Adding yet another reason for the poor Sony PSP to tug at your heartstrings, Sony announced their upcoming handheld will support MP3 playback in its music player. This follows the announcement made earlier this week that Sony audio players will begin to support the MP3 format after a long history of being limited to Sony's own ATRAC3 format. Check out GamesIndustry.biz for more details.

In the continuing battle of Vivendi Universal versus Valve regarding their use of the Steam broadband platform, gamers awaiting the release of Half-Life 2 might end up the real losers. Blues News is reporting that Vivendi Universal is legally allowed to hold the game for up to six months, which could result in a huge delay for the hotly anticipated title.

In other Half-Life 2 news, IGN has a roundup of several retail sites that are leaking the prospect of a Half-Life 2 Collector's Edition, which will cost $79.99.

PlaymoreConsoles has the news that Sony will release Gran Turismo 4 in time for Christmas shopping (and presents!) after all, but that the online capabilities have been yanked to crank out the game faster.

First Gmail, now a browser: Yahoo! News has an article on the possibility of Google coming out with its own browser.

The newly released Star Wars Trilogy DVD set's "Extra Special Features Disc" has a mind of its own, apparently, that shows itself when you play the disc in your Xbox. Like it or not, the disc will modify the console's dashboard software without confirmation.

Yahoo! News is reporting that Google has launched their famous search engine in China, but that searches made through the People's Republic version of the site won't display results from sites barred by the Communist government.

If you're still torn as to which of the two competing handheld consoles will win this console war, or perhaps just wondering which one will work better for you, GameDaily has an article aptly titled "PSP vs. DS: And the Winner Is..."

Believe what you want about global warming, but it won't change the fact that those melting glaciers are practically running themselves to sea. Check out Wired for this sliding story.

Wired has an article on educators taking their classes online by having them meet in the MMO game Second Life.

MSNBC is reporting that a woman who had become infertile due to cancer has given birth to a healthy baby girl after being implanted with her own frozen ovarian tissue samples taken before the onset of her cancer.

GameSpy has details of the conference given by Square Enix's Tetsuya Nomura about the changes and improvements made in Kingdom Hearts II, and what involvement Disney has in the making of the game.

Nintendo has unveiled the promotional website for their upcoming Nintendo DS, TouchDS! The site is entirely in Japanese but offers fun wallpapers and other extras. Check out 1UP.com to download the wallpapers with an article about the site in English.

Norway's Aftenposten has posted a story about plans to build a network of broadband cables in Olso's sewer system. However, no one has volunteered to start working at the stinky project.

The Madden Challenge will be making stops Saturday, September 25 at Union Station in Washington D.C. and Sunday September 26 at Concord Mills in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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