Sony has announced the inclusion of the YouTube API to allow game developers to offer video uploading as an integrated part of their games. The only game that seems to be taking advantage of this so far is Mainichi Issho, a free Japanese PSN game.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Flash Player 10 Available for Public Testing
Adobe’s next-generation browser plugin brings improved 3D, text handling, and graphics acceleration.

Resident Evil 5 — New Character and Gameplay Detail
Erik Johnson writes “New details for Resident Evil 5 have been unveiled in the latest issue of ‘Famitsu,’ a Japanese video game magazine, including a familiar face returning to the hero role, some info on the enemy, and the revealing of a couple new characters.”Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Screen With 180 Degree Field of View
emj writes to tell us project jDome has started actively soliciting consumer feedback and, of course, donations. They are currently promising to deliver their “180 degree FOV monitor” this year for a pricepoint of around $200. The videos and talk have been circulating for the last couple of weeks or so, but they have added a video of the supposed tech in action. Buyer beware, but I would love to see a couple of reviewers get ahold of this and let us know what the story is.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Earthquake In China
Several readers sent in links on the earthquake that hit 10 hours ago near the Sichuan city of Chengdu in China. The Telegraph focuses on the citizen journalism that got word on the quake out on the Net instantly (the first report was via Twitter). Science magazine speculates that deaths from this event could exceed the 240,000 killed in the Tangshan quake in 1976, though the estimated death toll is below 10,000 at this writing. Hundreds of videos are up on YouTube, including this footage from a security camera — keep your eye on the goldfish.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

4D Analogue of Megaminx Puzzle
roice writes “The crazy hypercubists who created the 4D and 5D Rubik’s cubes (here are previous Slashdot posts on the 4-D one and the 5-D one) have now developed a free working 4-dimensional software analogue of the Megaminx puzzle. Composed of 120 dodecahedral cells, the underlying structure is arguably the most beautiful of 4D geometrical shapes, with amazing symmetries and no analogue in dimensions higher than 4. Though some have already begun working on solutions for this ‘Hyperminx,’ it has yet to be solved by anyone. Also, when it comes to number of positions, it dwarfs the previous puzzles by many thousands of orders of magnitude!”Read more of this story at Slashdot.

This Week in Xbox: May 14-21, 2008
Games Editor Denny Atkin brings you all the latest in what’s going on this week on Xbox.com.

Liberty City’s Liberation on Xbox LIVE
Ryan Treit takes a closer look at how Rockstar implemented multiplayer gameplay in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Make Older Add-Ons Work with Firefox 3.0
If you’re willing to risk instability, a simple preference hack can bring out-of-date browser extensions back to life.

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