Go (away)

Despite claims to the contrary (from, you know… wankers), there’s no anti-Sony agenda here. We hate them a little less than we hate Microsoft but we’ve got love for the PSP. It’s a PS1 (well… 1.5) in your hand. That’s amazing. Fuck the DS with its gimmicky stylus use that generally only serves to get you through menus or overcomplicate the gameplay and give you cramp) and painfully bad 3D.

So, the new PSP has been revealed to the world (good work GamingConsoleNetwork) and, well, it looks shit doesn’t it?

No UMD support, no second stick… in fact no sticks, it just has one analogue nub and frankly I’d rather attempt to control a game using my tongue than a PSP nub. The sliding screen looks gash as well. It does come with 16gb of storage though, which’ll be great for storing emulators on when they inevitable hack this thing.

Arkanoid Live is out today.  It costs 800pts which is a fair price for a remake of a stone cold arcade classic.

But what’s this?  The demo shows that the main menu has options for four episodes.  It’s only once you complete the demo (which is six stages long) that you realise that your 800pts only buys you episodes 1 and 2.  What’s the odds that 3 and 4 will cost 400pts then?

The achievements only relate to episodes 1 and 2 also which makes us think that another 50 gamerscore will be attached to the DLC.

Note to Microsoft:  it’s one thing charging 1200pts for games, but charging it for a full game and then tricking people into buying part of the game for 800 makes you literally cunts.  XBLA is dead.  Go fuck yourselves.