These days, it's usually a wise choice to go around looking for deals on your favorite video games. Gamestop is offering a few deals of its own from the week of March 2 to March 8. These include a buy two, take one promo, discounts and what not.

In fact, we'll make you a deal as well: if you turn to the full article after the jump, we'll give you more details on Gamestop's Deal of the Week. How about it?

Here's another program for those who are keen on converting videos and uploading them on their preferred gadgets: Called Universal Video Converter. This application is currently on version 6.0.2, and was created by Victorious from DivxTurka.Net

Know more about this program via the "read more" link below.

Download: Universal Video Converter v6.0.2

CNET has just released the poll results for their top 20 most wanted products for the week ending October 28. And from the looks of it, Microsoft's getting a pick-me-up as their upcoming Zune 2 media player pulls ahead of the Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation 3 to first place. From an ugly duckling to a swan, indeed.

Getting into specifics, the Zune 2.0 player (available only in black) will carry a new iPod-style Zune pad, a 3.2-inch screen, and a set of downloadable features that are expected to be available come this fall. And while Sony has already made plans to phase out their 60 GB PlayStation 3 by the end of this year, the polls indicate that it's still on shoppers' wish lists at third place.

Other notables we spied in the list were the Apple iPhone, which got fifth place, and the recently released black PSP Slim, which was at eleventh place.

PSP Fanboy reported something fairly interesting about a new product from Sony called beats. At NeoGAF, gofreak did some trademark snooping and uncovered the said product - it's on ESRB too.

Here's the description:

Providing access to gaming, digital music and/or video web sites; providing wireless transmission of music, video and games, via the Internet and via communications networks; uploading and downloading of music, video and games, via the Internet and via communications networks; providing on-line bulletin boards for the transmission of messages among computer users concerning games, music and videos; distribution of computer software relating to music, video and games over local or global communications networks; communication services in the form of matching users for the transfer of music and video recordings via communication networks; information, advisory and consultancy services relating to all the aforesaid.

Hmm... Music, video, and game downloads and uploads over the interwebs? Interesting indeed. First things that come to mind  is whether this will come as an update or a UMD and whether the current PSPs can handle oodles of gigs in the memory department. Andrew Yoon from PSP Fanboy was quick to note that Zune's capabilities would definitely be outdone. That we'll see if the rumored (yes, we'll be keeping this under rumor until further info arises) PSP product will ever see the light of day. Stay tuned.

The i.Sound MovieTime Universal solves the most common problem for the gadget-trendy entertainment fan - which one to use. The dock makes listening universal for the most popular players around like the iPod, Zune and the PSP, and has these features to boot:

• Surround sound feature
• Compact
• Four 32 mm speakers
• Total Power: 12 Watts RMS
• Frequency response: 180 Hz with 20 Khz
• Buttons: go/stop, volume, surround
• Auxiliary audio Entry + audio cable mini jack for the connection with your other audio devices.
  

One thing about this multi-functional gadget is that the appearance is unlike any other we've seen so far. At 77 bucks a pop, it's certainly worth the consideration, but style-conscious users may want to give it a second thought.

We really don't want to start a flame war, but offending comments like this is just too news-y to pass up. Time has a report on the launch of the Apple's iPhone, and within that lengthy report is this paragraph:

To witness the iPhone launch from behind the curtain (or under the towel) is to see the controlling hand of Steve Jobs, for whom this is an almost mystically significant year. He's 50 years old. It's been 30 years since he founded Apple (with Stephen Wozniak), and 10 since he returned there after having been fired. In that decade Apple's stock has gone up 1,000%. Neither age nor success (nor cancer surgery in 2004) have significantly mellowed him, though some of the silver in his beard is creeping into his hair. All technologists believe their products are better than other people's, or at least they say they do, but Jobs believes it a little more than most. In the hours we spent talking about the iPhone, Jobs trash-talked the Treo, the BlackJack, the Sony PSP and the Sony Mylo ("just garbage compared to this"), Windows Vista ("It's just a copy of an old version of Mac OSX") and of course Microsoft’s would-be iPod killer, Zune.

The PSP and the Sony Mylo, garbage compared to the iPhone? To be fair, the Mylo might, and we stress, might, deserve a comparison with the iPhone since they're both in the same category of tech products. But to compare the iPhone to the PSP? Really now.

What? Are there supposed to be games of PS1 or higher quality set to be released for the iPhone? Will it be rigged to play DS games?

The iPhone is a very pretty and very savvy multi-functional handheld device that can be used as a phone. (Yes, we want one ourselves.) The PSP is a very pretty and very savvy multi-functional handheld device that can be used (or is primarily used) to play games, or given the homebrew community, used for a whole lot of things.

Garbage? Someone's being a bit too hasty, or a bit too boastful.

"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" from 20th Century Fox and Marvel Comics is the sequel to the 2005 movie Fantastic Four. The actors reprise their roles and new faces will grace the series. Silver Surfer and Nova debuts in this movie.

In the trailer, we see an uber cool aerial chase between the Human Torch and the Silver Surfer. Since we still need to do some waiting to do for the actual movie (US release is June 15), you can watch the trailer at the link below. The trailer is available for download for the PSP, iPod Video, and Zune, among other portable video players.

The Silver Surfer is an intergalactic herald for Galactus, a powerful being who devours worlds. He arrives on Earth and does so in the worst of times - during Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) and Sue Storm's (Invisible Woman) wedding. That's the least of their problems as their arch nemesis Dr. Doom returns to do what normal villains do: get revenge and laugh maniacally.

The PSP's UMD may be "a dying movie format" according to some, but it doesn't mean that sometimes the format makes sense. Even if we're talking about a world filled with video iPods and Zunes (which it isn't), the UMD can be useful, too. One such reason is the "Book of Cool, Volume One", a video-format compilation from Ocelot Productions of various cool tricks from 35 of the world's talented sportsmen and performers.

And when the Book says various, they mean it. Skateboards. Golf. Card tricks. Pool. Bicycles, flatland, and street. Frisbee. Street b-ball. Juggling. Gun tricks (uh-oh). Yo-yo. Twirling pens... you get the picture. When you're through reading this book, then you're ready to impress the ladies with your new moves. Just no gun tricks, okay?

And this is where "sometimes the format makes sense" comes in. The Book also comes in a 3-DVD set with a separate colored book. Now, the PSP version comes in only two UMDs, and as a result, includes fewer skills than the DVDs. However, the UMD also includes "electronic book pages" - which we'll read as an on-disc readable guide as well as video content - and step-by-step instructions.

Plus consider this: even if you're considering those smaller, "portable" DVD players, have you ever tried fitting those, PLUS the book, in your pocket on your trip to the skatepark? Sure, you could always tote them in a gym bag or something... but this is where the portable video capabilities of the PSP shine. It's handy, fits in your pocket, and you don't need to look for an outlet. That equals to a wealth of cool tips and tricks for (look at the list above) at the tips of your fingers for the price of US$ 22.00, £ 17.00, € 24, plus shipping.

Just make sure you don't blow off your fingertips while trying to pull off those gun tricks.

... courtesy of Chunglam, who's decided he'd try something a bit towards the hardware side this time. It's not the first attempt we've seen at making a wireless external storage solution for the PSP: a long time ago (okay, just a little under a year ago) someone wrote up a How-To on using an Asus WL-HDD drive enclosure as an external storage device for the PSP, using RSS.

This time, Chunglam used an Asus WL-500g/gx/gp Wi-Fi router with attached 40GB USB drive and the source code with the precompiled binary for the router. The code is available at the DL link below; custom firmware for the router (not the PSP this time) will be required and can be downloaded separately (click on via below for more details). Needless to say, whoever wants to do this needs experience with working with Wi-Fi routers, not just the PSP.

It's still not a perfect solution, Chunglam notes: the router requires an AC outlet (hence the quotation marks in "portable", but at least you can take 40 gigs of storage space with you to the nearest power outlet if it comes to that). The "pure" portable solution, he says, would be to use a... Microsoft Zune, since it also has Wi-Fi. But first, he says we have to hack its firmware security and run Linux in it.

Is it just us, or is it possible that Chunglam just said that with a wry, ironic smile plastered on his face?

Download: [Source code for Asus WL-500g/gx/gp]