News// Nintendo Wii Awarded Most Valuable Gaming Brand
(30 Apr 2010) Nintendo DS comes second.
News// Japan Hardware: Sony Platforms Edge Victory
(30 Apr 2010) RPGs help bolster PS3 and PSP sales.
iPad vs. Everything Else
What, precisely, is the iPad? Compared with its iconic ancestors, the iPod and the iPhone, that's a surprisingly tough question to answer. It runs the same operating system as the iPhone--but you can't make phone calls on it. It has been hailed as the gadget that may save the publishing industry--though its e-reader software, which isn't preinstalled, does not display magazines and newspapers ...
Championship Manager 2010 coming to PS Minis
It's a mini game of two halves
News: SingStar gets ‘Remote’ features in June
Also: feedback for "natural vibrato". Sony has announced new features for the June update to SingStar, including the ability to instantly edit playlists remotely from a PSP. The "SingStar Remote" feature, as it's being called, will allow players to queue up to 20 songs even as others continue to sing on the PS3. That's according to a post from the game's producer on Sony's European blog. The ...
PSPgo unpopular in Japan
Hard sell
Monster Hunter Tri: on the hunt for Western players
Capcom is hoping Monster Hunter Tri will be the first game of a whole new wave of Japanese hits in the West, writes Chris Schilling.
Fat Princess:…
Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake is one of those rare PSP multiplayer games that won't leave you cursing Sony for leaving out a second analog stick. There are no awkward controls or weird button compromises to bother you here; it's just straight-up multiplayer mayhem.
News// Japan Hardware: PS3 Maintains Lead
(23 Apr 2010) PSP holds the top for handhelds
News// Japanese Software Charts: Travis Touches Down
(23 Apr 2010) Sales don't exactly light up this week, though.
News: Japan not keen on No More Heroes
PS3/360 remake struggles in slow week. Japan hasn't gone wild for Grasshopper's PS3 and Xbox 360 adaptations of No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise. The game debuted seventh and eighth in Media Create's regional chart, the PS3 version selling 16,000 compared to 15,000 on Xbox 360. At the top of the software chart ths week was old favourite New Super Mario Bros. Wii with a winning score of 32,000 ...
DS games outsell PSP 8-to-1
Finish him
Poor sales signal PSP death knell
Good as dead
Sony bins PSP social networking
Spencer Dalziel THE INQUIRER No room at the inn
News// NPD Sales: God of War III, Nintendo DS Dominate March
(16 Apr 2010) PS3 version of Final Fantasy XIII fares better.
News// Sony Shuts PlayStation Room
(16 Apr 2010) PSP's Home equivalent put to pasture.
PlayStation Room canned
PSP social networking platform binned from beta
News// Japan Hardware: PS3 and Wii Gap Gets Tighter
(16 Apr 2010) Week on week sales drop outs Sony level with Nintendo.
News: Sony cancels PlayStation Room plans
Project won't proceed beyond beta. Sony Japan has cancelled plans for online PSP service PlayStation Room, a social network similar in concept to PlayStation Home on the PS3. A short Japanese language statement indicates that following the end of beta testing for the service, development of Room has ended. No specific reason is given for the move, although it is indicated that user feedback from ...
iPad resellers profit from Apple’s shipping delay
Would you pay $10000 for a hand-delivered iPad? That's what some hopeful iPad entrepreneurs are banking on. Online retailers are jacking-up iPad prices after Apple announced a delay of the international launch of the iPad due to unexpected demand.
News: GTA episodes live on PSN tomorrow
Plus: Final Fight! Sam & Max! Skate 3 demo! Sony has updated the PlayStation shops with all manner of treats - and the promises of the GTA IV downloadable episodes, which are both due to go live tomorrow. The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony will be sold for £13.99 apiece. They're also sold in the boxed Episodes from Liberty City package in shops. As you may remember, the first episode ...
News: Everybody’s Tennis PSP this summer
Demo on Store around launch. Sony has announced that Everybody's Tennis will be released for PSP this summer. Like the Everybody's Golf titles, Clap Hanz' effort allows you to customise your character with unlockable items. On the gameplay side it sounds quite simple but promises an advanced shot system. Sony has said to expect a demo version on the PlayStation Store around launch. Read more...
Make Blu-ray.m2ts streams available for your PC and portable devices
To enable Blu-ray .m2ts streams to be available for playback on a PC or some popular portable multimedia players like iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc., the way of Windows users is to make use of AnyDVD HD to remove Blu-ray copyright protections as well as the region codes in the first step, and then have access to an M2TS converter to do format conversion in the second step.
Free PSP Mini with Episode 2 of FirstPlay
FirstPlay, Europe’s first on-console interactive show, available exclusively for Sony’s PlayStation 3, is celebrating its second weekly episode by teaming up with Gameshastra to give gamers a free PSP Mini game.
Apple Ipad review
Lawrence Latif THE INQUIRER Review Not quite a laptop killer
Gaming’s most bungled announcements
The games industry today is all about big announcements. Gone are the days when a few months of previews and some cool screenshots were enough.
News// Japan Hardware: PS2 Is The Only Winner
(9 Apr 2010) Every other platform sees drop in hardware sales.
Japan’s video game visionary: the console is dying
TOKYO (Reuters) - Hideo Kojima, one of the world's most famous video game creators, sees a future for digital entertainment outside the box -- outside any box.
Live Feed: Apple iPhone 4.0 Event
Welcome to Macworld's live coverage of Apple's iPhone 4.0 event. Jason Snell is handling the play-by-by-duties with Dan Frakes providing commentary. We have a live feed from Apple's iPhone 4.0 Software Update announcement direct from Apple's Cupertino headquarters.
Games consoles ‘under threat’, says Kojima
Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, says video games of the future will not be confined to consoles
How to make Blu-ray.m2ts streams available for your PC and portable devices
To enable Blu-ray .m2ts streams to be available for playback on a PC or some popular portable multimedia players like iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc., the way of Windows users is to make use of AnyDVD HD to remove Blu-ray copyright protections as well as the region codes in the first step, and then have access to an M2TS converter to do format conversion in the second step.
Live Feed: Apple iPhone 4.0 Event
Welcome to Macworld's live coverage of Apple's iPhone 4.0 event. Jason Snell is handling the play-by-by-duties with Dan Frakes providing commentary. We have a live feed from Apple's iPhone 4.0 Software Update announcement direct from Apple's Cupertino headquarters.
MGS: Peace Walker…
This morning, we were floored when a new trailer circulating the internets revealed that creatures from Monster Hunter are going to appear in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.
Japan’s video game visionary: the console is dying
Hideo Kojima, one of the world's most famous video game creators, sees a future for digital entertainment outside the box -- outside any box.
Japan’s video game visionary: the console is dying
TOKYO (Reuters) - Hideo Kojima, one of the world's most famous video game creators, sees a future for digital entertainment outside the box -- outside any box.
News// Kojima Reveals Monster Hunter x Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker
(7 Apr 2010) And other assorted, magical tie-ups.
PSPgo game downloads in trouble
To UMD, or not to UMD
Is Apple Developing Game Controls for the iPad and iPhone?
Watch out Nintendo and Sony, an Apple patent for a game-related accessory could make the iPhone or iPad considerably more appealing to enthusiasts.
Buyers snap up first Apple iPad computers
The hype ended and Apple's latest gadget went on sale in America today as stores opened their doors to long queues of tech-savvy customers desperate to be among the first to own the new iPad.
Apple’s iPad goes on sale for first time in America
The first iPads, Apple's touch-screen tablet style computer, are due to go on sale to US customers on Saturday.
‘No rush yet’ on US iPad launch day
Apple's iPad, the subject of frenzied industry speculation since its unveiling in January, has so far not drawn the hordes that ushered in the iPhone three years ago.
(AFX UK Focus) 2010-04-03 03:01 UPDATE 1-iPad, on eve of launch, still awaits the rush
By Gabriel Madway
iPad still awaits the rush
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple's iPad, the subject of frenzied industry speculation since its unveiling in January, has so far not drawn the hordes that ushered in the iPhone three years ago.
iPad still awaits the rush
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apple's iPad has generated a flood of hype since its unveiling in January, but a day ahead of its official launch the crowds have yet to arrive, a contrast to the iPhone launch three years ago.
A worrying sign of things to come for PSP Go?
You may have noticed that Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is out on store shelves on PSP. But did you notice where it isn't on sale? You guessed it - the European PlayStation Store.
Sony slashes PSP prices on PSN
Time for an Easter boost for the PSPgo
News// Japanese Software Charts: Fist of the North Charts
(1 Apr 2010) God of War III debuts well.