Portable Gaming Revolution

It’s definitely been an awesome year for the folks over at Nintendo! Profits are up a whopping 72% in the second quarter of 2006, and they are apparently going to be shipping out an astounding 3 million more DS units, going from their original projection of 17 million to a nice round 20 million. [...]

Sudoku, the incredibly popular puzzle game has recently taken the world by storm. Eidos Interactive, along with Zoonnami Ltd. are planning to capitalize on that popularity by creating something entirely new called Zendoku. The game is said to combine exciting puzzle battle action with the addictiveness of Sudoku. In the game, you [...]

In the third part of a comparison series (the first two being between MP3 and portable video players and then between high end smartphones), Dr. Raymond Soneira has gone and spent a considerable amount of time pitting the LCD screens of the PSP and DS Lite against each other.
It is a monstrous article, where he [...]

And in late-breaking news this evening, the winners at the 24th Annual Golden Joystick Awards have been announced. For those of you who may not be familiar, they are the annual video game awards that got their start way back in 1982, with the winners being chosen by the people who matter the most… [...]

Sony has given us a little treat: firmware update 2.81 and a special Halloween LocoRoco demo. It’s not quite as satisfying as candy but I guess it’s better than nothing. The update has no new features apparently as it says “Revisions to strengthen security have been added.” Early reports say the LocoRoco demo works on [...]

…and it is with heartfelt sympathy and sadness that we say good-bye to our recently dear departed retailer, Lik-Sang…
I posted a news article a couple of days ago, reporting on the court case of Sony vs. Lik-Sang. It has been confirmed that due to the aftermath and rapidly escalating costs of the legal system, [...]

Due to a system crash, this episode is out a bit later then intended. A nice side effect of that is that I now have two, count em two, “The Scene” segments for you this week. Cara had recorded one a couple weeks ago for my first recording session of #55, and thankfully it wasn’t [...]

 

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We’ve got another stellar week in PSP game releases and again, a great mix of genres! Check out the following titles that are scheduled to be released on Tuesday, October 24th:

ATV Offroad Fury Pro
Capcom Classics Reloaded
Dynasty Warriors: Volume 2
Medal of Honor: Heroes
Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
Star Trek: Tactical Assault

And with those timeless words, you enter the world of Parappa the Rapper! Oddly enough, I can still recite most of the first level of the original PSOne release, and I never even played the game myself! (I was just “lucky” enough to be around while my brother was forever playing through it.)
So [...]

Sony has won a resounding victory against popular online retailer Lik-Sang over their grey market exports of Japanese PSP’s. Judge Michael Fysh ruled that Lik-Sang was in breach of Sony’s intellectual property rights by importing its products in the case that went all the way to London’s High Court. (Grey importing is importing [...]

Ever since the PSP was released last year, load times have been the bane of every PSP gamers existence…. okay, maybe that’s going a little overboard, but they are extremely annoying! I know that I’ve decided against picking up certain games if the load times have been reported as being unbelievably long.
GameSpot has taken [...]

Just in time for Halloween, PGZine brings you the first Handheld Fearfest! Within its pages you will find chills, thrills, and kills… well really you’ll find a list of horror UMDs to help get you in the spirit, but use your imagination.
Halloween is that time of year where you can just kick back, throw on [...]