Game Downloads

A post on the official PlayStation blog yesterday outlined this week's slate of downloadable costumes for Little Big Planet. One is a design from the community that will cost you nothing, while the paid content inherits its look from a very stylish (and controversial) Sony franchise. Both free and premium outfit packs will be available for download starting this Thursday, November 20.

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However much Boom Blox (pictured) ended up selling after all was said and done, it seems the amount was enough for Electronic Arts to carry forward with a sequel. Variety reports that EA is indeed currently working on Boom Blox 2 (a placeholder title), which comes along with news that the publisher is closing down its mysterious EA Blueprint division.

I haven't skateboarded for a couple of years now, and playing Skate It made me doubt any abilities I ever had. This game demonstrates what happens when a developer doesn't understand a system's hardware and peripheral limitations and overestimates its audience's abilities.

In a case dating back to July of 2006, Sony has been ordered to pay $18.5 million to Agere Systems after a jury found Sony guilty of infringing on Agere's patent for a "wireless local area network apparatus." According to a PDF document of the jury's finding (via PSPFanboy), the jury ruled that Sony's infringement was willful, with the patented technology being used unlawfully in the PSP as well as the Mylo, and other Sony products.