Looking for some nifty homebrews to load on your PSP??? Well, why not try jojojoris’ PSPLife, a homebrew interpretation of John Conway’s Game of Life.

If you haven’t heard of Conway’s Game, this classic cellular automaton devise is consists of a collection of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply.

The Game of Life rules:

• Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation.

• Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.

• Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.

• Any…

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot during a conference call this morning revealed that Ghost Recon: Future Soldier ,releasing shortly,will also be getting handheld and Wii versions.Guillemot however did not mention a release window for the game’s PSP, DS, and Wii versions. Future Soldier’s PS3, Xbox 360, and PC versions have been given a Holiday 2010 release window.

The company also clarified that the Xbox 360 exclusive beta will not begin until this summer despite Splinter Cell: Conviction’s April 13 releasing date .Beta invites for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will be included in copies of Conviction for a limited time.

Rosera, Homebrew coder ,has released Chuckie Egg, a port of the classic BBC Microcomputer game for the PlayStation Portable.

Developer’s note:

Just a quick release - I found the source to Chucke Egg at the weekend and ported it to the PSP.

The Zip contains a README.PSP with keys and stuff.

For newbees its a simple but addictive game made famous on the BBC B Micro,at early stages.

Download: Chuckie Egg

NIS America today announced that they are changing the name of its quirky PlayStation Portable title Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! What Did I Do to Deserve This? to more humble What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord?!.

According to the publisher, the name change was made due to “the original title having a conflict of interest with an existing IP”. Which IP you might asked? NIS declined to specify. The name change will be applied to both last year’s release as well as the upcoming retail sequel, now humbly titled What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord!?

The…

Homebrew coder Mediumgauge is back to release a new version of PSP Filer, a handy file management application for the PlayStation Portable. The latest update of the brew includes some new features, a few fixes and various other improvements.

Changelog (translated):

• Filer

  • fixed a bug that did not allow the exact calculation of the size of the directory

• Audio player

  • fixed a bug in the audio player

  • fixed a bug when you start the UMD device.

  • added a feature to play in background mode by pressing square key.

  • added a feature to draw tag text in UTF-8 / EUC-JP mode.

  • added the duration of playing an audio file player

  • added…

Changelogs:

• 1.1 added HightMemoryMod work with the “ms0:/PSP/GAME/GoTube?/” confuguration, to desactiveate HMM : delete EBOOT.PBP , rename GT into EBOOT.PBP

• added repository support to GoTube Updater

• added function ext(from[,to])

• modded some char path, now in relative

Download: Go!Tube v1.1

Changelog:

• Support multi languages improved. Now there’s no limit, just copied to a folder and are ready to use
• Support for skins. If you want you can customize your homebrew with your own skin, completely flexible when creating it.
• Preview of the songs. Before downloading sometimes we hear a little bit, now that’s possible.
• Download list. Download…

A new version of Custom Theme Converter v1.6.0, a handy authoring tool that allows you to create custom themes for your PSP’s ,has been recently released by Sony.The new version also supports the official firmware 6.20. It also includes some new icons and other categories that was introduced in the latest firmware update.

For more info about the release, please check the README provided in the download.

Download: Sony Custom Theme Converter v1.6.0

Sleepper, M@x and the rest of homebrew project PSPKVM dev team has recently released a new version PSPKVM v0.5.5, a port of SUN’s phoneME Feature that enables MIDP/JavaME applications to run on the PSP. The latest update is mostly a bug fix release to further improve the stability of the homebrew.

Developer’s note:

This release improves MP3 file duration calculation, and solves issues with long menus. The package is a ‘bare eboot’ .zip, containing only the EBOOT.PBP (replace the one in our current 0.5.4 install or a previous 0.5.5 test build with it to add these features).

Changelog:

• MP3 support XING header of VBR…

Homebrew  coder team is back with the  latest PSP Emulator,version 3.0 revision 1280 of JPCSP .It features another round of stability upgrade, code cleanups and implemented various other improvements.

Changelogs:
Revision 1280: Implemented fake sceKernelPollMbx() (for “Phantasy Star Portable”).
Revision 1279:Avoid NullPointerException when exiting
Revision 1278: Added a fake return for sceSasSetADSR, Heatseeker goes a lot further Cleanup for light commands.
Revision 1277: Fixed ISO file reading: some files were missing in large directories. This should fix some games displaying “umd file not found”.
Revision 1276: Basic implementation of sceKernelSuspendDispatchThread and sceKernelResumeDispatchThread
Revision 1275: Restart the list processing after a SIGNAL without callback
Revision 1274: sceKernelSleepThread / sceKernelWakeupThread:…