Everyone is present and accounted for, although, both Mike and Jenni are sick with a bad case of what Mike describes as “Whooping Death”. The show must go on despite the illness, and this week’s show was a good one. Topics discussed include 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, Star Ocean 4, Activision’s earnings, Xbox Live and it’s policies regarding sexual orientation info in your profile, and the Japanese court ruling that the R4 is illegal.

Let’s assume I was trying to run homebrew applications on my PSP. For this hypothetical scenario, my sole purpose for doing this would be to play PSone games on my PSP. Likewise assume that I own all of the games I will be using an emulator to play on the PSP and the programs I will be using to do so are free to use. The only thing stopping me from doing so would be the software running on the PSP. Is this at all fair? Is it right that the manufacturers of both handheld and home consoles control nearly every aspect of how we use them?