Hey, better rummage around in your loft and find your dusty slim 'n lite PSP, careful you don't step on that waffle griddle up there!
A new version of the unusual FlOw will be released on the PSP handheld, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe have today confirmed.
Sony's full-year PS3 sales target has been sliced dramatically, the platform holder now hoping to sell 9.5 million systems rather than 11 million. This cut comes despite booming third-quarter sales which totaled more than 4.9 million globally.
Following an initial announcement at CES in January, the version 3.90 update allows owners of the new slim PSP to make and receive calls over Skype.
Should be here in March. If you would like to comment on this article, then you must be logged in! should be quite good although I think even 3.49 is a bit high for a game that can be played for free.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has confirmed to Eurogamer that a new version of flOw is coming to PSP. flOw sees you controlling the evolution of an organism as it floats through a trippy underwater environment.
Sony financials reveal that the technology giant now expects PS3 sales to hit 9.5 million, rather than 11m
Sony has slashed its full-year sales targets for the PS3 down from 11 million units to 9.5 million, despite strong third-quarter sales of 4.9 million consoles.
PlayStation 3 cost reductions have helped Sony's game division turn a profit for the third quarter ended December 31, but the company has slashed sales targets for the full year from 11 million to 9.5 million units.
SEATTLE, Washington, January 30, 2008 – The 2008 ION Game Conference solidified its credentials as a premier online game industry event with the announcement that John Smedley, President of Sony Online Entertainment (SOE), is scheduled to deliver the Wednesday, May 13th keynote address at the conference.
Sony has had a rummage down the back of the sofa and told us European gamers will get a free sampler of Patapon after all....
Go!Messenger teaser included too Today’s the day that Skype finally comes to the PlayStation Portable (PSP), along with a teaser for the forthcoming Go!Messenger application.…
Software update version 3.90 hits today
Sony has released a new software update for PSP that allows owners of the Slim & Lite model to make phone calls via Skype. To use the service, you'll need to install update 3.90, complete the registration process and arm yourself with a headset and remote control.
London, 30th January 2008 – Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced the immediate availability of the latest system software update for PSP™(PlayStation®Portable).
Sony has released the latest firmware upgrade for the PSP, allowing users to make and receive phone calls through Skype software.
Firmware version 3.90 provides VoIP functionality
Every day when I go out for lunch I get assaulted by one of those fiendish charity fund raiser types with a clipboard of strategies on. It usually starts with a frustratingly attractive lady saying hello. Oh but I cannot hear you because I am looking in this shop at, er, knickers.
You know the history - Sony got sued (and lost) by Immersion Technology over the rumble gadgetry it used in its PS2 controllers.
Monday 28th January, 2008/... A raid undertaken to investigate a man operating an illegal business selling Sony PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) SD memory cards and chipping offences resulted in the discovery of over £12,000 in cash stuffed into a single original Microsoft® Xbox® console and three PlayStation®2 consoles.
...as well as other MTV faves
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Universal Media Disc, a proprietary format for Sony's PlayStation Portable, may have failed as a movie format, but Sony's continued attempts to portray the PSP as a multimedia device rather than a game player now find the company trying again, this time with TV shows.
MTV content heading to PSP
Oh how the times change and the fickle world of gaming shifts. Sony appear to be looking to press home their recent PS3 gains, SCEE President David Reeves stating boldly that by the end of the summer the PS3 will have 'overtaken' the Xbox 360 in Europe.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Universal Media Disc, a proprietary format for Sony's PlayStation Portable, may have failed as a movie format, but Sony's continued attempts to portray the PSP as a multimedia device rather than a game player now find the company trying again, this time with TV shows.
Robert Jaques, vnunet.com , Friday 25 January 2008 at 00:00:00 Content to be distributed on Universal Media Disc Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) is to make popular MTV programming available on the UMD (Universal Media Disc) format for its PSP (PlayStation Portable) system.... > Read the full article
Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) is to make popular MTV programming available on the UMD (Universal Media Disc) format for its PSP (PlayStation Portable) system.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Universal Media Disc, a proprietary format for Sony's PlayStation Portable, may have failed as a movie format, but Sony's continued attempts to portray the PSP as a multimedia device rather than a game player now find the company trying again, this time with TV shows.
PixelJunk Monsters heads up this week's PlayStation Network updates for PS3, while Syphon Filter: Combat Ops takes top billing on the PSP Store for PC, with a PSone version of Judge Dredd also in attendance if you have a few more quid to spare.
Already outsold Microsoft in France, Spain, Germany and Italy
Sony's adding an albino to the family, with a white PS3 console swinging States-side next week reportedly.
VoIP on your console The launch of a version of Skype running on Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) will still go ahead in Europe and the US later this month, despite a delay affecting the software's Japanese roll-out.…
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony said on Wednesday it is delaying the planned introduction in late January of a Skype Web phone service for PlayStation Portable (PSP) users in Japan due to technical problems.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony said on Wednesday it is delaying the planned introduction in late January of a Skype Web phone service for PlayStation Portable (PSP) users in Japan due to technical problems.
The European release of Skype and its associated microphone packs for PSP are said to be unaffected by an announcement of a delay to the Japanese launch.
We already know that a specially designed version of internet telephone service Skype is heading for Sony's PSP handheld, but it appears the launch of the new service has hit a few teething problems.
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has delayed the launch of the Skype service for PSP users just 24 hours before it was due to launch. The company had prepared two first-party microphone packages for launch day, but neither of these has met specifications defined by Skype.
Accessories "did not meet the Skype specifications"
Japanese launch of VOIP service encounters microphone problems; Euro launch still on
Following a string of rumours, it turns out Sony's PSP platformer Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters is coming to PS2 very shortly. There's no official announcement on the title, but a recent PlayStation Underground e-mail from Sony flags up the port, apparently hitting North American shelves in March.
Trust's Universal Notebook Power Adapter is a very simple product: it replaces your notebook computer's own power supply. That's handy for anyone who's lost or broken the original adapter that came with the computer.
More news from the good ship Sony today, word reaching us that Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters from the PSP is coming to the PS2 and Europe in the spring.
Sony has confirmed to Eurogamer that a PS2 version of PSP title Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters is coming to Europe this spring. Rumours of the port have been knocking around for a while now, but the first official word came only recently in the form of a PlayStation Underground email.
In the film Back to the Future, teenager Marty McFly finds himself traveling through time from 1985 to 1955 - imperiling his own existence when he interferes with his parents' meeting.
So, we've been a bit slack in covering the PSone games that sporadically appear on the PlayStation Store. Sorry about that. In our defence, it's not like Sony has managed to build up much momentum with the European PSN offerings and also that business with the first batch of games being all broken meant we didn't dare download anything else in case our PS3 started shooting pins at our eyes from ...
NPD figures are as expected.
MARLOW (17th January, 2008) – Sierra Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games, announced today that the lovable loser, Leisure Suit Larry, is back in an all new side-splitting, pants-busting adventure game, coming to Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, PC and mobile phones this fall.
Whilst PS3 lags behind rivals in both annual and life-to-date sales
This week's PAL PlayStation 3 Store update is headlined by demos of FIFA Street 3 and Sony's own NBA game, while the there's no let-up in premium downloadable content either thanks to a Folklore "Visions of the Tower" pack (GBP 1.49).
The NPD Group has released its US hardware and software sales data for the month of December, bringing the year's total sales to USD 18 billion. That figure represents a 43 per cent increase over 2006's total sales of USD 12.5 billion.
Huge coup for IPTV service
Q-Games' Dylan Cuthbert has revealed that US PlayStation Network users will be able to buy PixelJunk Monsters "next week", which presumably means Thursday 24th January.
Echochrome is down for release sometime in Q2 in Europe, Sony UK said this morning in response to rumours that the PSP and PSN game is set to launch in Japan on 19th March.
A port of PSP hit Silent Hill Origins looks set for the PS2, after the port, box art and all, was spied on an online retailer. The success of the game, both critically and commercially on the handheld appears to have persuaded Konami to undertake the move, although details remain scant.
London (16th January 2008) – Square Enix Ltd., the publisher of Square Enix® interactive entertainment products in Europe and other PAL territories, today announces that CRISIS CORE® -FINAL FANTASY® VII- will be released across all PAL territories in Spring 2008, exclusively on the PSP® (PlayStation® Portable) system.
Suspicions of Sony having canned GT Mobile for PSP have arisen once again after months of silence on the title, and its recent removal from certain retailers' online pre-order lists.
WHILE REPORTS of cost-cutting by Microsoft have circulated the internet since the inception of the Xbox 360, similar stories regarding Sony's Playstation 3 haven't been as forthcoming.
Sony has revealed plans to expand the PSN Store for PC with new "bite-size experiences" for PSP, in an effort to broaden the console's demographic.
Sony has announced plans to give Portable PlayStation games a new lease of life online.
Sony is to offer the GPS add-on for its PlayStation Portable gaming console to European users. Set for release in early Spring, the Go!Explore system comprises an attachable GPS receiver and UMD disc containing the user's chosen maps including 3D models of cities.
Sony is to offer the GPS add-on for its PlayStation Portable gaming console to European users. Set for release in early Spring, the Go!Explore system comprises an attachable GPS receiver and UMD disc containing the user's chosen maps including 3D models of cities.
Sony is to offer the GPS add-on for its PlayStation Portable gaming console to European users.
Sony plans to give PSP titles a new lease of life by making them available digitally over the PlayStation Network.
Sony are plotting the release of smaller games and other morsel-like pieces of content for release on the PSP Store, not to mention the distribution of older PSP games that are no longer making a splash in traditional retailers.
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Sony hopes to stock the PSP Store with "bite-size" new downloadable games and old PSP games that retailers aren't bothering with any more. That's according to senior product manager John Koller, speaking to Kotaku , who said that there is an "opportunity" to do "ten-minute, pick-up-and-play" downloads.
Quick. Over ear... Skype is a voice-over-IP (internet) program that will allow PSP users to make voice calls to other PSP owners via the web, but it'll only be available for PSP Slim and not the original handheld.
Sony has added two major new features to its PlayStation Portable (PSP) product – a GPS navigation system and a Skype capability – in an attempt to compete with arch rival Nintendo’s DS offering.
The slimline PSP will soon be available in a couple of new shades in the land of its birth; Japan. A Mint Green model will be on offer, we learn, and Sony reckon this new hue will prove popular with the ladies, the firm clearly hopeful it can help battle the DS Lite - already available in shades popular across the gender spectrum.
Sony Japan has unveiled another new PSP Slime & Lite colour for its region. This time it's Mint Green or Spearmint Polo, and part of the Blume series of colours popular with the girls, apparently.
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has unveiled a new Mint Green PSP for its local market. The new sku will go on sale February 28 for a recommended retail price of JPY 19,800, and is part of the Blume series aimed at female consumers which already includes blue, white, pink and silver models.
It's only taken Sony three years to realise that it takes three years to type anything on PSP. So it's finally gone and unveiled a keyboard for the portable.
UMD films are rubbish because you can only play them on PSP - but that won't matter anymore because Sony has revealed plans to include PSP playback support in future Blu-ray titles.
With the UMD media format something of a failure as a method for delivering movies, Sony have today revealed that their Blu-ray next-gen DVD format will be bolstered by PSP playback support in future releases.
A new keyboard for the Sony PSP handheld has been confirmed this week, the platform's maker finally realising that people were finding typing on the console more than a little tiresome.
Sony has announced that future Blu-ray movies will incorporate a special PSP edition of the film.
Sony has said the US will be able to find itself this spring by using the snazzy Go! Explore GPS package for PSP. We are still waiting for clarification over European plans.
Must have a slim'n'light version of the handheld CES Sony will release the PlayStation Portable firmware that will load the handheld games console with Skype's VoIP app late this month, it said today. But the software will only run on the second-generation PSP.…
Sony has unveiled a fancy new 16GB Memory Stick PRO Duo, which is good news for those of you who like to store a lot of save game files wink wink for use on your PSP.
The PSP GPS service, which has been available in Japan for ages, will finally be exploring beyond the far-eastern islands as Sony confirms it's headed to the US.
Sony Computer Entertainment has confirmed that free voice-over-IP service Skype is coming to PSP - but only if you've got a Slim and Light. Damn.
Tokyo, January 7, 2008 – Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that it would introduce Skype™ features to the new slim and light PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) handheld entertainment system (PSP-2000 series).
Sony confirms the service for PSP Slim only at the CES Show in Las Vegas.
Looking for some exciting new ways to give yet more of your money to Sony? Or just after a bit more storage space for those illegally obtained PSP games? Or do you just always have to have the biggest thing to go in all your things?
As hinted last week, the Skype internet telephone service is set for the PSP, with Sony confirming that the new feature will soon be added to the slimline version of the handheld only. Skype users can of course call each other for free, with 246 million users already doing so, mainly via PCs.
Sony has confirmed that the PSP Slim is to be loaded with Skype functionality
Sony Computer Entertainment America has revealed it sold over 1.2 million PlayStation 3 units during the holiday period from November 23 to December 31, 2007.
Sony's game unit said Monday that it had sold 1.2 million PlayStation 3 video game consoles in North America during the key year-end holiday shopping season.
TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - Sony's game unit said Monday that it had sold 1.2 million PlayStation 3 video game consoles in North America during the key year-end holiday shopping season.
Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that it will introduce Skype features to the new slim PSP. More than 246 million members are registered for the use of this communications software, which enables users to communicate with other Skype users around the world over the Internet free of charge.
Sony said Monday that it had teamed up with Skype to enable users of its new slim PlayStation Portable handheld video game machine to make free or low cost telephone calls around the world.
Sony Computer Entertainment has struck a deal with Skype, the internet tele-phony group, which will turn the PlayStation Port-able into a handheld device capable of making and receiving telephone calls.
Sony Computer Entertainment has struck a deal with Skype, the internet telephony group, which will turn the PlayStation Portable into a handheld device capable of making and receiving telephone calls.
Make calls from your console
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Sony Corp sold 1.2 million PlayStation 3 video game consoles in North America over the holiday season, the company said on Sunday.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sony Corp plans to add an Internet phone function to its PlayStation Portable (PSP) game player in cooperation with eBay unit Skype to stir up demand, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday.
VoIP while you play There's no doubt now that Skype is coming to the Sony PlayStation Portable - Sony's own website, updated to preview next week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, admits as much.…
There's no doubt now that Skype is coming to the Sony PlayStation Portable - Sony's own website, updated to preview next week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, admits as much.
When the PSP was first announced by Sony many moons ago, both commentators and gamers hoped that the company's foray into a new market might see them achieve for handheld gamers what they had already done for the home console market, with the PS2. The PlayStation Portable, or PSP, started brightly enough, but an overwhelming deluge of ports from the architecturally similar PS2, coupled with ...
Sony could introduce a subscription fee that allows users unlimited download access to PSP and PSone games for a monthly charge. Sony has launched a questionnaire in Asia quizzing customers on their use of the new PlayStation Store on PC, in which one of the questions suggests a "Monthly subscription plan (1 price for unlimited download)".
Skype, a program that allows you to talk to people for free via the internet, is headed for the PSP, Sony has revealed.
Apparently Sony's about to add another feature to PSP's bulging little memory - Skype support.
Lots of good things come out of Hong Kong like John Woo and Bruce Lee cinema and rumours that Sony is planning a monthly subscription for its PC PlayStation Store.
Sony has revealed plans to add Skype capabilities to its PlayStation Portable console. The company has promised to make a formal announcement at CES in Las Vegas next week.
Sony is to launch the free telephone service for its Portable PlayStation.
Developer puts out bizarre non-personal ad
Sony set to lift the lid on VOIP internet telephony services at next week's technology showcase in Las Vegas
More phone functionality on the way for Sony handheld
More phone functionality on the way for Sony handheld
Dragon's Lair®, the world's first full-animation laser disc video game - debuted in 1983. The game features Dirk the Daring, a rather clumsy knight that must make his way through the castle of an evil wizard to save the beautiful Princess Daphne.
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No specifics were given, but Sony indicated that PSP gamers would be able to use the VoIP service to "call friends, talk trash to fellow gamers or catch up with acquaintances."
Skype, a free internet communications program, is coming to the PSP according to CES news on Sony's website. No specifics were given, but Sony indicated that PSP gamers would be able to use the VoIP service to "call friends, talk trash to fellow gamers or catch up with acquaintances."
CES rumour sees handheld go VoIP
With CES kicking-off next week, Sony are hinting at a few surprises in store. One of which could be the arrival of telephony service Skype on the PSP handheld. Details are scant, but Sony's CES website reveals that the tech is most certainly on the way, and will link the PSP to a number of other devices running Skype - such as PCs, mobile phones, and wifi phones.
Nintendo appear to have walked away with Christmas in Japan, the latest figures showing that the Big N were dominant in the build up to the festive season in the land of the rising sun.
Making predictions is a risky business - especially on the Internet, where every thoughtless statement can end up preserved for eternity (or at least long enough for someone to taunt you with it for the rest of your life).
As the year ends, we take a look back at what was an historic year for the games industry.