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Woo doggy! While my local EBGames has no copies, and the one I ordered from Gamestop is backordered with no estimated delivery, I was seriously bumming earlier this week. Lo and behold, a friend here at work drops this copy into my hands - seems he didn’t need this copy for a while. The game is excellent - it took a bit of time to get used to driving with the tiny stick, and I do wish the screen were larger. But it’s like old home week revisiting good ol’ Liberty City and my favorite hangouts. Certainly is easier to play knowing the rough city layout like the back of my hand. The wife doesn’t appreciate the sound of mayhem coming from the PSP - but it’s gotta be better than in the living room! 2 thumbs up so far for this one…

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Tags: Gaming, PSP

Oh my my. Rockstar Games has launched a website dedicated to what looks to be the PSP killer app - Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. The site has an amusing backstory for the pending Playstation Portable title, including a link to a fake Ammunation.net site. The site features emails to a reporter at the Liberty City daily rag, the ‘Liberty Tree’, all rendered in yellow-on-blue CC:Mail glory and give us some insight as we not-so-patiently wait for the release of the game on October 24th.

Link: Rockstar Games: Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories Official Web Site

Link: IGN.com preview with plenty of detail, plus the trailer

Link: Classic 1998-era web design for Paulie’s Revue Bar

Tags: Gaming, PSP

Coca-Cola is creating custom content for the PSP game Wipeout Pure, available only to users in Japan as of now. The content will include new ships, courses, menu graphics etc. This is, AFAIK, the first time a sponsor has developed this type of ‘add-on’ functionality for a portable title like this. Could this be where the much-discussed advertising dollars start being spent to reach the refugees from traditional media who spend their time blowing stuff up sted watching the boob tube?

Link: Cokestyle.net (in Japanese).

(Via PSPvault.com)

Tags: Gaming, PSP

Gamespot’s cobbled together quite a collection of interesting details about SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo for the PSP. The handheld version of the shooter, set to hit stores on Nov. 8, will feature WiFi multiplayer mode, data syncing with SOCOM 3 on the PS2 and an instant action mode which will drop you into a firefight for five to 10 minute bursts.

The game will include 14 single player missions, each set in different international locations.

SOCOM Enlists PSPs Nov. 8 [Gamespot]

Tags: Gaming, PSP

I’d use this if I upgraded to 2.0. What this is meant to be is an offline website, accessible at all times by your PSP. If you do have an internet connection, there is an assortment of links to help you through the internet without using PSP’s dial-a-key-board, including fast links to e-mail, searches, and online messengers. This is accessible to anybody using the official PSP Firmware 2.00 built-in browser. Link to WinPSPortal is here. Via Makezine.

Tags: PSP

Update: Another much more complete review is now available at GamersReports.com. They actually got the thing to work ;-).

Previously Reported: I4U News - Sony PSP Firmware 2.0 with Web Browser First Impressions: Some intrepid soul has loaded up the PSP 2.0 firmware (Japanese version). So far no love with the browser - just an obscure error message.

(Via Terradome)

Tags: PSP

PSP firmware v2.0 available: “

The new PSP firmware with embedded web browser (no more need to hack WipeoutPure) is out in the wild now. If you keep up to date with these things then you probably already know about this; the PSP firmware v2.0 update has
been released. Currently it’s only available on the Japanese PSP site so unless you speak Japanese you’ll need to use a
web translator to find the right link. The US version should be out later in the day if you don’t want to take the
risk. One other word of caution - this will wipe out some capabilities for homebrew hacks. I’ll probably patch later tonight and update tomorrow.

Read (Original link)

Read #2 (English Translation)

(Via Joystiq.)

Tags: PSP