Tag: PSP
Google search bar coming to PSP in 4.00 firmware upgrade
While Sony might be messing things up a little elsewhere in its gaming portfolio, it’s charming PSP goes from strength to strength with each software update – and the changes coming in version 4.00 are every bit as innovative as we’ve come to expect from the portable media-playing power machine.
Well, fairly innovative – there’ll be a little Google search bar on the front end of the machine’s XMB dashboard menu screen thing when you update to firmware v4.00, allowing wi-fi-connected PSPs…
Ubisoft calls for Sony to "go back to the drawing board" with the PlayStation Portable.
Games publisher, Ubisoft, has criticised Sony’s PlayStation Portable for its failure to keep pace with the Nintendo DS handheld. UK Managing Director Rob Cooper has said in a recent interview that PSP lacks direction and that Sony has over-complicated and over-priced the console…
Nintendo DS games go budget with five, cheap brain tease titles from Lexicon
Nintendo going cheapo, well whatever next? The new Super Brain Tease titles from 25-time DS publisher Lexicon Entertainment will comprise of five different specialist editions of Football, Geography, Music, Movies and History and be available for an eye-poppingly reasonable £9.99…
"PSP needs more games" says Sony boss – and he is doing something about it
I’m glad I bought my PSP, honestly. The majestic Lumines and Lumines II were worth the price of the handheld alone. And good job too – there’s nothing else on the machine worth playing*.
The lack of original games is hurting Sony. While PSP sells well around the world, its software sales are nothing like those of the competition. This is thanks to the PSP charts being full of uninspired big console ports like FIFA 08, Need for Speed…
Sony and Sky team up to launch GO! VIEW telly service for PSP (soon)
Launching “this summer,” Sony and Sky’s GO! VIEW is an exceedingly clever way of shovelling TV shows onto your PSP for watching at your leisure.
Sky provides the telly, while Sony gives PSP owners a way to create a TV schedule on their PSPs. The whole thing is then packed up on a PC and transferred…
Stuck in the pits – Gran Turismo Mobile suffers another release date delay
I’m not sure how to break this gently, so I’m just going to say it. Grand Turismo Mobile will not be out before the end of the year…
Shiny Video Review: four best PMPs for watching Lost on, from Archos, Creative, Apple and Sony
In case you haven’t been suckered into it, Lost has left our screens for a four-week hiatus, so I thought it was high time to review four of the best PMPs for storing the last four seasons of the addictive show onto, for watching when you’re on the train to work, at the football, or waiting for your colleague who’s in a sex shop.
Take a look above at the video, which we just filmed on the streets of London’s Soho district, for our thoughts on the Archos 605 Wi-fi, Sony PSP, Creative Zen, and Apple iPod Touch….
SUCK UK cardboard mini arcade: pinnacle of modern engineering
Keeping in tune with today’s DIY theme, new from SUCK UK (home of the drumstick pencil and the wooden postcard) is the flatpack Mini Arcade. This incredibly useful piece of folded cardboard arranges into a mini co-op cabinet, with a space where the screen would be, upon which you can perch your PSP.
Internet radio upgraded in PSP's latest firmware update
Are you one of those odd people who thinks Japanese pop music is a cool thing to listen to? Or perhaps you’re more of a 80s man, seeing as it is a bit hard keeping up with all the cool new bands nowadays and you can never really go wrong with Duran Duran’s Greatest hits?
Or, and this really is s long shot, perhaps you’re developing a love of classical music thank to Halo’s use of choirs and instruments made out of wood? Whatever your ear poison, chances are PSP’s latest 3.93 firmware…
Manhunt 2 wins appeal for UK release
Following a prolonged battle with the BBFC, Rockstar’s controversial Wii, PS2 and PSP title, Manhunt 2 has been granted a release by the Video Appeals Committee. It is expected to go on sale in the UK later this year.
