Tag: PSP

A 10-year-old Italian boy is lucky to be in one piece today, after falling on to a railway line in Milan. The boy, who was on his way home from school, was engrossed with whatever game he was playing on his Sony PSP, and apparently didn't notice the ledge toward which he kept walking. Luckily, an off-duty policeman named Alessandro Micalizzi immediately jumped in to rescue the boy, and, ...

Let's be honest. The PSP Go was a bit of a letdown as a follow-up to the original PSP. And, while most of the attention has been focused on the upcoming "PlayStation" phone (which has yet to appear with any PlayStation branding on it), Sony has been quietly working on a proper sequel to the PlayStation Portable. Codenamed NGP, the next-gen PSP packs an impressive array of hardware that would make ...

It shouldn't come as any surprise, that 'Angry Birds' is continuing its invasion infection spread to any and every device that is capable of running it. Next up are the PS3 and PSP, which will both get access to the destructive, physics-based game via a PlayStation Store update, coming this week. But the real question is, when will it get ported to our beloved Commodore 64? ...

In the future, video games will become increasingly mobile and less dependent on consoles. Or, at least, that's what 'Metal Gear Solid' creator Hideo Kojima thinks. According to Reuters, Kojima told reporters that he foresees consoles becoming obsolete. "Gamers should be able to take the experience with them in their living rooms, on the go, when they travel -- wherever they are and whenever they ...

All Kade Goodman wanted for Christmas was a PSP game system. Little did he know, however, that he'd be getting two units under the tree this year. Kade's father, Shon, scoured the Earth for a used PSP, a holiday odyssey that led him to a CD Tradepost in Omaha, where he finally found one at a reasonable price. After opening his golden fleece of a gift, though, 10-year old Kade soon found some, ...

HYPE CHECK Sony PSPGo What it is: Sony's third crack at creating the ultimate handheld gaming system. PSP Go takes what Sony has accomplished with the PlayStation Portable (PSP) and squeezes it into a significantly smaller form factor, and embraces a whole new approach to getting games onto the device. Sporting graphics output roughly equivalent to that of the PlayStation 2 (if not better ...

Many may scoff at so-called video game addiction, but three men in Tennessee recently provided some damaging evidence that gaming dependency may be an actual affliction. The guys apparently could not resist playing their portable gaming devices, even though doing so could have initiated the apocalypse -- yes, these three dudes stupidly brought their signal-transmitting Sony PSPs into a nuclear ...

Called mind-melting, violence-inducing time-killers, video games have gotten a pretty bad rap. Often overlooked are the potential advantages to having an immersive (and fun) entertainment experience. Yet, the Economist is now reporting that several different findings to be released this summer all that suggest "pro-social" games, or those that aren't based on blowing up or gunning down, ...

If you're tired of all the iPhone and Android rumors, but aren't ready to give up on speculating in general, take a gander at what Sony will supposedly be unveiling at the E3 Expo in June -- a brand-new Sony PSP. The new portable gaming system will supposedly come in a new form and be free of the dead-end UMD drive. Instead, the PSP _____ ('Slide'? 'Flip'? 'Go'? Pick one.) will have eight or 16 ...

As is the case with so many parents, one woman in the Tampa Bay area recently thought it would be a great idea to give her son a new Sony PSP as a late Christmas gift. She had no way of knowing how wrong she would wind up being. Six-year-old Eliso Tovar had just turned on his new, prized possession when a picture of a naked woman appeared on the screen, My Fox Tampa Bay reported Sunday. Eliso, ...

The Leipzig Games Convention (a.k.a. the GC) is going fast and furious through the end of the week in Germany, and Sony has started things off with a slew of updates and revelations about their PlayStation line of gaming devices. First, the company finally made the PSP-3000 official, another tweak to their aged but ultimately respectable PSP. It'll be more or less the same as the PSP-2000 (last ...

Sony has now officially kicked off its assault on this year's minimalist E3 conference in typical non-minimalist style -- with a press conference on Tuesday featuring a bevvy of flat-screen TVs and a dazzling array of video game content (some real-time, some faked computer graphics), all of which will make even a jaded gamer more optimistic about the future of gaming. There was a bit of ...

Summer is a time to escape -- to the beach, to the countryside, to the other side of the world. And for those of us who just love our down time, there's plenty of it (mostly spent on flying on planes, riding in cars, and laying on beach chairs). So we've compiled a list of the best portable games for Sony PSP and Nintendo DS to pack in your bag this summer; whether you're looking to hit the ...

If you've got a PSP-2000 and a hankering for some VoIP on the run, Sony has finally brought its Skype-friendly PSP headset to US retail. Unfortunately, it won't work with those original fatty PSPs, and at $30 you've gotta ask yourself how much you'll really be using it for -- the original price was set at $20. That said, it's undoubtedly the easiest way to get up and running with Skype and ...

Are Sony PSPs going the same way as burning cell phones and batteries? According to WebPro News, a Farmington Hills, Mich., middle school boy felt something warm happening in his pants during band class -- and, just as you suspected (dirty monkeys!) -- it turned out that his Sony PSP was heating up to the point of causing second-degree burns. In an almost cliche-like instance of coincidence, ...