It's finally over! Our Year in Review series for 2006 ends with this final December feature. Sony suffers its greatest loss to homebrew, as we all look towards 2007 for more revelations.

Sony moving forward with video download service
Then: "Sony is finally revamping its pledge to bring PSP owners more video content. With the UMD format dead, Sony is looking towards digital distribution."
Now: At CES, Sony announced a deal with AOL (parent company of this blog) that will allow Bravia owners to get AOL Video directly from their TVs. Will this deal expand to the PSP?

Jump Festa: Final Fantasy on display
Then: "Japan's Jump Festa, where the hotly anticipated Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core and Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War are on display."
Now: Square made good on their word of providing a playable demo of FFVII. Too bad it was only for Japanese attendees of Jump Festa. Word has it that Crisis Core is easily the best addition to the Compilation of FFVII project so far.

PSone games hacked in custom 3.02 firmware
Then: "His latest custom firmware release will allow your PSP to emulate the 3.02 firmware while running homebrew as if you have a very homebrew-friendly 1.50 PSP. Of course, the custom firmware goes even beyond that: it'll strip region encoding off of UMD movie playback, and more importantly, it'll get rid of the DRM protection of the current lineup of downloadable PSone games."
Now: Dark_Alex has surpassed Sony in every single way, with 3.03 OE-B. This includes all the functionality of 3.03, and then some.

Samsung hints at hard disk-enhanced PSP
Then: "The 60GB version of Samsung's 1.8" N-series drives may end up in a future PSP revision."

Flog archived for your pleasure
Then "Just in time for Christmas, the "All I Want for Xmas" flog has been reuploaded by the Consumerist."

See complete year in review.