Think Sony PSP games are overpriced? Us too. Here’s a tutorial on how to download free homebrew games off the Internet and install them on your PSP.

In this tutorial we will be installing a homebrew game called SmashGpsp. If you are unfamiliar with this game, SmashGpsp is a lose PSP recreation of the popular Nintendo 64 game Super Smash Brothers by a very talented programmer named mATkEUpON.

Tutorial: Install Homebrew Games on Your Sony PSP

This guide doesn’t detail eboot loaders, which you’ll need for some of the more complicated homebrew programs out there. This tutorial is a good first step if you want to get your feet wet in the world of PSP homebrew.

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Halloween might have come and gone, but the unpronounceable Rluzinski’s costume can also be used at different social engagements such as a gaming convention or a LAN party. All you need is a great love for video games, a pinch of patience, and three tablespoons of resourcefulness. Rluzinski dressed up as a MAME arcade cabinet while kids worldwide strutted around in the latest Prada-inspired vampire costumes. This unique costume does not feature just any of those nonsensical games that you can pick off the counter - it carries the legendary Pac-Man who used to gobble up more quarters from kids than pellets and ghosts in the game itself.

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So you want to play golf in the house but your mother, wife, girlfriend, dog is opposed to the idea, B$!@ocks!!! Now you can play in the house (ok, at least first check and see that you have enough swing room, if you don’t, you may hit grandpa’s ashes, and that’s never good, remember he wanted them scattered at St. Andrews, not while you played it on your PC!)

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The Ainol V1000 is one of the coolest multi-featured audio/video devices on the market, too bad that the Chinese market is the only one that has the glory to offer it (or so it seems). The detail that makes it one of the coolest portable multimedia gadgets is that it can emulate NES, SNES and Sega games – so get ready to enjoy the old-school and classic games like Super Mario v1, 2, 3, 4, etc.

On the audio features there is support for MP3 and WMA, there is also an upgrade/addition from the previous versions – more exactly a FLAC lossless codec so that the music can have the best quality possible. The video section works with .AVI files that will let you play videos and watch them on the 2.5-inch-color-vivid-QVGA-screen-display. Phew!
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The world is divided into two segments - those who can spend their day and time in arcades all day long, feeding the machines quarters until they manage to unlock every single secret and complete the game on a single credit, and others who claim that arcades are the reason for the downfall of morality in society due to the negative messages that are spread via the games themselves. If you fall into the latter category, kindly ignore this post, while purveyors of the former will be delighted to know that they can now bring home an arcade game without the hassle of transporting an entire gaming cabinet home with the Arcade-in-a-Box system.

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Most games intend to bring the player into a virtual environment, but Philips is taking the opposite approach by bringing the in-game experience into the real, corporeal world. The Philips amBX system aims to achieve that by letting you feel the lighting within a game, thanks to a rather low tech solution. The amBX system will envelope your room in the corresponding light depending on where you are in the game. I suppose this concept will work well when you’ve holed yourself up in a small, dark room without any lights on.

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I was on TechEBlog the other day and found this great YouTube clip from Nextfest 2006. It’s an interactive installation of an Atari touch-sensitive “Pong Wall” game. No video displays or game controllers needed. You just touch the wall and use your hand to position your paddle. The Pong Wall detects hand movement by using embedded sensors on the wall. And the game interface/score is projected on the wall with LEDs.

It’s fun to watch this technology in action but unfortunately the two guys playing in this clip aren’t very serious competitors. Actually, they look a little tired. So don’t expect to see riveting game of Pong. Just marvel at the geek fun of it all and not the sleepy players.

If you’re really itching to play Pong again, Atari released a retro game system called the Atari Flashback 2 ($30). It features the same wood grain paneling and look of the Atari 2600. Games include Asteroids, Breakout, Centipede, Lunar Lander, Millipede, Missile Command, Combat and…. Pong.

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Here I thought that the Pyramat Sound Chair was the ultimate gaming chair, but I was wrong. Very wrong.

That title definitely goes to the Ultimate Game Chair. The name really gets the point across, eh?
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