The WipEout Game You Had to Buy a Movie to Play

I've been thinking about weird physical media lately, which is probably why a recent hunt for PSP games led me down a rather unexpected rabbit hole. I've always liked the oddities that turn up when you start looking beyond the obvious releases: unusual editions, forgotten pack-ins and things that only make sense when you remember how companies were experimenting with physical formats at the time. One of the strangest examples I've come across isn't technically a PSP game at all, it's a movie!In 2005, Sony released Stealth, the Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel action film about fighter pilots and an experimental A.I. aircraft, on UMD Video. That alone wouldn't be remarkable. Sony was putting plenty of films on UMD in those early PSP years. What made this release different was that one version of the movie also contained a playable demo of WipEout Pure, complete with content made specifically for the film.It was called WipEout Pure: Stealth Edition, and I love how peculiar that idea is. If…