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sega vision

Sega Returning to the Hardware Biz with Vision PMP for 2009

Sony's PSP is currently getting its butt handed to it by the Nintendo DS, but don't tell that to Sega. With its upcoming Sega Vision PMP, due out in the UK sometime in 2009, the former hardware company-turned-sub par software maker is hoping to take on the jack-of-all-trades portable market. The prognosis for such a device is OK, but then again how could it not be? After all, this is the company that brought us the 32X, Saturn, and the Dreamcast—the only direction any Sega hardware offering could go from this point forward is up. More »

Feature

3:00 PM on Sun Oct 5 2008
By Jack Loftus
49,329 views, 64 comments

Latest by xmido: Looks ugly. Hey the video been removed :( more »

nintendo

Sony Fondles New DS with One Hand, Bitchslaps with the Other

In the wake of Nintendo's announcement of the DSi, Sony reached out and asked if we'd like to discuss the event and get their side of the story. Sony talking about Nintendo? How could we resist??

So we asked John Koller, Sony director of hardware marketing, what he thought about the DSi. Was it an aggressive enough refresh?

Nintendo has kind of a history of these [moderate] kinds of updates, and even with DS Lite, there was a lot of discussion, "Is that enough?" And they seemed to do pretty well there.
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5:20 PM on Thu Oct 2 2008
By Mark Wilson
13,029 views, 66 comments

Latest by x3sphere: @Hougie: ... the DSi has all the makings of a brand new system, yet still has the same hardware specs as the DS. It might not... we actually don't know the hardware specs. Nintendo has been reluctant to reveal them oddly enough. In the past, whenever new hardware was announced, they more »

hardcore gaming

Playing Your PSP at Work Is a Bad Idea, Especially When You Drive a City Bus

A bus driver in Honolulu, Hawaii, was suspended without pay recently after he was discovered playing video games while driving. Photos taken by a concerned passenger caught him red-handed with his PSP, and she complained that he would play at stoplights and "with two hands… at times, while he was driving in traffic." As baffling as all this is, I am even more surprised that he wasn't fired on the spot. And why didn't anyone speak up with a "hey dumbass, keep your eyes on the road before you kill us all?" [KITV via Kotaku]

Feature

7:40 PM on Thu Sep 25 2008
By Sean Fallon
10,655 views, 26 comments

Latest by chargernj: @Cynt: That busdrive needs to be fired on the spot. Tired of people who hold themselves above tradespeople because they have a college degree. And yes a busdriver is a tradesperson. The busdriver gets more for a few good reasons. That's because if something bad happens when a bus driver is working people more »

playstation portable

Third Parties Are Ditching the PSP

The sad thing about the PSP is that it's a solid piece of hardware that people, mostly in Japan, are buying, but in humorless irony, third parties are refusing to support the platform. In this graph by famed gaming magazine EDGE, you see in hard numbers that there are almost no more PSP games coming out this year than the year of its launch. In fact, game releases peaked for the system way back in 2006. And if the downward trend continues, 2009 could be plain sad. More »

Feature

11:00 AM on Wed Sep 24 2008
By Mark Wilson
6,963 views, 43 comments

Latest by tweaker: The psp is a good system, but I couldnt find many games I liked at first. Thats before I got custom firmware on mine, and was able to emulate older systems that I like so much. Lack of games has to be one of the main reasons for piracy, that more »

mods

Mod Connects Xbox 360 QWERTY Pad to PSP, Fanboy Heads Explode

Modder Giancarlo "Jean" Todone has video of the unholy union of an Xbox 360 QWERTY with a PSP Slim. While the mod works just fine, as you can see in the video, we worry about the fanboys. Seeing something like this in action must be kind of like how Brendan Fraser's character felt we he woke up for the first time in Encino Man. It doesn't make sense. It can't make sense. Because then everything you've based you life on—every waking moment—was a lie. More »

6:00 PM on Sun Sep 7 2008
By Jack Loftus
4,201 views, 9 comments

Latest by l0rdnic0: Gizmodo, Please get the facts strait, Giancarlo "Jean" Todone is the creator of the PSP Chatpad hack. I l0rdnic0 am the author of the Video! Also the keyboards shot in the video are mine. When I got involved with this project it was all but dead, I am just trying more »

psp 3000

PSP 3000 Actually Has Same Battery Life as the Current PSP

Originally, it was believed that the battery life of the PSP 3000 would be worse than the original, but Gamespot has learned from Sony that it will actually be the same (about 4 to 6 hours for games and about 4 to 5 hours for UMD videos). While the new screen does require more power, Sony has compensated by reducing the power draw of other components. The weird thing here is that Sony originally suggested that re-releasing the discontinued PSP extended battery pack was the solution. Is there some confusion here or did they just reverse ground? [Gamespot via Playstation Blog]

5:30 PM on Wed Sep 3 2008
By Sean Fallon
3,123 views, 9 comments

Latest by DJTripleRRR: Not surprised. more »

psp

PSP Wi-Fi Store On the Way this Fall

There's been no good reason that PSP users have had to download content through a PC or PS3 when the system can connect to Wi-Fi networks just fine on its own. Now Sony has revealed that a PSP Wi-Fi store is indeed in the works and slated to arrive in a firmware update this fall (confirmed for Japan only, we believe, but surely coming to the US as well). Ironically, when Sony is finally letting the PSP run free, they'll also be offering a new reason to connect the device to a PS3. More »

9:06 AM on Tue Sep 2 2008
By Mark Wilson
2,673 views, 10 comments

Latest by Charging_Mooses: oranges... well that about sums it up... yeah this will crash and burn more »

psp

PSP 3000 To Have Worse Battery Life, But Sony Takes Note

The PSP 3000 will have a brighter LCD with a wider color gamut and 5 times the contrast ratio of the PSP 2000. From the shots we've seen, it blows the old screen away—and that screen was already pretty decent. There is, of course, a catch. And that catch is that the PSP will lose somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes of battery life compared to the old PSP, putting its playtime to 3 1/2 to 4 hours. But to compensate, Sony will be rereleasing the just-discontinued PSP extended battery to the market which should still provide 8-10 hours of play. UPDATE: Sony has done an abrupt about-face on the battery issue. [Gamespot via Maxconsole]

Feature

10:40 AM on Fri Aug 29 2008
By Mark Wilson
6,601 views, 20 comments

Latest by MinceyFresh: I wish they would've just made the display reflective so that it's visible in direct sunlight (i.e. the original GameBoy Advance & 1st gen GBA SP)! If that were the case, I'm sure Sony would've been able to figure out how to make the sidelights just as bright as the backlights more »

sony

Stella Artois PSP Rekindles Our Interest in Two Unlike Fads

The combination isn't exactly the most obvious, but hey, I'm a gamer, and hey, I like paying $5 a glass for a pretentious beer that tastes identical to Budweiser. The Stella Artois PSP was manufactured in a limited edition for the Fosters employees who'd be brewing the "import" in Australia for Australia—part of the official "please don't spit in our delicate European beer" bonus. [Lowe Rivet via Kotaku]

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8:59 AM on Mon Aug 25 2008
By Mark Wilson
8,932 views, 52 comments

Latest by tinkertank: I'm sorry, but Bud tastes like arse... Who in there right mind would make beer with rice anyway? Beer's only real ingredients are: water, hops, barley, and yeast... NO RICE, No sewer water... Stella isn't the best in the world, but it's a thousand times better than any yahkee beer, more »

psp

PSP 3000 Photos Emerge: New Bright Screen is New, Bright

The updated PSP 3000 didn't seem all that jaw-dropping, save for talk of its dramatically improved screen: But now pics of the screen in action have surfaced, and boy oh boy, it's dramatically improved alright. Check out that contrast in the pic, comparing it to the PSP Lite: Game playing in brightly-lit situations looks like it won't be a problem with the new machine. In other pics you can see the redesign has other minor changes, like a slightly more curved profile at the edges near the control pads... whether this makes for more comfortable handling will have to wait for a hands-on review. [Famitsu via Kotaku]

Feature

5:33 AM on Fri Aug 22 2008
By Kit Eaton
17,082 views, 32 comments

Latest by SneakerFiend: yeah you can tell just by looking at the key pads that it'll be way more comfortable on your thumbs holding this thing. Makes me want a psp more »