Only donors of the developer's last projects will be invited to the early beta, but we'll keep an eye out for the final release so you can spend your time worrying about other things, like "do these shoes look good with this phone, or do I need to burn them immediately?"

[psx4all NEWS] Playstation has arrived on the iPhone and iPod Touch! [via infiniteloop]

Hit the jump for the full list of classics coming today to Japan. King's Field III may be a necessary download. I purchased my original Playstation just to play King's Field II, but was lured in by the Twisted Metal series and never got around to it. Yeah...I played a lot of TM2...

Sanwa Pachinko Paradise (Irem) Sanwa Pachinko Paradise 2 (Irem) Alundra (Sony) XII Jumbo (Sony) Popologue (Sony) Hanafuda Graffiti Koikoi Monogatari (Hamster) Echo Night #2 (From Software) King's Field III (From Software)

...couldn't think of anything. Sorry.

MediEvil and Spyro PSN bugs [eurogamer]

And upside-down, it spells.. DS. Dudes, the Shigeru keynote is tomorrow. Alice Taylor

The most intriguing comments from Probst on the matter come after the CEO says that the Playstation Portable needs to be cheaper and in a different form factor for EA to change their current, port strategy for the portable.

I think what moves the needle is a new form factor that's smaller than the existing unit, at a lower price, and hopefully that price is $100 lower. This is pure speculation, we don't know what Sony's plans are. But it would not be hugely surprising if they had that lower priced unit at $149 and then a more fully-featured upscale unit that retails at $249 or $299. Again, that's pure speculation. We don't have any inside information on that.

Probst goes on to say that it would help to have more interoperability between the PSP and "other platforms". Amen. Let's get that PS3 PSP hook-up in overdrive already.

In this chunk of the interview Probst also touches on EA's next break-out hit (Spore, of course) and the chances of Warhammer Online posing any sort of threat to the MMO goliath World of Warcraft. Brian Crecente

Loot: The Larry Probst Interview, Part II [Newsweek]

The Dallas Morning New got into GameStop's annual sales conference in Dallas over the weekend.

The con sounded sort of interesting, with playable games on hand and company reps around making their sales pitches to the retailers, three bits of interesting news came out of the event.

First, GameStop is claiming, and I say that because I don't believe them, that they will be the only retailer in the country to have Wii demonstration units available on launch day.

GameStop said at the show that it will be the only retailer at launch to have playable Wii demonstration units in its stores, so gamers can test the "Wiimote" for themselves.

'll be checking that out with Nintendo, but it makes absolutely no sense. Why would Nintendo decide to go with one chain for their demo units, and why pick GameStop when their audience is supposed to be more of the Target or Wal-Mart variety?

GameStop also said at the conference that they haven't yet decided whether to take pre-orders for the Wii or PS3. This isn't because of supply concerns for the two consoles as it much as it is about being gunshy after the 360 launch blew up in their face.

Finally, GameStop says they will be selling the Zune, a first, at their stores.

The iPod competitor will be sold in GameStop stores and other electronics stores when it comes out later this year.

It's GameStop's first foray into the consumer electronics market.

But Mr. Morgan said the partnership with Microsoft makes sense, since the Zune is targeted at the same people who play video games.

"It should be our customer," he said. "That customer has grown up with us."

Mr. Morgan said GameStop could eventually sell other consumer electronics products if those products are likely to appeal to gamers. But games remain the company's focus.

Interesting. Brian Crecente

GameStop Convention [Dallas Morning News, thanks Methane47]