Slimline PSP out in the UK before Japan

As discussed on Monday, Sony's new slimline PSP, or the recently dubbed PSP Lite is expected to be on Japanese shelves on September the 20th. Sony however, have now announced that the UK will now get this new, improved handheld before Japan.

According to our old friend, David Reeves - Mr. Sony Europe - "“Once people get it into their hands they will feel the difference. It will come out at €169 (approximately £114) in all PAL territories at the beginning of September."

That's not my hand!

However, rumours on the internets are whispering that the new PSP could already be in stores as early as late August! I suppose we'll just have to wait and see.

Exciting, huh?

Source: MCV

First Look at Bungie title, Marathon: Durundal on XBox 360

At last week's E3, Bungie announced that their classic shooter, Marathon was coming to Microsoft's XBox Live arcade service. Well now you can see footage of it, albeit blocky, low-res YouTube footage and I made the executive decision that this was certainly better than absolutely nothing. So watch:



As you can tell from the clip it will support up to 8 players over Xbox Live and will feature the now standard original and HD modes. A release date is yet unknown but the USK (German Ratings Board) have rated the game which is usually a sign of things not being too far off.

Is it just me or does it look like Doom?

Nintendo 64 Kid loses his crown?

Those who remember the borderline psychosis of a the wholesome all-American pre-teen opening his presents at Christmas to find a shiny new Nintendo 64 lurking under the wrapping paper will no doubt be somewhat less surprised than otherwise expected by this new offering from the children of America.

The video entails a boy sorting through his Pokémon cards and he comes across one that judging by his reaction he didn't expect he'd get. Take a look!



If anyone knows a cure for this kind of behaviour please keep it to yourself as I'm sure you'll join me in finding it rather funny, if a little bit warped.

For those of us who wondered what happened to our past-master, Kotaku have done some digging.

Video Source: Joystiq