Perhaps you guys got excited about the announcement made by Electronic Arts on the upcoming Nascar 09. The company has just unleashed details on the Paint Booth Customization feature in the racing game, accompanied by 13 screenshots. Find details and photos at the full article.

You may be miffed about the mixed news that Ubisoft and Free Radical has been dishing out about Haze's launch, but there's no denying that the anticipation level for this shooter is still high. To help make the wait more bearable, the devs are showing us a few things about how they create environments in the game. We even have screens to show you the lovely scenery. Hit the jump and see it all.

Enthusiasts utilizing Adobe Photoshop CS may soon be able to do their image editing work on the go, as homebrew developer DGGC92 is working on an almost identical application for the Sony PlayStation Portable. Adobe Poloshop CS version 1.0 is a promising Lua app, though it has limited features for now. Read the full article to find out what homebrew app does.

Download: Adobe Poloshop CS v1.0
Visit: QJ.NET PSP Homebrew Development Forum

For those of you who own a PS3, being able to access the XMB in-game is definitely something good. Apparently, there's a rumor that the release of the in-game XMB might be before the end of this month.

A picture was even added to serve as a proof. But people are doubtful on this. Head on over to the full article to know more.

*Update* Rumor debunked. Images fake, no FW updates this January.

* Article originally posted Jan 15, 2008 at 02:01AM

2007 has been kind to Nintendo, but it wasn't all peaches and cream either. With just as many ups and downs - including a particularly bloody incident with a certain mass-murdering game - as its other competitors, we're thankful that the Nintendo Wii was able to keep up and make it through to the New Year. So, to recount all the smiles and frowns is this Year in Review article of the console that could, the Nintendo Wii.

Check out all the details in the full article.

German homebrew developer Fujah has come up with a new build for LuaTileArranger, bumping it up to version 0.4. For those who missed our earlier coverage on this, LuaTileArranger allows PSP owners to create custom maps for certain games.

To make this easier to understand, Fujah likened LuaTileArranger to Photoshop which can deal with almost any programming language. More details and the changelog after the jump!

Download: LuaTileArranger v0.4

We all know and agree how much of an eye-candy Ubisoft Montreal's game producer Jade Raymond is. But you better keep those silly little admirations and fantasies of yours in check because one website got into trouble after hosting an offsite link to a webcomic depicting a rather raunchy cartoon version of Miss Jade Raymond.

Ubisoft sure was furious. Read more about their demands and the response of the site owner in the full article.

Macworld is reporting that Adobe will be moving its Photoshop image manipulation software online. Adobe has confirmed that they'll be bringing an online version of Photoshop, known as Photoshop Express, to the internet loving masses by the end of year, and will develop an full version of Photoshop Express in 2008.

Some of the basic features of Adobe Photoshop Express after the jump!

 

Bumuckl from QJ's PSP Development Forums has been hard at work since the release of Bermuda CS 7 'patched' to bring us an update to his portable image editing studio for the PSP. Today that hard work has paid off with the hopefully bug-free release of Bermuda CS 8. Many new features have been added, including the option to add your own fonts and brushes in order to customize Bermuda CS.

However, bug fixes was the name of the game and along with the 'thousands' of bugs that bumuckl has fixed for this release comes a lot of code optimizations to make Bermuda CS run faster and more smoothly on the PSP. Let's just say it runs a lot faster than Photoshop does on QJ Office computers! Anyway, back on topic, here's the giant changelog:

• New interface GIMP-style Interface with new menu navigation
  
• Fixed bug that made the app crash during creating a new picture
• Improved menu-handling and code optimizations
  
• Grafitti-tool added
  
• Line-tool has been improved
• CPU speed an be changed to 333 mhz, 222 mhz and 100 mhz
• Fuzzieborad has been improved, now capital letters can be used as well
• New fonts and brushes added, as well as the option to add your own
  
• Added option to save your picture as a brush
• Small canvas preview with cursor positions
• Option to change default settings using the CONFIG.CFG file

If you are a graphic geek and enjoy manipulating or creating images on the move, then this app is for you. Catch the download below.

Download: Bermuda CS 8
Visit: PSP Development Forums

  

The last time we updated you on the highly-anticipated game that promises to tie up all the loose ends about Cloud, Sephiroth and Zack of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII on the PlayStation Portable, we gave you a few nifty-yet-blurry scans to chew on. Now, thanks to zak234 and tipster Mehso, we can finally see in high-resolution glory just what's in store for PSP users all over the world when the game finally gets released, through these improved scans.

One thing to note with these scans - now that we can really see the actual images without squinting or resorting to Photoshop trickery - is that the visual quality of the characters are absolutely stunning. In all honesty, Sephiroth, Tifa, Zack and Cloud never looked so good and similar to their Advent Children selves - and that's with their in-game counterparts, mind.

Square Enix definitely has a classic on their hands, with a massive fanbase eagerly anticipating their next trip into Midgar. It doesn't hurt that they kept most of the game's roots intact, as evidenced by Odin's Zantetsuken attack. It's good to have the the sword-wielding guy back on your side and slashing things in half, isn't it?

Updates as we get them. Enjoy the scans!

Thanks to tipster Mehso!