Tag: SONYPSP

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, ...

We're willing to bet that you have at least one special electrical outlet that plays host to an overtaxed and exhausted power strip -- you know, the one swarmed by chargers for your cell phone, iPod, PSP or Nintendo DS, and perhaps an iPad or e-reader for good measure. (That's not even counting your roommate or significant other's contributions.) For overwhelmed sockets, we'd recommend the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Market research firm NPD has reported video game hardware and software sales for the month of June and, when compared to last year's results, there's some impressive growth to be seen. Overall video game sales are up by 31 percent compared to last year, largely spurred on by the hugely popular Nintendo Wii, of which Nintendo moved 381,800 units in the month. The little white box outsold ...

Sony's PSP (PlayStation Portable), despite being over 2 years old, has gained popularity of late thanks to a recent price cut to $169. Now their piano-black portable has gained a performance bump, too. Sony's latest PSP firmware update enables game developers to run new games at 333 megahertz, a 25% speed boost over the 266 megahertz the PSP runs at for current games. The reason for the speed ...

Rumors about a new and improved PlayStation Portable (PSP) have abounded ever since the Sony handheld gaming device launched in early 2005. Why? Mainly because the existing model has some drawbacks: Its proprietary UMD movie format offers a limited selection (and sold poorly), it's too big to compete with other media players, and its battery life of under five hours only makes it useful for ...