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With its big, bright screen, ability to sense touch and motion, and controls that mimic a home game console's, Sony's Playstation Vita delivers the sort of gaming that approaches what you might expect to experience in your den. But is that what gamers still want? More »
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While a portable gaming device specifically created to provide MMO players gaming on the go might sound like a spectacular idea, Panasonic's Jungle might be more trouble than it's worth. More »
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While the first iPhone games were announced earlier this year, today's Let's Rock event from Apple seems to have sharply defined gaming as a major focus for the mobile device. Hell, gaming is now listed as one of the main selling points of the new iPod Touch, but the biggest proof came today during the event, after Jobs had finished showing off Need for Speed Undercover and the new on-screen d-pad from Gameloft. More »
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Paul K. over at controllercode.com has put together a nice little article outlining the history of portable game devices. The first half of the article which was published today (the second half is coming tomorrow) covers the period form 1979 and the Microvision to 1998's Neo Geo Pocket. Tomorrows half will deal with the newer systems including the PSP and the DS. More »
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Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft will start introducing video games for their Zune music player within the next 18 months to match what Apple is doing with their iPod. More »
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They aren't the giant, oh-my-god-size screenshots we normally get sent, but over at The Magic Box they've got some screenshots available from the upcoming Tenchu title for Nintendo's DS. The cutscenes totally remind me of Ninja Gaiden for NES - though in a good way! More »
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Jeux France has pictures up of the DS Lite in a store, all packaged and ready to sell. The packaging? Simple and sweet. More »
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A magazine scan that surfaced over at the official Nintendo forums coupled with the press release sitting next to the computer confirms that the long-awaited side-scrolling Mario game for the Nintendo DS is coming out May 7. Wooooo! More »
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Business Week confirms that Microsoft has formed a research team to look at the possibility of developing its own iPod-like digital music device. However, it's not all about nicking the iPod. The article maintains that were Microsoft to bowl into the .mp3 fray, "any Microsoft media device would have to leverage the company's most significant consumer strength, video gaming." You know what that implies, right? A handheld. More »
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Last week's PSP firmware update includes a gimped version of an RSS feed, and Slashdot links to a bit that has a Sony spokeswoman saying if enough customers ask for it, they'll unleash the RSS potential of the handheld. Want more progress? Ask for it. More »
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The PSP graffiti that Sony wasn't talking about earned mention at Wired. Finally, something more than just idle bitching, Wired snapped pics (see image) of people tagging over Sony's desperate, stupid marketing ploy. Sony finally loosened its lips on the whole fiasco, opening up a little bit to Wired. Spokeswoman Molly Smith offered the following: "With PSP being a portable product, our target is what we consider to be urban nomads, people who are on the go constantly." More »
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For gamers, Tecmo's got Kasumi. For gamblers, they've got Rio. Even though Miss Rio has her own DS game, PS2 game and pachi-slots, she's nothing but a pretty face. I really wish Tecmo or Team Ninja would provide some half-assed rational for this flat-out sexploitation. More »
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The best part about iTunes, is how simple it is to get songs to your iPod. It's pretty brainless. The second worst thing about the PSP (the worst being Sony's relationship with hackers, is that there is no easy way to get TV and movies on your PSP. Well, there wasn't at least. Gadget Madness points at the Neuros MPEG-4 Video Recorder 2 as the $150 solution to the problem. The Neuros will take video and audio from any source with an RCA and convert it to a watchable format on your PSP. It gets no easier, I want one. More »
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Citing both the PlayStation 2's ability to be soft-modded to play burnt games, and the Xbox's ability to just flat-out be modded, an article at Insert 25 stresses what we all know - Sony must stop trying to ostracize PSP hackers. Anytime there is a breakthrough in hacking the PSP a new piece of firmware seems to come out. Sure, the updates offer morsels of utility, but they also keep sending the hack/homebrew community back to square one. Sony is isolating a large group of potential sales by constantly trying to squash the homebrew market. How much longer till they realize that? More »
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Cathode Tan directs readers to a Business Week feature on hacking the PSP. The piece focuses on Auri Rahimzadeh, author of the upcoming book, Hacking the PSP, and the tug of war between Sony's scrambling firmware updates and the homebrew/hack culture surrounding the hardware. I wish Sony would stop messing around with people improving their tech. More »
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We mentioned that the DFC looked at Nintendo's WiFi in their latest report, and their review of it was pretty positive. Similar to what they said about Xbox Live and the 360's Marketplace, DFC champions the ease of use for the DS. I can attest to its ease, having hooked it up in my own primitive, janky, WiFi-less apartment abode. DFC Intelligence points to the out-of-the-box connectivity as the separation between it and any other console's online capability out of the box. Their analogy: "The PSP we would compare to programming a VCR to record, the DS is more like turning on the television set and playing a movie." More »
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The red phone in the Kotaku office just lit up and EA let us know that their insanely popular Sims 2 was shipping a week ahead of schedule for Sony's handheld. Now instead of Dec. 13, the realish-life simulator ships Dec. 7 (omg next week!). It is a little disheartening that one of the biggest PSP titles of the holiday season is one of the biggest PC games - from last year. More »
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Exit is a PSP title to get excited about. I've had several hands on with the software on different occasions, and I've always walked away from the game with a silly smirk on me face. Exit offers pleasantly simple thrills and good fun. While it sometimes seems that Sony's PSP commercials are better than the software, the Exit advert actually has a promising game behind it. More »
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A vexxing price drop this is (if it sticks). Online retailer EBGames is listing Nintendo's mini GameBoy, the Micro, at $89.99. Considering the SP is listed at $79.99, I don't know if I'd really be into having a Micro, but for the niche crowd, the price has slipped. If only this had an NES faceplate. Then the nostalgia would suck the cash right out of my wallet. More »
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