When speaking to Mika Kelly, a representative of Natsume’s (finally!) upcoming PS3 wildlife montage, Afrika informed me today that originally scheduled for a September 29th release date in North America, a few of the giraffes have decided to take an extra long vacation to the watering hole, making Afrika slip back a week with an official October 6th release date. No poachers allowed.

The default PS3 theme we all know is less than impressive, and rather lazy by just rehashing it’s little sister handheld’s main menu. For a console that is more than capable of incorporating and promoting an interactive or adaptive interface, it should have came off like that out of box. But alas it did not, although, it has a saving grace by allowing many stellar themes on PSN, many for free.

The latest release with the big firmware upgrade to 3.0 last week came with a new dynamic theme for the Natsume’s upcoming photo-snapping escapade, Afrika. Who doesn’t want HD zebra bottoms parading around their PS3 menu? Hit the jump for a video capture of the theme in action. Let me not remind you of the free-ness that accompanies this theme.

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Reading Spawn Kill is fine and all, but wouldn’t it be absolutely wonderful if there were real voices to accompany you on one of your many repeat visits? Of course it would be. That’s why all of us at Spawn Kill are proud to bring you the Kill Kast, the official Spawn Kill podcast.

On this Very Special First Episode, Tigresa and Molotov Cupcake have a little chat about the intricacies of E3, at a glance – the highs, the lows, the inexplicably bad marketing toward tweens! If you want to take Spawn Kill on the go with you, consider this post your saving grace! Feel free to download, tell your friends, post and repost, and comment here with your suggestions, raves, rants, anything! We’re ready to listen.

For future reference, we will be answering questions on upcoming episodes, so make sure to direct all questions you may want answered to contact@spawnkill.com or one of our individual addresses. We’ll make sure we answer all pertinent inquiries! With that said, check this mutha out – we’re kinda proud.

Oh, and we can’t believe you’ve had to ask, but Molotov isn’t really crying. Jeez.