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.

OK, so here it is guys. French site PSPGen together with their developer code named GENyUS has finally released the much awaited Custom Firmware 5.50GEN-A yesterday for PSP fat and slim users (with TA-088 v1 and v2) users. This new CFW supports all the functions of the official firmware 5.50 with Pops and ISO support. Today they have also released build 4 of CFW 5.50GEN-A to fix the PSN network bug issue. Read more.



Download: Custom Firmware 5.50GEN-A
Download: Custom Firmware 5.50GEN-A Build 4

Okay guys! This is it! Get those PSP 3000s of your fired up, cos Custom Firmware 5.03 HENA-A for HEN is now available, as promised. "Entirely compatible with the OFW 5.03" and fully workable for both the Slim and 3K - "without exception" - it's time to enjoy the joys of homebrew.


Download: CFW 5.03GEN-A for HEN
Download: ChickHEN Homebrew Enabler R2

The addition of classic PlayStation games to the PlayStation Store was a smart move. Not totally unexpected, but smart. There are still a lot of gamers out there who grew up on Sony's first gaming console and are itching to try their hand again on the games they grew up with. The problem is, the number of PS1 classics on the PlayStation Store is still depressingly low. If you still have your old PS1 game disc, though, you won't have to wait for your favorite games to show up on the PlayStation Store. All you need is a PSP.

Sure, they're getting a lot of flak about their supposed nickel-and-diming ways right now, but Capcom has some pretty good news for PS3 and PSP owners who still love playing through old PSOne games.

It's not quite that uber cool "advanced multi-tasking" iR Shell just yet, but here's a new version coming straight from AhMan. Think of this as an interim update. iR Shell v4.92 paves the way to incorporate support for Dark AleX's LEDA tool and RemoteJoy improvements.

Thanks to Fadil for the heads up!

Download: iR Shell v4.92

You've seen every screenshot, watched every movie, pre-ordered and camped out to get a hold of the game on day one, frantically ripped off the wrapping, shoved it into your machine of choice and then... disappointmenton. Here's how we felt, what about you folks?

Pick up your watering cans and sharpen your hoes (not those kinds of hoes!), another Harvest Moon title is coming to the Sony PlayStation Portable. Following news of Bokujou Monogatari: Sugar Mura to Minna no Negai (Harvest Moon: Sugar Village and Everyone's Wishes) appearing in Famitsu, Marvelous Entertainment has put up an official website for the game.

Homemister91 has finally taken his LuaPlayerHM out of beta phase, and is now releasing LuaPlayerHM v2 (not to be confused with previous version, LuaPlayerHM v2 Final Beta).

Download: LuaPlayerHM v2
Visit: QJ.NET PSP development forums

Europeans get first dibs on the Mirror's Edge demo this week (it should be going live on the PSN US store later on though - if not already, by the time you're reading this - and tomorrow on XBL), as part of today's Thursday PSN update. Other downloadable content include PS1 snowboarder Coolboarders 2 for the PSP, as well as more Rock Band songs and SoulCal4 DLCs.