Tag: PSP
PSP firmware 3.70 arrives with hot new features including, er…
Okay, so there’s rarely dancing in the streets at the arrival of a firmware update for PSP, so 3.70 shouldn’t be criticised for being a trifle underwhelming.
New features include the ability to listen to music while browsing photos, custom themes support, a scene search during UMD movie playback (for all those users who watch UMD movies. Both of you.) and custom button assignment during Remote Play. It’s an evolution, not a revolution, kids. And custom themes do sound cool.
Rumour: Sony Ericsson to unveil mobile gaming phone in February
Rumours that Sony Ericsson was planning to launch a PlayStationPhone have been bubbling for several months, fuelled by a recent interview in which the company confirmed that the idea was “something that we’re looking at”.
Well, it seems the looking may have gone well, because Mobile Entertainment is reporting that Sony Ericsson will unveil a dedicated gaming phone next February at the Mobile World Congress trade show.
Wot, no coloured new PSPs and TV-out cables for us Brits?
UK gamers, it’s time to puff yourselves up into righteous rage. Reports suggest that when Sony’s new slimline PSP goes on sale next week, it will only be available in plain-old black, rather than the different-coloured versions seen in Japan.
After closing Connect, Sony rumoured to be plotting new PS3 / PSP / Bravia downloads store
Sony’s recently-closed Connect music downloads store is unlamented, to say the least. Yet the timing seemed a bit strange, given that everyone from Nokia and Amazon through to Wal-Mart is getting into the music downloads market. Now they’ve been joined by… Sony?
Lair: the dragon-packed PS3 game you can play on your PSP
As if any game needed more to recommend it than the phrase ‘involves bluddy great big dragons flapping about all over the place’. I’m sold on Lair right there. But Sony’s upcoming PS3 title just got another unique (for now) selling point.
See, Lair will be the first PS3 game that’s also playable on a PSP, using Sony’s Remote Play technology…
New OS X iPods rumoured… but is Apple planning a handheld games device?
Well-connected blog AppleInsider has a story claiming that next month will see the launch of Apple’s next-gen iPods, running an embedded version of Mac OS X.
Sony pitching PSP's non-gaming features with GPS satnav and Sky TV downloads
We’ll have to start filing PSP stories under ‘personal media players’ rather than ‘gaming’ soon, such is Sony’s determination to expand its handheld’s non-gaming capabilities.
We wrote yesterday about its Go!Messenger VoIP project with BT, but Sony has also just unveiled plans for a satnav add-on, as well as on-demand TV downloads from Sky.
Slot your PSP into a cardboard arcade cabinet
Why? Why not? Anything to break up the humdrum of another mid-table season on Football Manager Handheld (if I could just get a decent holding midfielder, I’d be challenging for honours, really).
Clip-on screen turns PS3 into a handheld games console. Sort of.
Well, you would need ENORMOUS hands, but it’s a start. Nevover Electronic has released an LCD screen that attaches to your PS3, making Sony’s console portable.
Hack allows Nintendo DS games to be played on the Sony PSP
Modders have been lifting their game recently – the past week has shown a NES emulator on the iPhone, a 360 mod which allowed the Wiimote to be used when playing Halo 2, and of course the Optimus Prime Transformers PC case mod which pleased me to the point of almost commissioning someone to create one for me. Oh, ok, a Megatron PC case mod, but still….
