Lara Croft has returned to N-Gage in Tomb Raider: Underworld. This time the aim of the game is to retrieve Thor's Hammer. Tomb Raider was one of the more popular N-Gage classic games, and this new version has a similar style.
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Sony has been recruiting existing iPhone game developers to build versions of games for the PSP ahead of the launch of the download-only PSP Go, sources said on the Friday ahead of Germany's gamescom expo. While the specific titles haven't been named, Pocket Gamer explained they would all be titles that could port to the slightly smaller resolution display as well as without touch. The move ...
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New store to be shown this week. Sony's price points for the upcoming PSP app store are lower than those used on iTunes, according to a report. Pocket Gamer claims that games and applications will go on sale for 1, 2 or 5. The app store, confirmed and detailed last month, will have "no concept, approval, cheaper tools, shorter QA processes and lower available prices" according to Sony developer ...
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ATLANTA, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- InComm, a leading provider of prepaid transaction processing and electronic point-of-sale (POS) distribution solutions, has partnered with Cartoon Network to distribute prepaid cards for their AAA, browser-based massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), HASH(0x1766260) .
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Their games, your world: The next generation of AR gaming promises play in the environments of our choosing. Killing zombie hordes on your kitchen table. Speaking to a ghost in your bedroom. Such is the promise of augmented reality gaming. AR gaming is here, because the current generation of mobile phones feature cameras good enough to properly capture the world as well as processors powerful ...
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Our sister site T3.com has got the first review of the new PSP Go - the latest iteration of Sony's handheld. Check out the review and get ready to be surprised by the score.
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Get more of what you want with the all-new PSP®-3000 system. It has an advanced LCD screen, which offers the highest-level contrast ratio, best response time and the widest color gamut possible on an LCD screen.
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[UPDATE] Global recession batters electronics giant as quarterly PS3 sales drop from 1.6 million to 1.1 million, PSP sales go from 3.7 million to 1.3 million; software sees dramatic decline on all platforms.
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Four Nintendo-published titles achieved more than a million units of worldwide sales in its latest fiscal quarter alone, according to the company's third quarter briefing. Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Sports, and Nintendo DS game Pokemon Platinum Version all neared two million units in the three-month period that ended June 30, 2009, and Wii Fit accrued an impressive 3.6 million units in that ...
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I can not get any of the upgrades in the software updater to work! They just fail to install EVERYTIME! it's weird because the c: free space application installs but not really. Once I exit the Software updater and come back in it's there to install again.
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Set to be bundled with the Easy Piano instructive game for the Nintendo DS is this Piano/Keyboard controller, which lets you go from punishing ears on a full-size piano, to punishing ears on your...
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Nokia have made available a number of new and updated applications for the N97 through the device's 'Software update' application. They include Ovi Maps 3.1, N-Gage 1.3, Nokia Messaging 10.0, Ovi Contacts 1.20, and a small helper application for freeing space on the N97's internal C: drive.
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Los Angeles- and London-based King.com, which operates an online casual gaming web site, said this morning that it has released 20 games for mobile phone platforms. According to the firm, the skill games run on simple feature phones manufactured by Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, Motorola. The launch of the games follows the launch of similar games for the iPhone by the firm earlier this week.
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We've known since E3 in June that Sony would open up the PlayStation Network for direct video downloads over WiFi to the PSP -- no PC or PS3 required. Now it's live, in Japan anyway. At the moment, there are about 90 PSN video titles to choose from at the moment including anime episodes at ¥200 (about $2) per or animated movies for ¥500 ($5.30) in standard definition or ¥600 ($6.40) for HD. PSP ...
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Those gamers among you who are cursing Sony for not taking the opportunity to add a second analog stick with the PSPgo update may be interested to hear it was considered. The PSPgo was, after all, created with the aid of feedback from both developers and gamers, so surely it came up in design meetings? Shuhei [...]
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Sony is launching the new Sony PSP Go on October 1st, but is still pushing out new Sony PSP bundles featuring the current PSP-3000 console. Yesterday Sony detailed the new limited edition Assassins Creed: Bloodlines PSP Entertainment Pack. The new ...
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Sony's European head of developer relations, Zeno Colao, has explained the company's strategy for courting companies to make products for its digital distribution-focused PSP line (more specifically, the new, expensive PSP Go).
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There's a strong rumor this morning that Sony's busy prepping a discrete part of the PlayStation Store for new games and apps that'll be directed at the PSP and PSP Go . Sounds like Sony's also jumping on the App Store bandwagon. The rumor started over at Develop , which claims to have the inside track on Sony's plans. The company is "aggressively courting" developers for the scheme, and the ...
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The next balance board, says US boss. Nintendo's North American president and chief operating officer Reggie Fils-Aime has said people's reactions to the Wii Vitality Sensor are as doubtful as when the company first unveiled DS, the Wii controller and the Balance Board, but that once they play the games, they'll "get it". "If I told you that you would be standing on an oversized bathroom scale, ...
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The Nintendo DSi and Sony PSP once again led Japanese hardware charts for the week ended July 5, Media Create said Friday, as Wii led home console sales for another week. Sales of the DSi reached 46,855, up from 39,885 the week prior. PSP captured the second spot, selling 32,849, up from 26,789 a week ago. Likewise, the Nintendo Wii saw a bump in sales, moving 24,971 units during the week, up ...
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Bayer has launched a new glucometer for kids with diabetes called the DIDGET that is designed to help kids learn good glucose monitoring habits. The meter is the first and only that connects to the Nintendo DS and DS Lite game systems . Kids can unlock ...
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Here's an abbreviated look at some multimedia titles for the family. • Pangya: Fantasy Golf (from Tomy Corp., for the PlayStation Portable, $29.99) — Anyone who wants to know what it's like to challenge a genius magician in love on the back nine gets his chance in this role-playing golf game. In action where customizing a Japanese anime-style avatar is as important as sinking a birdie putt, the ...
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Weekly Shonen Jump spoils publisher's announcement of Four Warriors of Light for Nintendo's handheld; turn-based RPG slated for Japan this fall.
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Although Sony's said the popularity of versatile download-ready platforms like iPhone support the market positioning for its "premium" PSP Go, the company's hesitated to position the handheld directly against mobile smartphones. But according to the Nikkei business daily (as reported by Reuters) the company is planning to assemble a technology team to start exploring a new product that will ...
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Sony is just now developing a gaming-themed phone that would be targeted explicitly at the iPhone, Japan's Nikkei BP said this weekend. The company is supposedly creating a device team as soon as July that would merge the gaming qualities of the PSP with its Sony Ericsson handsets. It's implied that the device would have a touchscreen to better position the device against Apple's hardware....
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LONDON - The gaming industry will be worth $91.96 billion (£55bn) globally by 2015 thanks to the growth of online and wireless platforms, according to a new report.
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As recently as May Sony has itself stated that a PSP phone "could happen," and now a report from Nikkei business daily states that Sony is planning on putting together a team as early as next month to build product that would act as a combination of a PSP and a Sony Ericsson handset. It makes plenty of sense, both as a differentiation from Nintendo and as a confrontation of the looming iPhone ...
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Although Sony's said the popularity of versatile download-ready platforms like iPhone support the market positioning for its "premium" PSP Go, the company's hesitated to position the handheld directly against mobile smartphones. But according to the Nikkei business daily (as reported by Reuters) the company is planning to assemble a technology team to start exploring a new product that will ...
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Sony, not content with merely bumping up the specs of the PSP into the new Go version, is considering transforming the PSP into a phone too. Is this a smart move by the consumer electronics giant, or a very dumb one? PSP Phone rumors have come and gone in the past, fueled by fantasy and interesting tidbits like the Sony patent pictured above. But the latest one seems to carry a little more ...
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We've seen reimagined Genesises (Geneses?) before, but this might be the best one yet. It's portable, it plays both original cartridges and ROMS off an SD card, it's got TV-out and it only costs $50....
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Almost sixty official games graced the original N-Gage platform, so why aren't Nokia taking the proven hits from that era and bringing them back to the front?
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LONDON - The gaming industry will be worth $91.96 billion (£55bn) globally by 2015 thanks to the growth of online and wireless platforms, according to a new report.
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Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, which has only been available on the Nintendo DS, is coming to Sony's PlayStation Portable.
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Sony today announced that it would release a PSP Rookie Hunters Pack on July 23, 2009, as a limited offer, in Japan. The new PSP bundle pack comprises PSP-3000 and Monster Hunter Freedom Unite game. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite continues saw sales sin...
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this is a cartridge containing 30 new nintendo ds games including - new super mario bros, junior brain trainer, mario party, sims, carnival games, mario v donkey kong, mario kart, club penguin & many more top games.
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Nokia's Ovi Store duplicates one of N-Gage's main lots in life -- to serve as an over-the-air distribution channel of paid and trial apps -- and in the long term, it certainly seems to make sense that Espoo would be looking to merge the two initiatives into one. The company hasn't announced anything to the effect just yet (and even if it did, it'd have to find some creative way to duplicate ...
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For many years now, those of us with Apple computers have felt a deep longing for the day when Apple would fully embrace the gaming industry as it should, and with the huge success of the iPhone and iPod Touch, perhaps that day isn't too far off.
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With the update to the PSP now carrying the name PSPgo; the UMD drive is gone meaning an all-digital future for the Sony handheld gaming device. But is gaming all Sony have planned for the PSPgo? Not if recent rumors are to be believed. Games website Destructoid has been informed by multiple sources that developers other [...]
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The release of the PSP Go is just a few months away, and as such, some of the gritty details are finally being released. After soliciting questions from gamers about the new hardware, a post on the European PlayStation Blog (via Ars Technica ) has revealed a myriad of details about the fourth iteration of the PlayStation Portable. One of the most notable changes with the Go is the decision to ...
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IGN.com is passing along word that Sony will start to release all of its first-party titles in both UMD and downloadable format upon the release of the PSP Go on October 1. This is notable because the PSP Go's most notable change from its predecessors is that the device will forgo a UMD drive in lieu of 16GB of internal storage, along with expandable memory via a Memory Stick Duo slot.
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An anonymous reader writes "A panel of games industry veterans have given their final verdict on Sony's PSP Go. David Perry thinks the handheld is an excellent step in the right direction, though he wants it to include free-to-play games. Andrew Oliver of Blitz Games Studios was also optimistic: 'The iPod has demonstrated that, given a nice small device and a good interface and easy buying ...
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Speed Sets the Rules for the Ultimate Dogfight Air Combat Flight Simulation Game Now Available--Summer of iPhone: 2009 PALO ALTO, Calif., June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- WHO: Shervin Pishevar, President and CEO of Social Gaming Network (SGN) WHEN: WEEK OF JUNE 8-12, 2009--From the show floor of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) WHAT: When war comes FAST to your part of the world, will you ...
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"There are a few reasons." PlayStation Network boss Eric Lempel has flatly stated that "you're not going to see Trophies on the PSP". He told Joystiq during E3 that there are "a few reasons" for this. But the biggest is security of the platform, as people "artificially inflating their rankings... kills the whole Trophy system". The PSP has a history of home-brewed software, a scene that Sony has ...
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Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter says that Microsoft's E3 presentation was the "most impactful," while the volume and structure of Sony's show detracted from the strength of its content. "Sony's content was fine, but their presentation was too long, and had way too much information, much of it not important 'news,' Pachter tells Gamasutra. The company also 'didn't do a particularly good ...
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If there were an award for the most radical gadget shown at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, my nominee wouldn't be Microsoft's motion-sensing controller Natal. It would be Nintendo's Vitality Sensor.
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Sony Corp unveiled on Tuesday the latest in its Playstation Portable line of hand-held devices, the PSP Go, as it races to catch rival Nintendo in the mobile gaming arena.
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John Koller is the Director of Hardware Marketing for Sony, and he has brought three PSP Go units to our meeting: two black, and one white. Both colors will be available the first day of release, October 1. It's hard to concentrate on the interview when the hardware is sitting on the table, but I hold off on picking one up until I get a few answers. The good news is that Koller understands the ...
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Sony Corp. (SNE) launched a new handheld video game device Tuesday that will eschew traditional disks and game cartridges, allowing games to be downloaded exclusively through a wireless connection.
At a press conference during the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, in Los Angeles, Sony (SNE) lifted the wraps on the PSP Go, which is set to launch this October.
"Allow me to introduce the worst kept secret of E3," joked Kaz Hirai, president and chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, making light of the fact that pictures of the device had been leaked across the gadget blogs before the event.
Hirai said Sony will continue to sell its current handheld, the PSP 3000. The new device "is for people who are already living the digital lifestyle," he said.
The PSP Go is 50% smaller than the existing PSP, and 40% lighter. It has 16GB worth of memory to download and store games, movies and TV shows that users can purchase through the company's PlayStation Network.
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As anyone who has followed the iPhone knows, mobile phones are the future of gaming. People always have their cell phones on them, and mobile gaming is a cheap and easy way to ward off boredom at the office and a thousand other places. Sony Ericsson has ta...
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Sony's PSP Go handheld has been confirmed ahead of this week's E3 in Los Angeles, as a UMD-less 16gb memory handheld that plays digitally downloaded PSP games and will be sold alongside the regular PSP-3000. Fansite GamingConsoleNetwork received an early version of this month's Sony/Future Publishing-created Qore video show, and Sony's John Koller features in a video interview explaining the ...
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43 percent lighter, 3.8-inch screen. Sony's PSP Go will be released this autumn and is 43 percent lighter than the PSP-3000 with a 3.8-inch screen, according to marketing man John Koller. In a full version of the prematurely-posted Qore segment that outed the PSP Go, which Eurogamer has obtained, Koller talks up the device's features but doesn't mention a price. "It's a 3.8-inch screen, it's 43 ...
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AGOURA HILLS, Calif.----THQ Inc. today announced that The Biggest Loser interactive health and fitness video game is currently in development exclusively for Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ and is scheduled for release this fall.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The interactive videogame industry's biggest convention meets next week in Los Angeles promising a return to its glitzy past, but on the heels of weak sales and the slumping economy, the future of this fun and games business is no laughing matter.
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Seriously fueling the rumors we reported earlier, new information has popped up online saying that Sony will demo a revised PlayStation Portable (PSP) at the annual E3 gaming expo. A slimmed-down PS3--which is the more exciting announcement--will follow later. The new PSP Go, an updated and UMD-less version of the portable games console is now pretty much a lock for being revealed at E3, the ...
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BURBANK, Calif.----From sold out shows to the big and small screens, the Jonas Brothers will take over the video game world as well this holiday. Disney Interactive Studios today announced the development of JONAS for Nintendo DS.
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What a wild ride this thing has had. Originally announced back in November of 2007, the PSP Extended Life Battery Kit promised to provide right around 20 percent more battery life in exchange for $45 and an additional bulge. Then, Sony seemingly canned the thing abruptly in August of 2008. Just a month later, Sony's US director of hardware marketing John Koller confessed that the PSP-3000's new ...
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With E3 only a few days away, the rumors and speculation have begun to filter around the Internet; all eyes will be on Los Angeles to see what Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft have up their respective sleeves. Luckily, we don't have to guess, as we have the support of our very well-informed mole. His information? Not only is the PSP Go real, but we'll be seeing a slimmed-down PS3 in August or ...
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Support from the maker of Street Fighter and Resident Evil is a strong indicator that Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch platform is a force in the mobile gaming market.
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May 24, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R. Yet another job posting from Microsoft related to "Product: Windows Mobile" indicates that gaming will be taken, at last, seriously by Microsoft!
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Support from the maker of Street Fighter and Resident Evil is a strong indicator that Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch platform is a force in the mobile gaming market.
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Nintendo fans may want to purchase another new gaming system thanks to the release of the the Nintendo DSi, the third and most versatile version of their popular touch-screen handheld. It follows on the heels of the DS Lite, which gave us better screen backlighting and a sleeker design. The new DSi gives us even more, including a camera, a music player and access to downloadable content.
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Sometimes my condo feels a little too small for me, but it's just the right size for my Wi-Fi Internet router. The radio signal reaches every corner of the place, enabling me to get excellent Internet connectivity.
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Not a flagship game for N-Gage by any means, Pandemonium brings 2D gameplay to a 3D world and ends up delighting Ewan , who recalls earlier versions of the game on N-Gage Classic and platforms from the 1990s.
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Nintendo has owned the portable video-game market — first with the Game Boy, now with the DS — for so long that most of us gave up hope of ever seeing a viable competitor. But it's become impossible to ignore the new kid on the block: Apple's iPhone, whose game library has quickly overwhelmed Nintendo's.
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We never really pegged the HTC-sourced T-Mobile G1 as a hardcore gaming handheld, but obviously it handles the stresses of Ghosts 'N Goblins and Samurai Showdown admirably. Have a peek at a "pre-alpha" demonstration video just past the break, and feel free to let your hopes and expectations reach new heights. Continue reading Video: GP2X emulation goes down on T-Mobile G1 Filed under: Cellphones ...
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They're certainly quizzing consumers on it. Sony could launch a subscription-based digital game rental service for the PSP, according to a questions that appeared in a recent consumer survey. As reported by Joystiq the survey is polling PSP owners on various subscription options for a games-on-demand service. "The service will enable you to download a fixed number of games during your ...
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CNET's sources say Sony is mulling a PSP music store, to be integrated into the PlayStation Network. In light of other rumors, it's starting to sound like Sony wishes this whole "PSP" thing had gone...
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Nintendo has announced the latest addition to the Personal Trainer software series called Personal Trainer: Walking. Most of us can just look at the windows on any given day and find people walking around the neighborhood for exercise. The new Personal Tra...
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The picture above is a rendering from T3.com of what has been dubbed the xYz. This is the latest rumor out about the June Zune release, and it comes from the generally reliable Team Xbox. They claim that an anonymous-but-reliable source told them that the ...
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Sony offers yet another limited edition Sony PSP Bundle. This time Final Fantasy fans are the target. The New Dissidia: Final Fantasy Sony PSP Pack includes Mystic Silver PSP-3000 system, DISSIDIA FINAL FANTASY game, FINAL FANTASY VII Advent Children on UM...
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We've seen scads of portable NES mods in the past but still: this is probably relevant to your interests. ThinkGeek's got a new portable gaming system on offer, the Retro Mini Handheld. It plays all those 8-bit cartridges you've had stacked in your room next to your hi-fi since the olden days, and it's got a pretty ...
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There's been a few false starts , and some newfound competition from upstart Pandora , but it looks like GamePark's GP2X Wiz gaming handheld is now finally, officially available. As promised earlier, it'll set you back a fairly reasonable $179, which'll get you a 533MHz ARM9 processor-based handheld that's capable of running a handful of official games and a whole boatload of unofficial games, ...
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Sony tested the waters of purely digital distribution for PSP titles with the now-released Patapon 2 , but some third-party PSP developers are much more upfront about the advantages of offering titles without a physical release. Vogster, the company behind the upcoming comic book brawler Unbound Saga , believes that digital is the future, and the PSP is the best place to launch new intellectual ...
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A new iSuppli report is estimating that handheld game consoles such as the PSP and DS will ship 63.5 million units by 2013, up from 49.4 million units in 2008, as handheld gaming grows through the worldwide recession. According to a report synopsis by the firm, the global market for handheld video game systems is "set to buck weak conditions in the global consumer electronics market and rise by ...
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PlayStation maker hit hard by strong yen and falling electronics sales; net loss of $1.03 billion reported, games division posts $612 million operating loss; PS2 sales plummet, but PS3 software shipments skyrocket to 103.7 million units.
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Sony will release a special edition PSP themed around Square Enix's upcoming Dissidia: Final Fantasy, the manufacturer announced today. Set to release August 25, the package will retail for $199.99 and will include a silver PSP-3000 model, Dissidia: Final Fantasy itself, the UMD film Final Fantasy: Advent Children, and a 2GB Memory Stick. According to today's announcement, the package will be ...
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Nintendo landed a new all-time U.S. record for April hardware sales for any video game platform with the Nintendo DS platform. According to analyst NPD Group Nintendo sold more than 827,000 Nintendo DSi systems in April and an additional 215,000 Nintendo D...
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Ubisoft announced today that the Nintendo DS would be getting its own Might & Magic game. The title will be known as Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes . Described as a puzzle RPG, the game will see RPGamers undertaking five unique and epic quests with gameplay that includes turn-based puzzle battles
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May 10, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R. Robbie Bach supervises EDD - Entertainment and Devices Division that includes both Xbox and Windows Mobile.
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Speaking with Financial Times, Hideki Komiyama, president of Sony Ericsson, raised the possibility of a mobile handset based on PlayStation gaming. The company has been struggling to find an answer to current smartphones, and they plan to release three new models within the next year which run Symbian, Android, and Windows Mobile. Komiyama likened a PlayStation-related handset to the music-based ...
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Handhelds dominate new chart The PSP leads the latest Japanese hardware chart for the week ending May 3rd, but it's a close run thing, Sony's device coming in just a few hundred sales ahead of the DSi, with over 49,500 units. DSi sales for the week still topped 49,000, with the PS3 some way off the pace on 23,000. Then there's the Wii console with over 21,000, followed by the DS Lite with over ...
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PopCap Games Survey Finds Average AT&T Wireless Gamer Purchases Four Mobile Games Per Year; 50 Percent Play Mobile Games at WorkAT&T wireless customers are turning to their wireless devices to do more than talk and text.
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PS3, PS2 and PSP versions out early, through Sony Atari's new Ghostbusters game will be published on the PS3, PS2 and PSP by Sony - news in this afternoon informs us. The move will see the console releases arriving this June, with the PSP following in the autumn. The game was previously scheduled for release on June 19th on all formats, but it now looks as if non-Sony versions of the game may be ...
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VidZone launches this summer. Sony will let PS3 owners stream music videos to their console this summer, using a totally rad new service called VidZone. Mega. This contemporary-sounding application will be free and appear on the XMB once downloaded from the PS Store. We're promised a stonking selection from both major and independent music labels alike, covering not only music videos, but ...
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Nintendo reveal their 2008 results, and look ahead to 2009 Nintendo have been lifting the lid on their latest financial results, confirming a strong performance for the 12 months ending in March. Sales were up 9 per cent over 2008, while profits rose some 14 per cent to 555 billion Yen. Some 26 million Wii consoles were sold over the year, bringing the total over 50 million, while the DS is now ...
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The Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable versions of Space Invaders Extreme were so well received by critics and consumers alike that it's no surprise that Taito wants to extend the design beyond the handheld market. Enter the Xbox Live Arcade version, a solid conversion produced by Backbone Entertainment that features nearly everything that made the portable originals so damn good -- but it ...
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Now that Apple's App Store (part of iTunes) has reached 1 billion downloads, many of which were games, it proves that iPhone and iPod Touch owners are clamoring for great gaming experiences while on the go.
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Joystiq reported back in April that Patapon 2's release would be a UMD-less affair, and now it's officially here. The followup game is now available as a digital download on the PSN, and as a redemption code voucher in retail locations. The sans-UMD format is a United States only test for Sony, and certainly leads us to wonder if that UMD-less PSP could possibly, potentially be in the works. The ...
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Nintendo has owned the portable video-game market — first with the Game Boy, now with the DS — for so long that most of us gave up hope of ever seeing a viable competitor.
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SAN MATEO, Calif.----Glu Mobile Inc. , a leading global publisher of mobile games, today announced the launch of Age of Empires III on N-Gage by Nokia. This is the first ever multiplayer real-time strategy game on N-Gage and the latest to launch in the successful Age of Empires® franchise on mobile phones.
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Gameloft®, a leading publisher and developer of digitally distributed video games, announced today a worldwide licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution to develop, publish and distribute the mobile game for the highly anticipated Warner Bros.
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Gameloft was boosted once again by the iPhone. The French gaming firm singled out the "strong performance" of its iPhone games, as well as "solid sales" of Java and Brew games, as helping boost mobile games sales 21 percent in the first quarter.
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New details are emerging on the new gaming handheld, which 1Up reports will be officially unveiled at E3. Launch predictions: September in Japan; October or November in U.S.
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Whispers of a new or revised PSP have been growing decidedly louder as of late, and now 1UP 's gotten a ton of new details from what it claims are "sources directly involved with the new system" -- our favorite kind of people, actually. Here's what they were told: UMD is out , replaced instead with options for either 8GB or 16GB of built-in flash memory. Also nixed is any hope of a "PSP-4000," ...
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PSP-4000 rumours evolve Sony's long awaited (or long speculated, should I say) PSP-4000 takes another twist today, 1UP reporting that the revised handheld will actually be called PSP Go! Apparently, the new look device will have either 8Gb or 16Gb of flash memory, and it will not having a sliding screen design, according to these latest rumours. A launch in Japan this September is reportedly ...
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(Telecompaper) UAE mobile operator Etisalat and Nokia announced a joint collaboration to provide access to advanced mobile internet-based services in the Middle East. These services include maps, navigation and games on Nokia devices, based on the Ovi services platform provided by Nokia. In the first phase of the collaboration, Etisalat's UAE mobile customers will be able to enjoy Ovi Maps and ...
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We've truly fallen in love. Hyperkin's FC Mobile II tickles our every retro-gaming fantasy, combining portable cartridge-based NES action on a 2.5-inch screen, complete with TV-out, two "standard" wireless controllers, and a wireless gun just to top off the majestic collection. Even better, the whole kit is going for around $60 on eBay, so we can spend the rest of our suspicious money horde on ...
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Although it was expected to see a release last year the GP2X Wiz handheld got delayed and it may now even have a different button layout which drops the second D-pad seen in the image above. With a release date around the end of this month or sometime in May the company behind the handheld, Gamepark, [...]
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Goodbye speculation, hello LEGO Rock Band, the game you were never really expecting but you'll probably stand up and cheer for anyway. You know, like LEGO Final Fantasy. Or LEGO Fallout.
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Mother's Day is May 10. And if you don't have any idea what to get her (don't worry, we don't either), then Nintendo has a few ideas. They always do. Over at Best Buy's catalog, they're accepting pre-orders for a new bundle featuring a copy of Personal Trainer: Cooking , a lime green Nintendo DS and a carrying case that looks a lot like a purse. It'll be available starting May 3 for $159.99. A ...
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Spin3, powered by Microgaming, has recently released "Royal Derby", a stunning graphic and feature dense mobile gaming platform for all iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and over 1400 phone models that support Java, this past month.
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18 months ago, third-party PSP developers were "just about ready to jump off the cliff and pull support for the platform," says Sony's Peter Dille. As part of an in-depth Gamasutra feature interview, Dille explained how the company's "evangelizing" since then to developers about going beyond the PlayStation 2 port to what kinds of games "make sense" on PSP has helped increase successful software ...
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No VoIP for DS or DSi Speaking this week, Nintendo representatives have denied that a new version of Skype is on the way for the DS or the DSi handheld. The voice-over-IP service is of course already available for the PSP, iPod and numerous other portable formats, but Nintendo assure that it has "no plans to release a Skype application for DS or DSi" according to CVG . A Skype spokesperson had ...
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SAN MATEO, Calif.----Digital Chocolate, a quality leader in mobile gaming, today announced that Kamikaze Robots is available on the Apple App Store. Adapted specifically for iPhone and iPod touch, the game offers innovative, humorous, and original gameplay as players rotate and control the balance of a robot as it spins crazily in a downhill race.
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Back when we first caught a glimpse of the NanoTouch, we'll freely admit that we thought it might be superb for small-scale gaming. The 2.4-inch LCD, developed by Microsoft and the Hasso Plattner Institute, the tiny screen boasts a capacitive touchscreen on the back (much like the LucidTouch ), and is apparently quite sensitive. Check out the video demonstration of the NanoTouch in some gaming ...
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It's taken longer than expected, but Gamepark is on the brink of launching their Linux-based GP2X Wiz handheld gaming system—and they are planning to follow up with an open source app store...
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PC World Editors Robert Strohmeyer, Denny Arar, Darren Gladstone and Ginny Mies join in a lively discussion about the CTIA conference and the Nintendo GameBoy DSi
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It's April not-fools, the day where Warner Bros. announces the virtually inconceivable: a LEGO version of its popular rhythm-music rock game.
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April 21 marks the 20th anniversary of the original launch of Nintendo's Game Boy. Here are six reasons why the Game Boy became one of the most successful consoles of all time ...
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Here's a look at the DSi, the latest device for the Nintendo fan in the family: DSi (from Nintendo, standalone unit, $169.99) — The home of the magical Wii has upgraded its popular hand-held console to give youngsters a more personal mobile gaming experience. Leading the evolution is a pair of cameras that have been added to the slimmer, longer DS frame. One is wedged between screens, the other ...
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Digital Chocolate, a quality leader in mobile gaming, today announced that Mini Golf 99 Holes Theme Park is available on the Apple App Store. Designed specifically to take advantage of the innovation in iPhone and iPod touch, Mini Golf 99 Holes Theme Park was developed with Digital Chocolate's award-winning mini golf engine and is part of the widely popular Mini Golf game ...
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CHENNAI, INDIA: Nokia India today announced the availability of its gaming service, 'N-Gage' in India with additional games and an expanded online offering.
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Many Long-time Palm OS users were thrilled when MotionApps announced plans to release an emulator that will allow the Palm Pre to run legacy Palm OS applications. A new video from the company shows off this app's ability to handle advanced games.
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The Japanese game software maker Konami announced on Saturday that it is producing the Ōkamikakushi mystery adventure novel software for the Sony PSP console with creator and director Ryukishi07 ( Higurashi: When They Cry , Umineko no Naku Koro ni ) and the character designer duo Peach-Pit ( Rozen Maiden , Shugo Chara!
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With its impressive game library, lower price and expanded feature set, it's certainly a much better deal than the original PSP - and it's even better than the PSP 2000. While its media and online functions won't necessarily replace a dedicated AV device or laptop, it will be good for most portable gaming and multimedia needs.
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In another clear sign that all games may be digital downloads in the future, Sony have confirmed that the forthcoming release of Patapon 2 on PSP will be a digital download only. You will still be able to purchase a boxed-copy of the game from retail stores, but that box will not contain a UMD; instead [...]
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Check it out, all you budding G. Gordon Liddys -- if the usual assortment of spy gadgets isn't doing the job, Sony's got something in the works that should be right up your alley. According to a little site called Siliconera , Sony's European arm has filed a patent for a remote-controlled car uses the PSP as an interface. This bad boy is equipped with a camera that feeds video back to the hand ...
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Lately, Sony has taken a Skittles-esque liking for more PSP colors. Japan just got the new Carnival set and a lilac system is heading to North America soon. And, as it would appear, a lime green PSP is also in the works. According to Chinese website VGSky.com, the lime green PSP-3000 model pictured above was produced in a Sony factory in China.
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This is better than bobbleheads. Starting with Tuesday's season home opener at Safeco Field, Nintendo of America will loan its new DSi handheld...
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Forget Dr. Pepper, wouldn't you like to be Nintendo too? According to figures provided by GfK-ChartTrack, Nintendo's new DSi handheld passed 92,000 units in just two days of sales in the UK. That ranks the DSi number four under the "fastest-selling-UK-console-ever" column. Says UK biz-site MCV, the DSi's sales performance even roared past the debut sales figures of the original DS.
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Sony announced a Limited Edition Rock Band Unplugged PSP Entertainment Pack featuring the PSP exclusive Rock Band Unplugged game. The Limited Edition Rock Band Unplugged PSP Entertainment Pack includes a Piano black PSP-3000, 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo, a...
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March 31, 2009 [General] | By Edward J. R. CTIA 2009 - the biggest wireless show in USA (smaller than Mobile World Congress though) is starting in Las Vegas tomorrow, so Microsoft is starting with news flow...
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Those crazy Japanese and their kuroko plays. I love them, but can anybody tell me why they have included Obama in this oversized Gameboy version of Super Mario Bros.? [Iamwendi—Thanks...
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According to website Kombo, at a Japanese Club Nintendo event, Nintendo confirmed that a Virtual Console would be coming to the DSi in Japan, bringing Gameboy and Gameboy Advance titles with it. The...
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Masato Kuwahara has been with Nintendo's Research & Engineering Department for at least 15 years, and though he's now best known as the project lead for the Nintendo DSi system, he's been responsible for some other cool portable projects at the company as well. I got to hear all about it -- and all about the DSi's functions -- at the GDC Session "The Inspiration Behind Nintendo DSi Development." ...
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Rockstar Games, perpetual courters of controversy, is back with another "Grand Theft Auto." "GTA: Chinatown Wars" is exclusive to the Nintendo DS, a handheld...
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Compared with its Japanese counterpart, the U.S. PlayStation Story is really lacking in terms of downloadable PSone games (among other things). It's just one sign of many how Sony has been inconsistent and has, arguably, dropped the ball when it comes to PlayStation Network content for the PlayStation Portable. Whereas the PS3 receives a regular flow of content on a weekly basis, there are gaps ...
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No release news as yet Sony Computer Entertainment still haven't decided when to release Gran Turismo 5 on the PS3, or indeed when the long-awaited PSP version is likely to be with us. Speaking with blog VG247 , director of hardware John Koller said the game would launch "on all platforms", but not until it "makes the most sense". "Ultimately, they are a developer who makes a lot of their own ...
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwire - March 23, 2009) - Editors Note: There is a photo and a video associated with this release. Sony Ericsson have partnered with leading gaming suppliers to launch the W910 Exclusive Gaming Edition and motion-sensitive F305 handset, now exclusively available from The Carphone Warehouse. Both handsets are jam-packed with some of the best mobile games about - the ...
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Developers need to integrate social networks, location, and music in order to reach the burgeoning market of mobile gamers, one Nokia executive suggests.
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A new wireless video-game console is debuting in Brazil. Dubbed Zeebo, its makers are billing it as the first affordable 3-D game console designed specifically for emerging global markets -- and it's backed by Qualcomm.
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Compared with its Japanese counterpart, the U.S. PlayStation Story is really lacking in terms of downloadable PSone games (among other things). It's just one sign of many how Sony has been inconsistent and has, arguably, dropped the ball when it comes to PlayStation Network content for the PlayStation Portable. Whereas the PS3 receives a regular flow of content on a weekly basis, there are gaps ...
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Masato Kuwahara has been with Nintendo's Research & Engineering Department for at least 15 years, and though he's now best known as the project lead for the Nintendo DSi system, he's been responsible for some other cool portable projects at the company as well. I got to hear all about it -- and all about the DSi's functions -- at the GDC Session "The Inspiration Behind Nintendo DSi Development." ...
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Developers need to integrate social networks, location, and music in order to reach the burgeoning market of mobile gamers, one Nokia executive suggests.
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A new wireless video-game console is debuting in Brazil. Dubbed Zeebo, its makers are billing it as the first affordable 3-D game console designed specifically for emerging global markets -- and it's backed by Qualcomm.
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Sony has added ten new titles to the PlayStation Portable's "Greatest Hits" line, which offers popular games some new packaging and a retail price of $19.99.
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The take-up of Nokia's N-Gage gaming service has accelerated since the top cell phone maker has started to pre-install it in new mid- and higher-end phone models, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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This purposeful game blurs the line between game and learning tool. Now players of all ages, especially students, have even more reason to carry their Nintendo DS everywhere with MyDoItAll. This party-like mini game collection has several practical and educational uses. The easy-to-use modes have great applications to other games while meeting several real-life needs of organization.You can ...
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Zeebo Inc. announced today that its new wireless videogame console will begin shipping in Brazil through targeted retail distribution next month.
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You want to get more out of the stuff you already have, these days. For video gamers, accessories are the quickest way to make that console feel out-of-the-box new. A controller that fits the hands better will make you play better, and that will breathe fresh life even into old games. So, don't sneer at accessories.
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Nintendo may indeed putting pressure on its stable of game developers to compete with the iPhone, the iPod touch and the App Store, according to industry sources. Attendees at this week's Nintendo Developer Conference in London are said to have been told that the company wants a variety of smaller titles for its DS Shop and DSi Ware services, set to accompany Nintendo's DSi handheld when it ...
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US range widens Sony Computer Entertainment America have this week confirmed the expansion of their Greatest Hits range for the PSP handheld. As of April 5th, a few big names will be added to the range of budget handheld titles on offer. The cut price offerings are available for a paltry 19.99 USD stateside, with God of War: Chains of Olympus joined by Medal of Honor Heroes 2, Mortal Kombat: ...
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Sony has added ten new titles to the PlayStation Portable's "Greatest Hits" line, which offers popular games some new packaging and a retail price of $19.99. A few of the games sure to get the most attention are big first-party titles like God of War: Chains of Olympus , Patapon , and SOCOM Tactical Strike . A large portion of the list is made up of shooters, like Rainbow Six Vegas , Medal of ...
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The Apple iPhone 3.0 Firmware media event is still underway, but I already got the feeling Apple really means to turn the iPhone and the iPod touch into full competitors in the portable video console market. The Apps demonstrating the new iPhone 3.0 SDK...
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The iPhone OS 3.0 news from Apple unlocks many more opportunities for innovative game development for the iPhone. Social Gaming Network has been planning for this moment for years and made huge strides with existing releases to achieve exactly what consumers have craved - and now Apple is responding.
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Why read actual comics? Pretty soon you may be able to get them on your PlayStation Portable. Joystiq is reporting that Sony Computer Entertainment Europe appears to be testing a new addition to the PSP PlayStation Store, which would allow users to download comics directly to their PSP. Sony has already sent out a survey asking how potential customers would like to be pay for it, offering a ...
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Sony won't be drawn on pricing chit-chat Conjecture is intensifying this morning that Sony could be on the brink of announcing price cuts for both the PS3 and the PSP consoles. That's the word from CVG , who quote an insider retail source. Other well placed sources seem to cast doubt over the likelihood of any immediate cut, although experts are in agreement that the PS3 in particular is just ...
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It has been another good week for Sony in Japan, with the PSP becoming the best selling hardware platform and the PlayStation 3 beating both the Wii and Xbox 360. The PSP saw sales rise by 24,000 units to a total of 59,568, despite an unexceptional performance in the software chart. Instead, the increase was due to the new Radiant Red and Vibrant Blue "carnival color" hardware models. As ...
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Sony recently conducted one of their infamous product surveys that not only made mention of the PSP PlayStation Store selling comic books, but actually played this video demoing the media on the PSP:...
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Rockstar Games' latest criminal opus, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, veers onto the kid-friendly Nintendo DS Tuesday. Read a preview of the game and check out a couple of wallpaper images
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Nokia plans to keep its N-Gage store, at least temporarily, despite wanting to eventually provide users with a single access point to content with its Ovi App Store.
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It has been another good week for Sony in Japan, with the PSP becoming the best selling hardware platform and the PlayStation 3 beating both the Wii and Xbox 360. The PSP saw sales rise by 24,000 units to a total of 59,568, despite an unexceptional performance in the software chart. Instead, the increase was due to the new Radiant Red and Vibrant Blue "carnival color" hardware models. As ...
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Nintendo reports it has sold more than 100 million handheld gaming machines since its late 2004 launch of the Nintendo DS, which inaugurated a new era of portable gaming by introducing touchscreen and voice-recognition capabilities.
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It has been another good week for Sony in Japan, with the PSP becoming the best selling hardware platform and the PlayStation 3 beating both the Wii and Xbox 360. The PSP saw sales rise by 24,000 units to a total of 59,568, despite an unexceptional performance in the software chart. Instead, the increase was due to the new Radiant Red and Vibrant Blue "carnival color" hardware models. As ...
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Get excited, European Sony and SUV fans! Citroen's new C-Crosser PSP Edition SUV is designed with you in mind. Both of you. The limited edition vehicle comes with a big PSP sticker on the back to...
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More games on the way, says Maguire UK PlayStation boss Ray Maguire has said that the PSP now has a worldwide userbase in excess of 50 million, and that while Sony have neglected the format in the past, that they are now redoubling their support of the handheld. Speaking with GI.biz , Maguire admitted that the PS3 has been taking up most of Sony's recent energy, while also conceding that ...
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TOKYO - Global sales of the Nintendo DS handheld have topped 100 million in 4 years and 3 months - a milestone reached at the quickest pace for any video game console - the Japanese manufacturer. Worldwide sales of...
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Gameloft, a leading developer and publisher of video games for mobile phones and consoles, today announced a licensing agreement with The Halcyon Company to develop, distribute and publish the official mobile game to the first film of the new Terminator trilogy, Terminator Salvation.
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Get ready for more PSP game software - Last year's holiday season was pretty rough for fans of the PlayStation Portable, with only a handful of games vying for space under the Christmas tree.
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It's a common belief that the video game industry is recession-proof. That may well be true for video game giant Nintendo Co. even during the current global financial crisis, arguably the worst since the Great Depression. Read the full story
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Traditionally, January and February have always been slow periods for the gaming industry, but new data suggests a rebound. It only took couple of games to nudge the ailing console sales into a higher gear and revitalize interest in both the PS3 and Xbox 360. New releases like Killzone 2 and Yakuza 3, which launched earlier this month, are already showing a positive impact on not only game sales ...
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Real news from the virtual world: _I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND: Last year's holiday season was pretty rough for fans of the PlayStation Portable, with only a handful of games vying for space under the Christmas tree. The dearth of new products left many...
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The upcoming Ovi Store application is due to replace Nokia's existing Download!, MOSH and Software Market services, and there has been speculation about what else it might absorb.
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Apple's smartphone is leading the pack, as developers and mobile gamers are attracted to the App Store and its business model, according to one research firm. ...[Read]
While everyone's getting all worked up about the possible death of UMD, Sony is going around telling people they want to bring classic, non-Sony games to the PSP, just like the homebrewers. Oh?...
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Sony's redesigned PSP is rumored to be getting a new look. But all changes to this portable gaming device, expected to be released later this year, are largely cosmetic.
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World's largest online retailer offering gift cards in return for old video games.
E-commerce giant Amazon has unveiled a video game trade-in program, offering customers gift cards to the most popular store on the Web in return for old video games.
It's a move that could position Amazon to better capitalize on one of the healthier media segments: games. Reselling used games also could be potentially lucrative for the world's largest online retailer, considering that prices on pre-played titles can still remain fairly high while still representing a discount from the $50 and $60 cost of new products.
Amazon is accepting old games from the major console systems, including Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation. The online retail giant is not accepting PC games, however, a move that has garnered criticism in the site's discussion forum.
— Feb. 25, 2009 — VMware has demonstrated Windows CE and Google's Linux-based Android stack running side by side on a single mobile device (left).
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Zynga ( www.zynga.com ), the largest social gaming company, announced today the launch of “Scramble Live”– the mobile version of its wildly popular word game – exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. “Scramble Live,” a fast-paced casual game that challenges players to quickly find words in a grid, marks the first word game on the iPhone that allows players to compete live with other users ...
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In continued conversations with Rockstar. UK, March 2, 2009 - With Rockstar's GTA series next handheld foray hitting the DS in the shape of this month's Chinatown Wars, Sony has said we've not seen the last of the franchise on its own handheld hardware.
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Sony has signalled it will try to breathe life back into the handheld gaming battle with the promise of a big year for its PlayStation Portable. The PSP has been sort of a forgotten cousin of the Sony stable since the gaming giant launched the PS3 two years ago.
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Out of nowhere, one of the biggest announcements this week was the news that the PSP is getting three new high-profile games. They could end up being ports—something that has plagued the system for years, but it's a start to reviving the handheld as a gaming system first, instead of just a portable movie player. What you might have missed. Microsoft responds to Xbox Live ...
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Out of nowhere, one of the biggest announcements this week was the news that the PSP is getting three new high-profile games. They could end up being ports—something that has plagued the system for years, but it's a start to reviving the handheld as a gaming system first, instead of just a portable movie player. What you might have missed. Microsoft responds to Xbox Live ...
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Just as the portable gaming world is getting ready for the release of the Nintendo DSi, word on the street is that Sony's followup to the PSP may not be far off--at least according to a bigwig at Acclaim.
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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will soon be hitting the Nintendo DS, but things used to be different. Now Sony head of PlayStation Portable marketing John Koller is longing for the good old days when GTA was seen as a slam dunk PSP franchise. "That's a tremendous franchise for PlayStation in general. We've had two that are the top two sellers on PSP right now. So, there's ...
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Out of nowhere, one of the biggest announcements this week was the news that the PSP is getting three new high-profile games. They could end up being ports—something that has plagued the system for years, but it's a start to reviving the handheld as a gaming system first, instead of just a portable movie player. What you might have missed. Microsoft responds to Xbox Live ...
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Sony and Rockstar in talks Sony have already told us that 2009 will be the year of the PSP, and having announced big games like MotorStorm and LittleBigPlanet for the handheld they seem set to continue this push - a new GTA title for the device said to be under discussion. Speaking with MTV stateside, marketing boss John Koller reveals that discussions with Rockstar are underway with ...
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A few days ago, we discussed Sony's announcement of a slew of new titles for the PSP, part of their plan to reinvigorate the platform. Unfortunately, according to analyst Nicholas Lovell, it may be too late for the PSP to achieve what Sony had hoped. He says gaming on the iPhone and iPod Touch are rapidly expanding to fill that section of the market. Despite this, rumors have been swirling once ...
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I kid about the subtitle to the article.... but seriously. 51% of an entire gaming market is an amazing accomplishment for one console—especially a handheld one.
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Just as the portable gaming world is getting ready for the release of the Nintendo DSi, word on the street is that Sony's followup to the PSP may not be far off--at least according to a bigwig at Acclaim.
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After the former COO of game developer Acclaim David Perry Twittered about the new PSP2 and its lack of a UMD drive, the Internet started paying attention to Sony's oft-forgotten game handheld. Perry wrote, "I hear Sony FINALLY has the PSP 2. And thank goodness, they've removed the stupid battery-sucking UMD disc drive. I'm excited!"
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According to the good chaps over at Joystiq (and, you know, Nintendo), you can get your grubby mitts all over the DSi in North America come April 5th. The system will launch for $169.99, will include all the goodies you've been reading about -- like those dual cameras and downloadable content called DSiWare (starting at the totally mysterious price point of 200 DSi Points). The handhelds ...
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Well, kids -- if you've been using Sony's Go!Messenger service (all three of you), we have some sad news. It looks like the company will be putting the brakes on the thing, citing lack of consumer interest. "Although Go!Messenger brought innovative communications features to the PSP community, the service has not developed the base of users" Sony was hoping for, reports GameIndustry.biz. ...
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Sony has revealed that hit PlayStation 3 brands LittleBigPlanet and MotorStorm will be released on the PSP. Media Molecule has hinted before that “there's definitely scope for a PSP version” of the cute platformer, and the title is now scheduled for release this year.
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PSP editions of major titles including LittleBigPlanet, Assassin's Creed and Rock Band are on the way, says Sony Computer Entertainment America, announcing what it calls an "unprecedented" lineup for its handheld. The announcement at SCEA's annual Destination Playstation retail and publisher event in Scottsdale, Arizona seemed aimed at putting to rest the primary criticism about Sony's ...
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Among the unique features on the DSi is two 0.3 megapixel cameras, one on the external body and the other pointing at the user when the device is flipped open.
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"Devdas", Bollywood's ultimate unrequited love movie, is set to give India's rapidly growing animation and gaming industry a boost with a new mobile phone game that's based on the silver screen classic.
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Mobile World Congress -- 16th - 19th February 2009 -- Hall 7, Stand: Innovations Zone 25 -- Zeemote(TM) Inc. (http://www.zeemote.com/), the recognized leader in designing, manufacturing, marketing and licensing wireless controller technology and products for mobile devices, today previewed what it is calling the next significant step in Mobile-Console Gaming.
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Nintendo this morning gave the DSi its official release details for the US. The console will reach the country on April 5th for $170 in light blue and black color options. This undercuts the original Japanese pricing and sets up the device as Nintendo's response to increasing pressure from combination game and media devices like Sony's PSP and Apple's iPod touch. It expands the DS Lite with an ...
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Sony PSP (not Lite) in Ceramic White. Good condition but please note there is one dead pixel but this does not really effect game play or viewing.
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NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology announced today a joint solution aimed at helping operators streamline their operations and optimize their investments in wireless broadband. This joint solution exemplifies the commitment made to the market by the two companies to jointly bring unique new capabilities that enable service providers to quickly exploit the opportunities offered by the ...
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PARIS, February 17 /PRNewswire/ -- - International Music Partnership Expands to Include Imaging and Gaming Orange today announces it is extending its strategic partnership with Sony Ericsson, opening the door to more fun and easy mobile multimedia services.
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LOS ANGELES and HONG KONG, Feb. 17, 2009 -- Artificial Life, Inc. today launched the mobile WAP portal: m-botme.com. The new mobile portal provides direct mobile access to the company's iPhone applications.
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Sony PSP (not Lite) in Ceramic White. Good condition but please note there is one dead pixel but this does not really effect game play or viewing.
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Sony announced today that the PSP console cumulative worldwide sell-in units of PSP (PSP-1000, 2000, and 3000 series) reached a total of 50 million units. The 50 million is a sell-in number, which I suppose means that Sony sold 50 million PSP into the r...
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The iPhone -- and the iPod touch -- are fast becoming popular handheld gaming platforms. Most of the available games put more emphasis on eye-hand coordination, but a few, like Arcade Maniak, are more intellectual challenges that require thinking instead of raw reaction time....
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Sony's handheld to get "significant" releases this year Exciting news for PSP fans as Sony has pledged to reinvigorate the handheld device this year. Product manager Claire Backhouse told MCV that plans were in place to bring more successful titles to markets other than Japan. "This year we are also launching a host of significant PlayStation IPs on the PSP platform, the first ...
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It hosted launch parties for the PlayStation 2, PSP, and PlayStation 3, but come summer, Sony's iconic PlayStation Store in San Francisco's Metreon shopping center will be no more. Speaking to GameSpot, a Sony representative confirmed that Sony plans to let their lease for the store expire in the summer, ending the only store Sony has in the world that's exclusively focused on their ...
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Hope you like WiiWare games, Wii owners. This week, Nintendo goes back to offering two WiiWare titles, with the virtual console releases being rounded out by yet another solitary release. This week's virtual console offering is Sonic Chaos , which is going for 500 points ($5). It's more Sonic for the Master System, but with Tails giving a hand as Dr. Robotnik steals Chaos Emeralds ...
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My original iPhone is finding its way into my hands more and more lately with the incredible assortment of 3rd party applications that I just cannot resist. I checked out an Astraware iPhone game last summer with GTS Racing Challenge and in the last couple of months we have seen several more Astraware titles released for the iPhone/iPod touch. These devices are becoming compelling mobile gaming ...
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February 14, 2009 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. The big wave of Windows Mobile 6.5 news is starting and next week, when Mobile World Congress 2009 will be officially open, we can expect even more...
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The iPhone -- and the iPod touch -- are fast becoming popular handheld gaming platforms. Most of the available games put more emphasis on eye-hand coordination, but a few, like Arcade Maniak, are more intellectual challenges that require thinking instead of raw reaction time....
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Sony announced today that the PSP console cumulative worldwide sell-in units of PSP (PSP-1000, 2000, and 3000 series) reached a total of 50 million units. The 50 million is a sell-in number, which I suppose means that Sony sold 50 million PSP into the r...
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While the main difference between the Total Access and Netflilx was the ability for Blockbuster subscribers to return their movies to a physical store if they chose, today, the gap between the two services increased.
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New colors to brighten your day! January 26, 2009 - Sony Japan's latest batch of PSP colors was apparently inspired by the feelings one gets at a carnival.
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Nokia on Tuesday rolled out the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic. Billed as an ultra-slim S60-platform device, Nokia's latest music-phone model goes well beyond music to give consumers videos and games, allowing them to share content.
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Sony Computer Entertainment America announced "PlayStation Network Spring Fever," a collection of downloadable titles for PS3 and PSP releasing in the months leading up to spring. The collection will begin with the release of ThatGameCompany's Flower through the PlayStation Store on February 12th. The game will join 164 other releases currently available through the digital download platform, ...
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Cheerful and colorful platform game spreads joy to North American retail. February 10, 2009 - FOSTER CITY, Calif., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) announced today the North American release of LocoRoco 2 , available exclusively for the PSP (PlayStation Portable) system.
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Sure, fashion is usually the first to go during tough times , but Sony's keeping its head up during the struggle, releasing the European PSP in three more colors to compliment those Japanese Carnival Colors we saw last week. Radiant Red is the only carnival hue making the trip au continent , but it'll be joined by the familiar Mystic Silver and Pearl White -- you'll have to wait until ...
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Mobile gaming provider THQ Wireless has announced that it is restructuring its business and contributing to the layoffs hitting the tech sector. Along with loosing 100 employees, CEO Brian Farrel said, "As part of our goal of aligning our ... (follow link to read)
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"Devdas," Bollywood's ultimate unrequited love movie, is set to give India's rapidly growing animation and gaming industry a boost with a new mobile phone game that's based on the silver screen classic.
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As originally noted in Hong Kong game mags a couple weeks back, Persona -- the original 1996 title in one of Atlus' most well-known RPG series -- is getting a full PSP remake. The title, simply called Persona, is due out for the PSP April 29 in Japan, with a soundtrack CD available as a preorder bonus. Atlus USA hasn't officially discussed an American release yet, but it would be a ...
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Persona isn't the only big-name RPG from Atlus' past to get a PSP remake shortly. In the pages of Weekly Famitsu magazine this week, the company announced a new port of Growlanser , the medieval strategy RPG it first launched in Japan ten years ago. The new port will be available for the PSP May 14 in Japan; no US release details have been divulged. The original Growlanser, ...
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PlayStation Division, Sony Gulf (FZE) today announced three brand-new colours for PSP (PlayStation Portable): Mystic Silver, Pearl White and Radiant Red - available in stores across the region in Q1 2009.
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One of iPhone's greatest qualities is that it is a smart phone—as long as you can get over the glaring lack of some key features like task management and... erm, what's that other one people keep on about? Well regardless, the iPhone has ushered in a new age of personal connectivity and productivity, and according to a new study, it's turning out to own the smartphone gaming space as ...
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One area of mobile gear that I was asked to include here on the Mobile Gadgeteer blog was portable gaming and I have to admit I haven't written much about this area in the past. I personally own and enjoy playing games on my original Sony PSP. We also have several Nintendo portable gaming devices in my house, including my original Gameboy, Nintendo DS, and DS Lite models. My daughters use the ...
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Sony needs to inject some confidence... Speaking with GI.biz , Smack Down boss Larent Benadiba has said that the PSP handheld is struggling in Europe - and that Sony must act if the console is to remain relevant on the continent. Benadiba says that the handheld is still a good device, but that 'confidence' is fading - hence Sony's need to up the ante. "I still believe there's potential, ...
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Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata says the Wii and Nintendo DS still have room to grow their audience. He predicts that DS's total installed base in Japan, Europe, and the U.S. could reach reach an "ultimate potential" of 152.2 million units, driven by strong European sales and the system's "gaming population expansion." Speaking with investors at the company's third quarter financial ...
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Another week, another member of the AAS team succumbs to 5800 XpressMusic and S60 5th Edition fever. Tzer2 now has the touch-screen phone and here presents a look at how suitable it is for gaming in general and for N-Gage in particular . Maybe it's not up to the job and we'll have to wait for the N97 after all?
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Microsoft is keeping to its promise of offering more Zunes next year, but Don Reisinger would rather get his hands on an Xbox handheld gaming device.
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Nintendo Co. scored big over the holidays with its Wii gaming console and DS handheld device, but faltered against a surging yen that undermined profits and forced the company to slash its full-year forecast.
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Open-source gaming is about to become reality with OpenPandora's soon-to-be-released Pandora mobile-gaming system. Among others, it'd compete with Nintendo's DS, Sony's PSP.
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One area of mobile gear that I was asked to include here on the Mobile Gadgeteer blog was portable gaming and I have to admit I haven't written much about this area in the past. I personally own and enjoy playing games on my original Sony PSP. We also have several Nintendo portable gaming devices in my house, including my original Gameboy, Nintendo DS, and DS Lite models. My daughters use the ...
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What is it that you desire the most from an updated Sony PlayStation Portable? Clearly, Sony is in touch with our desires, because here are four new models of the PSP dressed up in exuberant bright colors. Yes, that's what we want. More colors.
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Leading full service mobile gaming solutions provider Spin3*, powered by Microgaming, the world's largest online gaming software provider, has today announced its commitment to provide casino games and support of the market's leading Smartphone mobile handsets.
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For a few weeks over the holiday and New Year period I had the opportunity of spending a fair bit of hands on time with Alienware's mobile gaming apotheosis - the 17-inch M17. Does the M17 live up to the hype? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
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Sony unveiled four new bright color versions of the Sony PSP-3000 in Japan. The new Vibrant Blue (PSP-3000 VB), Radiant Red (PSP-3000 RR), Bright Yellow (PSP-3000 BY) and Spirited Green (PSP-3000 SG) will launch in Japan in March 2009. If Sony is releas...
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Another week, another member of the AAS team succumbs to 5800 XpressMusic and S60 5th Edition fever. Tzer2 now has the touch-screen phone and here presents a look at how suitable it is for gaming in general and for N-Gage in particular . Maybe it's not up to the job and we'll have to wait for the N97 after all?
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For sale is a Sony PSP portable game system with two games and tons of extras. asking $160.00 or best offer. It was only used twice, we love our Xbox 360 and just do not use it. I am located in Altoona, PA, and shipping will be $14.00 across the states. Local pick up is ok also.
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MSI briefly mentioned its GT627 gaming laptop amongst hordes of other machines at CES, but now the outfit is playing favorites by officially unveiling its latest 15.4-incher. Said rig features a pixel-packed 1,680 x 1,050 resolution display, a six-cell battery, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, an optional Blu-ray drive and a Core 2 Duo CPU. It's also the first MSI laptop to feature the 1GB NVIDIA ...
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The Independent Games Festival Mobile (IGF Mobile), an event that celebrates innovation in games for handheld devices, including mobile phones, DS, PSP, iPhone and iPod touch, has named the finalists for the second annual competition. The number of entries more than doubled - to over 100 - compared to last year's inaugural competition, bolstered by a strong showing from the emergent iPhone and ...
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In a sudden retch of pigmentation, Sony just spat out the "Carnival Colors" collection of PSPs. Starting March 5th in Japan, the new colors matched with a 2200mAh battery will set you back a tax-inclusive price of ¥19,800 (about $223). Otherwise, you can drop ¥24,800 (about $279) for the 4GB Memory Stick PRO Duo (Mark2), PSP pouch, wrist strap and cloth bundle. Now go ahead, revel in your ...
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1 month old Nintendo DS Lite (Silver), hardly used, comes with complete box info + More Brain Training Game. Unsuitable present. £100 or nearest offer.
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UK publisher Eidos Interactive has closed Rockpool Games in Manchester, England with 14 staff being made redundant at the mobile gaming studio. Eidos acquired wireless developer Rockpool Games and sister companies Ironstone Partners and SoGoPlay in February 2007, bringing them into its New Media division. Rockpool was already well known for producing mobile phone games based on existing ...
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HELSINKI, FINLAND: Mobile gaming market is set to shrink in 2009 after years of surging growth as falling cellphone sales dampen demand, Glu Mobile chief Executive Greg Ballard said in an interview on Thursday.
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Four new colors of PSP hardware will be released in Japan this month, as SCEJ unveils a new set of "carnival colors". "Vibrant Blue" and "Radiant Red" PSPs will launch on March 5th, and "Bright Yellow" and "Spirited Green" colors will follow with a March 19th debut. All four systems will be priced at a standard ¥19,800 ($222) each. Sony Computer Entertainment Asia launched the Vibrant Blue and ...
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New colors to brighten your day! January 26, 2009 - Sony Japan's latest batch of PSP colors was apparently inspired by the feelings one gets at a carnival.
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The Independent Games Festival Mobile (IGF Mobile), an event that celebrates innovation in games for handheld devices, including mobile phones, DS, PSP, iPhone and iPod touch, has named the finalists for the second annual competition. The number of entries more than doubled - to over 100 - compared to last year's inaugural competition, bolstered by a strong showing from the emergent iPhone and ...
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China TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology Limited, an original developed product provider focused on the research and development of cell phone solutions, and QIGI, a Chinese Smartphone brand, today announced their cooperation agreement to launch four new high-end smartphones for China Telecom and China Unicom customers in the second quarter of 2009.
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The first new entries of the year appeared in the Japanese game chart this week, but hardware sales in Japan are drifting downwards -- even if the status quo is basically preserved. The Nintendo DS handheld was still the best-selling platform, although its sales fell by 20,000 units to a total of 81,334. Of these sales 62,525 were for the newer DSi model and 18,809 for the older DS Lite. The ...
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A great real estate/construction/money management simulation game, especially for $19.99! This real estate simulation game with the clever double entendre features quality game play, challenging multitasking and estimation/management skills. This game, first released on mobile phones and the PC, makes a great transition to the Nintendo DS with a career and casual game mode. This game has 35 ...
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Zeemote, a creator of intuitive user interface technologies has announced the launch of the Zeemote JS1 wireless controller that enables gameplay on mobile phones which is close to that of consoles. The Zeemote JS1 controller is a small, responsive, ergonomic an...
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HELSINKI, FINLAND: Mobile gaming market is set to shrink in 2009 after years of surging growth as falling cellphone sales dampen demand, Glu Mobile chief Executive Greg Ballard said in an interview on Thursday.
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Sony issued a new firmware update for the Sony PSP. The PSP Firmware 5.03 is a minor update and is supposed to improve the stability of the Sony PSP. There are no further details on the specific fixes....
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The Internet was rumbling about it, but now it's official. NIS America has announced that Mana Khemia: Student Alliance for the Sony PSP will not hit its previous January 2009 North American release date, and will instead be released in Spring 2009. The title will "undergo further improvements" and continue to be worked on until at least mid-February.
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For sale is a Sony PSP portable game system with two games and tons of extras. asking $160.00 or best offer. It was only used twice, we love our Xbox 360 and just do not use it. I am located in Altoona, PA, and shipping will be $14.00 across the states. Local pick up is ok also.
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As we're confident that you know, one of the biggest downsides to catching an event in-stadium is the inability to see instant replays. Oh sure, a few venues play back sequences for the fanatics in attendance, but you'll still get a much better angle from the comfort of your own couch. English soccer club Arsenal is hoping to remove that obstacle from fans' minds by testing out an instant ...
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Hurrah! It seems that THQ and/or Nokia have changed their minds, and the apparently cancelled Worms for N-Gage has been un-cancelled . This is great news for the next gen N-Gage as the game was very well received on the original gen N-Gage, and should be even better on the new platform thanks to the bigger screen size and better internet connectivity.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.----Electronic Arts Inc. shipped SimAnimals™ for the Wii™ and Nintendo DS™ to store shelves today. SimAnimals challenges you to engage, touch, move and try to control a wide range of wild animals as you journey deeper and deeper into the forest.
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This week in gaming brought us a few final CES tidbits, rumors of the DSi price point and release date for the West, and a new update for Fallout 3 . Read More...
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We're all a bit bored by the PSP at this point, and the PS3 has failed to impress us much lately as well. But with a few minor tweaks, we'd be blown away by both. Sony just asked its customers what...
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Offers improved software stability, update fans. UK, January 20, 2009 - Sony's announced that it has released a new firmware update for the PSP – although it's a threadbare revision for the handheld.
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This week in gaming brought us a few final CES tidbits, rumors of the DSi price point and release date for the West, and a new update for Fallout 3 . Read More...
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Late last year, I took a moment to consider how the Sony PSP will react to the Nintendo DSi . At the time, Nintendo was garnering a fair bit of attention for its next-generation portable gaming machine and it seemed like Sony should respond with an update of its own.
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Another week, another member of the AAS team succumbs to 5800 XpressMusic and S60 5th Edition fever. Tzer2 now has the touch-screen phone and here presents a look at how suitable it is for gaming in general and for N-Gage in particular . Maybe it's not up to the job and we'll have to wait for the N97 after all?
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We spent time with several new gaming peripherals at CES 2009, including Psyko Audio Labs' 5.1 gaming headphones, Novint's Falcon controller with a pistol grip and more.
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We've been following PSP Phone rumors since 2006, forever on a tech timeline. A plausible device given the natural evolution of mobile gaming and Sony's proven desire to cross-license its Bravia and Cyber-shot brands for use on other Sony Ericsson phones. Not so fast buster. Mobile Today (citing "several sources close to the matter") is reporting that Sony Ericsson has been ...
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Late last year, I took a moment to consider how the Sony PSP will react to the Nintendo DSi . At the time, Nintendo was garnering a fair bit of attention for its next-generation portable gaming machine and it seemed like Sony should respond with an update of its own.
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Hot on the heels of Sony Ericsson's worrying results (further and further into the red we go) comes a rumour that the phone manufacturer approached one of its joint-venture daddies, Sony, to ask if...
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Nintendo continued to dominate the U.S. video-game market in December, increasing sales of its Wii console by 59 percent and setting an industry record by selling more than 3 million DS handheld game systems.
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How do you let people know that their mobile phone plays games? Well if you are Nokia and the country is Indonesia, you hire a promotional bus (reports the Mobile Games Blog ). As the bus tours the country, staff on board will demonstrate to people how to get the N-Gage client on their phone and download the demos themselves.
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New flight simulator for PSP is all ready for takeoff. January 15, 2009 - REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - January 15, 2009 - Signature Devices, Inc. (OTCPK: SDVI) is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Graffiti Entertainment , Inc., has "Gone Gold" with Air Conflicts: Aces of World War II , the arcade flight simulation developed for the PSP (PlayStation Portable) system and is scheduled ...
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PSP Fanboy reports that a Sony consumer survey may hint at future plans for the PlayStation Portable. While most of the poll responses are fairly standard, asking if people want better battery life or faster load times, a few stand out. Questions involving a touch screen, GPS navigation, a music download service, and Internet access from anywhere hint at Sony having its eye on ...
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Games always get some attention at CES, but you never really know what to expect to see at the booths because it is, after all, an electronics show. While most of what they brought is games we're already up to speed on, the space given for PS3 and PSP shows how much the gaming division means to Sony. It proved to be a popular move with show-goers. Killzone 2 and LittleBIGPlanet both ...
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Following the first weekly software chart of 2009 in Japan, hardware data for the region shows the Nintendo DS format is still comfortably ahead of its rivals. Combined sales of the DSi and DS Lite models were down by 14,000 units, but still dominated the market with a total of 230,678. With Dissidia: Final Fantasy back at number one, the PSP saw a significant boost this week, up 38,000 units ...
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Games always get some attention at CES, but you never really know what to expect to see at the booths because it is, after all, an electronics show. While most of what they brought is games we're already up to speed on, the space given for PS3 and PSP shows how much the gaming division means to Sony. It proved to be a popular move with show-goers. Killzone 2 and LittleBIGPlanet both ...
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The PSP now has a plausible title to rival the DS's Brain Training hit as the game show host dons his lab coat. In essence, Brain Bender is Sony's version of Dr Kawashima's brain tester, but with added colour and humour. However, there's no declaration that playing this game will improve your memory or fend off dementia. Rather, it portrays itself as a simple and fun puzzler with ...
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TRENDnet, a best-in-class wired and wireless networking hardware brand, today announces the launch of the Wireless N Gaming Adapter, model TEW-647GA, which offers unsurpassed wireless n performance and a lag-free gaming experience.
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With nearly a full year of of game releases ahead, Gamasutra is picking out noteworthy titles due in 2009 for each home and handheld platform, this time for the Nintendo DS. Enjoying the same robust third-party support that the PlayStation 2 received in its twilight years -- but also bolstered by Nintendo's own releases -- the DS could easily fill our list of anticipated 2009 titles with its ...
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Games always get some attention at CES, but you never really know what to expect to see at the booths because it is, after all, an electronics show. While most of what they brought is games we're already up to speed on, the space given for PS3 and PSP shows how much the gaming division means to Sony. It proved to be a popular move with show-goers. Killzone 2 and LittleBIGPlanet both ...
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The PSP now has a plausible title to rival the DS's Brain Training hit as the game show host dons his lab coat. In essence, Brain Bender is Sony's version of Dr Kawashima's brain tester, but with added colour and humour. However, there's no declaration that playing this game will improve your memory or fend off dementia. Rather, it portrays itself as a simple and fun puzzler with ...
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From "Mario and Luigi RPG 3" to "Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars," these are the Nintendo DS and PSP games we can't wait to get our hands on.
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Sony spill a few beans Insomniac's new Resistance game for the PSP handheld moves a step nearer to our (small) screens today, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe revealing that the game will arrive on the 13th of March. Sony had previously only stated that the new handheld take on the popular FPS will be with us in the 'spring', so this concrete dating is welcome news - especially to the ...
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How do you let people know that their mobile phone plays games? Well if you are Nokia and the country is Indonesia, you hire a promotional bus (reports the Mobile Games Blog ). As the bus tours the country, staff on board will demonstrate to people how to get the N-Gage client on their phone and download the demos themselves.
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A new study by The NPD Group suggests that video games are more popular with U.S. children than music devices. According to its Kids & Digital Content III report, which polled 3,605 children ages 2-14 who use electronic devices, 85 percent of the kids said they use game consoles, while only 60 percent reported using portable digital audio players. One-third said they watch videos such as ...
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LAS VEGAS , Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Focus Enhancements, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: FCSE.PK), a leader in wireless audio technologies, will demonstrate new, groundbreaking Summit technology for wireless home theater and gaming platforms at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV , January 8 - 11 , at the Venetian Hotel, Suite #31-223.
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SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced a 2-gigabyte (GB) 2 Rock Band 2 SD ™ gaming card, significantly increasing the storage capacity available to gamers using the Nintendo ® Wii ™ console. This memory boost enables users to conveniently store additional content without worrying about running out of space.
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Nintendo's handheld runs away with Christmas It isn't Friday, but the new year disruption meant that this data didn't arrive last Friday as per usual (it was a national holiday in Japan), so we can today reveal to you Japan's best-selling gaming hardware - between December 22nd and the 28th. The latest figures, as usual, come courtesy of Japanese publisher Media Create, who reveal that the ...
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Why would you want to overclock the CPU inside your Sony PSP? Because you can. OCModShop published a guide on how you can overclock the MIPS R4000 CPU inside your PSP. Quote from the guide: "The chip in your PSP was designed to run faster than i...
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What happens when you have regular releases, and everyone expects a game on a certain day? You have a good feeling building around your platform. Will Nokia continue the regularity of the N-Gage game releases in 2009?
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How do you let people know that their mobile phone plays games? Well if you are Nokia and the country is Indonesia, you hire a promotional bus (reports the Mobile Games Blog ). As the bus tours the country, staff on board will demonstrate to people how to get the N-Gage client on their phone and download the demos themselves.
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When you play cinematic games like Manhunt 2 or Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on the PlayStation Portable 3000, released in October, you see the blood. The PSP displays movies vibrantly, allows web surfing using its internal Wi-Fi, plays music and comes with a built-in microphone so you can make Skype phone calls. Games on it are impressive.
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Handheld gaming isn't exactly known for great scope and grandiosity, particularly on the DS. But according to Gordon Hall, president of Rockstar Leeds, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be the biggest portable game Rockstar has ever made -- even bigger than Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories on the PSP. "Chinatown Wars is much bigger than anything we have ever done ...
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The Nokia N85 is the first S60-powered device from Nokia to sport new features since the N95. It's the first S60-powered device to offer an OLED display and micro-USB charging, though it retains the original dual-sliding form factor of the N95. We put this smartphone through its paces to see how well it does to represent the Nseries moniker in this review.
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What happens when you have regular releases, and everyone expects a game on a certain day? You have a good feeling building around your platform. Will Nokia continue the regularity of the N-Gage game releases in 2009?
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Sony's PlayStation Store hosted a number of stand-out titles in 2008, but its most downloaded game actually came out in 2007. Pain topped the list, no doubt buoyed both by its head start giving it every possible day of the year and the continuing stream of new content. The holiday episode of Pulse rattled off the full list: Pain High Velocity Bowling Super Stardust HD ...
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Thanks to the Internet, it is possible to download Sony Playstation Portable games, PSP format movies, and even home made videos or movies from your handycam. The most amazing part is that you can find free PSP downloads that are totally legal.
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Handheld gaming isn't exactly known for great scope and grandiosity, particularly on the DS. But according to Gordon Hall, president of Rockstar Leeds, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be the biggest portable game Rockstar has ever made -- even bigger than Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories on the PSP. "Chinatown Wars is much bigger than anything we have ever done ...
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Website reveals next handheld outing The next version of Guitar Hero for the DS handheld emerges this weekend, the ESRB revealing that previously trademarked Activision title Guitar Hero Modern Hits will be the next iteration in the music series for Nintendo's portable device. As usual, this news comes via a leak from the Electronic Software Ratings Board, who are frequently caught out ...
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What happens when you have regular releases, and everyone expects a game on a certain day? You have a good feeling building around your platform. Will Nokia continue the regularity of the N-Gage game releases in 2009?
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"Sony is pushing developers away from its 'Universal Media Discs' and towards digital distribution of games via the PSP store." That's the latest word from Sony director of hardware marketing John Koller, speaking to Silicon Alley Insider (via videogaming247 ). "Someone misinterpreted the new push as 'PSP2' development," Koller explained, "no plans for a PSP2 are underway." If ...
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Q-Games founder Dylan Cuthbert has revealed that PixelJunk Monsters is on its way to PlayStation Portable in 2009. Speaking to Spike TV , Cuthbert said it was "the full thing", and will include new features for the handheld.
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Gaming website Eurogamer.net has heard from “publishing sources” that Sony is planning yet another revision to its PSP handheld. The new model will carry the name PSP-4000, continuing the naming convention Sony has used for previous models. It will be released late in 2009, but no details as to what the hardware update includes have [...]
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Gizmondo father Carl Freer has had to postpone the Christmas relaunch of the fabled handheld because the economy is less healthy than a bag of crisps.
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Q-Games founder Dylan Cuthbert has revealed that PixelJunk Monsters is on its way to PlayStation Portable in 2009. Speaking to Spike TV , Cuthbert said it was "the full thing", and will include new features for the handheld.
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With 2008 on its merry way out, "publishing sources" have leaked news of a PlayStation Portable update next year to Eurogamer. The PSP 4000, a final refresh model, will appear in late 2009, say these sources, followed by an official successor to the PSP at a later point. Make that 2011 or 2012, then, to speculate logically (and perhaps to coincide with the rumored release timeframe of Sony's ...
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While it's not a game-breaker for Amazon.com's (AMZN: sentiment, chart, options) Kindle e-reader, Nintendo's (NTDOY: sentiment, chart, options) move toward reading books on its extremely popular GameBoy DS handheld video game system is upping the ante in the market...( Read More )
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Japan's Fair Trade Commision has fined electronics manufacturer Sharp ¥261 million ($3 million) as part of an investigation into the price fixing of LCD modules for the original Nintendo DS model and the DS Lite. The company has been instructed to pay the fee by March 19, 2009. While the fine is related to the LCD modules that Sharp supplied to Nintendo from late October 2005 to March 2006, ...
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Namco has debuted I Love Katamari , an action game for the iPhone and iPod touch. Players must replace stars that have been accidentally knocked out of the sky by the King of All Cosmos; equipped with a katamari ball, users tilt their handheld to roll up various objects and increase the size of the ball, which in turn allows for larger items to be added. The game features several different ...
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Gameloft, the international publisher and developer of video games for mobile phones and consoles which forayed into India only three years back, hopes to raise to 10 per cent its market share in the Rs 150 crore Indian mobile game market by 2009-10, riding on the back of more tie-ups with leading telecom providers, telephone wireless carriers and handset manufacturers.
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Leading full service mobile gambling solutions provider Spin3*, powered by Microgaming (www.microgaming.com), the world's largest online gaming software provider, has won the Silver Award in the Best Mobile Game / Gambling Service Provider category at visiongain's Mobile Entertainment Awards.
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With 2008 on its merry way out, "publishing sources" have leaked news of a PlayStation Portable update next year to Eurogamer. The PSP 4000, a final refresh model, will appear in late 2009, say these sources, followed by an official successor to the PSP at a later point. Make that 2011 or 2012, then, to speculate logically (and perhaps to coincide with the rumored release timeframe of Sony's ...
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The rumors Sony is working on a PSP2? Pure confusion, says Sony exec John Koller. Rumormongers are somehow mistaking its push to digital distribution, away from UMD, as work on PSP2. Uh huh. [SAI]
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Sony plans to refresh the PlayStation Portable product line with a PSP-4000 model in late 2009 and launch a true successor - a PSP2, if you like - later.
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While it's not a game-breaker for Amazon.com's (AMZN: sentiment, chart, options) Kindle e-reader, Nintendo's (NTDOY: sentiment, chart, options) move toward reading books on its extremely popular GameBoy DS handheld video game system is upping the ante in the market...( Read More )
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Spin3*, a leading provider of advanced mobile gambling solutions powered by Microgaming, the world's largest online gaming software provider, today announced that it is supplying its award winning GameWire mobile casino system including the new suite of mobile application games to one of the most respected and experienced online casinos, All Slots Casino.
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Nintendo UK has published its latest round of release dates for Wii and DS, including its upcoming pedometer-based walking game (20th February), and the first two GameCube-to-Wii adaptations in the series known here as "New Play Control!"
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Ever heard of The Great Giana Sisters ? Possibly you haven't, which wouldn't be surprising since Nintendo did everything they could to smother it back in 1987. The game was a blatant Super Mario Bros. clone, and was blocked from release under threat of Nintendo's legal arm. But now, in a surprising turn of events, Game|Life reports a remake will be released next June in Europe... for ...
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As a key player in Internet gambling, All Slots Casino prides itself on technology, integrity and vision. Now Jackpot Factory Group's online casino is looking to the future with the launch of All Slots Mobile Casino.
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Much like Sony and the PlayStation Portable, Nintendo seems to be trapped in a largely unwinnable war against a rather large and enthusiastic community of Wii hackers. And as usual, the hackers have managed to beat Nintendo again. Wiifanboy is reporting that the Wii Homebrew Channel has left the beta stage and moved up to 1.0. This comes fresh off the heels of the well-known ...
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Last month, I took some wild shots in the dark as to what a potential PSP successor could bring to the table and how Sony could best respond to the release of the Nintendo DSi.
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While it's not a game-breaker for Amazon.com's (AMZN: sentiment, chart, options) Kindle e-reader, Nintendo's (NTDOY: sentiment, chart, options) move toward reading books on its extremely popular GameBoy DS handheld video game system is upping the ante in the market...( Read More )
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With more than 3.6 million combined systems sold in November, Wii ™ and Nintendo DS ™ set new hardware sales records, according to the independent NPD Group, which tracks video game sales in the United States. The Wii console sold more than 2 million in November, a new all-time record for a non-December month. The Nintendo DS system sold more than 1.56 million in November, which is now the ...
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Looking for a way to accessorize that new Nintendo DS Lite you're expecting under the tree? Chip Chick spotted the very girly Silver Pack for the DS Lite, which according to Thrustmaster, was created for the casual female gamer of the "Bridget Jones" and "Sex in the City" era (I suppose they haven't heard of "The Hills" or "Gossip Girl"). Regardless, the Silver Bag is a very stylish ...
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Big Stage Entertainment , Inc ., a media technology company that lets consumers project themselves photo-realistically into the digital realm, is partnering with videogame social networking company GGL Global Gaming (GGL) to promote free game content on BigStage.com. The first promotion rollout with a major video game publisher is scheduled for early 2009. Members of the BigStage.com and GGL ...
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Diggin' these new ads for Sony's PSP. Each unfolds from the perspective of a dude zombified by games like Socom , Motorstorm and Resistance 2 , even as bright lights, big cities and poppin' soundtracks beguile him with distractions.
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Taito has ported its puzzler Exit over to the Nintendo DS, bringing the quick-bite complexity of the title that found success on the PSP and 360 to yet another platform. This iteration of the game finds a new twist in a very smooth and responsive implementation of a stylus control system that makes playing the [...]
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Notice the missing modes? Here's the deal. December 8, 2008 - If you're a huge Super Stardust HD fan, chances are you've tried out Super Stardust Portable for the PSP in hopes of getting your arcade shooter fix on the road.
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Novatel Wireless on Tuesday unveiled a line of what it calls Intelligent Mobile Hotspots, or MiFi, modems. With the MiFi line, Novatel hopes to drive a new ecosystem of broadband connectivity.
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Jaako Kaidesoja, N-Gage VP, was collared at Nokia World and made to sit down and spill the beans over N-Gage's future. The result is two videos, embedded below. Subjects covered include touch-based gaming, audio-tie-ins and upcoming titles. Enjoy.
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The recent release of downloadable game Super Stardust Portable has come up short in some advertised modes, reports IGN. The PlayStation Store lists "Arcade Mode, Planet Mode, Endless Mode, Bomber Mode, and more," along with an in-game statistics page that mentions "Survival Mode." The problem is, three of those modes (Endless, Bomber, and Survival) aren't in the game in its ...
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If you can get past its tedious setup, the AX Pro 5.1 Gaming Headset performs extremely well and is compatible with pretty much every gaming PC and game console except the Wii.
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One of the first video games I ever played when I was a kid was PAC-MAN. Since then the game has been on many other consoles and platforms offering the same gameplay as the original. Namco Mobile has announced a new mobile version of the game that offers a...
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Novatel Wireless, Inc., (Nasdaq:NVTL), today unveiled MiFi ™ , an unprecedented line of Intelligent Mobile Hotspots. Together with a rich applications environment for enterprises and consumers, MiFi drives a new ecosystem of broadband connectivity. Unlike existing router solutions that require an external broadband modem and serve only to provide connectivity, the MiFi line creates a personal ...
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The Rs 200-crore gaming industry is bullish about growth prospects even in the midst of an economic slowdown as this is the stickiest form of entertainment, opine industry players.
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The PlayStation Portable is many things to many people, but is it still a vibrant platform? Atari president Phil Harrison seems to think so. Speaking with Eurogamer , Harrison praised the PSP as "a vibrant platform," saying that more titles were on tap for the future. This contrasts, however, with the fact that Atari didn't make any PSP announcements at last week's London event. ...
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Nintendo, the Japanese video games company that brought us Donkey Kong and Mario the Plumber , is to announce a deal with the publisher HarperCollins today to make literary classics available to read on its DS portable games consoles.
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Nintendo Co Ltd said it has not felt any particular impact from the economic slowdown, with sales of its Wii video game console and DS handheld game player still strong.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told Reuters in an interview that Wii sales during the Thanksgiving holiday week came to about 800,000 units in the United States, more than double the 350,000 units it sold in the same period a year earlier.
"When the economy is strong, people tend to buy three things from the top of their wish list. But when things are bad, people often buy only the first thing on their list," Iwata said. "Fortunately for us a lot of shoppers put our products at the top of their list." ...[Read]
Ex-Sony Worldwide Studios boss, now Atari president (and always an exceptionally tall man), Phil Harrison this week throws in his tuppence on the state of the PSP, stating that the handheld is still doing well, and that the future of the device remains bright.
Speaking with UK games site Eurogamer.net this week, Harrison tells the world that Sony are doing all the right things and that Atari will continue to support the format.
"There is no doubt that PSP is a very vibrant platform from a hardware perspective and I think Sony has recently made some good moves into opening up online distribution for software on PSP, so Im looking to explore that," offered Harrison.
"We have published on PSP and Im sure we will continue to publish on PSP; we didnt have any announcements to make today." ...[Read]
Tenchu 4 will use the Wii Remote to fight, dash, jump and kill like a true ninja. Players will continue the saga of Rikimaru and Ayame, elite ninjas who must use their lethal skills to keep the peace in feudal Japan.
The development team behind the original Tenchu, Acquire, brings a fresh new look, feel and motion to the Tenchu franchise.
Tenchu 4 will use the Wii Remote to fight, dash, jump and kill like a true ninja. Players will continue the saga of Rikimaru and Ayame, elite ninjas who must use their lethal skills to keep the peace in feudal Japan. Playing as both stealthy Rikimaru and aggressive and acrobatic Ayame, players will fight their way through more than 10 missions and 50 side quests and experience the thrilling adventure of being the ultimate ninja.
Tenchu 4 will come to a North American and European audience where it will be well-received by both fans of the series as well as Wii owners who have been looking for an edgy and exciting game. And if it's katanas, throwing stars, daggers and smoke bombs you're looking for, then, yeah, it's got all those too.
Tenchu 4, not yet been rated by the ESRB, will launch in North America and Europe in early 2009. ...[Read]
You can count the number of DS-based first-person shooters on one hand. Three fingers, really, between GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, Call of Duty 4, and Metroid Prime: Hunters.
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Electronic Arts and Gameloft, the world's two largest mobile gaming firms, said on Wednesday the market was doing well, a day after their next biggest rival, Glu Mobile, warned of soft demand.
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Gear up and get ready for the ride of your life. December 4, 2008 - D2C Games , Inc., a leading publisher and developer of downloadable interactive entertainment, and Professional Bull Riders , Inc. (PBR) announced today that the PBR Out of the Chute for PSP (PlayStation Portable) system and PC is exclusively available for download from www.us.playstation.com/PSN/mediamanager and ...
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While Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) is clearly the most successful non-Nintendo handheld game system ever sold, few would argue that it has lived up to its potential. The system continues to post strong hardware sales figures, but few software titles have sold well, and only three titles have broken a million units in sales according to recent reports. Sony has been dropping hints about ...
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Sony's PlayStation Portable 3000 launched last Tuesday, October 14 and it's already delivering hugely impressive numbers overseas. Japanese market tracker Media Create released its hardware sales figures for the week ending October 19, highlighting a nearly 90 percent win for the PSP over the DS.
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With the Japanese winter gift-buying season now in full swing, the software charts have seen another week of strong sales across the board. The number one seller is the final part of Level-5's Professor Layton trilogy of puzzle adventures. The new Nintendo DS game sold an impressive 347,000 units - even more than the 305,000 unit debut of Animal Crossing: City Folk last week. The ...
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Nokia on Tuesday released its N97 smartphone, describing it as "the world's most advanced mobile computer," which will "transform the way people connect to the Internet and each other." Jonas Geust, a Nokia vice president who heads up the N series, called the N97 "the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence."
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You can count the number of DS-based first-person shooters on one hand. Three fingers, really, between GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, Call of Duty 4, and Metroid Prime: Hunters.
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Gear up and get ready for the ride of your life. December 4, 2008 - D2C Games , Inc., a leading publisher and developer of downloadable interactive entertainment, and Professional Bull Riders , Inc. (PBR) announced today that the PBR Out of the Chute for PSP (PlayStation Portable) system and PC is exclusively available for download from www.us.playstation.com/PSN/mediamanager and ...
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Electronic Arts and Gameloft, the world's two largest mobile gaming firms, said on Wednesday the market was doing well, a day after their next biggest rival, Glu Mobile, warned of soft demand.
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Incase you missed the news on this PSP Fanboy site , the giant PSP that's been lording over Houston Street is gone. The site reports that the oversized gaming thingamajig has "been a landmark for years," and its dismantlement marks the end of an era...though they question if Sony will replace it with a "PSP-3000 system, which will be slimmer than the original giant PSP-1000." If that's the ...
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Sony's extensive title lineup promises to keep gamers busy this winter. December 1, 2008 - Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) today unveiled comprehensive line up of software for PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3), PSP (PlayStation Portable), and PlayStation 2 available during the 2008 holiday season.
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Earlier this week, we passed along a report that Sony's chief executive of southern Europe, James Armstrong, said Sony expects Gran Turismo 5 to be released by Christmas of 2009. Well, it seems either Armstrong was misquoted, or not everyone at Sony is on the same page. Speaking to Videogamer, a spokesperson for Sony Computer Entertainment U.K. said Gran Turismo 5's release date ...
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Nokia officially unveils the Internet-focused Nokia N97, a full-QWERTY smartphone with a touch screen. Will its style and substance compete with the iPhone, G1, and BlackBerry Storm?
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Jaako Kaidesoja, N-Gage VP, was collared at Nokia World and made to sit down and spill the beans over N-Gage's future. The result is two videos, embedded below. Subjects covered include touch-based gaming, audio-tie-ins and upcoming titles. Enjoy.
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Sony has updated PlayStation.com with new MyPSN features that allow you to track your friends' online status, create a portable ID and take part in various events.
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1Up reports that the popularity of gaming on smartphones is growing, particularly on the iPhone. In fact, gaming on portable devices is growing even at home, where users presumably have access to more powerful platforms. CNN points out that the developer for Trism, one of the first popular games, has raked in over $250,000 in profits through the App Store. Apple exec Bob Borchers and various ...
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Incase you missed the news on this PSP Fanboy site , the giant PSP that's been lording over Houston Street is gone. The site reports that the oversized gaming thingamajig has "been a landmark for years," and its dismantlement marks the end of an era...though they question if Sony will replace it with a "PSP-3000 system, which will be slimmer than the original giant PSP-1000." If that's the ...
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Well, this is certainly interesting. While Imagination Technologies itself isn't going any further than to say that it has signed a licensing deal with a "major international consumer electronics company," EETimes.com is reporting that the company in question is, in fact, Sony, and that the deal concerns Imagination's PowerVR architecture being used in the successor to the PSP. More ...
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Oh sure, there's bound to be some protrusion when shoving a retro console into a gaming handheld, but inelegant styling was a way of life for Sega back in the mid-90s. Modder Chris Koopa has achieved the impossible by stuffing an Atari 2600 (or the important parts, anyway) along with 40 games into a hacked up Game Gear and enabling it to operate for nearly a full workday with just ...
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Incase you missed the news on this PSP Fanboy site , the giant PSP that's been lording over Houston Street is gone. The site reports that the oversized gaming thingamajig has "been a landmark for years," and its dismantlement marks the end of an era...though they question if Sony will replace it with a "PSP-3000 system, which will be slimmer than the original giant PSP-1000." If that's the ...
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Sales of Nintendo's new DSi handheld passed the half million mark during its first month on Japanese store shelves, according to data published on Tuesday.
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£17.99 cartridge contains 100 classic reads Nintendo is giving Nintendo DS owners the ability to turn their console into an electronic book reader similar to the Sony Reader.
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Oh sure, there's bound to be some protrusion when shoving a retro console into a gaming handheld, but inelegant styling was a way of life for Sega back in the mid-90s. Modder Chris Koopa has achieved the impossible by stuffing an Atari 2600 (or the important parts, anyway) along with 40 games into a hacked up Game Gear and enabling it to operate for nearly a full workday with just ...
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Yesterday we posted news of Nintendo dropping two new DS special edition bundles on November 28. While the bundles are due to hit on the normal street date everywhere else, Amazon is giving gamers an early present by selling these units now in both the Mario Red pictured above (which looks gorgeous) and the Ice Blue [...]
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Sony has updated PlayStation.com with new MyPSN features that allow you to track your friends' online status, create a portable ID and take part in various events.
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"Star Wars: The Force Unleashed" demonstrates the potential of the iPhone as a gaming platform, but it leaves much to be desired in execution. While LucasArts generated much fanfare around the release of the game for various video game consoles, the mobile version feels like an afterthought.
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Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- For at least five years the gambling industry has touted mobile gambling as the next big thing. Revenue from people playing poker, roulette, blackjack or betting on sports on their cell phones would be huge within 12 months, industry analysts claimed.
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Apple has been aggressive about promoting games on the iPhone and iPod touch, so aggressive, in fact, that some developers think the platform could eventually rival the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP
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Well, this is certainly interesting. While Imagination Technologies itself isn't going any further than to say that it has signed a licensing deal with a "major international consumer electronics company," EETimes.com is reporting that the company in question is, in fact, Sony, and that the deal concerns Imagination's PowerVR architecture being used in the successor to the PSP. More ...
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Sony PSP in excellent condition. Comes with box, manuals and venom charging stand. This price also includes the following games: Ridge Racer, World Tour Soccer, FIFA 06, Smack Down vs Raw 2007, Untold Legends- Brothers of the Blade. Only selling as I do not use it anymore.
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Apple has been aggressive about promoting games on the iPhone and iPod touch, so aggressive, in fact, that some developers think the platform could eventually rival the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP
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Yesterday we posted news of Nintendo dropping two new DS special edition bundles on November 28. While the bundles are due to hit on the normal street date everywhere else, Amazon is giving gamers an early present by selling these units now in both the Mario Red pictured above (which looks gorgeous) and the Ice Blue [...]
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There are now six separate competitions running simultaneously to promote the N-Gage platform, with some rather good prizes ranging from phones and games to a big pile of Star Wars and football goodies.
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[Though it seems Nintendo's DS is significantly outselling the PSP hardware in North America, how about game sales? Including exclusive NPD data, Gamasutra reveals attach rates, per-title sales and top-selling games for both handhelds.] An article in the December 2008 issue of Game Informer magazine looks at Sony's PlayStation Portable and poses the question: "Can the System Survive?" Drawing ...
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Sony PSP in excellent condition. Comes with box, manuals and venom charging stand. This price also includes the following games: Ridge Racer, World Tour Soccer, FIFA 06, Smack Down vs Raw 2007, Untold Legends- Brothers of the Blade. Only selling as I do not use it anymore.
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With the continued domination of both the Wii and the Nintendo DS in pure sales numbers, Nintendo has more reason than anyone to give thanks this holiday season, but they won't be spending the day after Thanksgiving lazing around in a turkey coma. Instead, the console manufacturer has announced that they will be releasing two special limited edition Nintendo DS bundles to coincide ...
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Well, this is certainly interesting. While Imagination Technologies itself isn't going any further than to say that it has signed a licensing deal with a "major international consumer electronics company," EETimes.com is reporting that the company in question is, in fact, Sony, and that the deal concerns Imagination's PowerVR architecture being used in the successor to the PSP. More ...
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Sony PSP in excellent condition. Comes with box, manuals and venom charging stand. This price also includes the following games: Ridge Racer, World Tour Soccer, FIFA 06, Smack Down vs Raw 2007, Untold Legends- Brothers of the Blade. Only selling as I do not use it anymore.
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[Though it seems Nintendo's DS is significantly outselling the PSP hardware in North America, how about game sales? Including exclusive NPD data, Gamasutra reveals attach rates, per-title sales and top-selling games for both handhelds.] An article in the December 2008 issue of Game Informer magazine looks at Sony's PlayStation Portable and poses the question: "Can the System Survive?" Drawing ...
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digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Ultimate_Black_Friday_Survival_Guide'; Black Friday is always big, but this year promises to be bigger...
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[Though it seems Nintendo's DS is significantly outselling the PSP hardware in North America, how about game sales? Including exclusive NPD data, Gamasutra reveals attach rates, per-title sales and top-selling games for both handhelds.] An article in the December 2008 issue of Game Informer magazine looks at Sony's PlayStation Portable and poses the question: "Can the System Survive?" Drawing ...
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The sales numbers for games on both the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable have been broken down, and Nintendo's portable proves to be quite the juggernaut, while the PSP has enjoyed modest success. Read More...
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Cantor Gaming, an affiliate of the global financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, today announced that it has received approval from the State of Nevada Gaming Commission, on recommendation from the Nevada Gaming Control Board, to begin operations with its mobile gaming system within approved gaming areas in the state of Nevada.
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Software piracy for Sony's PlayStation Portable handheld is on the decrease, according to claims made by John Koller, Sony Computer Entertainment America's head of hardware marketing. Piracy on the PSP has always been particularly prevalent, with the system's memory card slot making installation of counterfeit games relatively easy -- though multiple operating system updates included with PSP ...
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There are now six separate competitions running simultaneously to promote the N-Gage platform, with some rather good prizes ranging from phones and games to a big pile of Star Wars and football goodies.
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My Little Tank is a classic PDA game that has now made it onto S60 3rd Edition along with an extra 20 levels. Can the retro gameplay measure up to modern
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Sony has informally announced its PlayStation Portable handheld console will be receiving another firmware upgrade, conspicuously, the announcement came on the same day as news that the "unhackable" PSP 3000 had been hacked.
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Amazon is counting down the days until Black Friday (only one more week to go) with Video Game deals. Today the early Black Friday deal is a Sony PSP-3000 Limited Edition Ratchet and Clank Entertainment Pack which comes with a free copy of the game God of ...
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Celebrate, homebrew fans -- while Sony had managed to evade the attempts of hackers to crack into the latest iteration of the PlayStation Portable, the PSP 3000, it's finally been accomplished.
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— Nov. 12, 2008 — Microsoft has announced a downloadable test version of its "next generation web browser" for Windows Mobile. Aimed at developers, the "Internet Explorer Mobile 6 Emulator" requires a Windows XP or Vista desktop PC in order to run, the company says. ...
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In the gaming world, the annual holiday onslaught of games competes for your dollars with the tenacity of a linebacker on 'roids. What choices do you have? Consider these: Big contenders For the hardcore gaming crowd, the holiday season looks a lot like a typical summer movie season -- a land dominated by hordes of sequels and "threequels." Start with Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360, Rated "M"), the ...
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Celebrate, homebrew fans -- while Sony had managed to evade the attempts of hackers to crack into the latest iteration of the PlayStation Portable, the PSP 3000, it's finally been accomplished.
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Where, oh where were you, Nintendo Gameboy Color disguised as a Texas Instruments TI-83 Series calculator, when I was in school? Where? WHERE? Probably nowhere to be found, really, as Gameboy Colors...
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Transformers Animated: The Game for the Nintendo DS is clearly geared toward younger players who are fans of the recently created show on which the game is based.
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A lot of news over on All About N-Gage, with updates to the N-Gage app and new phones added to the platform, sales charts released, a new games announcement, and a couple of very interesting videos published. See below for the relevant links.
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The rumors of a portable iteration of LittleBigPlanet continue, but now they have some company. Sony has expressed interested in not just expanding LittleBigPlanet beyond the PlayStation 3, but Rock Band and Guitar Hero as well. Speaking with the MTV Multiplayer blog , head of Sony America hardware marketing John Koller called LittleBigPlanet "expansionary," saying that Sony ...
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The Datel Lite Blue Tool looks to be the best option we've got at the moment for hacking the PSP 3000. It's essentially a smart battery that clones Sony lab equipment to put the PSP 2000 and PSP 3000...
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Hacking the PSP has long been a popular pastime , but the 3000 model has proven a tough nut to crack . Don't pop open the champagne just yet, though, Sony -- Datel has revealed a special battery peripheral called the Lite Blue Tool that boots the handheld console into service mode, where downgrades to earlier, cracked firmwares are possible. Of course, most older PSPs could be downgraded ...
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Sony announces yet another firmware update for the Sony PSP. The firmware 5.02 is supposed to improve system software stability during use of some features, including the PlayStation Store. End of October Sony had to release the PSP Firmware 5.01 update...
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LOS ANGELES----D3Publisher , a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, today announced that Cradle of Rome for Nintendo DS™ has shipped to retail stores across North America.
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The guys over at Nintendo Everything have translated a Spanish Magazine which features some new info regarding GTA: Chinatown Wars
Camera can swivel 360 degrees
Trains will pass overhead in the city, cars will circle, pedestrians will be walking, etc.
GPS seen on the touch screen while you move through the city
PDA allows you to gain access to the map with more details as well as the goals of missions
You can mark points that you want and the GPS will always tell you the shortest legal route to the destination with yellow or blue arrows
New discoveries (such as gas stations) are added to the map
Top screen brings you all the action, while the lower screen will let you control elements like the PDA, GPS, the radio, access to the people on the map, or using Motolov cocktails and grenades.
Drugs have a big importance in the game
Drug system can be compared to Drugwars
You have to control the stock of drugs, buy them in one neighborhood and sell them in another
You are given a map so that you know what people demand and at what prices
Like other GTA games, in Chinatown Wars, you can catch a taxi - whistle into the microphone so the taxi will stop
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Filed under: Gaming , Wireless We recently caught wind of the Zeebo , a new 3G network-based gaming console that's supposedly launching soon in Brazil. Details were pretty hard to come by initially, but now we've gotten some more solid information on the upstart system. It turns out that manufacturer Tectoy is partnering up with cellular carrier Claro, whose 3G network will enable the ...
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The N-Gage platform's client is now available for the Nokia N78 and 6210 Navigator. You can download the app from the official N-Gage website and install using PC Suite, but make sure you update to the latest firmware first.
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Apple may be planning aggressive Black Friday discounts amid economic storm clouds as it discusses mobile gaming and works on improvements to Mac OS X Leopard.
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LittleBigPlanet is already a big hit for the Sony PS3, having sold 215,000 copies in the first 5 days of sale. Now a rumor about LittleBigPlanet to hit the PSP in 2009 can be found in the gaming magazine EGM according to Kotaku. Media Molecule, the ga...
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Here is another signed that people stay at home this fall. The sales of portable video game consoles fell 14% in October compared to September. The home console sales increased for Nintendo and Microsoft in October. Sales of the Sony PSP handheld device...
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It's been less than a year since Mana Khemia ~Alchemists of Al-Revis~ graced the PlayStation 2, and now it is returning again. This edition of the game is for the PlayStation Portable and is titled Mana Khemia: Student Alliance .
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Filed under: Gaming , Wireless Tectoy's announced the Zeebo, a 3G network-based gaming console that will supposedly launch in Brazil in July of 2009, then spread to other markets in the following months. The console will apparently be constantly connected to a 3G network for no cost to the gamer, with all games and content paid for and downloaded via said network (which sounds ...
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Developer Vicious Cycle Software has partnered with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) to provide middleware technology Vicious Engine to game developers in India. The move is part of SCEE's ongoing efforts to accelerate the adoption rate of the PlayStation 2 and PSP in India, with the company also recently announcing a relaxation of content approval procedures for the PS2 and the ...
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The Korg DS-10 is a very odd beast for the Nintendo DS: a $40 piece of software that turns your gaming hardware into a robust music creation tool. We talk to the DS-10's producer and see if we can create the next electronic masterpiece. Read More...
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Can the iPhone eventually replace handheld gaming devices such as the Nintendo DS and Sony's Playstation Portable? Laying out the case for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, the WSJ.com notes the two devices, with their big screens, powerful graphics processors, and accelerometers, have stirred up some serious interest from game publishers, thanks to their low cost distribution model.
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The SNES has certainly proven to be one of the most popular consoles to get the portable treatment among those go-getter console modders out there, and it looks like it's not showing any signs of losing that status, with this so-called SNEP (Super Nintendo ...
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Game publisher and developer THQ released terrible Q3 earnings—with ballooning losses and revenues down 28 percent year-over-year. But its mobile gaming division was seemingly a bright spot.
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It's becoming apparent that Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch are well on their way to becoming an important force in handheld gaming, combining the ease and reach of distributing games via iTunes, a working library of 1,500 titles and a piece of hardware that everyone can't stop talking about. Sony and Nintendo? Get ready for some big headaches. In a unique perspective on the issue, BusinessWeek's ...
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The Nintendo DSi has a bigger screen, a better processor and an SD card slot, but one thing the DS Lite (and the humble DS Phat) still have on their younger brother is roughly one to six hours of battery life. And now it looks like we know why. The Japan-based Bunnie:Studios blog (via Gizmodo ) decided to tear down the DSi and have a look for themselves at why exactly the DSi needs so ...
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Here is a bit of news that will get the male portion of our audience to perk their ears up a bit: Angelina Jolie not only allows her children to play videogames, but thanks to Konami's Let's Pilates for the Nintendo DS, Jolie is now reaping the benefits of the gaming age. According to a report from SFGate.com , Jolie is using the the game to rid herself of that pesky baby weight she ...
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It's like Guitar Hero for five-year-olds. Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor for the Nintendo DS is like Guitar Hero for your kid brother. You are the conductor, leading an invisible orchestra through famous classical pieces.Three taps of the stylus start the orchestra. Numbered shapes appear, some connected by dotted lines. Each shape has a "timer ring." It starts out wide, then shrinks...
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A new Walkman phone has been announced, confirming that Sony is still desperately trying to make its formerly number one brand relevant to the present day (see also: Playstation). The Sony Ericsson W705 sounds pretty swish, and boasts some interesting attributes.
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DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Mobile Online Gaming in China: A Booming and Promising Market" report to their offering.
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Sony delayed the Adhoc party service for the PSP in October. Sony announced that the beta of the adhoc party service is launching today. By downloading and storing adhoc Party for PSP beta version to the Sony PS3 you will be able to play PSP software ti...
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Sony announced a new initiative called Shoot!. Shoot! will deliver series of short films that will be free to download from 13th November via PlayStation Network for PS3 or PSP, allowing you to watch cutting-edge film from up-and-coming directors and exper...
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Sales of Nintendo's DSi, the latest revision of its popular handhand gaming device, totalled 170,779 units during its first two days on sale, according to an estimate from Japan's Enterbrain.
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Nintendo launched the new Nintendo DSi last weekend and based on the sales numbers of Enterbrain, Nintendo sold about 171,000 DSi in two days. Nintendo has shipped apparently 200,000 units into the channel across Japan and is adding another 100,000 DS...
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Gameloft today announced the release of Real Football 2009, the latest edition of the highly successful football franchise, on Nokia N-Gage. The announcement, made at the Dubai World Game Expo, where N-Gage is platinum sponsor, further cements the growing relationship between the two companies.
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Generally speaking, the Nintendo DS is just as powerful as the old Super Nintendo Entertainment System. With the arrival of the Nintendo DSi (in Japan) and the launch of the online store for the touchscreen handheld, we could be in store for all sorts of Virtual Console titles on the DSi as well.
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DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Mobile Online Gaming in China: A Booming and Promising Market" report to their offering.
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It's becoming apparent that Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch are well on their way to becoming an important force in handheld gaming, combining the ease and reach of distributing games via iTunes, a working library of 1,500 titles and a piece of hardware that everyone can't stop talking about. Sony and Nintendo? Get ready for some big headaches. In a unique perspective on the issue, BusinessWeek's ...
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Sony announced a new initiative called Shoot!. Shoot! will deliver series of short films that will be free to download from 13th November via PlayStation Network for PS3 or PSP, allowing you to watch cutting-edge film from up-and-coming directors and exper...
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Sales of Nintendo's DSi, the latest revision of its popular handhand gaming device, totaled 170,779 units during its first two days on sale, according to an estimate from Japan's Enterbrain.
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Japanese video game maker Nintendo will likely launch a new model of its top-selling handheld player, the DS, in overseas markets by the summer of 2009, President Satoru Iwata said.
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EA Mobile(TM), a division of Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ:ERTS), today furthered its support for Nokia N-Gage with the announcement of an extensive global release schedule for the platform. Key titles available in time for the Winter holiday season include EA SPORTS(TM) FIFA 09, Spore(TM) Origins and MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition, with many other popular games such as Need For Speed(TM) ...
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Mobile versions of online games created for RP mart unveiled With the large mobile phone subscriber base in the Philippines in mind, the distributor of the top online role playing games in the country has released Java-based mobile versions for its game titles.
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Sony has dropped their new PSP Entertainment Pack, which featured the PSP 3000 plus a 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo, which is why online retailers have cancelled all pre-orders over the weekend. According...
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Gamasutra's weekly "Saling The World" column covers the real-time Amazon.com charts for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide. This week's charts, with data taken from October 30th, 2008, find Fallout 3 and LittleBigPlanet leading sales among this week's debuting console titles in North America. Data for ...
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EA Mobile(TM), a division of Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ:ERTS), today furthered its support for Nokia N-Gage with the announcement of an extensive global release schedule for the platform. Key titles available in time for the Winter holiday season include EA SPORTS(TM) FIFA 09, Spore(TM) Origins and MONOPOLY Here & Now: The World Edition, with many other popular games such as Need For Speed(TM) ...
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Gameloft today announced the release of Real Football 2009, the latest edition of the highly successful football franchise, on Nokia N-Gage. The announcement, made at the Dubai World Game Expo, where N-Gage is platinum sponsor, further cements the growing relationship between the two companies.
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All new phones to have N-Gage preinstalled Nokia continues to push its gaming platform N-Gage, announcing new games at the Nokia Games Summit in Rome on Wednesday. But more games and mobile phones with embedded support for the platform are needed for the N-Gage to become a success, according to analysts.
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The first-ever KOF collection ships to retailers across North America. October 30, 2008 - SNK Playmore Corporation USA, the U.S. publishing arm of the SNK Playmore Corporation, today announced The King of Fighters Collection: The Orochi Saga for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and the PSP (PlayStation Portable) system is shipping to retailers across North America, with the Wii ...
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Nintendo started to ship the new Nintendo DSi in Japan today. As reported the Nintendo DSi will not be available outside of Japan until next Summer. For hard-core Nintendo fans outside of Japan there is either booking a flight to Japan or buy the DSi at an...
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Filed under: Gaming The PSP has proven to be quite the popular system among hackers and modders of all sorts, but it looks like Sony has turned the tables a bit with its latest PSP-3000 model (otherwise known as the PSP Brite), which has so far put up a stiff resistance against folks' attempts to put it to some decidedly unofficial uses. Among other things, the PSP-3000 has ...
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Filed under: Displays , Gaming , Handhelds You know those complaints about the ugly, old-school looking interlacing lines that many (ourselves included) have reported seeing on the new PSP-3000 ? The specific issue has been uncovered -- but not by Sony. A group of concerned French gamers with a 40x microscope think it all comes down to that most mellow of colors: blue. LCDs are ...
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Sony has dropped their new PSP Entertainment Pack, which featured the PSP 3000 plus a 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo, which is why online retailers have cancelled all pre-orders over the weekend. According...
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Japan's Nintendo Co. on Friday was optimistic over the take-off of its newest DS handheld console despite the popularity of its existing consoles and the global economy entering into a recession.
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This humorous British claymation series grazes into the video game field to entertain in short doses. This popular British cartoon from the creators of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run grazes into the video game field on the Nintendo DS. This humorous game entertains in short doses as experienced gamers can conquer the main story mode in a very short period of time.The story mode consists of ...
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Glamour and grace are gliding into videogames with the announcement that Activision Publishing, Inc.'s Dancing with the Stars: We Dance! is available now for Wii and Nintendo DS.
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Gameloft today announced the release of Real Football 2009, the latest edition of the highly successful football franchise, on Nokia N-Gage. The announcement, made at the Dubai World Game Expo, where N-Gage is platinum sponsor, further cements the growing relationship between the two companies.
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Back in August when Sony announced the newest iteration of the PlayStation Portable, the PSP 3000, they announced two bundles that it would be available in: the Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters Entertainment Pack and the 4GB Memory Entertainment Pack. The Ratchet bundle, which is already available, includes a silver PSP, a copy of Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters on UMD, a 1GB memory ...
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Filed under: Gaming Hope all you would-be PSP buyers out there are into that PSP-3000 Ratchet & Clank Entertainment Pack that just went on sale a couple weeks ago, because it's going to be the only bundle available from here on out. That's the word straight from Sony, which says that "ongoing discussions" with retailers have led it to kill the previously-announced $169 4GB Memory ...
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The rechargeable batteries included with the Recharging Station can overheat if the gaming system is placed into the recharging base upside down, posing a burn hazard to consumers.
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Sony announced on October 9th the Adhoc Party for PSP service. The beta version of Adhoc Party would have launched on October 30th. Today Sony Japan said that the service will be delayed to some when beginning of November. Adhoc Party for PSP will allow...
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Today marks the launch of the Nokia N-Gage mobile games service in Thailand. Millions of Nokia device owners can now find try and buy high-quality made-for-mobile games directly from their mobile devi
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Special Trailer for the new third model of Nintendo DS called Nintendo Dsi! It is much thinner than the Nintendo DS lite and hav many new features as well. Has 2
cameras, download songs to it, and many more!
How much would you spend to be a fake rock star? $250 you say? Good, this is the guitar for you. As rumored , Logitech's Wireless Guitar Controller Premier Edition for Guitar Hero: World Tour is now official with features like a wooden neck, metal frets and tuning peg handles, and a rosewood fingerboard. It's compatible with the PS3 or PS2 consoles (via 2.4GHz ...
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OneCard, the Arab World's largest multi-function secured e-payment services, has announced that it has recently embarked on an aggressive marketing campaign in the Middle East to capitalise on the strong growth potential of the region's online gaming industry.
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The rechargeable batteries included with the Recharging Station can overheat if the gaming system is placed into the recharging base upside down, posing a burn hazard to consumers.
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The launch of Sony's new streamlined PSP-3000 portable iteration has proven a huge a success in Japan -- sales are up from 23,901 last week to a total of 159,816. No data is provided on sales of individual models, but the new PSP-3000 is expected to eventually supplant the PSP Slim and Lite, in the same way those previous models did with the original PSP-1000. Japanese PSP sales have slowed ...
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Shigeru Miyamoto, 55, has often been described as the Walt Disney of video games. Formerly Nintendo's first staff artist, now its senior managing director, Miyamoto has been responsible for some of the most beloved games in history, including Donkey Kong,...
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The Sony PSP handheld entertainment system has been out for several years now and has a healthy community of people building applications for it. Better known as “homebrew,” which some people consider a “gray market” since Sony does not actually support such activities, it is hard to resist when you see some of the fun things it will let you add to the popular gadget! Here are over 20 ...
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Filed under: Gaming , Handhelds We first caught wind of a slightly revamped PSP months ago, and the long-awaited handheld -- complete with a new, fancier and in some cases more dreadful display -- finally hit US shelves this month. For those that picked one of these up and have spent some quality time digging into the latest firmware , how are you liking things? Particularly ...
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But Sony's new PSP games portable is selling well Sony's new PSP 3000 portable games console has come under fire after users reported seeing visible scan lines across the PSP 3000's upgraded screen.
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How many people can you organize to come and simultaneously play their DSes at The Rocket Centre at London Metropolitan University for five minutes? DS:London , in conjunction with the London Games Festival Fringe , (via Kotaku ) are hoping at least 500-plus show up to make them Guinness world record holders. The event will take place on Saturday, October 25 between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. ...
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Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading interactive entertainment software publisher and developer, today announced that is has shipped TouchMaster(R)2 and Mechanic Master(TM) to retail stores nationwide. The two new Nintendo DS(TM) titles are expected to be available on store shelves this week for an U.S. MSRP of $29.99.
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E3 2009 will be a return to the old days, the ESA has said, as tens of thousands of industry folks are invited to traipse the LA Convention Center and tour monstrous booths that cost more than the average handheld game's entire development and marketing.
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According to Japanese gaming magazine publisher Famitsu (via Wired) the new Sony PSP-3000 console sold 141,270 in the first 4 days based on Enterbrain sales data. Sony PSP console sales were very low the month before, which was understandable as the new...
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Filed under: Gaming Sony got a lot of things right with its 5.0 firmware update for the PSP, with the PlayStation Store and its direct downloads making a long awaited appearance, but it looks to have caused a bit of a problem for folks with high-capacity Memory Sticks -- namely, it was reporting that 8GB or 16GB cards are full when, in fact, there's plenty of free space left on 'em. ...
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Oct. 20, 2008 -- Empire Interactive, an international publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software and a unit of Silverstar Holdings , will release the highly anticipated Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams for Nintendo DS on November 11, 2008.
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Midway Games Inc. (NYSE: MWY), a leading interactive entertainment software publisher and developer, today announced that is has shipped TouchMaster(R)2 and Mechanic Master(TM) to retail stores nationwide. The two new Nintendo DS(TM) titles are expected to be available on store shelves this week for an U.S. MSRP of $29.99.
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The war won't end with consoles. October 20, 2008 - We've had loads of coverage of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of EndWar, but information on the portable editions of the real-time strategy game has been scarce.
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Sony Corp's new PlayStation Portable got off to a robust start in Japan, with combined sales of it and earlier models in the week of its market debut hitting the highest so far this year, a research firm said on Thursday.
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— Oct. 13, 2008 — T-Mobile sold out its first 1.5 million pre-orders of HTC's G1 phone, the first handset based on the Google Android Java/Linux stack, says The Motley Fool.
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Nintendo has signed up a host of celebrities including Girls Aloud, Julie Walters, Fern Britton and Harry Redknapp to front its TV ads. By Mark Sweney
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The sliver Sony PSP-3000 has started shipping this week. Now Amazon started taking pre-orders for the black Sony PSP-3000 bundled with a 4GB memory stick. The new PSP Pack contains PSP-3000 system in Piano Black, AC power cord and AC adaptor, Battery pa...
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Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed games. The legendary Castlevania series is back in its 3rd installment on the Nintendo DS. This time you play as a member of the Ecclesia, an organization that has sworn to defeat the evil forces of Dracula.
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Are you a fan of the unexpected Xbox Live Arcade hit Settlers of Catan ? Are you old school , and have been playing the table-top game it was based on for years? Than you may be interested to learn that Catan is coming to a platform that makes a good deal of sense for it: the Nintendo DS. Details are extremely scarce, but DSFanboy reports (via Joystiq ) that Catan for the DS is indeed ...
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BOCA RATON, Fla., Oct. 20, 2008 -- Empire Interactive, an international publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software and a unit of Silverstar Holdings , will release the highly anticipated Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams for Nintendo DS on November 11, 2008.
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The war won't end with consoles. October 20, 2008 - We've had loads of coverage of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of EndWar, but information on the portable editions of the real-time strategy game has been scarce.
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The sliver Sony PSP-3000 has started shipping this week. Now Amazon started taking pre-orders for the black Sony PSP-3000 bundled with a 4GB memory stick. The new PSP Pack contains PSP-3000 system in Piano Black, AC power cord and AC adaptor, Battery pa...
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Are you a fan of the unexpected Xbox Live Arcade hit Settlers of Catan ? Are you old school , and have been playing the table-top game it was based on for years? Than you may be interested to learn that Catan is coming to a platform that makes a good deal of sense for it: the Nintendo DS. Details are extremely scarce, but DSFanboy reports (via Joystiq ) that Catan for the DS is indeed ...
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One of my favorite games was "Arkanoid," in which the object was to destroy a cluster of blocks by bouncing a ball into them. "Arkanoid DS" (Square Enix, Nintendo DS, $19.99) innovated by adding power-ups that, for example, made your paddle longer, slowed down the ball or gave you lasers that you could use to shoot the blocks directly.
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Nokia today announced the top 10 developers of its Mobile Games Innovation Challenge. The winners, to be announced at an exclusive awards ceremony later this month, will take home a total prize value of EUR 70,000.
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This week, Sony updated the system software to both its PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. Finally, Sony's portable console received its own access to the PlayStation Store.
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Though still in its infancy, mobile gaming is already a billion dollar industry in the US, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). With significant momentum already underway in the US and worldwide, In-Stat believes that mobile gaming will continue to be a key contributor to wireless data usage and revenues, the high-tech market research firm says. Still, the industry has significant ...
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Impress got the new Sony PSP 3000 and decided to disassembly it to see if it was really running thanks to little people from China inside—turning little lightbulbs on an off very quickly—or maybe it...
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's vice president of Publisher and Developer relations Zeno Cola?o says that the PSP's new digital distribution capabilities will "ignite" development for the platform, allowing more opportunities for studios to create "less hardcore games" and release downloadable content. Released yesterday, the PSP Firmware 5.00 update enables users to connect directly to ...
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The Sony PSP just received a seminal firmware update. Their 5.0 iteration has brought the PlayStation Store to handhelds, a significant feature that most PSP owners will make use of to directly...
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Mobile gaming companies say they will book few new sales from Nokia's N-Gage phones or Apple's iPhone, but are betting on a market boost next year as more phones of these kinds are taken up by consumers.
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According to the new NPD sales statistics the Nintendo Wii was the top selling video game console in the U.S. in September again. Nintendo sold 687,000 Wii consoles and with 537,000 sold Nintendo DS consoles the number two spot also belongs to Nintendo. ...
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Oct 14th, 2008 - TOMY Corporation and D3Publisher, publishers of interactive entertainment software, have announced that Naruto: Path of the Ninja 2 for Nintendo DS has shipped to stores and will be in retail outlets across North America.
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Designer Tai Chiem mixed the potential of flexible OLED displays with the Sony PSP gaming console. The result is a stunning design of a roll-up Sony PSP 2. Roll-up displays are nothing new for gadgets though. Polymere Vision developed the Readius pocket...
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The mobile gaming industry in the U.S. has become a billion-dollar business and will top $6.8 billion by 2013, according to research firm In-Stat. Although, the mobile game industry is still in its early stages, In-Stat says it is gaining significant momentum and that it is a key contributor to wireless data usage and revenues.
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DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Online Gaming in China: Web Games Lead the Next Wave" report to their offering.
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Filed under: Gaming , Handhelds Good news, PSP fans -- the PlayStation Store is closer than ever to hitting your handheld, and we've got the video to prove it. Sony has hosted up a clip to give us all a better idea of what firmware 5.0 has in store for the PSP , and while there aren't any real surprises, it's always good to get a sneak peek. We're told that users will soon be able ...
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Castlevania. The word can make old-school gamers both salivate and cringe. The 1987 original for the Nintendo Entertainment System is one of the hardest platformers ever devised, and its sequels have populated nearly every console to follow the NES.
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Mobile gaming companies say they will book few new sales from Nokia's N-Gage phones or Apple's iPhone, but are betting on a market boost next year as more phones of these kinds are taken up by consumers.
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— Oct. 03, 2008 — Microsoft plans to port its Zune music playing software to Windows Mobile devices, according to CEO Steve Ballmer. Zune software and services may become part of the upcoming Windows Mobile 7 operating system, though the company provided no further information. ...
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The new Sony PSP-3000 console will start shipping on Tuesday, October 14th. The new Sony PSP-3000 ships first inside the Ratchet and Clank Entertainment pack, which is available on Amazon.com for pre-order. It ships on October 31st with a price of $199.99....
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Sony announces the new Sony PSP firmware 5.00. The firmware 5.00 brings a Playstation Network icon to the XMB and you can now sign up for PlayStation Network, manage your account and access PlayStation Store directly from your Sony PSP. This new featur...
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Majesco Entertainment has announced a new Nintendo DS game called Hot 'n' Cold. According to Majesco the game is the first fully 3D title for the Nintendo DS console. The game sends players on missions to find missing items for people around town. The g...
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Mobile gaming companies say they will book few new sales from Nokia's N-Gage phones or Apple's iPhone, but are betting on a market boost next year as more phones of these kinds are taken up by consumers.
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New service will only work with PS3 The 'Adhoc Party for PSP' service will work through the PlayStation 3 (PS3) so gamers without the console won't be able to make use of it. By downloading an application through the PlayStation Store, the service will be enabled and games with an ad hoc gaming mode can be played with friends over the internet. Gamers using the service will first ...
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The mobile gaming market suffered an unexpected slump last year, with many game developers and analysts pointing to telecom operators' lack of investment in marketing.
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Mobile gaming companies say they will book few new sales from Nokia's N-Gage phones or Apple's iPhone, but are betting on a market boost next year as more phones of these kinds are taken up by consumers.
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Sony's been touting PSP and PS3 interoperability for awhile now. If you remember, Sony CEO Kaz Hirai once famously noted Ridge Racer as a highlight of the connectivity. Now the teams behind one of Sony's flagship shooters might finally deliver. The official PlayStation blog has revealed the ability to connect Resistance 2 to the PSP-exclusive Resistance: Retribution , which will ...
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Sony has added a PSP echochrome expansion to the US PlayStation Store. Inside the USD 4.99 pack are 40 extra levels of brain twisters - around 71 per cent more content than in the original. And those without echochrome can expect a game-plus-expansion bundle to save a few pennies.
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Oct 7th, 2008 - SEGA of America, Inc. today announced that BLEACH: Dark Souls for Nintendo DS has shipped to retailers in North America. Bleach: Dark Souls delivers an authentic anime experience with non-stop action and swordplay.
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This Nintendo DS title is a must have for music fans who are into making their own music. The KORG DS-10 re-creates the classic interface of the famous KORG MS-10 analog synthesizer and makes it mobile for you to take everywhere you go. The KORG DS-10 i...
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By now, you've probably made your way through the 56 levels included with the PlayStation Portable version of Echochrome . Unlike the PS3 version, where user-created levels could be accessed, the PSP version has been very limited in that regard. But Sony has your back, provided you're willing to pay the price -- the game's first expansion pack will be released tomorrow on the ...
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And PSP gamers around the world shout, "What took so long!!" October 8, 2008 - At Sony Computer Entertainment's press conference at TGS 2008, SCE officially confirmed what it had been hinting at for months and what was rumored for years and years -- the PlayStation Portable will finally have direct access to the PlayStation Store.
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Oct 7th, 2008 - Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) announced today the North American release of NBA 09 The Inside available on the PlayStation 3 (PS3) computer entertainment system, PSP (PlayStation Portable) system, and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system.
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If you ever wondered what a pack of sentient gaming nerds thought about a company releasing a tweaked version of existing hardware, well, you've clicked the right link! Nintendo recently revealed the DSi , the soon-to-be successor to the venerable DS Lite, so we collected the assorted thoughts and musings from the 1UP intelligentsia. Sam Kennedy (Site/Editorial Director): For the ...
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Oct 8th, 2008 - KOEI, recognized worldwide as the premier brand of strategy and action games, today announced that Prey the Stars for Nintendo DS is available at retailers throughout North America.Prey the Stars serves up an incredible world where nearly anything from food to whole buildings can be devoured.
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Eurogamer got a chance to take a look at Sony's latest hardware revision for the PSP. Their overall impression of the new model is positive, finding that a redesigned screen offers noticeably better graphics and higher brightness without affecting battery life. They also say the button pads may be slightly different, and the unit comes with useful firmware upgrades. "Elsewhere, our side-by-side ...
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says that while the DSi's lifestyle-friendly features -- camera, music playback and online capability -- might make it look like a run for Apple iPhone and Sony PSP marketshare, that's not what the company's after. "We wanted users to have the device on them at all times," Iwata told Nikkei.net (subscription required). "By downloading subway maps and other ...
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The latest console sales numbers from Japan show that the Nintendo DS outsold the Sony PSP last month by a large margin. Nintendo sold 234,477 Nintendo DS consoles and Sony only managed to move 109,274 PSP consoles. In the prior month the PSP did lag far l...
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While the open-source gaming handheld the Wiz focuses on delivering good tech for a low price, its competitor in the Pandora, now available for preorder, makes no sacrifices for the sake of performance. Questions remain as to whether Pandora will live up to the prerelease hype. Read More...
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I have to admit that I never tried the mid-range Nokia XpressMusic devices before and always considered them as "feature phones for the masses", but with this latest announcement I think I'll have to start checking them out. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is Nokia's first touch screen S60 mobile device...
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Oct 7th, 2008 - Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) announced today the North American release of NBA 09 The Inside available on the PlayStation 3 (PS3) computer entertainment system, PSP (PlayStation Portable) system, and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system.
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The latest console sales numbers from Japan show that the Nintendo DS outsold the Sony PSP last month by a large margin. Nintendo sold 234,477 Nintendo DS consoles and Sony only managed to move 109,274 PSP consoles. In the prior month the PSP did lag far l...
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says that while the DSi's lifestyle-friendly features -- camera, music playback and online capability -- might make it look like a run for Apple iPhone and Sony PSP marketshare, that's not what the company's after. "We wanted users to have the device on them at all times," Iwata told Nikkei.net (subscription required). "By downloading subway maps and other ...
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Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. announced today the North American release of NBA 09 The Inside available on the PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3) computer entertainment system, PSP® system, and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system.
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Before we go any further, we'd like to inform this here Telson UMPC that if Pandora can finally get out of the starting blocks, so can you. Today, we're looking at new evidence that Digital Cube (the handheld's new parent) could be inching ever closer to bringing this shockingly thick gaming handheld to market. Out of seemingly nowhere, images have emerged of ...
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There has been a flurry of Nintendo news since the company announced their new DSi handheld on Wednesday night, but that avalanche of stories -- many of them coming from a Japanese press conference -- means there have been a lot of misinterpretations and half-truths reported. We decided to compare notes and round up all the important info on the DSi so far. Say Cheese -- The most ...
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If you ever wondered what a pack of sentient gaming nerds thought about a company releasing a tweaked version of existing hardware, well, you've clicked the right link! Nintendo recently revealed the DSi , the soon-to-be successor to the venerable DS Lite, so we collected the assorted thoughts and musings from the 1UP intelligentsia. Sam Kennedy (Site/Editorial Director): For the ...
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John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, commented on the future of the PSP after his keynote at the New York Games Conference. He was there speaking on the future of MMOs, which he believes will be a good match for Sony's portable platform. MTV Multiplayer shared his plans for the PSP. "I think PSP is something that we?re definitely looking at; 34 million [sold] ...
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Mobile online gamers in Asia are rising steadily, but market development will be "fragmented" due to the state of mobile infrastructure, says new IDC report. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com
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While the open-source gaming handheld the Wiz focuses on delivering good tech for a low price, its competitor in the Pandora, now available for preorder, makes no sacrifices for the sake of performance. Questions remain as to whether Pandora will live up to the prerelease hype. Read More...
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Nokia introduced its first big touchscreen phone in London Thursday: the 5800 XpressMusic, formerly known as the "Tube." While Nokia isn't positioning the phone outright as an iPhone killer, it certainly shares some similarities of the popular Apple device -- and one that really jabs at Apple's strength: music.
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If you ever wondered what a pack of sentient gaming nerds thought about a company releasing a tweaked version of existing hardware, well, you've clicked the right link! Nintendo recently revealed the DSi , the soon-to-be successor to the venerable DS Lite, so we collected the assorted thoughts and musings from the 1UP intelligentsia. Sam Kennedy (Site/Editorial Director): For the ...
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Say what you will about Nintendo, but one thing's for certain; it's always been dominant in the mobile gaming market. The Nintendo DS is no exception, with 77.5 million sold worldwide, nearly 23 million in Japan. Compared to only 41 million Sony PlayStation Portables worldwide, with 10 million in Japan, the Nintendo DS is the sure winner thus far. However, for five straight months, the PSP has ...
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Game consoles are not just for gaming anymore. If we look at devices such as the iPhone, which also wants a share of the gigantic mobile gaming market, it is clear that mobile devices will have to become universal entertainment devices with much more functionality of current devices: Nintendo made a huge step into that direction with the unveiling of the new DSi today. The new console merges ...
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Nintendo is releasing a new portable gaming console dubbed the DSi that features more multimedia features, but specs that fall well short of the consumer electronics industry. The biggest changes to the popular handheld gaming system are a pair of 0.3-megapixel cameras, a slightly larger screen, music playback and game downloads and web browsing via Wi-Fi all in a thinner form factor, Telegraph ...
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John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, commented on the future of the PSP after his keynote at the New York Games Conference. He was there speaking on the future of MMOs, which he believes will be a good match for Sony's portable platform. MTV Multiplayer shared his plans for the PSP. "I think PSP is something that we?re definitely looking at; 34 million [sold] ...
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Nintendo Co. added camera and music- playing functions to its best-selling DS handheld game player to widen its lead over Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable machines.
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Nintendo Co., riding high on the success of the Wii, said Thursday that it will launch a new version of its popular DS handheld console next month with a built-in camera and enhanced audio capabilities.
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There's not much debate as to Little Big Planet 's popularity; the 3,300 replies to this thread on the 1UP boards about LBP beta keys seems like a fair indication that people are extremely interested in the game. Developer Media Molecule is dedicated to Sony's platform with LBP, but might they consider bringing the game to their handheld system in some form? The PSP has been ...
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Speaking to MTV , Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley has said the EverQuest developer is considering the PSP as a viable platform for fully fledged MMO games.
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DESPITE CLAIMS that Sony is losing the console war peddling its highly-priced PS3, the games console maker insists it is making a bob or two.
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Though Nikkei Business Daily leaked word a little early, the Nintendo press event being held tonight in Japan has confirmed the existence of a new DS. The model has been dubbed the DSi, reports the Wired Blog, and Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says he believes it will help them reach an even wider audience. (Seriously, wider?) The updated model is set to release in Japan on ...
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Sony has announced that it will show off 11 new PlayStation 3 games in playable form at the Tokyo Game Show, along with three new titles for the PSP. Of the new PS3 games, nine have been developed by internal Sony studios, with new titles from Konami and Irem making up the numbers.
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Even though Sony chose an international game show to debut its new version of PlayStation Portable, it wants to send a clear message to consumers: This PSP is not just a plaything.
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Hilton Garden Inn has announced that it is using the Sony PSP to train employees on how to meet customer needs and keep them happy. The PSP training game is called Ultimate Team Play and was created by a firm called Virtual Heroes. The goal of the train...
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Speaking to MTV , Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley has said the EverQuest developer is considering the PSP as a viable platform for fully fledged MMO games.
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[UPDATE] Japanese media says Mario Factory will introduce camera, music playback, and better wireless into next revision of popular portable hardware; Nintendo cries "speculation."
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Gaming giant Nintendo has unveiled its new version of the DS handheld games console - the 
, offering customers gift cards to the most popular store on the Web in return for old video games.