Today Sony released version 2.8 of its firmware. PSP owners the world over look at upgraded firmware as either a blessing or a curse. I stand firmly in the "blessing" camp.
Adding the ability to subscribe to video podcasts is great. You no longer need to use arcane syntax to name video files either. It also appears that Sony no longer requires the PSP video "wrapper" as videos formatted for the iPod (MPEG-4) work just fine, with no transcoding required.
I am glad to see a sequel to Mercury, and the Mercury Meltdown demo is a lot of fun. The art design is a total shocker, but the real suprise is the additional game play elements introduced this time around. Check out the trailer on YouTube.
