The North American PSN update is now available. This week's PlayStation Store lineup has a variety of titles for all gamers. To start the list, you have the downloadable puzzler game Droplitz, a PS1 classic game Mobile Light Force, The BIGS 2 Demo, new add-on contents for High Velocity Bowling and LittleBigPlanet, four downloadable games for the PSP and more.

At this rate, if all these bills being proposed get written into actual law, video game box art would be obsolete. In their place, it's just one big white label on the cover: warning warning danger warning! Following last week's proposal of having a huge list of warnings on game boxes (sodomy, rape, bestiality, incest, murder, etc.), a new bill now wants a warning label linking photosensitivity epilepsy and video games.

Remember when assemblyman Keith L.T. Wright proposed to have kids protected from racist games and its ilk? And before that, representative Joe Baca introduced another bill which wanted those obtrusive warning labels on video game boxes. Take those two bills and up the ante with a whole list of mature content warnings, plus a US$ 1000 fine for violators. Thus, you get this new one. Execute order 66 A2837!

This is just absolutely crazy. Fine, it's not news, but... if you wanted to see proof of how popular the PSP is in Russia, here's a video showing two guys stealing a 4-foot PSP displayed in a street stand advertisement! Viral marketing? Hmmm...

Oh please. Not another one. This following yesterday's news of having warning labels on game boxes? Oy vey... Apparently, a new bill is going around the New York Assembly. This one was introduced by one Kieth L.T. Wright, and he aims to have even more restrictions in the selling of video games. On top of the already existing ESRB ratings, the new bill would have minors shielded from racism, cursing, and other forms of insult in video games.

What's this? More taxes?!? More importantly, in downloadable content?!? Come. On. Apparently, it's gonna suck to be a New Yorker because of this. Included in the state's proposed budget is the suggestion that DLC, in both the iPod and video games, be taxed.

After three years of amusing pedestrians in New York, the legendary PSP Mega-Phat billboard is taking a breather. They're taking down the huge PSP Phat on Houston Street and Lafayette Street and will be giving it a screen upgrade. Yeah, just like with the PSP-3000! They're taking down the billboard - the body will be replaced with new parts (probably to reflect that of the PSP-3000's) as well as get a shiny new screen too. Let's just hope this new screen doesn't have any scanlines...

An unfortunate event on Black Friday has occurred at a Wal-Mart branch in Long Island, New York. One worker was killed while at least four other people were injured. Sales are great , but there's no need to go rushing mad. Read up the story at the full article.

It looks like nothing is going right for Midway these days. The company has just revealed that its stocks are facing delisting from the New York Stock Exchange. This is just the latest in Midway's ongoing financial soap opera. Layoffs, huge losses, and the resignations of some of its top execs were only a few of the bad news that has plagued Midway these past few months.

Photograper Robbie Cooper shows us all just how focused young gamers can be while playing with actual clips of kids of various ages while they're playing games. Watch all the triumph, the anxiety, the joy of the kill, and a little girl with no emotion. Catch all the different faces in the video.