Let’s See How Big This PSP2 Really Is

Here’s how the new PSP2 (or NGP) sizes up compared to its competition in the handheld gaming space. The long answer is below. The short answer is…it’s a monster of a handheld. Want to know more? Like what it feels like to play games on? Or how Uncharted will be different on the NGP? How…

The First Sexy Pics of the PSP 2

The Playstation Portable 2, codenamed the NGP, is a sexy beast packed with touch controls, dual analog sticks, a sexy OLED screen and built-in 3G. And just look at it. You know you want to caress it. But you can’t, not until later this year. Until then stare… and stare…. and stare.

A Closer Look At Sony’s NGP

The PSP2 Is Like A Friends List In Your Pocket

The PSP2 – or, as it’s being called temporarily, the Next Generation Portable – will as expected play nice with cellular data networks via a 3G connection. Here’s what that means for your gaming. Sony will be implementing a service alongside the new handheld called LiveArea, which in conjunction with an “app” called Near is…

Uncharted Leads The PSP2’s First Game Lineup

There’s a new PSP! And it needs games. Lucky, then, it’s getting some, and it’s starting at the very top of the PlayStation tree. With Uncharted. Other games shown off or revealed so far at the PlayStation Meeting 2011 in Tokyo include PSP2 versions of Killzone, WipeOut, Resistance, Monster Hunter, LittleBigPlanet, Call of Duty, Hustle…

The PSP2 Is Here: Dual Analog Sticks, Touch-Sensitive OLED, 3G Built In & So Much More

The PSP2 is finally here. Sony revealed its brand new PlayStation Portable at an event in Tokyo today, our first official look at the PlayStation maker’s next foray into handheld gaming, the NGP or “Next Generation Portable.” First details below. The Hardware Sony confirmed many of the features of the PSP2 that we’ve already heard…

PlayStation Games Coming To Android Phones

At it’s big PlayStation event held today in Tokyo, Sony has revealed a program whereby “certified” PlayStation games will be made available for mobile phones. Rather than be tied to a single device, like we’ve been seeing all along, Sony is calling this idea “PlayStation Suite”, a mobile gaming platform of sorts designed for Android…

Live From Sony’s Tokyo Press Conference

Sony is almost universally expected to unveil an all-new PlayStation Portable at a special press event in Tokyo today. We’re there, right now, in the front row, camera and keyboard at the ready. Please, won’t you join us? UPDATE: The Liveblog has ended, but our coverage, including hands-on, game impressions, interviews, photos and more, continues…

We Like This Other 3DS Way Better

As with all electronic devices, the Nintendo 3DS went through a prototyping stage. Thing is, the unused prototype unit you see here looks way better than the final, retail design. Shown off in a new “Iwata Asks” Q&A session on Nintendo’s Japanese website, the image on the right is of a 3DS prototype that appears…

APB’s Getting The Beta-Testing Band Back Together

Beta-testing invitations for APB: Reloaded, the free-to-play reboot of the cops-and-robbers MMO, have gone out, apparently to beta testers of the original ill-fated MMO. Beta players will return to San Paro, with their old characters intact. Closed beta invites were sent to us by three different readers. “If you don’t sign up, you won’t have…

Late Nights

Good evening, Kotaku readers. I know you’re up. You can’t wait to hear about the [forthcoming PlayStation announcement], so let’s make the time pass more quickly with an open thread. Off topic conversations are welcome here. And video game related ones are too. Surely the anticipation of the PSP2 and/or PSP Phone (aka Sony Ericsson…

Slightly Disturbed Baseball Player To Pimp Video Game On Talk Show

Brian Wilson, the eccentric, bearded reliever of the San Francisco Giants, hits the talk show circuit this evening to pimp MLB 2K11 and unveil a short film he’s written. Queries as to whether “The Machine”/Pat Burrell would also appear were avoided outright. Whatever it is will be on “Lopez Tonight”, midnight EST, 11 p.m. CST.

Are Games Art? Well, They Now Belong In A Museum …

More than 300 exhibits comprise Computerspielemuseum, The Computer Game Museum, which opened Friday in Berlin. New consoles join old friends like Pong, plus what looks like a 1980s Imagic game manipulated by a giant joystick. More images inside. [images by Getty]

Tetris Makes World Spending A Little More Understandable

Last night President Obama delivered the State of the Union. Written for posterity, perhaps, it’s still a policy speech, and policy costs. Here’s “Debtris,” reminding everyone that, a bilion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money. Debtris, produced last month by Information is Beautful, arranges spending figures in relative sizes to…

Sony Starts Rolling Out New PS3 Security Updates

In the wake of hackers exploiting security vulnerabilities in the PlayStation 3, opening the system to custom firmware, hacks and piracy, Sony appears to be issuing a response with new security updates. The official PlayStation.blog warns that a new system update for the PS3 (version 3.56) will be released soon. Eric Lempel, VP or Network…

Watch A Grown-Ass Man Losing His Mind Playing NBA 2K11

Remember our foul-mouthed Street Fighter IV friend? Anything he can do, our NBA 2K11 player can do better. Both spew words of the F- MF- (and N-) variety, but our hoopster does it to DMX. Bitch, eat that. Ho. NSFW. The first 90 seconds are mostly random profanity, insults of Ron Artest’s manhood and LeBron…

‘My Virtual Girlfriend’ Is Real-world Creepy

It seems we here in the U.S. are sliding down the slippery slope toward the kind of infatuation with virtual and stuffed girlfriends that are so popular in Japan. That’s right, if you’re the kind of lonely guy (or gal for that matter) who finds dating real women a bit too taxing, there’s an app…

FIFA Commentator’s Sexist Remarks Put EA Sports In A Pinch

Tuesday, Sky Sports sacked football commentator Andy Gray after his sexist disparagement of a female official made it into a pre-game broadcast. Gray still has a job, though: The voice of EA Sports’ FIFA series since 1997. Reached for comment, EA Sports had none on Gray’s remarks specifically, nor whether the scandal would cost Gray…

Sorry, No Kid Icarus Or Zelda For Nintendo 3DS Until After E3

Nintendo has already laid out its plans for the Nintendo 3DS launch window games for North America—all 23 of them—but if you’re hoping for two of its bigger games to break into that window, don’t hope too hard. Perhaps two of the best reasons for purchasing a Nintendo 3DS, a new Kid Icarus and one…

PSP 2 (?) Command Central is a Go

I’m ready, basking in the glow of all of those (not really) warming LCDs. You know, my dad told me once about how when he was in the army, back in the 50s I think, G.I.s would stand in front of giant radar dishes on cold winter nights to warm up. Yikes! Anyway, get to…