Kotaku: Portable

The Open Source GameGadget Wants to Be the iPod of Gaming

Mike Fahey — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:20:00 EST

Could a little-known company from the UK swoop in and change the way we play, create, and sell games forever. utilizing a device that looks like a super-sized Game Boy Micro? Probably not, but their heart is in the right place. More »

Portable Doesn't Have to Mean Pocket-Friendly

Mike Fahey — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:20:00 EDT

Commenter Hongo has had it up to here with people denying devices the label 'portable' simply because they can't fit in their pants pocket. He'd prepared a portable primer for today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »

Universal Studios And Gaming's Monster Hit

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 23 May 2011 05:00:00 EDT

This August, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd is invading Universal Studios Japan. Details are scant, but the USJ event kicks off this August, and there should be recreations of the game's monsters. More »

Did The Next Generation Portable Steal 3DS Thunder?

Mike Fahey — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:20:00 EST

Kotaku commenter Truthtellah was really excited about the 3DS. Now that Sony has outed it's Next Generation Portable, he's a bit less excited. Did Sony steal some wind from Nintendo's sails? That's your topic for today's Speak-Up on Kotaku. More »

A Hands-On Tour Of The PlayStation Phone

Mike Fahey — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:20:00 EST

You've seen the blurry photos, the clearer photos, and the videos of the Xperia Play 'PlayStation Phone' in action. Now Engadget's gotten their hands on the real thing, and they've put it through its gaming paces. More »

This Is One Extremely Rugged Portable PlayStation 3

Mike Fahey — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:40:00 EST

Legendary console modder Ben Heck's creations are normally quite elegant, but when a couple in Afghanistan asked for something rugged, he gave them this majestic beast. More »

Call Of Duty Undead Return In World At War: Zombies II

Mike Fahey — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:00:00 EDT

Imperial zombies return in Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies II for the iPhone, recreating its console cousins' Shi No Numa (Zombie Swamp) map, with new characters, traps, the Wunderwaffe DG-2, and Hellhounds adding to the portable carnage. More »

No More PSP for NCAA Football

Owen Good — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:40:00 EDT

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Whoops. File this one under things I should have followed. When EA Sports said Tim Tebow was its coverboy across all versions of NCAA 11, I assumed that included the PSP. It doesn't. Because there will be no PSP version. More »

A First Look At iPhone's Duke Nukem 3D

Brian Crecente — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:00:00 EDT

That's right you can now play the original Duke Nukem 3D on your iPhone or iPod Touch. But would you want to? More »

U.S. DSi Launch Sales Slower Than DS Lite

Brian Crecente — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EDT

With the release of new Nintendo sales figures today, Kotaku was able to try and compare launch window sales for the DSi and DS Lite. I say try because as with many game platform launches things don't match up perfectly. More »

Rumor: More Details On The Next PSP

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:40:00 EST

According to unnamed developers, Sony is readying a new iteration of its PlayStation Portable. Whether you call it the PSP 2 or PSP-4000, the rumored new version sounds like the most radical change to date. More »

The Number One Location For Portable Gaming Is... Home

Stuart Houghton — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:20:00 EST

A new survey of portable gamers has revealed that for the most part "portable" can be defined as "will work on the toilet or in bed". Around 79% of iPhone, DS and PSP owners surveyed by NPD Group said that they use their portable device in the home more than any other location. More »

Gamer Builds Extremely Ugly Gameboy-Sized NES Portable

Mike Fahey — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:00:00 EST

While I've long been a supporter of the custom console movement, sometimes I see a project that really makes me wonder what the point is. Take this portable, Gameboy-sized NES, based off of a Super Joy III Nintendo clone. Sure, it's slightly smaller than the original Gameboy and contains 72 built-in games, but oh my god is it hideous to look at. "But it's all about the convenience!" you say? I have at least five devices within my reach that are smaller, prettier, and more than capable of tackling an 8-bit Nintendo title should I deem it necessary. More »

Rumor Smash Galore: EA Not Interested in Epic, No Sega Portable

Owen Good — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Often times it's more work to discover something is crap and shouldn't be posted than it is to find something that is. But we've heard so much noise about a couple things it's nice to put the rumor smash on two that couldn't pass the sniff test doused in Chanel No. 5. More »

Gizmondo 2.0 DEFINITELY Out By Christmas (This Year!)

Stuart Houghton — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:00:00 EDT

There is absolutely no way this will not happen. Rich Jenkins of Media Power has let a Swedish journalist see the new Gizmondo and confirmed it will be on sale by the end of the year. This year, before you ask. More »

The PSP 3000 - How Different Is It?

Mike Fahey — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:40:00 EDT

James Yu over at GameSpot has just posted an excellent hands-on comparison of the old Sony PSP 2000 model and the shiny new PSP 3000, announced just last week at the Games Convention in Leipzig. While we've already posted the comparison that showed up on Famitsu, the GameSpot article has a few things going for it. More comparison photos of the screen, which looks to be where the biggest noticeable differences lie, and the fact that James writes in easy-to-understand English, always appreciated by us English-exclusive humans like myself. Hit the link below for the full skinny on what has changed in obsessive detail, right down to the surface textures of the plastic. More »

The Wiz - Gamepark's Successor To The GP2x

Stuart Houghton — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:20:00 EDT

Gamepark Holdings has announced its new games handheld - the followup to its (fairly) successful GP2X. More »

Blaze Delivers Gimped Portable Megadrive To UK

Mike Fahey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:20:00 EDT

Remember the Sega Nomad? The portable Megadrive / Genesis that let you play your favorite cartridges for 15-30 minutes at a time before having to change batteries? Well now Blaze International is releasing a product that has all of the fun of the Sega Nomad without all of that pesky cartridge nonsense. The 16bit Megadrive, releasing this month in the UK, features 20 built-in games, a color LCD screen, and a TV out so you can hook it up to your PAL television. More »

Here's Clank's Intro

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:30:00 EDT

I was about to let this one fly completely under my radar. Then I go and see this, and remember just why Ratchet & Clank games are so great (even when they're not done by Insomniac). It's the charm. In case you missed it last night, Secret Agent Clank's out June 12. More »

Samsung's Second Life Mobile A Bad Idea

Mike Fahey — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:40:00 EDT

Second place mobile manufacturer Samsung has revealed a Second Life client for their phones that will allow the relatively small horde of visitors to the virtual world and their legion of alts access to the grid and related services wherever and whenever the whole thing hasn't crashed. This is a monumentally bad idea. As a Second Life resident for nearly a year now, I know people who only leave the world in order to buy groceries, and some of them already carry their laptops around when they do that, just in case they catch a stray wireless signal. We don't need to be able to connect to SL from anywhere. Sure, you'll be able to have quickie unicorn cybersex in the bathroom at work, but at what cost? More »

Watch Blu-ray on Your PSP with Latest PS3 Update

Brian Crecente — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:06:24 EDT

Despite no mention of the feature on the official Playstation Blog or press release, PC World is reporting that the Playstation 3's next update, firmware 2.20, will include support of Portable Copy. More »

Gizmondo Delayed Yet Again

Mike Fahey — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:30:15 EST

Time to party like it's 2005! Former Gizmondo chairman Carl Freer must be experiencing some pretty hardcore déjà vu as he reluctantly tells Swedish news site Realtid.se that the little handheld that most definitely didn't would be pushed back to late 2008, missing the originally promised May relaunch date. My sentiments right now neatly echo Ashcraft's from back in October of 2005 - the umpteenth time the Gizmondo was delayed in the State. Who gives a rat's ass? The only way I will ever own a Gizmondo is if they shipped me a free one, and even then it better damn well not say Gizmondo on the box or I'll refuse delivery. More »

Sonic Races To Your iPod

Mike Fahey — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:20:08 EST

Old school and new school clash as Sega announces the original Sonic the Hedgehog now available for play on the latest batch of iPods. For $4.99 on the iTunes Store you can download and play the classic platformer on your iPod Nano with video, iPod Classic, or fifth generation iPod. What, no iPhone?

"Sonic The Hedgehog is one of the most beloved video game characters of all time," said Simon Jeffery, President and COO of SEGA of America, "And with the installed base that iPod enjoys Sonic now becomes available to a whole new group of casual and hardcore gamers just in the time for the holidays."

Unfortunately I only have a crappy little white 2GB Nano, so I'll just have to rely on one of the 20,000 other things I have laying around my house that are capable of playing the game. *sigh* More »

Magic Club's Console Stickers Makes Things Pretty

Brian Crecente — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:00:54 EDT

I-Play Boss Predicts Mobile Domination

Mike Fahey — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:20:43 EST

I'm just going to hit you with the quote here right off the bat. More »

$1500 Worth Of Donkey Kong Jr. Can Be Yours

Michael McWhertor — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:30:19 EDT

Thank the heavens above for GameSetWatch and chief poster of all things interesting, Simon Carless. If we could somehow transform him into a single, beautiful woman with a massive trust fund and a penchant for giving foot massages, we'd be all over that. In this week's edition of scraping through the muck of eBay for interesting video game auctions, he came across this "Holy Grail" of Game & Watch units—10 unopened, mostly untouched, perfectly mint Donkey Kong Jr. units. More »

The Atari Lynx... Pillow

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:20:48 EDT

The Atari Lynx was not only the company's first handheld, but it was as the first portable device to feature a full-color LCD screen. The portable was shown at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Summer 1989. At that same show, Nintendo introduced the Game Boy, and the rest is history. Sleeping on this pillow is so bound to cause nightmares set to Tetris music. Brian Ashcraft More »

Xbox 360 Gaming on the Go

Brian Crecente — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:00:14 EDT

This is the coolest Xbox 360 accessory I've seen to date. It's a big steel case that carries your Xbox 360, controllers, cables and a flat screen. Once you get to where ever you are going you just pop open the hinged-lid and get to playing. Fantastic idea for LAN parties. Brian Crecente More »

Plug and Play Gets Portable

Brian Crecente — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:03:26 EDT

I was out shopping over the weekend and stumbled across a clutch of Plug and Play systems. Most of them were sorta boring, but this one caught my eye. It features 75 generic knock-offs of retro games, which is about typical for most PNP systems, but the twist is that this one includes a cheap little color screen so you can actually take the thing with you and play on the game. It also can still be plugged into television for big screen play. More »

The Breakfast Cereal XBLA Portable

brownlee — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:00:35 EDT

Cute. Jeff over at the NeoFreaks forums got this in a box of Australian breakfast cereal and proclaimed it a prototype for the Xbox Portable. Claiming that it played all Xbox Live Arcade games, it has a 1" screen, a D-Pad, a single square front button and between 512mb and 2gb of space. More »

Top 50 Handheld Games

brownlee — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:40:45 EDT

As they did for the Top 100 Greatest Games of the 21st Century, Next Generation has taken all portable games ever and ranked them numerically according to revenue and profit. More »

Sony: DRM Holding up PSP Download Service

Brian Crecente — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:01:14 EDT

I recently had a chance to talk with John Koller, the senior marketing manager for the Playstation Portable for a story I was working on for the Rocky Mountain News. The story ran online today. It mostly looks at the Playstation Portable's identity crisis: Is it a portable gamer or is it a multimedia player. There are plenty of other juicy tidbits packed into the story as well. More »

Medal of Honor Coming to PSP

Brian Crecente — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:00:46 EDT

1Up reports on EA's latest Medal of Honor. Medal of Honor Heroes is the Playstation Portable iteration of the popular franchise. The game will include six multiplayer modes, 32-player support and 15 maps. The campaign, single-player mode lets you unlock 20 different characters for multiplayer use. Sounds kinda cool, though it will totally depend on how they work the controls. Brian Crecente More »

A Real 'Portable' Xbox

brownlee — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:00:06 EDT

Modders, please stop. If your console is larger than your torso and an ergonomic monstrosity, it's not portable. Look at this Xbox Portable, for example. It's some nice work... seriously. But look where the control pad and buttons are compared to the rest of the device. If held upright while playing, at any given time you would be holding twenty pounds worth of electronics in mid-air by the mere corners of your expensive, one-of-a-kind homebrew mod. More »

The Amateur Logistics of the Xbox Portable

brownlee — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:40:43 EDT

Team Xbox, as you might expect from their site name, has a jones for a portable Xbox. So much so that they Photoshopped up the above (or right, depending on your browser width) Portable Xbox, which demonstrates the "basic set of features for a portable Xbox." Apparently, gamers really want a 12:4 screen aspect ratio. More »

Portable Gamecube Stretches Definition Of The Former

brownlee — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:00:00 EDT

You know, we post these classic consoles go portable, but really, semantics can only stretch the definition of 'portable' into so thin a layer of adjectival smegma. Not to belabor the obvious, but everything is portable if size isn't a consideration. More »

Electroplankton Dude Makes Electroplankton-Sounding Instrument

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 06:22:05 EDT

Toshio Iwai, the crazy musical genius behind the DS music "game" Electroplankton, is back and with a new crazy device. Called the Tenori-On, this Iwai and Yamaha Music created portable music player is still in the prototype phase. The instrument is laid out on a 16-by-16 grid of LED buttons and boasts two built-in speakers. The buttons can either be lightly strummed like a harp or pressed. Notes are apparently set off by a line of light that sweeps left to right, sorta like Lumines. What does it sound like? Electroplankton. Every generation needs a theremin. I'm so happy we're getting ours. Brian Ashcraft More »

NVidia Supplies 3D Graphics for iPods

brownlee — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:00:35 EDT

We've heard rumblings that the iPod is going to try to go head to head with Nintendo and Sony as a portable gaming platform before. For example, a couple of months ago, former Lucasarts technical director Mike Lampell headed up an Apple-endorsed group of "coders with a gaming background." And other such rumors. More »

Zune to Support Live Anywhere

Brian Crecente — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:00:27 EDT

Microsoft's Zune music player will indeed support Live Anywhere, according to an unnamed source that spoke to Digital Music News. Interestingly, there is still no confirmation of gameplay. More »

Seattle Times: Msoft's Portable Will Play Games

Brian Crecente — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:09:00 EDT

Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times is reporting that Microsoft's iPod killer, leaked last week, is indeed also going to tackle the gaming market. More »