Last year, gamers were overwhelmed by baseball sims, with four options available on the PS2. This year, that number drops to three, as Acclaim’s All-Star Baseball series has been sent packing to the great ballpark in the sky along with its publisher. That leaves EA Sports’ MVP Baseball 2005, Take-Two’s Major League Baseball 2K5, and Sony’s MLB 2006 to slug it out for baseball-sim supremacy. Lucky for us, all three are serious...

SHAWN: It’s a full-scale firefight between the Koreas—in short, more ballistic zap-pow in one late scene than the series’ previous installments put together—and the perfect place to play secret operative. As silent-but-deadly superspy Sam Fisher, you’ll shoot out streetlights, scale fire escapes, and stealth-kill guards by the dozen; the raucous machine guns and men in the do-or-die grip of adrenaline overdose just make your...

PUT MOVIES ON YOUR MEMORY STICK ¶ This is probably the trickiest feature to use on the PSP, but it’s well worth it if you want a decent catalog of movies to watch while traveling. This also may be the only way you’ll get to watch some of your favorite films since it may take a while for movie studios to release them on UMD. ¶ STEP ONE You absolutely need a higher-capacity memory card. The default 32MB stick is great for game saves...

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Byline: Tamara Warren ¶ It's 2 p.m. on a dreary day in Morrisville, N.C., and by North Carolina standards, it's plum nasty. Rain droplets cling to tree branches sprinkled among church steeples and quaint homes set along lolling country roads. Clad in camouflage fatigue pants, Pat "9th Wonder" Douthit is going to work. Like many music producers, 9th Wonder arrives at his finest moments working the second shift in studio sessions that run...

Great news—the PSP plays ATRAC3plus files! ¶ Yes, that is sarcasm. Digital music fans have actually been bitching for years about how Sony’s recent digital audio players sometimes supported only the company’s proprietary format (short for Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding, if you must know), especially since just about the only place you find it is at Sony’s online music store www.connect.com. ¶ But now the great news...

As we keep on truckin’ toward EGM’s 200th issue, we must take pause for bathroom breaks and yet another controversial topic: the top 10 most overrated videogames of the past 16 years (which is how long the mag’s been around). These are the ones that were either massively overrated when they came out, or not really as good as we remember them. You’ll probably need little encouragement to go discuss our choices on our 1UP.com message...

For more than ten years, Scottish author A. L. Kennedy has been writing one award-winning book after another. Her first two works (a story collection and an unpublished novel) earned her a place on Granta's Best Young British Novelists list before American readers had even heard of her. Those earlier titles have yet to appear on this side of the Atlantic, but they did catch Knopf's attention. In 1998, the US publisher bought the novel So I Am Glad...

DOCTORS, PHYSICAL THERAPISTS AND DANCERS SHARE THEIR HEALING TIPS. ¶ WITH OVER 600 MUSCLES, 206 bones and countless nerves, ligaments, and tendons in the body, it's almost impossible for dancers to escape getting injured. Acute injuries, such as a sudden sprain or muscle pull, seem to happen out of the blue. One minute you're dancing, the next minute you've hit the floor. Chronic problems, like tendonitis, develop from repetitive stress over...

With its upcoming Fantastic Four game, Activision gets to have its proverbial cake and eat it, too. The cake part: Activision has secured the rights to create a game based on the FF feature film that’s being released this summer by 20th Century Fox. The eat-it-too part: It also has the rights to create games based on the legendary FF comic books from Marvel. Fuse the two together and Activision may have the superpower potential to make a movie-based...