It's the same damn game we've all been playing for the last 15-odd years. Hey, guess what? You get to go into dungeons...and find items...and put together pieces of heart to make new heart containers. I haven't gotten very far into it, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Triforce is in the mix at some point.

There's a difference between tradition and ossification, and Nintendo's been content to let this series stay the same for too damn long. What's more, in a lot of ways it's actually getting to be pretty annoying.

It's the same damn game we've all been playing for the last 15-odd years. Hey, guess what? You get to go into dungeons...and find items...and put together pieces of heart to make new heart containers. I haven't gotten very far into it, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Triforce is in the mix at some point.

There's a difference between tradition and ossification, and Nintendo's been content to let this series stay the same for too damn long. What's more, in a lot of ways it's actually getting to be pretty annoying.

It's the same damn game we've all been playing for the last 15-odd years. Hey, guess what? You get to go into dungeons...and find items...and put together pieces of heart to make new heart containers. I haven't gotten very far into it, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Triforce is in the mix at some point.

There's a difference between tradition and ossification, and Nintendo's been content to let this series stay the same for too damn long. What's more, in a lot of ways it's actually getting to be pretty annoying.

Now that the Playstation 3 is out the door, Sony is refocusing some of their energy on getting people to buy their somewhat forgotten Playstation Portable this holiday season.

The marketing campaign includes a new television spot, bulked up PSP Spot download stations, an online ad campaign and a second big-ass PSP billboard, this one located in Las Vegas.

I caught the new Find Me ad on television last night and I kinda thought it sucked. It was way too short, almost as if they had chopped it up to save on airtime, and didn't touch on gaming at all.

I know the PSP is a multimedia device, but Sony better start selling video and music content for it before they try to use that as a selling point.

Fortunately, Sony didn't completely forget about gaming. As of January, just in time for missing the holidays, there will be more than 6,000 PSP download stations at retailers around the country.

The spots are currently loaded with a smörgåsbord of content:

Demos
-- Outrun
-- Worms
-- Dungeon Siege
-- MLB 2006
-- Ultimate Ghosts and Goblins
-- Lumines 2
-- Every Extended Extra
-- MX vs ATV
-- Race Driver 2006
-- Daxter

Game Trailers
-- NFL Street 3
-- Bounty Hounds
-- LocoRoco
-- Lemmings

Videos
-- PSP Greatest Hits
-- PSP Educational

Game Sharing
-- Lemmings
-- Lumines 2
-- Every Extended Extra
-- LocoRoco

You owe it to yourself to check out the demos for Ultimate Ghosts and Goblins, Every Extended Extra, Daxter and Lumines 2 at the very least.

Now that the Playstation 3 is out the door, Sony is refocusing some of their energy on getting people to buy their somewhat forgotten Playstation Portable this holiday season.

The marketing campaign includes a new television spot, bulked up PSP Spot download stations, an online ad campaign and a second big-ass PSP billboard, this one located in Las Vegas.

I caught the new Find Me ad on television last night and I kinda thought it sucked. It was way too short, almost as if they had chopped it up to save on airtime, and didn't touch on gaming at all.

I know the PSP is a multimedia device, but Sony better start selling video and music content for it before they try to use that as a selling point.

Fortunately, Sony didn't completely forget about gaming. As of January, just in time for missing the holidays, there will be more than 6,000 PSP download stations at retailers around the country.

The spots are currently loaded with a smörgåsbord of content:

Demos
-- Outrun
-- Worms
-- Dungeon Siege
-- MLB 2006
-- Ultimate Ghosts and Goblins
-- Lumines 2
-- Every Extended Extra
-- MX vs ATV
-- Race Driver 2006
-- Daxter

Game Trailers
-- NFL Street 3
-- Bounty Hounds
-- LocoRoco
-- Lemmings

Videos
-- PSP Greatest Hits
-- PSP Educational

Game Sharing
-- Lemmings
-- Lumines 2
-- Every Extended Extra
-- LocoRoco

You owe it to yourself to check out the demos for Ultimate Ghosts and Goblins, Every Extended Extra, Daxter and Lumines 2 at the very least.

ADS announced InstantVideo To-Go, a nifty little $79.95 widget that supercharges compression of video into that oh-so-sweet H.264 format. The company calls it the first hardware-based H.264 conversion device for PCs. This little USB key is a video transfer accelerator that lets you convert any video into that butta-smooth format specifically for playback on an iPod or PSP, and lets you accomplish that feat five times faster than real time.

So what this means is you can take a DVD's worth of video and crunch it down for 320x240 playback on your iPod or PSP in 20 minutes, something that can take five hours to do with software encoding. And this baby can do that with a slew of media formats, too, including MP4, MP3, AVI, WMV, MOV, RM, JPG, and TIFF. Yeah, ADS. This we gotta try.

ADS announced InstantVideo To-Go, a nifty little $79.95 widget that supercharges compression of video into that oh-so-sweet H.264 format. The company calls it the first hardware-based H.264 conversion device for PCs. This little USB key is a video transfer accelerator that lets you convert any video into that butta-smooth format specifically for playback on an iPod or PSP, and lets you accomplish that feat five times faster than real time.

So what this means is you can take a DVD's worth of video and crunch it down for 320x240 playback on your iPod or PSP in 20 minutes, something that can take five hours to do with software encoding. And this baby can do that with a slew of media formats, too, including MP4, MP3, AVI, WMV, MOV, RM, JPG, and TIFF. Yeah, ADS. This we gotta try.