Portable Gaming Revolution

The latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu reports that the classic adventure game Myst will be making it’s way to PC. The game will be published by Sega of Japan next March with no word on an American release at this time. Given the fact that Myst is one of the best selling franchises [...]

Australian developer Tantalus has announced that it is developing MX vs ATV Unleashed: On the Edge for the PSP. The project is a collaboration with Rainbow studios and will be published by THQ sometime in early 2006.
This is the first PSP title in the MX off-road franchise, a franchise in which many of the [...]

Sony has announced that the PSP exclusive game Pursuit Force will be hitting the shelves over in America sometime in Spring 2006. Some may remember that Cara covered this game in podcast 9, but at that time it was unknown if it would be coming overseas.

Pursuit Force lets you play as a [...]

Flixpo is a website that offers multiple free videos in both PSP and iPod formats. These are mostly the same viral videos found on places like eBaum’s World and IFilm, however it also has movie trailers and a number of other cool things.

Edisoncarter from GTA forums has today released an update for his fantastic GTA cheat device entitled v1.0c. This update adds:

Firmware 2.50 compatibility
More weather options

You can learn more about the program here
You can get the program from PSP updates here

Calcium has updated his 3GP Converter v0.33. 3GP today and it has been posted over at PSP Updates. This program is a video converter for multiple mobile devices including the PSP new iPod Video, and additionally now supports AVC.
Today’s changes are:
- When minimized, you will be able to access the Options interface by right-clicking [...]

Theory Is The Reason has a pretty good little article about the different available firmwares and the pros/cons of upgrading them.

Worth checking it out if you are confused about the different available firmware or just want assistance in determining if the newest version is for you.

Gamecloud is reporting that Doom the movie will be coming to UMD and DVD on Feb 7th 2006. The movie will be released in both Rated R and Unrated versions and the DVD will have a number of additional features.

Rumors are running rampant about the possibility of the 1.50 to 1.00 Firmware downgrader and PSP Updates has some information regarding it.
Please also know that there have been some reports of users bricking their PSPs while using this downgrade method. Hackers are speculating that only virgin 1.50 PSPs (PSPs that have never been upgraded/downgraded) will [...]

Danzel and bakablah over at PSP Updates have released version 0.7 of Peldet. Peldet is a telnet client for the PSP and the newest release now adds IRC and MUD support. If you are anything like me and grew up around IRC and MUD’s, you will probably find this to be a useful little utility.
You [...]

Good news for all you Sims fans out there! The crew over at Kotaku were informed by EA that the highly anticipated and amazingly popular Sims 2 would be hitting the PSP a week early. Instead of the originally announced release date of Dec. 13, it will be hitting the shelves on Dec. 7 which [...]

Karloz25 over at the Console Spot Forums posted an interesting article about the PSP Giga Pack in the UK and how it could be considered a rip-off.

But some customers who’ve bought the recently released Giga Pack have come away disappointed at being forced to buy games they didn’t want, simply because they have to come [...]