the past 24-hours hustling between stores, documenting controlled riots, picking on homeless men. He even managed to pick up a PS3 for himself through a pre-order. So the rest of the team have been leaving the Japan launch of the console alone.

But when someone sends you launch day madness photos taken by none other than SCEE's President of Worldwide Studios Phil Harrison, you just gotta post em. While interesting pics, the most interesting is that one of them was saved as Physical Scrum. What the...? Brian Crecente

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