Portable Gaming Revolution

As we view the ‘Most Wanted games this Summer’, we just can’t help but notice that more and more games are being put on hold or canceled. Manhunt 2 has been crossed off the summer games list. Not only will Manhunt 2 not make the July ship date that Take-Two promised, but development for the [...]

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 [...]

I must say, this is one of Sony’s better ad campeigns. Their last advertisement wasn’t exactly been well received. Surely the cute and cuddly benign LocoRoco characters are not carrying out their advertising crusade with malevolent intentions?

It must have been an interesting spectacle as PSP gamers from all over New York City meet a subway. Judging by the pictures, they had a lot of fun as well. :)
While The PSP Nation regularly hosts weekly PSP meetups in New York, we decided to spread the love this week by taking the group [...]

Gamespot has posted a great video retrospective of the first year of the PSP.
The PlayStation Portable (PSP) was released in the US on March 24, 2005, and was the first system that seemed poised to threaten Nintendo’s dominant Game Boy franchise in the handheld market.
The system doubles as a portable multimedia device allowing people to [...]

Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) have confirmed their support as a sponsor for this years Handheld Learning 2006, joining Fujitsu-Siemens Computers and Palm.
Handheld learning is an annual conference and exhibition, about how handheld and mobile devices (such as PSP :p)can be used to enhance the learning experience. It had a huge turnout lastyear and is now [...]

Joystiq has posted an interesting picture for us all to look at. It’s a picture of a “Zoom Shop” they found at an airport. Apparently, its a vending machine that offers some some really neat gadgets including iPods, accessories, Nintendo Game Boys Advance SP’s, and Sony PSP’s. The PSP is sold at $249.99 so there [...]

Here are the UMD and PSP Game releases for the week of May 7th to May 13th
Games
NBA Ballers: Rebound
UMD Movies
Family Guy: The Freakin Sweet Collection
X-Men
X-2: X-Men United
Grandma’s Boy
As you can see, there is not much in the way of games this week but it is a decent movie week. Also not much in either department [...]

Quite a bit of information regarding the first PSP title in The Getaway franchise hit today. The first bit is that SCEA announced today that the game will indeed be coming stateside later this year. This is good news for those who were looking at this game because it was originally only slated for Europe.
Gamespot [...]

Both Gamespot and IGN have posted some videos of the upcoming Tekken: Dark Resurrection.

The game looks really nice and it appears that it should be a great port of the arcade version. Considering the fact that Tekken is my personal favorite fighting series, I cannot wait to find out. Too bad I and everyone else [...]

IGN has posted a gameplay video of Super Monkey Ball Adventure, the PSP spin-off of the popular monkey-rolling franchise.
For more information on this game, check out our previous coverage.
Super Monkey Ball Adventure has a tentative release date of July 11th 2006 in North America and December 31, 2006 in Europe.

Skatter Tech has a pretty nifty tutorial for PSP owners with 2.60. Using iTunes-PSP-Server.exe, you can stream your entire iTunes library over wifi using the built in RSS functionality. The requirements include:

PSP With Firmware v2.60
Networked XP Home/Pro Comp.
WiFi (802.11b) Network Router
Apple iTunes v6.0.4 Installed
Songs in iTunes Music Library
At Least 1 Playlist With Music

If you have [...]