The BBC has a small report about how the modern game industry is burning out talent. Of course, this is something we've all heard before, particularly surrounding the EASPOUSE public relations nightmare EA suffered back in 04. They actually followed up on EASPOUSE, who has now changed her tune about EA.

LocoRoco Indeed, the PSP is capable of downloading playable game content after the latest v2.71 firmware update. Curious as I was, my PSP is not capable of running homebrew software anyways, I tried it out. Just finished to upgrade my PSP to the latest firmware v2.71 and downloaded a cool playable game demo from the official PSP website, prentended to be American and logged onto the US site since the Dutch European site is just plain plain as hell without real content.

Egypt-themed games animation Having just returned from Egypt - which was amazing by the way - made me wonder about the use of ancient Egypt as a theme for videogames. I've seen FPS games, and a lot of puzzle games, Lara Croft has stumbled through some Egyptian tombs. Often I've just been irritated by its use because the theme had nothing to do with the gameplay.