Here comes yet another quirky and particularly expensive product straight from the Japanese Playstation site: PS PictogramTM × ZERO HALLIBURTON(R) PSP case.

Show everyone just how high up you are in the gaming hierarchy and strut around the city with this shiny thing in hand. Available in silver and black, this exclusive PSP hard case has been created specifically for keeping your PSP, its accessories and your UMDs safe, dry and snug. And from the looks of the thing, it seems that you and your PSP can also possibly be kept safe from bullets and various other types of projectiles. And it probably should, considering that the case costs a cool ¥ 59,000 or around US$ 512.

Now, if only it came with a matching set of Pictogrammed handcuffs so that you can latch the whole thing safely on your wrist... After all, you'll never know when the Sony Mafioso starts coming after your homebrew.

We can only imagine how you guys are enjoying the_darkside_986's roadkiller homebrew Die Critters Die! It definitely serves as an outlet for the hungry, angry monkeys inside of us all. But there are really, really bad days when the desire to strangle the guy beside you just wouldn't subside. This is not to say that the game doesn't serve it's purpose of letting out pent up emotions, it's just that it seems some li'l thing is missing...

Coder JEMdev might have noticed it himself because he just came up with an expansion for the previous release. Actually, Koolio directed us to the new game and next thing we knew, the monkeys inside are quite full, scratching their big bellies and feeling a bit sleepy.

We have to warn you though that Ted Kennedy's Revenge, the title of the expansion, no longer focuses on critters. It actually involves the recently concluded elections especially democrat candidate Ted Kennedy. Apparently, Kennedy got drunk in one of their big victory parties, hijacked the ACLU van, and the road rage ensues.

The objective of the game is to kill as many Republicans and undecided voters as possible. Avoid the democrats and the Halliburton tanker driven by Cheney. Installation of Ted Kennedy's Revenge is rather easy as you only have to overwrite the previous title's GFX folder with the new one.

Download: [Ted Kennedy's Revenge]

    

"Secrets within secrets. Black helicopters and balaclavas. Shadowy agencies with limitless slush funds, and black-hearted agents with licenses to kill. Hushed conversations on internet chat-rooms that mysteriously vanish. Men in black with blank identities, and deadly women with a dozen passports. A high-tech paramilitary force divided into clandestine cells and dispersed around the globe..."

It's not the CIA, nor PNAC, nor even Halliburton, Inc....it's City of Heroes newest villains, the Malta Group. They are the men (and women) in the shadows, controlling global events from behind the scenes, yet rarely - if ever - exposing themselves to the light of day.

Young heroes may never see one, yet veterans encounter them on occasion. While these black-garbed agents, carrying forged identities, claim to be from any number of real or fabricated agencies, they all share some things in common. Resembling "future infantry soldiers," they arm themselves with the latest and deadliest weapons - assault rifles, tasers, fragmentation and web grenades. Officers may carry stun grenades as well, to disorient and paralyze targets. Wearing cutting edge armor capable of detecting both the wearer’s vital signs and monitoring a target’s condition, they are able to deploy mini-field artillery with lightning-quick reaction speed.

Deadliest of all are the "Sapper units;" battle-hardened soldiers equipped with a Bio-Energy Feedback Inducer which hunts down and neutralizes super-powered beings.

Malta also recruits veteran assassins, who go through a rigorous training regime. Though lacking super powers,  these "Special Qualification Marksmen" can take on a super-powered hero mano-a-mano. Not only do their formidable arsenals contain weapons capable of taking down a super hero, they also have short-range teleporters, allowing them to get up close to a target before pulling the trigger.

Some heroes report "mobile armored walkers" at several Malta bases. These are powerful robot war machines, equipped with tremendous firepower, including plasma blasts, gas swarm missiles and incendiary swarm missiles.  When injured, two of these "Hercules Titans" can combine into a larger unit.

The various Tactical Ops teams of the Malta Group are organized in "cells" -  insulated, scattered, and autonomous. It's nearly impossible to get accurate information about the leadership manipulating the course of Malta, because each agent knows only small pieces of compartmentalized information.