Beaterator - the new Rockstar Games title for PSP, developed in conjunction with megastar Hip-Hop producer Timbaland, is currently playing on my PSP. One of the reasons I recently upgraded to a PSP-3000 (for the built in mic). It's not a game as such but it's pretty much as close as you can get right now to a fully fledged music production studio on a gaming console. Surprisingly easy to use with great video tutorials and help built right into the package. This probably won't be a bestseller but its certainly the best of its class - production values are superb as you'd expect from Rockstar/Timbaland - it looks and feels great - the controls are bang on, and once your over the slight learning curve you can produce decent sounding tracks in a matter of minutes.
Check out all the features here - BeateratorAnd check this little ditty (above) - I knocked it up and exported straight from the handheld - no post production at all, this is how it came out of the machine - I just converted it from WAV to mp3 before posting here. Getsome!I've recently decided to upgrade my old PSP to a PSP 3000 - it was a tough decision in light of the recent PSP Go release - I'll be detailing how I made the decision in a later post - in the meantime, check out the hardware spec comparison on the Video Games Blogger site.
This is an addictive puzzle from the Londonist blog - what London entity does each of the elements in the table represent? There's some patterns and relationships just like in the real periodic table - look at the comments on their page to get some ideas based on what others have cracked so far...