Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories for the Sony PSP handheld and after an hour of play I have to agree with most of what’s being said about the game.

Right now, this is the killer app that will help move a good number of people off the fence about Sony’s portable gaming console. Though there are a few concessions made in order to fit a console-sized game into a 1.8GB UMD disc, such as a slightly smaller pedestrian population, GTA: LCS does much to improve upon the original GTA III for the PS2.

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I purchased F.E.A.R. for the PC yesterday …

This the perfect game to release within two weeks of Halloween, with an interesting combination of first-person shooter action and the atmosphere of japanese horror movies like Ringu or even American classics like The Exorcist. Evidently, the critics seem to agree.

The game isn’t perfect, of course. Monolith delivers some amazing graphics, particularly in their use of bullet time effects, but much of the game world really could have used a bit more of the polish that Valve put into Half Life 2. On the other hand, the game nails its target atmosphere and succeeds at the fear-factor the hype machine assigned to Doom 3 before gamers got a hold of it.

Another spot in which the game really shines is in enemy AI. Opposing soldiers will sneak around obstacles, move objects out of their way and into yours and generally be annoyingly good at close-quarter tactics.

If you’re looking for a good spot of intense single-player action and horror for the PC and have a machine with enough power to run it, get F.E.A.R. now while the Halloween mood is at its strongest.

Patrick Hackett and Joe Bourrie have released Rumble Box, a fun and free little 3D diversion that involves characters made of simple objects fighting to escape from a box. The landscape changes as you defeat your enemies, who leave being the objects they’re created from, eventually allowing you to climb out of the box to victory.

Now that we’re within two weeks of Halloween, the outside decorations around the Meister House are starting to fall into place.

As more photos arrive, look for them here.

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… because you can never have enough home-made Transformer videos.

The Ubuntu Linux team has now officially released version 5.10 of their alternative operating system. You can download a copy for free here.

This release, codenamed “Breezy Badger” continues to improve upon one of the friendliest Debian-based Linux distros available, all while keeping the system open to customization.

In addition to the Gnome-centric base version, you can get a KDE-based version called Kubuntu, as well as Edubuntu, which is focused on children’s educational environments.