This week's episode of Blazing Prattles features PSP news, tension between game journalists and developers, and the highlights of 2009 so far.


Runtime: 43 minutes and 40 seconds

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Choice Quotes from this episode of Blazing Prattles:

Gus Mastrapa: "The Lost and Damned was awesome. I really enjoyed that, and I can see myself spending some more time in that game now that I've finished."

Scott Alexander: "I want to sit down and have a really interesting, fun, cool experience for a while, and then put it down. The Maw did that for me. It was, like: interesting world, interesting design, not too hard but kind of cool."

Russ Fischer: "I'm a big fan of the Syphon Filter games on the PSP. I think a couple of those have been extremely good games in their own right, not only as translations of what we saw on the PS2. I've really enjoyed the Hot Shots games on the PSP as well ? But something that's characteristic about both those games is that they really fight the hardware. They have all these weird, complex workarounds in terms of button schematics and things. They're both uncomfortably crammed into that hardware. If Sony could come up with a way to make the hardware more elegant, less media-oriented and more game-friendly, that would go a long way..."

Kyle Orland: "I think the developers are almost too close to their own creation when they're reading reviews. The critics might seem detached to them?"

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