This is an impressive mod, especially if you’re a gamer like myslef. Brent Housen’s friend has taken a Mac mini, gutted it, and reassembled it inside an NES. The power button on the NES puts the Mac mini to sleep, and the Reset button ejects the CD tray. Pretty damn sweet. I just hope you don’t have to blow on the CD’s repeatedly to get them to work.

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This week’s Game Over column addresses the recent flurry of news about a PS3 delay — news that Sony, by the way, has categorically denied while failing to produce any tangible evidence to the contrary. The basic reasons behind the delay speculation: the PS3 is very expensive to produce right now, and the specs for the Blu-ray drive haven’t even come in yet.

Chris Morris, the columnist, reminds us of all the pressures on Sony to get the PS3 on the market soon, and discounts a lot of the chicken little delay predictions.

Granted, the possibility of a delayed PS3 launch and prohibitively expensive production costs make for some great headlines and forum chatter, but there are a few other realities to also consider.

Check out the column for his list of reasons why the PS3 can’t afford a delay, and why it won’t matter for Americans anyway. He’s right about one thing: if we get the system before the end of the year, all will be well and good. But he also cites a lot of market pressures that could force Sony to jump the gun. We’ll dissect them here, and explain why they’re not worth the rush.

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A slew of pictures of the PSP 3.0 firmware have apparently been uncovered, and it looks like the PSP will be getting some very cool add-ons in the near future. Of course, none of this can be confirmed confirmed however they do appear to be legit. At least it seems that way for now…

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Here’s a rundown of what we might expect:

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The release of the PlayStation Portable one year ago was one of the most important events in the history of videogames. After all, no one had ever seriously stood up to Nintendo’s Game Boy monopoly, and Sony is the company that had come out of virtually nowhere to knock Nintendo from its perch atop the console world ten years ago.

Twelve months have passed since that day in March 2005, so it’s only fitting that we look back over them and answer the big question: Is the PSP everything everyone wanted it to be? For a piece of electronics with so many potential uses (some of them being of the homebrew variety), that’s a pretty tough question to answer, but here it goes…

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Nullriver Software — best known for their Playstation Portable (PSP) to Mac sync software PSPWare — has introduced Connect360, a utility that helps the Mac share content with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 video game console. Available now as a public beta version, Connect360 costs $10 to register.

The Xbox360 is more than just a game console — it’s also capable of playing music, viewing digital photos and more. Connect360 is a Mac utility that shares iTunes and iPhoto content with your Xbox 360.

Connect360 automatically indexes your iTunes Music Library and your iPhoto Photo Library. It can also automatically detect an Xbox 360 on your home network, regardless of whether it’s connected to a wired Ethernet port or the Xbox 360’s optional WiFi adapter. Once shared, you can navigate your iTunes and iPhoto content using the Xbox 360’s dashboard. A built-in Access Control List (ACL) can limit which Xbox 360’s can connect to your Mac.

Right now, Connect360 is limited to sharing MP3 audio files and JPEG photos. Nullriver said it’s working an automatic conversion layer to support other image and audio formats.

System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later, an Xbox 360 with a network connection, iTunes and iPhoto. Connect360 is offered as a Universal Binary, capable of running natively on PowerPC or Intel-based Macs.