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Starting Thursday, those who rendering up for Sony's premium "PlayStation Plus" assist module be healthy to back up their PS3 saved-game data onlineâ€"a feature that could become in accessible if your console's hornlike intend goes belly-up.

The online hardware feature module arrive March 10â€"tomorrowâ€"with PS3 code update 3.60 (which module also allow added "minor features" to be named later).

Nice, but you won't be healthy to admittance the newborn online hardware compartment without a subscription to PlayStation Plus, Sony's premium, $50-a-year PSN assist that offers games, early admittance to mettlesome demos and betas, and added sundry goodies.

PlayStation Plus users crapper wait 150MB of online storage, or up to 1,000 mettlesome files, which you'll be healthy to admittance from the PlayStation 3's XrossMediaBarâ€"and yes, you'll be healthy to tap into your online files from added PS3 housing besides your own, provided you index in with your PSN ID and countersign first.

The online patronage assist module impact with copy-protected mettlesome saves, PSN Senior Director Susan Panico promises, and you'll be healthy to change every your saved data erst every 24 hours.

The newborn online hardware feature module become as a comfort to any PS3 owner whose hornlike intend conks out, erasing every their mettlesome saves in the processâ€"no small thing, specially for anyone who's been friction away at a presented title for weeks or months. (I fresh forfeited a year's worth of advancement in "Dragon Age: Origins" after a unskilled hornlike intend swap, and yes, I'm ease pretty bummed about it.)

Related: Online Storage for Game Saves Coming to PlayStation Plus [PlayStation blog]

â€" Ben Patterson is a profession blogger for Yahoo! News.

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