Portable Gaming Revolution

Sony has teamed up with T-Mobile to offer six months of complimentary wi-fi access through T-Mobile’s nationwide HotSpot service. The catch is that you must be using the latest 3.30 firmware. If you’re using 3.30, just go to your nearest T-Mobile HotSpot and choose the “Use Wireless HotSpot” option to get started. The nice thing [...]

With the release of the new 3.30 firmware, full screen video support has finally become feasible and the developers of PSP Video 9, Red Kawa, are all over it. In less than twenty-four hours, they put together a version of PSP Video 9, albeit very beta, capable of encoding at 480×272 and 720×480 resolution. There [...]

Heads up everyone, firmware update 3.30 is out and available for download! What happened to 3.20? Nobody knows, but who cares? This update brings a few features, one of which many people will be excited to hear: full screen video support. That’s right, Sony has finally lifted the shackles and is allowing users to play [...]

Someone from Acid Mods has created an ingenious PSP battery pack mod that allows you to use standard AAA batteries with your PSP. The tutorial covers how take out the innards of a standard PSP battery pack and solder on positive and negative battery contacts to allow for three AAA batteries to used. This would [...]

You heard right folks. It is now possible to run homebrew on all firmware versions. The Noobz team found a “goofy” exploit a few short days ago and has now released a downgrader for firmware version 3.03 (the latest). The exploit takes advantage of a kernel mode hole found in the old GTA exploit that [...]

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 [...]

The October PSP Content Pack has been released. This month features the G.A.P Killzone wallpaper contest finalist. Sadly, there is no demo this month; perhaps the new Killzone content will make up for it. Download the October PSP Content Pack PSP Content ATV Offroad Fury Pro – Trailer Gangs of Londo – Gang Videos Gangs [...]

The invitations for the Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters beta test have been sent out! The test requires firmware version 2.81 and the ability to play online as this is an online beta test. If you’ve participated in previous betas you’ll know that beta discs are limited, so if you were invited, hurry and sign [...]

“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse” said Don Corleone in the Godfather (greatest movie ever). Whether or not the PSP game based on the movie will be unrefusable is yet to be seen but based on the scores its console brethren are getting, it should be a pretty decent game. If Mob [...]

PGZine is about all portable game systems. To prove that to you we are bringing you a great review of Starfox Command for the DS today. Mitchyd has done a great job bringing you his thoughts on the game, thanks for submitting this Mtchyd. If you would like to contrbute to the PGZine, drop my [...]

It’s been a while since portable gaming has seen this many games coming out in one week. The radar shows five new PSP games this week. They all should be pretty decent games, whether they are AAA games is yet to be seen. One to look out for is LEGO Star Wars II: The Original [...]

Ubisoft has announced that Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas will be making its way to PSP alongside it’s Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 brethren. However, this is not simply a port. Vegas for PSP will feature a parallel storyline with a single and multiplayer action. In Vegas for PSP, players will play as Brian Armstrong [...]