Update: Virtual Globe v0.51 is now available; the changes go unmentioned, although they’re likely minor…

Like Laurie London, developer mifki’s got the Whole World in His Hands, and not only that; he has managed to pack the entire planet into a ~ 5.9MB archive for everyone to enjoy. Extract said zip to your memory stick, load up your PSP, and explore our beautiful Earth in its entirety.

Currently Virtual Globe’s feature set is somewhat lackin...

Returning to the top is the always-controversial BakonICE from developer NoEffex. Plenty of optimizations made their way into version 1.60 resulting in a more efficient means of cheating Socom Fireteam Bravo 2. Check the changes below; you’ll see what I mean.

BakonICE v1.60 changes:

• Changed the method in which I did the main/in-game menu variables and cheats.
• Fixed the score modder.
• Heavy optimizing of the cheat structure. It does mo...

And here it is; an official release from the Jpcsp team. The latest is reported to run select games while many bomb, either some showing random screens and glitching out or they do simply nothing at all. Anyway, check Jpcsp out — it’s Java emulating the PSP. Try your homebrew too.

Check the Google Code project page for revision information.

Download:
Jpcsp v0.1 (Rev. 812)
Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE).

Verbatim from Eurogamer; take it with a grain of salt –

Sony plans to refresh the PlayStation Portable product line with a PSP-4000 model in late 2009 and launch a true successor - a PSP2, if you like - later.

Publishing sources, speaking to Eurogamer, were unable to provide any further detail on next year’s update, which will presumably follow this year’s PSP-3000 in taking an iterative approach. The PSP-3000 launched this October and fol...

You want it, you got it; JK108’s modified and always updated version of SofiyaCat’s PSPTube. It’s Ultimate PSPTube, and with version 1.6, you now get this –

• Yuvutu is now included
• xHamster is now included
• Fixed a bug in YouTube where the thumbnail and title would display incorrectly for some results
• Fixed the VBox7 script so the videos now work again
• Made a few changes to how the description text is handled

Haven’t heard? With Ultimate...

Mostly comprised of bug fixes is Scorpus’ Thing-Thing v0.9.2. There’s still no playable campaign; however, hop into Arena mode, stay alive throughout each wave, keep a full clip by collecting the newly added power-ups, and rat-a-tat-tat… It ain’t nuthin’ but a thing-thing…

Thing Thing v0.9.2 changes:

• Added blood effects. Not great, but it’s there
• Added pickups (health and ammo), which are spawned at random
• Added death animat...