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The prospect of “remote play” – whereby you can play select content from your PS3 on your PSP – is an exciting one, but also one that’s been sadly under-utilised by Sony and developers. Enter the mod scene.

This is the PS3 Wireless Visual Interface, by techknott. Which allows you to do anything and everything you’d normally do on your PS3 on your PSP.

Sounds amazing, but it’s really quite simple; all the device does is stream the PS3’s data directly via a 1.2GHz transmitter, which it then replicates on its own screen and speakers. There are compromises to be had doing this, sure, from graphics to poor sound to slight lag, but hey, you want portability, you’ve always got to be willing to make a trade-off.

What this means is that unlike Sony’s official remote play function, which for PS3 games has to be supported by developers, the WVI streams everything. Even Modern Warfare 2.

techknott’s – PS3 WVI (youtube video and pics included) [ben heck, via Engadget]

Announced last month, those little Final Fantasy chocobo playthings for your 360 avatar are now being sent out to select Xbox Live users.

You need to have “won” one in a Twitter promotion, and you can’t of course actually play with the things, since they’re purely decorative, but hey, for those hanging on every day for new of their arrival, quit hanging. Your codes will be in your inbox.

Reader JJkujo was kind enough to send us in a shot of his new, fluffy friend. Thanks!

Call of Duty-branded sleep underpants for dudes. Spied by reader iRikada at his local Kmart.

Give the kids at Something Awful a brief and directions to employ PhotoShop and they’ll generally come back with something special. Latest example being these movie posters, re-purposed as video game posters.

Below are some of the better ones, but there’s plenty more in the OP.

Movies with video game names [Something Awful]

It’s Wednesday night. You have no date, a two-liter bottle of Shasta, your all-Rush mixtape, and, now, this impossibly good Space Invaders clone built on Futurama’s epic “Raiders of the Lost Arcade” vignette from the third season of Futurama.

Seven months in development, Shinobi’s Place has released “Invaders! Possibly from Space!” to the wild – free – for PC. It recreates Fry’s fight against Lrrr’s invading horde (“Increase speed, drop down, and reverse direction!”) with so much more – episode dialogue, power-ups, and of course, the all-Rush mixtape soundtrack. That means at least three IPs infringed upon here. I can only hope that Taito, Fox, Matt Groening, and Rush can come to a quick agreement that something this awesome must be allowed to live. In case they don’t, run go get it quick before it is C&D’d to death.

Invaders! Possibly from Space! [Shinobis-Place via GameSetWatch]