This isn’t a game, but it’s definitely worth mentioning. It’s a small (23MB), free application that appeared in the Playstation Store yesterday. If you download it, it adds a new icon to your Music menu.

What’s it for? Well, it lets you watch music videos. You can look at popular videos or predefined lists, or just search the catalogue by artist, title or genre. You select videos to watch and then you can watch them. There are a few adverts, but they don’t get in the way. The interface is a little slow and can be confusing at first, but it’s really not bad.

But it works. You choose videos and VidZone plays them. You can play them in a small box on the screen while you search for more, or go full screen. It just works.

And the catalogue is very impressive. It misses out quite a few big names (no Radiohead, for example) and, of course, quite a few smaller acts, but I was very pleased with what I did find. There are, for example, five Miranda Lambert videos. Now, I love Miranda Lambert – my wife bought me a fan club membership for Christmas – but you’ll never see her being played on any of the music channels in the UK. But with VidZone, I can queue up all five videos and watch them. And they have other country artists, too – Gretchen Wilson, Dixie Chicks, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, etc. For a country-starved UK resident it’s a wonderful, wonderful thing and enough to proclaim BEST THING EVER status for VidZone.

Anyway, if you’ve got a PS3, try it out. I’ll be very surprised if you find everything you want, but astonished if there’s nothing there you’d like to watch.

No Nick Cave, though. And no Aqua, either.