More hassle was predicted by firm A number of retailers across Europe are refusing to stock the new PSP Go handheld, stores concerned that Sony are trying to cut them out of the loop by selling games for the handheld in direct downloadable form. Sony, however, had expected even more retailers to kick up a stink - so the system's launch looks like it will be easier than the platform holder were ...
Driving games on the PSP keep getting better and better, the best of them now being Gran Turismo, the most famed driving game of all which has finally made its debut on Sony’s handheld.
Q: PSPgo launches across Europe and the US this Thursday, a few weeks after the revised PS3 hardware sold one million in just three weeks. Are you expecting to see a similar demand for the PSPgo?
Sony Computer Entertainment has moved to play down concerns from some sections of the retail sector surrounding the imminent launch of its PSPgo handheld, telling GamesIndustry.biz that most companies "were really quite fine with it".
And to think that it was almost dismissed as a cheap, plastic toy. The debut of Nintendo's DS games console at 2004's Electronic Entertainment Expo in LA was greeted with wide derision by watching technology experts; their attention fixated instead on Sony's sleeker, sexier, more powerful PlayStation Portable, or PSP.
Sony flesh out launch give-away Sony confirmed at last month's GamesCom that the handheld version of Gran Turismo will be free with the new PSP Go, and today we hear that this promotion will last for 10 days following the console's launch. The PSP Go launches worldwide on October 1st, and this free give-away will last until the 10th. Those not a acquiring the new handheld during this period will ...
(29 Sep 2009) Not much has changed
US content line-up is hefty According to giant US website IGN , the PSP Go will launch stateside on October 1st boasting a whopping 16,000 pieces of individual digital content. A total of 225 games (including the new Minis range) will be offered from the get-go, as well as 2,300 movies and 13,300 TV shows. A number of full PSP games such as the eagerly awaited Gran Turismo and God of War: Chains ...
Sony America tots up PSN numbers. Sony America has said there will be around 16,000 pieces of existing digital content on the PlayStation Store compatible with the PSPgo when it launches on 1st October. That's 225 downloadable games, 2300 films and 13,300 TV episodes, according to figures on IGN. The numbers are likely to be lower in Europe, as the film and TV shows have yet to be made available ...
Sorry Americans, you'll have to pay with money Yesterday, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe lifted the lid on a brand new 'Reward' scheme, literally dishing out free digital games to PSP players. Sadly, American gamers won't be getting the same offer, we learn today. "We have a dual platform strategy. PSPgo is the latest offering in our portable entertainment products targeted for the digitally ...
(25 Sep 2009) Sony is all about entertainment.
The PSP (PlayStation Portable) may have been overshadowed by the sheer volume of hype surrounding the iPhone, but Sony's latest portable gaming goodie, the PSP Go, could see that trend reversed when it launches early next month.
The PSP (PlayStation Portable) may have been overshadowed by the sheer volume of hype surrounding the iPhone, but Sony's latest portable gaming goodie, the PSP Go, could see that trend reversed when it launches early next month.
Handheld getting sociable soon Yet more news continues to filter through from Sony's Tokyo Game Show press event this afternoon, word reaching us that the PSN's Home social-networking world is set for a release on the PSP handheld. A cut-down version of the virtual world is earmarked for Sony's resurgent handheld, the platform holder presumably building up excitement around the device ahead of ...
Room is out this year in Japan. Sony has unveiled a new online community service for PSP called Room, which will be free and available to all Japanese PSP and PSPgo owners before the end of the year. Like PlayStation Home, Room allows 3D avatars to be created and room spaces decorated. Friends can then pop over to see what you've done, relaying their thoughts in real-time. "It's rubbish, start ...
Sony celebrate PSP Go's launch Sony have this afternoon detailed their new PSP Go Rewards programme, which will give PSP owners the chance to choose three free games from a selection of 17 handheld titles. Here are the instructions dished out by Sony on how to join in the Rewards frenzy: Unwrap your shiny new PSPgo and start it up Connect to PlayStation Network and activate your new or existing ...
Got a PSP and UMDs? This is the way. Sony has announced that people with existing UMD games who want to upgrade to the new PSPgo, due out on 1st October, will receive three "free" downloads of full games. This "PSPgo Rewards" programme involves registering a PSPgo on PSN, then logging on to PSN with your existing PSP with a UMD in the drive, which allows you to download a special PSPgo theme ...
Use PSP accessories, look a bit daft. Sony has announced a Converter Cable Adaptor for PSPgo that allows existing PSP peripherals, like the 1Seg Tuner and GPS Receiver, to be used. Despite the Cable title, however, this piece of kit has a plastic frame that clips around the PSPgo and turns the shape from compact to clunky. The pictures mention that the design is a prototype, and subject to ...
Vicious Cycle Software has partnered with Sony in a deal that will see its Vicious Engine made available to PSP Minis developers.
Question: 1: Could I enjoy DVD videos on my iPod/iPhone/PSP and other portable devices? 2: Could I share my DVD clips on YouTube/Myspace with people all over the world?
SCE exec delivers TGS keynote Speaking in a TGS keynote address in Makuhari today, Sony PlayStation big wig Kaz Hirai has said that sales of the PSP console now stand at 52.9 million units worldwide. The imminent release of the PSP Go is also expected to further drive sales of the handheld, while the device marks an important step into the realms of digital distribution for the hardware giant ...
Out in March 2010. Sony and Polyphony Digital have announced that Gran Turismo 5 will be released for PlayStation 3 in March 2010 in Japan. The game will feature 20 locations with over 70 tracks, full "Gran Turismo" mode for single-player and multiplayer, and some form of communication with the PSP. Speaking at the Tokyo Game Show, developer Polyphony also confirmed some of the details that ...
Retailers still unhappy over 'digital' handheld A few stormy showers appear to be gathering over Sony's PSP Go launch, with only a week to go Electronics Boutique Australia confirming that they will not stock the revised handheld SKU. Staff at the large retail chain reveal that the system will not be in stock, while there's also no mention of the device on the firm's website. A number of small ...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – September 22, 2009 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that it is giving away a brand new 2010 BMW M3 via Twitter.
EB Games could be the latest retail chain joining the ranks of those that have refused to stock Sony's upcoming PSPgo, if reports coming from Australia are correct.
(22 Sep 2009) Huge cock-up or pointless red herring.
Sony/SEGA meeting document emerges. Sony and SEGA have discussed releasing Dreamcast games exclusively on PlayStation Network for a "long period", according to a marketing document uploaded to a PR FTP folder. The deal, which sounds more like a suggestion thrown around a marketing meeting than a specific plan, could involve "a long period of exclusivity" in exchange for "more marketing support ...
Guildford. UK, – September 21, 2009 – DSi owners get ready to download. Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS), today announced MySims™ Camera and SUDOKU are available for download from the Nintendo DSi Shop along with original EA titles which are also in development and will release later this year.
Sony PSP Giga Pack, Hardly used.
Need For Speed: Shift is an exhilarating racing game – hands down the best yet seen on the PSP.
But patches are possible While forumites bicker over who said what, PlayStation Network chief Eric Lempel appears to at least partly clear up some of the debate concerning the PSP Go's range of 'Minis'; smaller titles designed to spearhead innovation among small-time game makers. Reports had previously suggested that Minis would not be patchable, nor would they support multiplayer action ...
Sony PSP with all original accessories being soft case, headphones, remote, strap and charger. Also selection of action, driving, sport, role play games. Plus additional protective console hard case and game carry case - which holds 5 games and individual umd disc protectors. Fantastic condition.
PS3 Slim dominance was brief. The arrival of Pokémon Soul Silver and Pokémon Heart Gold dominated Japan last week. M-Creata data counted 723,000 and 720,000 sales, respectively, as the pair took first and second place. Third-place Tamodachi Collection sold a puny 74,000 units to break a lifetime total of 1m, while Dragon Quest IX shifted 37,000 copies to take fourth and soldier on to the 4m ...
New York, NY – September 18, 2009 – 2K Games announced today that BioShock® 2, the highly anticipated sequel to the 2007 Game of the Year, will be available worldwide beginning February 9, 2010. The game is now available for pre-order at participating retailers.
But Slim still sees Sony take second place Sales of the PS3 leapt to over 150,000 units in Japan last time we took a look at the charts, the PS3 Slim's arrival combining with a sizable price cut to give the console a major boost. The latest numbers for the week ending September 13th have now been unleashed by Enterbrain, and the PS3 is down a lot - all be it still holding on to the number two ...
Disses the DS, passes water on the PSP Review It’s official – the iPod Touch is a games machine. When the second-generation model was launched this time last year, we noted – in one of our occasional moments of penetrating insight – that Apple seemed to have been taken unawares by the flood of games that had appeared on the iPhone and the first Touch.…
Sony dropping features to speed approval. Sony has revealed that bite-sized, downloadable PSP Minis titles will not be allowed to offer wireless multiplayer, DLC or software updates. This is being done to speed game approval, which should take between three and five days instead of up to two weeks for fully-complimented titles. "When you look at it from a testing perspective, you have to do more ...
PSP Mini games won't be allowed to have wireless multiplayer functionality, downloadable content or software updates, Sony has confirmed. The barring of these additional features has been decided on in order to quicken the approval process, SCEA senior account manager Justin Cooney has revealed.
Trouble for Sony as store kick-back at digital handheld The PSP Go's move to a digital distribution model may be a step-forward, but traditional games retailers are less than impressed with Sony's attempts to drop the physical UMD media format. Retailers are of course concerned that they are being cut out of the loop by the hardware giant, with one Dutch outlet - Nedgame - refusing to stock the ...
Dissidia Final Fantasy is an epic game exclusive to PSP. Not only is it epic from the sense of what you’re battling for (basically the future of the universe), it’s also an epic game in terms of its size and scale.
Playing a round of golf can be a tumultuous experience. Eighteen holes is a lot to get through and you’ll rarely complete a round without some serious ups and downs along the way.
Spanish shops may follow suit. Holland's largest specialised retail outlet, Nedgame, has decided not to sell the PSPgo this October. And, the shop explained to Eurogamer Holland, there are a handful of reasons why. The hefty price-tag of 249.99 being one of them. That's 80 more than the PSP-3000 costs, a difference Nedgame believes the new handheld does not justify - the smaller screen is picked ...
There were screenshots. There was video. There was even a picture of the PSP 1000 sitting next to a UMD with 'Gran Turismo' on it. So why has it taken five years for the damn thing to finally appear on Sony's handheld?
Finnish game developer Frozenbyte and French publisher Nobilis Publishing are proud to announce the European release of Trine™ for the PlayStation 3 on the PlayStation Store.
Sony PSP for sale Good Condition , PSP , Slim Case , Charger , Stand , 1 Game GTA Liberty City Stories £60 Hence Price !
Sony plan to offer more 'micro' experiences Speaking with Develop magazine, Sony Computer Entertainment exec Zeno Colaco has said that the PSP Go's Mini digital releases could eventually make it out on UMD format - and even over to the PS3 (via the PlayStation Store). "The most successful Minis titles will probably transition to UMD. I think that a package of multiple Minis games on a single UMD ...
Next month will see the latest editions in the Grand Theft Auto franchise 'The Ballad of Gay Tony' on Xbox 360 and 'Chinatown Wars' for PSP and iPhone
(11 Sep 2009) Cheap, downloadable games considered for physical disc format.
Non-PlayStation title dated Ghostbusters has already gone down well on the PS2, PS3 and PSP, the game a time-limited Sony exclusive in Europe; SCEE having published the Atari title earlier this year. With Terminal Reality's hit originally scheduled for release on the remaining formats - the DS, PC, Wii and Xbox 360 - come October, we learn this morning that this second round of releases has been ...
Sales reach 150,000 for the week. The PS3 Slim has done the business in Japan, shifting 151,783 units for the week ending 6th September. M-create data puts the console well ahead of competition, as a second-place DS posts 68,728 sales. Following at a distance are PSP with 22,184 sales and Wii with 21,557 sales, and we find Xbox 360 and PS2 way behind with 6827 and 3001 sales, respectively. Sony ...
September 10 2009 – TikGames, LLC (San Mateo, CA) and Creat Studios, Inc. (Canton, MA) today announced the release of Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos for the Sony PlayStation® Network.
Happy Party with Hello Kitty and Friends will arrive in Europe mid-September publisher Rising Star Games confirmed today.
Follow us on... Share on... Gran Turismo on the PSP is a big deal for many petrol-headed gamers, so it makes sense that Sony are wanting to make the 1st October release date as special as possible.
Madden NFL 10 launching on App Store today Steve Jobs took to the stage at an Apple event yesterday for the first time since recovering from illness, the big cheese confirming that Madden NFL 10 is on the way to an App Store release for the iPhone and iPod Touch. In addition, Jobs highlighted the impact of the App Store digital download platform, claiming that over 21,000 games are available for ...
App Store content dwarfs rivals. Apple VP Phil Schiller has said that over 21,178 "games and entertainment" titles are available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which he reckons makes them the leading handheld gaming devices on the market. "They don't really stack up any more," Schiller said yesterday of the DS and PSP, which only have a 3078 and 607 games available, according to his statistics ...
(10 Sep 2009) Fighting talk from the music player manufacturer.
Let's Spengler night together. Atari has pushed the European release of Ghostbusters to 6th November on DS, PC, Wii and Xbox 360. We had expected the game on 23rd October. Ghostbusters: The Videogame is already available on PS3 and PS2, after Sony picked up the game as a timed exclusive for May. We reviewed it and everything. The time between releases doesn't mean changes have been made. In fact ...
The iPod Touch has become primarily a gaming device, Steve Jobs has said, despite Apple not knowing from the outset what its big selling point would be.
(10 Sep 2009) Light on features, heavy on preparation?
Collector's game and PSP3000 bundle. Sony's PlayStation Blog has detailed two special editions of Gran Turismo PSP: a Collector's Edition of the game, and a Gran Turismo Edition PSP3000 bundle. The Collector's Edition features an exclusive car in the form of a black Bugatti Veyron, plus five Bugatti art cards and swish silver foil effect packaging. The console bundle, meanwhile, includes a GT ...
Some new colours. That's about it. Sony has announced that the PlayStation Portable firmware will be updated to version 6.0 "soon", cautioning that it's just a minor update. And they're not kidding - the headline feature is that you get a few new colours in the Theme Settings menu. Beyond that, there's a new "security patch" and "Network Update" has been renamed "System Update". Read more...
APPLE is launching a new iPod music player - which comes with a built-in VIDEO CAMERA
APPLE is launching a new iPod music player - which comes with a built-in VIDEO CAMERA
APPLE is to launch a new iPod music player range - with a VIDEO CAMERA built-in
All eyes are on San Francisco where Apple has invited a handpicked audience for this year's "secret" September announcement.
Guildford, UK – September 9, 2009 – Visceral Games™, the developers behind the critically-acclaimed Dead Space™ franchise and a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), announced today that award-winning film, television and video game composer Garry Schyman will be creating the hellish score for the highly anticipated 3rd person action adventure game Dante’s Inferno™.
App Store tussle important to Sony At present, Sony charge their game makers some 1,500 USD per PSP handheld development kit, a situation the firm are considering changing as it emerges that Apple give out iPhone SDK's for free. "Further down the line, we may investigate a totally free model or supported model. Right now, we're looking for a good portfolio of games. Unlike with the App Store, we ...
In a Q & A interview with Develop , a provider of trade information to the global games development sector, Sony has hit out at Apple's popular App Store.
We present the best titles that despite garnering masses of critical acclaim did not sell as well as they deserved to.
(7 Sep 2009) Harsh words from Sony man
The biggest crime about the DS's amazing felony ‘em up wasn’t the random car-jackings, cop killing or drug dealing; it was the fact it didn't sell as well as it deserved. But justice could yet be served with the release of the PSP version of Chinatown Wars next month.
Forget it Huang. It's Chinatown.
The biggest crime about the DS's amazing felony ‘em up wasn’t the random car-jackings, cop killing or drug dealing; it was the fact it didn't sell as well as it deserved. But justice could yet be served with the release of the PSP version of Chinatown Wars next month.
DSi leads this week's chart The latest hardware sales figures are in from Japan, and once again the numbers make poor reading for Sony, the PS3 barely registering as customers await the arrival of the PS3 Slim - with totals expected in next week's chart. For the week ending August 30th, it was all about the DSi handheld, which managed just shy of 60,000 sales. The PSP was second with just over ...
A trailer for the game Dark Nebula was released today on Youtube, showing in-game footage of the title in action. The designer behind the game is game industry veteran Anders Hejdenberg, the lead designer of Battlefield 2: Modern Combat.
(3 Sep 2009) Pix and Euro Envy
US release assured Sony have this morning confirmed that a special imited Edition Gran Turismo PSP Entertainment Pack will offered in the US of A. A PSN voucher giving access to a unique Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 will be included as part of the new bundle, which offers a PSP Lite, rather than the new-look PSP Go. Gran Turismo for PSP will be included in UMD form, while the handheld will be offered ...
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Sony's new range of televisions will let viewers access catchup TV services and YouTube in their living rooms.
(2 Sep 2009) Wii is next up
Monster Finder uses cam to find monsters. It begins. The first full retail game - as opposed to DSiWare download - that will only work on DSi has been announced. It's called Monster Finder, and it's being developed by Alpha Unit for a Japanese release. The reason for exclusivity to the latest version of Nintendo's world-conquering handheld is that Monster Finder uses the DSi's camera to find and ...