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Space Time Play — Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level
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Available to the US in November 2007 from Birkhäuser and edited by Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play — Computer Games, Architecture and Urbansim: The Next Level offers readers 62 [...]

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Yo. I take one short break from playing Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition, and Sony goes releasing firmware 2.0 North America on me.Naturally, viewing my own site on this bizzarre ‘cinemascope’ web brower reveals the need for a redesign. PSP Magazines already offers a slim site. It is a whole other browser to consider now, isn’t it?The text input experience was about as painful as a good cell phone, so in effect, tolerable in a pinch, but not ideal. It features some enhanced text input helpers if you really ‘game out’ the controls when you think of typing - use the R and L buttons for cursor control. It’s easy to imagine some youngsters really getting good at typing with this thing, for real.

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Sony tells us that they will deliver the firmware upgrade that features the web browser we’ve been promised that should have been there in the first place. It is already available to our counterparts in the mother-country, and apparently even works fine on North American versions, as long as you’re willing to forgo the warranty. Since that didn’t cover dead pixels very well, should it matter? If you think the upcoming Boards of Canada album has been riddled with controversy, reading the forums over at a typical PSP enthusiast site may put things in perspective.

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