Engadget has a nice step-by-step article on web-surfing on your PSP. They’ve even gone so far as to set up a DNS proxy for we — the geeky public — to use. Sweet.

Xbox pull confirmed at retail and by publishers

SPOnG has received emails that indicate a complete withdrawal of Xbox hardware in the coming months, with claims surfacing today of a total end to generation one Xbox production.

Haven’t seen this confirmed anywhere yet…

Geek lust has never been so intense. I’m still in the futzin’ phase. I’ve played some Ridge Racer (which is awesome) including wireless head-to-head from a good 100 feet apart. Mostly I’ve just been gawking at the thing and caressing it lovingly… er. Ahem. Did I say that out loud?

I’m reading a lot of talk about bad pixels. I’ve seen 3 purchased units running so far, and haven’t found a bad pixel yet.

I do have one small gripe and that’s with wireless connectivity. I was trying to hook into my Apple wireless network and ran into some minor problems. First, I was using WPA and the PSP can only do WEP. So I change over to 128 bit WEP, enter the password in the PSP and it grumbles that passwords have to be 5 or 13 characters long (for 40 and 128 bit, presumably). That might always be the case with WEP…I’ve never used it before. It looked like the actual wireless base station ‘padded’ my too-short password in fact. I reset the password, padding it to 13 characters myself, and entered the padded password on the PSP, and all was well.

Oh, and I also think they should include a USB cable.

Other than that, everything is rocking for me so far…

Though sadly, “here” right now is the office. So my shiny new PSP sits on my desk, charging its battery and batting its eyelashes at me. Its a seductive little beastie with a ton of buttons jacks, and hidden panels. I DID get a chance to pop in the Spiderman 2 movie and flash it around the office, prompting one co-worker to don his coat and run out to Best Buy to get one before they were all gone.

Now I have to sit here until 6:00 pm before I can actually PLAY with the damned thing, but overall I’m pumped. The resolution of the screen is amazing. The whole unit is a little smaller than I thought it would be, while the screen is actually bigger than I thought it would be…

Tonight I’ll mess around with moving some MP3s or video onto it (I splurged on a half-gig memory card). Oh, and check out the games, of course. 🙂

Microsoft spills beans on next Xbox

Gamespy (and probably every other gaming site in the world) is also covering this story. I’m most excited about 100% High-Def games on the next XBox. That sold me right there. Where do I pre-order?