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Korea’s cool Playstation lounge

Sony’s Korean arm has a neat idea, set up shop at ski slopes. Inside their igloo shaped lounge are PS2s and PSPs with games that anyone can play. There are pictures of the inside of the lounge past the break. Look closely at the last picture is that a wine bottle at the right hand corner?

Spencer Yip
January 3, 2007







Source: Siliconera

LuaDevKit Alpha v0.1 for PC

Glynnder from the QJ forums has released the first version of his Lua software development kit for use on the PC. The SDK provides an interface to some common tasks and commands so that they do not need to be re-written. This release is in its infancy so don't expect the world from it but it should serve as a decent start for some of you out there wishing to get into Lua development. The interface is written in Java so you'll need the Java Runtime Environment installed. This also comes bundled with the PC version of Lua Player. Check it out via the download link below.

Download LuaDevKit Alpha v0.1

Via PSPUpdates

EA drops prices on Xbox360 and PSP games

Grrrreat news to all Xbox360 and PSP owners! News has just reached our ears that EA will be dropping the prices for a whole lot of their games!

According to GameInvasion, this price drop will take effect starting January 5, with prices for some Xbox360 games going as low as US $ 29.99, and PSP games for US $ 19.99. Pretty cool, huh?

So if you didn't get all of the games you wanted last Christmas, it'll be a whole lot easier on your wallets now to spend for your own games. You're gonna have to wait for two more days though, but what the heck, right? That's still 10 bucks less for us! So enough with the talking, and let's just get to the list of games that you'll seen be able to get for 10 to 20 dollars less.

Xbox 360:

• Battlefield 2: Modern Combat - then: US $49.99 now: US $29.99
• Fight Night Round 3 - then: $59.99 now: $29.99
• Madden NFL 07 and Madden NFL 07 Hall of Fame Edition - then: $59.99, now: $49.99
• NHL 07 - from $59.99, now only $49.99
• The Godfather - then: $59.99 now: $39.99
• LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth - then: $49.99 now: $29.99
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 - then: $59.99 now: $49.99
• NCAA Football - then: $49.99 now: $39.99
• FIFA Soccer 07 - then: $59.99 now: $49.99

For the PSP:

• Def Jam Fight for New York: The Takedown - then: $39.99 now: $29.99
• Fight Night Round 3 - then: $29.99 now: $19.99
• Madden NFL 07 - then: $39.99 now: $29.99
• NHL 07 - then: $39.99 now: $29.99
• The Godfather Mob Wars - then: $39.99 now: $29.99
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 - then: $39.99 now: $29.99
• NASCAR 07 - then: $39.99 now: $29.99
• NBA Live 07 - then: $39.99 now: $29.99
• FIFA Soccer 07 - then: $39.99 now: $29.99
• NCAA Football 07 - then: $39.99 now: $29.99

Source: PSPUpdates

GamezGecko offers unlimited game rentals

GamezGecko has just announced that they are now offering unlimited rental for all your favorite Xbox360 and PSP games.

The catch? Well...it's not exactly free. First you're gonna have to sign up for a six-month membership deal, for which you'll have to dish out £59.99 (that's roughly US $ 118 for us fellas). Doesn't sound all that good, huh?

But, BUT, this subscription will give you access to more than 200+ of their PSP and Xbox360 games, and according to their press release, this will also give you access to game manuals and 2100 Xbox Live MS points.

So if you wanna get more out of your hundred bucks, all ya have to do is click on the read link below to sign up.

Read more here...

Source: PSPUpdates

Dark_Alex Releases 3.03 OE-A Custom Firmware

Dark_Alex has released his much anticipated 3.03 OE-A custom firmware with support for PS1 game compression! Also supported is the use of PS1 manuals via the document.dat utility. Below is a list of changes and installation instructions.

Change Log from 3.02 OE-B to 3.03 OE-A:

• Change from firmware 3.02 to 3.03
• Added support for compression in psx isos (look at popstation documentation for more details).
• Added support for decrypted document.dat (psx games manual) (look at docmaker documentation for more details).
• Fixed a bug regarding free region: a stupid bug caused it not to work at all. Now it should work, although it has not been tested due to lack of umd's of different regions between the testers and me.
• Some generic bug fixes in the code.
• Redded the sdk.

Installation Instructions

1. Copy oeupdatemaker and oeupdatemaker% to /PSP/GAME if you are in firmware 1.50, or to /PSP/GAME150 if you are in 2.71 SE or 3.02 OE.
2. Get the 1.50 and 3.03 sony updates, and put them in the oeupdatemaker folder with the names 150.PBP and 303.PBP.
3. Run oeupdatemaker. It will generate the dxar file DATA.DXAR, whhich has the following hashes:
• MD5:  03186D46D2F1B0ACD923098BEBC87281
• SHA1: 3C80833A970EEA16A94D74DAFF6220889A9CEE4A
4. Copy 303oeflasher and 303oeflasher% to /PSP/GAME if you are in 1.50, or to /PSP/GAME150 if you are in 2.71 SE or 3.02 OE.
5. Move the DATA.DXAR file to the 303oeflasher.
6. Run the program. When it finishes, it will ask you to reinit the psp. When you do that, you will be in 3.03 OE-A.

WARNING: Firmware modifications can permanently damage your PSP beyond repair. Use this at your own risk.

Download Custom Firmware 3.03 OE-A