Sony PSP October 2009

PSP Snubbed at Golden Joysticks

Kris Erickson • October 30 2009 • comments

The video games industry was recognized as the fastest-growing entertainment medium in the world today at the world's most popular video game awards show. The 27th annual Golden...Read more

The Best Halloween Video Games

Kris Erickson • October 30 2009 • comments

Hey trick-or-treaters, with Halloween just around the corner, what better time than now to revisit some of those memorable horror video game titles. As a genre, horror games...Read more

Sony Posts $239M Loss for Second Quarter

Kris Erickson • October 30 2009 • comments

Things are still not rosy for Sony, as the corporation posted its fourth consecutive quarter of losses today. Despite brighter signs in the gaming division, sales of video...Read more

Darkstalkers, Mega Man Help Grow PSP Store

Kris Erickson • October 29 2009 • comments

If you have a PSP Go and you were wondering where all the games were at, we've got good news. The selection of PSP games available for download...Read more

Shovelware Set to Invade PSP Minis?

Kris Erickson • October 29 2009 • comments

The PSP Minis service has been out for about a month, and already it looks like the download store is about to be flooded with shovelware. Games that...Read more

Box Art Extravaganza: LittleBigPlanet, Jak & Daxter

Kris Erickson • October 28 2009 • comments

Two upcoming PSP games got the official boxart reveal today. LittleBigPlanet features the same play-create-share concept as its console big brother, and will launch on November 17th. The...Read more

Atlus PSP Hits Available on PSN

Kris Erickson • October 27 2009 • comments

The limited selection of PSP games available for download on the Playstation Store is growing by leaps and bounds. Fans will be excited to know that Atlus is...Read more

Challenge: Write Cho Aniki Press Release Without Using the Word 'Gay'

Kris Erickson • October 26 2009 • comments

It's probably hard to sell a game where the main hero is an oiled-up bodybuilder wearing a thong. Cho Aniki is a quirky Japanese shooter that began life...Read more

New PSP RPG: Mimana Iyar Chronicles

Kris Erickson • October 26 2009 • comments

Aksys Games, publisher of the Guilty Gear games on PSP and BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger on consoles, is bringing a fresh new RPG over from Japan. The company today...Read more

Dante's Inferno Very Naughty, Say Nannies

Kris Erickson • October 23 2009 • comments

For the second time before its release, EA's upcoming gothic adventure game Dante's Inferno finds itself the center of controversy. The first episode was the result of an...Read more

Video Game Genre Mashups!

Kris Erickson • October 23 2009 • comments

Are you getting bored with the same old lineup of gaming genres? This holiday we have a straight up combat shooter (Modern Warfare 2), yet another music rhythm...Read more

First Video of Sony's New 360 Hologram Display

Kris Erickson • October 22 2009 • comments

Earlier in the week we reported on Sony's new 3D Hologram display, which is capable of rendering objects inside of a cylindrical glass enclosure. The effect is a...Read more

PSP Go Sells 1000 Units in Australia

Kris Erickson • October 20 2009 • comments

Australians are known for many things: surfing in constant danger from sharks, wrestling crocodiles and drinking Fosters. They are NOT known for their love of Sony's PSP Go,...Read more

September Hardware and Software Sales Charts

Kris Erickson • October 20 2009 • comments

Sony had a great September at retail according to the latest NPD sales numbers, just released today. During its first full month on sale in the United States,...Read more

Sony Hologram Display Will Blow Your Mind

Kris Erickson • October 19 2009 • comments

We know that Sony has pledged significant resources toward developing a mass-market 3D image standard, particularly in the realm of flat-panel technology. But standard TV is not the...Read more

Chinatown Wars PSP Exclusive Content

Kris Erickson • October 19 2009 • comments

Rockstar first teased us by releasing its top-down GTA on the Nintendo DS. Then they redeemed themselves by bringing it to the PSP, even though it is almost...Read more

Holy Invasion of Privacy, I Needs Me a UMD

Jason Wong • October 18 2009 • comments

If you're into hip off-beat games, you must have heard good buzz over the PSP title Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman, What Did I Do to Deserve This?...Read more

Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron Gameplay Video

Kris Erickson • October 16 2009 • comments

Lucasarts released a weak-ass trailer today for Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron. The 20-second long clip consists of nothing more than some snazzy-looking CGI while a big warning...Read more

Pizza Hut Delivers to Phantasy Star Portable

Kris Erickson • October 14 2009 • comments

One of the best product placement advertisements ever was in the 1993 film Demolition Man. After being re-animated following hundreds of years of cryogenic prison time, hero Sylvester...Read more

Fake PSP Go Better Than Real Thing?

Kris Erickson • October 13 2009 • comments

Here at PSP World, we have often marveled at knockoff PSP designs from China that try to mimic Sony's slick handheld device. However, these cheap clones have usually...Read more

Ready at Dawn Building Console Development Platform

Kris Erickson • October 13 2009 • comments

PSP superstars Ready at Dawn know how to create a fantastic game. After all, their two releases on the PSP stand as premier examples of what can be...Read more

Retailers Aren't Only Ones Hurting from Digital Downloads

Kris Erickson • October 12 2009 • comments

The new PSP Go and Nintendo DSi both offer customers the ability to download retail games directly to the device, without ever having to go to a shop....Read more

Amazon to Sell PSN Game Tokens

Kris Erickson • October 12 2009 • comments

In our increasingly connected world, there are more and more ways to buy entertainment content. Unfortunately for retailers, fewer of these methods involve going to an actual shop....Read more

Sony Set to Profit Immensely from Michael Jackson

Kris Erickson • October 11 2009 • comments

The day after Michael Jackson died tragically in his California home, it was impossible to go anywhere without hearing his music playing. Fans rushed out to buy CDs...Read more

Darius Burst PSP Gameplay Video

Kris Erickson • October 11 2009 • comments

Quality shooters are one area in which the PSP is sorely lacking. Perhaps as a result of the device's landscape widescreen orientation, most established shooter franchises have steered...Read more

New Valkyria Chronicles 2 Japanese Trailer

Kris Erickson • October 8 2009 • comments

Sega's Valkyria Chronicles 2 is coming to the PSP in Japan on January 21, 2010. The company today released a new trailer for the game that shows off...Read more

PSP Could Soon Host Digital Rentals

Kris Erickson • October 6 2009 • comments

The latest PSP firmware version 6.01 contains support for an interesting feature: it provides information about when downloaded games from the PSP were purchased, and when they are...Read more

PSP Minis: Fortix Preview

Kris Erickson • October 6 2009 • comments

In the original arcade game Qix, the objective was to seal off a larger and larger pat of the screen to fence in enemies and eventually defeat them....Read more

PSP Go Selling Poorly?

Kris Erickson • October 5 2009 • comments

The PSP Go has officially been on sale for about a week, and early signs suggest weaker than expected sales for the device. The good news is that...Read more

Great Deals on UMD Movies: $10 or Less

Kris Erickson • October 4 2009 • comments

A little known secret among PSP owners is that although Sony no longer publicly advertises its UMD format for movies, there is a huge catalog of great films...Read more

PSP Go Hacked

Kris Erickson • October 4 2009 • comments

The latest efforts to hack Sony's PSP Go show that the weakest link in the security chain is still savegame data from older PSP games. Previously, hackers used...Read more

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