Hi, I just bought NV for PS3, and I was wondering if I could just download the patch without PSN being up. Is this possible? I know this is a kinda stupid question, but during the outage I restored my PS3 and I wanted to start the game with the patch installed. Do I need PSN to get it or does it come up automatically?

Yes

You can still get patches without PSN, I was able to the other day when I got pack into Fallout because of the PSN maintenance

Confirmed. I'm in Europe (Sweden) and got the update the 29:th of April. As far as I can tell the 1.05 path is a BIG improvement. A LATE improvement, but A GOOD improvement nevertheless.

(If you have a game in progress and played Dead Money there seems to be some issues continuing. My thoughts: scrap everything you've done and start a new game. It'll probably be worth it.)