Over at the PlayStation Blog, Noel Silvia of the PSN team has upped a tutorial that's aimed at helping new PSP owners create their own custom themes. More details on this tutorial are available in the full article.

It's another Friday filled with Pata-tips for those budding Almighty deities in training. Today's Patapon update focuses on army management and the different ways on how to raise the quality of your troops through proper equipment and unit allocation. Check out our full article and read up on how you can make a lean, mean fighting machine out of your one-eyed tribe of warriors.

Most of you are already familiar with the concept of rhythm games, but how about rhythm games that have you hunting for magic? According to associate producer Sony Computer Entertainment America">SCEA associate producer">Chris Hinojosa-Miranda, that's exactly what Patapon will have you do and believe in. More on the "rain dance" after the jump.

Now that we've reached a sense of maturity with homebrew development on the Sony PlayStation Portable, perhaps its time to trim the edges a bit. With the specifications of the PSP line diversifying (PSP Slim & Lite, PSP Fat) and the applications stretching across so many different segments at once, don't you think it's about time we started to document the PSP's capabilities the way real software developers do? More on that at the full article.

Wondering how Sony's upcoming Digital TV service works for your PlayStation 3 console? In a short video advertisement for PlayTV, it explains how the service works as well as how its various features play out once it goes live later this year. The service shows a fusion of video gaming and home entertainment rolled into one unique package.

Check out the video after the jump!

Project4 developer Auraomega has informed us that a poster on the Darkmessiah  forums named DrBaronVonEvilSatan has found a way to launch the PSP's XMB while running Project4. Details in the full article.

The current generation of consoles on the market today are powerful machines and carry a lot of features so sometimes it's a little hard to keep track of what they can do. Here's one feature a lot of you may not have been aware of but may find useful: you can stream media (music, video, photos) from your PC to your PS3 and then using Remote Play, stream it to your PSP. In effect, you get to watch and listen to media from your PC from anywhere with a Wi-Fi hotspot. Find out how to connect these devices in the full article.

Ever wanted to come home to find your Sony PlayStation 3 loaded with all the latest content from the PlayStation Store including those updates released while you were not home?

Well, you might want to consider activating remote play on your PSP and PS3 so that you can do just exactly that. Want to know more about this feature? Be sure to check out the full article via the "read more" link below.

Too busy to browse podcasts posted on RDF sites? Suffering from poor WiFi connection around your vicinity to be able to access these sites? Work around these problems with your PSP's RDF channel and browse podcasts even on the go.

A guide on how to get started can be found at the full article.

Having fun beating to the tune of Xsjado7's VDrum homebrew game? For the guys who find the game's tracks getting bland and seek to inject their own music, we've got good news. Tanos has recently set up a tutorial that will instruct you on the steps you'll need to take to install your own songs in VDrum. More details regarding this are available in the full article.