Lookit all those dominations.

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Note: this isn't news someone just needed to post some shit
also my kdr is low because i was playing medic as you can see from my mad healing skills in the bottom there

Rag Doll Kung Fu is free for US PlayStation store customers this week, so I went ahead and grabbed it. What's it like?

It reminded me of a 2D (pseudo-3D) Powerstone - yes, it's that much fun multi-player. The wacky antics, the weapons which you can pick up and use, the four player mayhem. It was just a great party game that had me chuckling off and on the entire time I played it.

The downsides? You better have some IRL friends - it doesn't appear to support online multi-player (despite many reviews and game websites advertising such). The single player "challenges" are fun for a bit, and if you're the competitive sort you'll probably get a kick out of competing in the online leader boards, but overall the mileage without any friends isn't much.

If they released an update for this game that included online multi-player, this game would definitely be worth the $10-15 price tag, without a doubt.

Or is Sony really dropping the ball on their firmware updates lately? Okay, the PS3 firmware update gave us some "ho hum" shit that it probably should have had a long time ago. Whatever, I can deal with that.

I don't even use my PSP any more really, because it hurts my hands and most of the neat shit is for the new model PSPs and I got the shaft for buying one release day. But today while checking up on PS3 related shit I went over to the PSP section and discovered that earlier this year they released another update. Is it worth me digging my PSP and charger out of the filing cabinet to upgrade? Let's see.

The PSP jumped a major version number and a half from 4.05 to 5.50, and unless I'm missing some really cool shit, these are the exciting features:

• Information Board - No longer do you have to visit the PlayStation Network to find out about the games Sony wants to cram down your throat... I think the information board lets you open-wide directly from the XMB.
• You can now view deeper levels of folders in Pictures/Videos/Music. Congratulations, it's media viewer is no longer completely retarded and got upgraded to "pretty retarded".
• You can now search for a game you already own easily by selecting an option from the game menu. Awesome.
• As if browsing the web on the PSP wasn't brain-dead enough, you can now filter it with Trend Micro for PSP.
• Several updates to PSN store, including being able to shop without a PSN account (make it easier to buy shit from Sony), and you don't need quite so much MSPD space free to download stuff (I guess sales on PSN finally outweigh sales of bigger MSPD media) and hey you can now "automatically sign in" cuz hitting X with your saved information might prevent you from buying something.

That's.... it? It seems like a 4.50 at best, more like a 4.20 or some shit, for a major version jump like 5.50 I expected something to warrant me pulling the thing out of the filing cabinet and playing with it for a bit.

To reiterate an earlier post, My wish list for new stuff from Sony:

Full, cross-platform PSN integration. A windows client is optional, but we should at least be able to sign in, and send/receive messages from the browser. We should also be able to view, and maybe even show off our trophies, records and whatnot via the web too. Give it up, Sony, I'm not replacing my PC with a web browser with my PS3 just because it has a browser. The PSP should have access to the friends list and shit too - I mean why not? It's not like someone's going to go "oh noes I can't use PSN fully because I only have a PSP, I'll go buy a PS3 now!". No.

Ditch that shitty photo album thing, and integrate Flickr. Integrate Youtube or Vimeo with videos. Let me add Music from media servers to a Playlist stored on the PS3, without copying all my songs to the PS3. If you made them really, really badass, visualization plugins would probably sell in PSN store for a couple bucks.

The ability to background download game updates. Okay so Burnout Paradise needs to update, I'll play GTA4 while it updates. Or better yet, I'll play BP offline while it updates. Why can't we do that, we can background-download most other stuff. I can understand no background-installing, but why not the downloads?

I'm sure there's more I have to complain about, but that's enough for now.

Update:

Well, it looks as though you can view your friends list in PSN, as well as view your own Trophies. I can't figure out if you can show them off to others yet, and it still looks like there's no way of interacting with friends on your PC.