The Sony PlayStation Portable is like a majestic, wild stallion; it has got to be free, man--free to frolic, jump around and stand on its head and pick daisies and whatnot. But, little did you know, the PSP has been fettered.

Its mighty, throbbing processor was held back, imprisoned in chains, with developers only able to run its CPU at 266MHz rather than its full potential clock speed of 333MHz. Late May marked the independence of the PSP. With the release of 3.50 firmware, developers were finally able to tap into those elusive 67 MHzs, and thus, a new era of PSP freedom and love was born.

Can't you feel it in the air?