A Brazilian senator is putting "offensive" videogames on the chopping block through a bill that spells imprisonment for those caught making, importing, or distrubuting such games in Brazil. More details after the jump.

Konami's finishing off their recent round of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker announcements with a huge blast of assets for the game. They've sent out screenshots, artwork, and some renders of the characters found in the game, including those a Metal Gear Solid title is never without: hot chicks.

Big week for Sony and the PSP. The PlayStation brand's celebrating its 15th anniversary, and the PSP line saw increased sales over Thanksgiving. We also picked up some hot rumors over the past seven days, most notably something about a UMD add-on for the PSP Go. Game-wise, we finally got word on Japanese and UK release dates for Peace Walker and confirmation for something Square Enix has been greeedily keeping to itself: a localized release for Birth By Sleep.

No homebrew games this week, but we do have more updates from MaGiXieN and Team GENyUS regarding their custom firmware projects. We also saw a new homebrew enabler app, further updates from community regulars like Bubbletune, spike_132000, and pen, along with a cool new app that lets you stream TV shows to your PSP via Wifi. Read about all that in this week's PSP Homebrew Weekend Warrior.

 

First Japan, then Europe. Now it's North America's turn to get a Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker release date, and Konami has delivered.

The JPCSP team has recently released a new version of their ever-popular PlayStation Portable emulator for PC. The latest JPCSP update includes the usual bug fixes and various other improvements.

 

 

Download: JPCSP v0.3 revision 1265

 

If DJ Max Portable and Timbaland's Beaterator ain't your thing, why not try Qarl & Soulless' QMixer, a homebrew app that gives you the basic functions of a turntable, with features almost similar to Virtual DJ.

 

 

Download: QMixer v1.0

 

Homebrew coder nickxab is back to release a quick update of PSP Live TV, a homebrew app that allows you to stream different television stations on your PSP using Wi-Fi. Currently, the homebrew contains 52 TV streams and now supports HighMemMod for better buffer speed.

 

Download: PSP Live TV v0.4

Discuss: QJ.NET PSP Development Forums

Atlus certainly beefing up the workforce. The publisher was spotted hiring PS3-Xbox 360 programmers back in October, and now they're in "mass-recruitment" for debuggers. Clearly, they have a lot of stuff to debug, duh. Maybe the PS3-Xbox 360 programming didn't go so hot? I sure hope not.

So how realistic is the upcoming SOCOM game for the PSP? Watch the latest dev diary to find out more about the games aunthentic new settings, new weapons and equipments, the real life scenarios and more gameplay action.