According to PSP Fanboy our favorite beat dropping, lyric slinging, toque wearing Dogg will be appearing in a as of yet unannounced PSP title. I have many fond memories of playing this game for hours upon hours with my buds on the PS1, and I can only hope that this turns out to be true. [...]

PSP version 2.81 is out in the wild folks. But not so fast. 2.81 brings no new features. It’s another one of Sony’s security updates to patch the recently discovered TIFF exploit. But if you really want to the latest and “greatest” firmware, you can download it via network update. It is not available through [...]

Polyphony Digital, the developers behind the infamous Gran Turismo series, has “categorically denied” all reports that they have stopped development for the PSP version of Gran Turismo. Reports from the popular Japanese gaming magazine, Famitsu, speculated that development for Gran Turismo 4 Mobile was on indefinite hold. However, the developer says that development has not [...]

Here’s PSP Podcast #53! We have lots of news for you this week, as lots has happened. I talk about my 1.5 downgrade experience, chat a bit about some homebrew, go over the pricing info for the Camera and GPS addons, then Cara come to the rescue with a great episode of The Scene! Enjoy! [...]

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The PSP gets three new games this week. Of the three, one has been drawing a lot of attention. Ironically, it doesn’t involve guns, explosives, or anything of the sort. In fact, it features an adorable yellow blob as the main character that can split itself into little pieces by calling upon a lightening bolt [...]

Gamers in Japan lined up a few days ago for the release of the jet black version of the Nintendo DS Lite. We’re not talking just a couple either. We mean numbers in the couple hundred range! Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara maxed out at 500 people and sold out in less than an hour. At [...]

Games, check. Web browser, check. MP3 player, check. Reminds you of the PSP doesn’t it? The above picture is a page from a brochure from the Leipzig Games Convention held recently in Germany. Nintendo hasn’t said anything about it yet but we expect them to make an announcement soon. The device is for DS (insert [...]

As we all know, the DS Lite nearly sells out every time a new color or edition is released in Japan. Nintendo obviously realizes this and is putting out several special editions of the handheld. There is the Final Fantasy III DS Lite that is bundled with the portable RPG, the Pokemon Diamond/Pearl edition DS [...]

Dark_Alex in conjunction with Mathieulh has released the first known 2.71 downgrader. The 2.71 downgrader is a port of the old 2.50/2.60 downgrader to use the recently discover libtiff exploit. The procedure is almost identical to that of the 2.50/2.60 downgrader except this time around you won’t need GTA. As always, be very cautious. Homebrew [...]

Famous Japanese designer Tikko a Swarovski has modded a DS Lite by adding crystals onto the flap behind the DS’ LCD screen. If desire one of these hand-customized DS Lites, you simply need to fly over to Japan and find a way to contact Swarovski. He’ll sell you one for $390 American.

Recently, pictures of Sony’s planned camera and GPS add-ons flooded gaming sites all over the web. Sony has announced the Japanese release date and price of both. The 1.3 mega pixel camera will be capable of taking pictures at either 480×272 or 640×480 resolution, and shooting 30 fps video 15 seconds at a time. The [...]

Ubisoft released a press release today announcing a PSP-exclusive Brothers in Arms game being developed in conjunction with Gearbox Software. Brothers in Arms D-Day puts players in the boots Sergeants Baker and Hartsock of the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles as they make their way to Carentan and St. Sauveur with their squad of paratroopers. Few [...]