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Sony’s New Handheld Is Not Called The PSP2 (Yet)
For the past few months – and over the past few hours, for convenience’s sake – we’ve labelled Sony’s new handheld gaming device the PSP2. That has to stop, because it’s not the thing’s name. As you may already be aware, what we all thought of as the PSP2 has actually been given the working…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2011 -
Our Camera Adds Ten Pounds to the PSP2
Viewed in the spectacle of a media feeding frenzy, the PSP2, codenamed NGP, suddenly seems to have more girth than the sexy device spotted in Sony’s official pictures Those fade-away edges no longer seem to fade-away. The touch-sensitive back suddenly has “back.” Prepare yourself and then flip through the untouched, unfilitered images of a PSP2…
By Brian Crecente Published January 27, 2011 -
The Not So Sexy PSP 2 Photographers
By Brian Crecente Published January 27, 2011 -
The PSP2 Has A Slick Little Logo
Here’s one of the less obvious, but nevertheless classiest things about the new NGP/PSP2: its branding. While the handheld bears the working title NGP, or Next Generation Portable, that’s neither its final, formal name, nor is it present anywhere on the case of the new device. All you get is…PlayStation. In that nice, clean font…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2011 -
Deadwood, NYPD Blue Producer to Work on Heavy Rain Movie Adaptation
David Milch, whose credits include some of my personal television favorites like Deadwood, NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues, will be adapting Playstation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain into a feature film with Warner Bros., Variety reports. Milch will be working with Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne to turn Heavy Rain the movie into Rain the…
By Brian Crecente Published January 27, 2011 -
Metal Gear Solid 4, Lost Planet, Yakuza Shown In PSP2 Form
The PSP2—or the NGP, as its currently codenamed—may be powerful enough to play PlayStation 3-quality games. At today’s coming out party for the next-generation PlayStation Portable, Sony and friends showed just that. Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida likened the power of the next PSP to that of its current home console, the four-year-old PS3. A handful of…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 27, 2011 -
Catch The PSP2’s Debut trailer
Here’s the first trailer for Sony’s new PSP2 (or NGP as it’ll be known). It’s heavy on concepts and light on actual footage of the thing (or its games), but it does at least get across the main points Sony’s trying to make with the thing.
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2011 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2011 -
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.
By Brian Crecente Published January 27, 2011 -
A Closer Look At Sony’s NGP
By Brian Crecente Published January 27, 2011 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2011 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2011 -
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…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 27, 2011 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2011 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2011 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 27, 2011 -
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…
By Owen Good Published January 26, 2011 -
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…
By Michael McWhertor Published January 26, 2011