...that XMB Theme looks somewhat slick, actually.

...maybe I just haven't learned if you can change the icons like that on your own PSP.

Lyrai

Beer and Videogames?!?!?!
Hide the children!!!!!!!!

hk458

@jamesbong00spliff: Are you talking about the cider? I've heard of that stuff. Apparently it's gross, but good for gettin' drunk in a hurry.

The Magnificen7

@The Magnificen7:

Indeed stella is absolute shite...

I'd quite rather a white lightning nintendo ds myself.

jamesbong00spliff

@jamesbong00spliff: More like 'Beat yourself silly because Stella is absolute crap.' Ugh, some silly marketing and the worst of the Belgian beers are a hit in N. America. Yeesh.

The Magnificen7

Luke knows of good local beer? In Australia? Right now? Care to share.......

penty85

@Roc-Thul: Now THAT would be a great bit of advertising on their webpage:

"Stella Artois: Hit Refresh!"

TitillatedOcelot

Em looks nice. Can anyone answer this? I cannot find a concrete answer on web. Does the slim or the new psp-3000 support wpa2 encryption? (or wpa-pes and not just wpa-tkip)

Jpm

Thats fucking Gangster!!!!!

Xuchilbara

I don't suppose it comes with a free 'beat your wife' mini-game does it?

jamesbong00spliff

MMM stella...cant get enough of that wonderful stuff!

SSJ4_Macd

Coolest thing of all time

Andrewteix

Well, I wasn't expecting that when I hit refresh.

Roc-Thul

I would rather spend the money on the Stella Artois than the paperweight of a PSP.

AndrewDB

I'm sure that if they decide to sell those PSPs, they'd be reassuringly expensive. XD

dangerman_

That thing's frickin' sweet.

Numanoid

Hey... I work at Fosters... there's hardly 50 people in marketing...

syl1985

Okay guys,
I'm going to set some things straight.

1/ Stella Artois is one of my least favourite beers in Belgium (I prefer Jupiler for my pils)

2/ That being said it still beats anything brewed outside Belgium. Americans, Australians, Germans,the Dutch, none of them know how to do it. Belgium is the only country in the world with a true beer culture. We have the expertise and if you are a regular beer taster (note not drinker), you have to acknowledge that.

3/ This year a Belgian Beer is once again voted Best beer in the world. After several victories by the very elitist Westvleteren 12°, it is now the sexy blond trippel Karmeliet that was granted this prestigious title.

In conclusion,
you don't know beer if you don't know Belgian beer.
(Inbef, can I get my three kegs of jupiler now?)

animation-imp

@The Magnificen7:

Yes i am, and no i don't like it, its what 14 year old kids from birmingham drink on park benches to have a good time...

I prefer strongbow... which is no better.

jamesbong00spliff

Fail for old model though.

Mayu-mayu

@jamesbong00spliff: I personally quite like my stella, but then I live in leuven, which if any of you check the label is where stella artois comes from.
So maybe it's some sort of defend my own reflex, or it tastes better direct from the original brewery (where, if you go for a tour, you can drink as many pints as you can for free afterwards).

StuiWooi

@the daniel: @animation-imp: You both make good p(o)ints. There is a true Belgian beer culture, and believe me, they brew some of the best beers in the world. That being said, there are terrific beers brewed in almost every country. I'm Canadian, and the best pint I've ever had (generally speaking, forget lagers and ales and so on) was from some tiny brew pub in Alberta, I can't even remember the name of it! And yeah, Juliper is a good pick if you can get it. In North America, Stella is better than some of the more readily available beers, but is over marketed and isn't good enough to warrant such an ad campaign. I would take Sleemans over Stella any day. Even Heineken and Becks!

The Magnificen7

@penty85:
Generally, look for the stuff brewed in Tasmania.

TrjnRabbit

@bobtheduck: I'm English and the first full can of beer I drank at about 12 was a Fosters, the 'Australian' Beer. I've now been in Australia for 7 months and not seen a single can. Carlton Draught 4tw

EmeraldCockroach

Fosters - Australian for beer they don't drink.

bobtheduck

Any place to download the theme? Looks sweet!

Marduk

animation-imp - that is astonishing bullshit. Some of the best beers in the world are brewed in the United States. I concede the many of the best beers are from Belgium, but to think that a country founded by Europeans that is 30 times the size of Belgium doesn't have a 'true beer culture' somewhere hidden away (even if it's not on a national scale) is pretty astounding. Three Floyds, Bells, Hair of the Dog, or my college-town fave, Founders all put out beers that match anything out of Belgium.

I know Belgian beer, I know beer. My favorite mass-produced beers (read: available in most restaurants) are Belgian. However, if you assert that the Americans don't know how to do beer, I can only pity you as you may pass from this earth without experiencing some fine, fine drinks (hint: we tend to do stouts and the like much better than we do lagers and pils).

the daniel

Yey! Now I can beat my wife and play video games at the same time!

Anaralia

You know what... I hope they give these away at the next launch at the Fosters Bar or something... I would kill for one... particularly if it were a 3000 (I know I am dreamin!)

syl1985

Needs a Jack Daniels version.

Numanoid

@StuiWooi: My god!!! My liver would die...i must go!!!!!!

SSJ4_Macd

Diet cat piss? I LIKE Stella!

NoMoMoJo

Microbrews is what makes America special and I would prefer Irish Alcohol over Belgium.

Plus there are many flavors of Sam Adams I enjoy, as well. Left Hand Brewing Companies Milk Stout is one of my personal faves. New Glaris Raspberry beer is another one, but you actually have to go to Wisconsin to get it.

Stella? No thank you.

Ken

you can beat your wife over the head with it lol

beezley

[www.owensworld.com]

RandolphCarter

why does it look like the discworld in that background?

connla

Stella has a terrible reputation in the UK, so much so that they've had to drop the 'Stella' bit in advertising. It's popularly known as 'wifebeater'.

yarmy

Drinking & Gaming, nothing could be more natural.....

Cell9song

My Stella love was replaced by Staropramen and I've never looked back. If you haven't tried it, import it or something. It's Czech and possibly the best beer in the world, despite what Carling would like to think

Funk-Defunct

Eh, for an average drinking beer I like Stella. However, within 100 miles of Seattle there are over 80 + breweries and most of them make good brew.

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

@animation-imp: Beer = the store brand soda of the alcoholic beverage world.

Even if you can say your crap tastes the best, it still tastes like crap. Yes, I hate beer. No, I don't think tasting a "fancy" beer is going to change my mind. Yes, I realize that many beer drinking mullet wearers are going to froth at the mouth over this. No, I still don't care. :P

As for the PSP, I can just imagine the uproar the "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!?!?!?" crowd is going to make over this one.

GlibGamer

@animation-imp: Being Belgian myself I obviously agree with what you're saying :-)

I spent my student years in Leuven (the city in Belgium where Stella is brewed), so I have a natural preference for Stella.

GC-Tres

wannabe hipsters who drink Stella don't play videogames!

rainofwalrus

lol Stella is from my country

handsinthepants

Mmm Stella.

y2julio

I'd buy a six-pack of Stella; if it came with a PSP.

aelfin

Stella... meh
Now if that was a Limited Edition Crown Royal PSP velvet case that bad boy would be sold.

Final

@TrjnRabbit: You, sir, speak the truth. Cascade and Boags beat anything from Mainland Australia and can rival the best in the world. Cleanest, most crisp ales.

pylon_trooper

@rainofwalrus:

I'm not a hipster and I drink Stella and play videogames.

Imakeholesinu

@GlibGamer:

Well I wont argue over taste,
if you don't like beer in general it's fine by me.

But you have to realize that beer is as much an acquired taste as whiskey, Brandy or any other high culture alcoholic beverage.

In Belgium we have aproximately 400 different kinds of beer.
Each have a distinct taste that links it to it's town of orrigin.
Stella certainly aint the best beer around, but it's quite decent as a drinking beer, it sure beats stuff like heineken and carlsberg for sure.
I like good beverages and good food,
A nice well brewn Belgian beer beats almost anything, even fine wine at the dinner table.

Those of you who claim American and Irish breweries beat Belgian beer producers (or Jenever is also very interesting, but let us stay with beer for a while) really don't know what they're talking about.

I would love to have the possibility to show you guys, as I have done with several visitors who I met during my studies in Ghent. When they enter a normal bar in Belgium they're already overwhelmed by the choices they can make, but when I take them to a bar specialised in regionnal beers it literally blows their mind.

animation-imp

@rainofwalrus: This past weekend I was drinking Stella while playing video games.

kwicherbichin

Very nice Advertising picture.

xCruciaLx

Well, I've lived in Ireland and the US and had dozens of different Belgian beers, and nothing touches American microbrews. The vast majority of Belgian beers are cloyingly sweet and wheat-y Dubel and Tripels and there's a glut of mediocre lagers. The handful of good lambics are obscured by the saccharine tide of bad ones.

Irish beer is, barring a handful of decent others, pretty much just Guinness - they have a total stranglehold over the beer industry here. I like Guinness, but there's not a lot else.

Really, in most areas, American microbrews dominate global competitions - APAs (obviously) and IPAs, but you've also got incredible Imperial Stouts. Certainly there are great Belgian beers, but they simply cannot touch the US micros.

Also, Stella is horrible.

LongDarkBlues

Ah Stella, drink of wife-beaters and Man United supporters (which made it all the more amusing when my mate's gf asked for one).

Ladi

can i have a budweiser version for folks here in the states, since they do own anheiser busch. mmm... the king of beers (but bought out by another beer company)

sdsviet

Yeah..that was so last gen...it's psp3000 now.

karateka

Diet cat piss? Blasphemy.

I'm trapped in a small town in Missourri and these backwoods punters don't even carry Stella on draft out here. Everybody seems to be into these godawful regional wheat beers that seem to require a lemon or orange wedge in order to be palatable.

If you need to add produce to your beer then it definitely earns negative points.

BallPtPenTheif

@animation-imp: I sure am glad you set that straight. When i read in Luke's post, "Stella Artois is one of animation-imp's favourite beers in Belgium," i was all "Whoa. i sure hope he clears that up."

Just playin with your wording ;)

WildWon

Great beer, a little hard to find in parts of Massachusetts, but highly recommended.

Thrillkiller

@Herr Duckmouth Von Twirlenkiller: Spectacularly messed up links FTW

Herr Duckmouth Von Twirlenkiller

@LongDarkBlues: Eh? Did you try Smithwicks? Or Harp? They are nothing like Guinness! One is a Lager, the other an ale! Look who delicious this pint of Smithwicks looks:

[www.smithwick.org]'s+Irish+Ale.jpg

Ah how I miss being in Ireland, if just for that beer...

Have any of you beer drinkers tried Polish beer? Now THAT is some good beer. The best is Żywiec, followed closely by Tyskie. Any Belgian beer I've tried has not been to my taste at all. Especially Stella, it's absolute pish.

Herr Duckmouth Von Twirlenkiller

@sdsviet:
Yeah Inbev, the owners of Bud, Stella and many others...
It's actually really sad though, lot's of smaal brewery's can't compete anymore.

animation-imp

@FenderMaster: Oh man, whenever I visit my friend in Quebec City, we'll drink this every night. Terrific beer.

The Magnificen7

@sdsviet: You want a non bud bud? Try Shiner. It's everywhere in Texas. Funny that, it's considered an import up here in Seattle. Fuck that.

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

The worlds nicest beer is Maudite, a canadian ale, 8%, if anyone ever sees it, then try it, you will not be disappointed

@Herr Duckmouth Von Twirlenkiller:

Smithwicks is nice, but have you tried O' Haras?

FenderMaster

In Ireland Stella is horrible... but i guess it might taste better in Aus, different breweries and all...

FenderMaster

Yeah - I've had all those - I'm just saying that, compared to bounty of different beers elsewhere, there's not a whole lot to choose from in Ireland. There are only 12 microbrews in the country, and 3/4 of those don't sell outside of their associated brewpubs.

Also, Irish beer is really, really low-alcohol - what's up with that?

LongDarkBlues

@FenderMaster: Ha ha, I should get him to send you a case.

The Magnificen7

No luv in the posts for Newcastle... ;.;

Space_Cakes

@The Magnificen7:

Yeah, its a damn nice beer, they had it in my college bar a few months ago, but no one bought it so they stopped stocking it T_T

I've been looking for it ever since, but no luck

i'd go to Canada just for that beer...

FenderMaster

@GC-Tres: Yeah man, I live in Calgary, so we all have a natural taste for the Big Rock brews. There are some good ones there too! Grasshopper, Traditional, Warthog, McNally's Extra, XO, Honey Brown, Pale Ale, Black Amber and Jack Rabbit all kick ass. Actually, I think that's all of them! Ha ha! Hey, I have the day off, I'm gonna go stock up on beer! Yay!

Oh, and if you're ever in Calgary, I would recommend Wild Rose Brewery, some good stuff there too. Try the Wraspberry. Or the Velvet Fog. Yum. I know where I'm going for dinner tonight. Damn beer posts. Damn PSP.

The Magnificen7

Don't you mean that Fosters tastes like diet cass piss? No Stella? 'Cause I swear, maybe it's not 'real' Fosters but in my honest opinion that stuff tastes like poo.

budash2

@rainofwalrus: Yes we do. >_> Shhhhh.

WildWon

@jamesbong00spliff:
White Lightning is chav piss, Strongbow is at least respectably cheap. It's no patch on Magners though or Kopparberg pear cider. Another good cider is Westons organic, especially because it's pretty good and comes in varieties as strong as 7-8%

Also Stella is better than Fosters or Carling in my opinion, Fosters is just awful.

Odin

Hmm, this is probably a sign that you're a little TOO into alcohol

HalcyonX12

and besides, Sierra Nevada whoops every Belgian brew, even the trappist ales. /ducks

rainofwalrus

What, nobody wondering where the Coors Light branded PSP is? (Exclusively for Kotaku readers! Limited edition, only 50,000 available.)

They probably picked Stella because it's a recognised brand amongst the 20-something set; for younger, supposedly better-informed drinkers who are too "upmarket" for Foster's, XXXX or VB yet who aren't classy enough for a decent brew. (Speaking of which, I wish I had some Hoegaarden or Leffe in the fridge right about now. Or maybe some Pilsener Urquell. Or anything else that's good, I've got to read this thread again for suggestions.)

PS. Foster's == cat's piss

Retropants regrets nothing

@Imakeholesinu: @kwicherbichin: perhaps the both of you are REAL hipsters -- yanno, breaking that "too cool for videogames" mold. In my neck of the woods, Stella has become synonymous with poseurs who swear they don't eat animal by-products, watch television, or play videogames.

rainofwalrus

I think I can see the connection, I know I was pretty drunk when I bought a PSP.

Just kidding.

I would never buy a PSP.

wanion

I can't wait for the Chef Boyardee PSP!

boopadoo

Stella > whatever shit beer you drink

Chunky-MonkeyLOL

@FenderMaster: Can you believe I've never touched a Maudite and I live in the province of Quebec, shame on me... (I swear I'll go buy a 6-pack tomorrow!)

but heh, Stella Artois PSP = me want!

Fun Fact #42
--- Maudite(french) means Cursed in english

hitaris*

well, i have to admit, it looks amazing. i wish my psp had a velvet case.

joeloliol

random... but so classy!

dArk_stAr