Over the weekend, McWhertor pointed out an issue of Playstation Magazine #1 from September 1997. Surprisingly enough, it ended up reading about as timely and topically as any modern print mag.

And that's not just a smug blogger shot at the obsolescence of gaming print! Kotakuite Hector noticed something on page 16 of the magazine... Sony has pulled Rumble from the Playstation controller due to a patent dispute with Immersion Technologies!

Apparently, Sony eventually just decided to ignore the patent in America — great idea! But I love the alternate theory presented: that Rumble technology will cause the plastic of the controller to explode in a razor storm of shrapnel. Florian Eckhardt

Previously: Immersion Offers Rumble to PS3