PSP - Timeline
Wednesday22nd Feb 2012
Store Update 21st February 2012 (North America)
Vita Store gets bigger
PlayStation Vita's out in North America (and Europe, of course) so here's the PlayStation Store update letting you know exactly what you can get for your shiny new console with a US PlayStation Network account. PlayStation Plus: PSN Games Sega Genesis Bundle:Altered BeastComix ZoneGolden AxeSonic t
Wednesday15th Feb 2012
Store Update 14th February 2012 (North America)
From SCEA, with love
An absolutely enormous PlayStation Store update today, with stacks of stuff for PS Vita, PlayStation Plus members and stacks of other content. Read on and see what's available! PlayStation Plus: PS3 Full Games: Far Cry 2 (V-Day Special One Week Offer) PSN Games: Battle Fantasia; Fatal Inertia;
Friday10th Feb 2012
Guide How to Download PSP Games to PS Vita
Plus: compatible games list
When you get your Vita in the next few weeks, you might want to take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of those PSP classics on your shiny new handheld, but how do you do that? Well, it's quite straightforward really, as the PlayStation Blog explains. While there's no UMD to Vita transfer for North America, you can...
Wednesday8th Feb 2012
News Sony: No UMD-to-Vita Transfer for North America
Denied
The UMD Passport programme for Japan will not make it across to North America, according to Kotaku. In Japan, PSP owners were granted cheaper downloads of digital versions of their UMDs for the purposes of transferring to Vita. It seems users in North America won't get the same deal, but we're waiting to hear more from Sony on the matter...
Thursday2nd Feb 2012
News Sony Makes Massive $2 Billion Net Loss For Q3 FY2011
We can feel the hairs on new Sony CEO Kaz Hirai's head turning grey already
No sooner than the party for Hirai's promotion has ended has Sony posted a whopping $2 billion net loss for the quarter ending December 31st, 2011. The company brought in $23.37 billion in revenue, a 17.4 percent decrease year over year. Sony laid the blame on "the impact...
Wednesday1st Feb 2012
Japanese Charts Tales Of Innocence R Pushes Vita Past PSP
Who's innocent now?
The PlayStation Vita enjoyed something of a minor resurgence in Japan this week — aided by the release of Namco Bandai's Tales of Innocence R. The remake propelled PlayStation Vita sales up to just under 19k, pushing it past its predecessor for the first time since launch. From Software's mech battler, Armored Core V, took the...
Tuesday31st Jan 2012
News PlayStation Mini Hungry Giraffe Boasts Nifty Upscaling Technology On PS3
Some PlayStation Minis look awful when blown up to a full size, high-definition display
The titles — which run on both the PS3 and PSP, but are designed around the latter's smaller screen — don't always scale well, resulting in a messy image when played via the PlayStation 3. But Laughing Jackal's upcoming Hungry Giraffe hopes to alleviate that...
Friday27th Jan 2012
News Hungry Giraffe Is, Erm, Hungrier Than Expected
Forget everything we told you yesterday about Laughing Jackal's upcoming PlayStation Mini, Hungry Giraffe
It turns out that the game's titular scoffer is hungrier than expected — so much so that Sony's been forced to push forward the game's release date by seven days. Hungry Giraffe will now drop onto the PlayStation Store on February 1st where it...
Thursday26th Jan 2012
News Hungry Giraffe Gobbles Its Way Onto PlayStation Network From February 8th
Laughing Jackal knows how to make an addictive game
Seriously, the fact that we're once again glued to OMG-Z speaks for itself; we'll simply not rest until we hit 100%. Needless to say we're excited to get our hands on Laughing Jackal's latest PlayStation Mini: Hungry Giraffe. The game's set to drop onto the European PlayStation Store on February...
Wednesday25th Jan 2012
News Japanese Sales Charts: PlayStation Vita Dips To 15k As Hardware Sales Plunge
The PlayStation Vita hit its lowest point yet in this week's Japanese sales update -- though hardware was down all around
The newly released Sony portable sold just 15k units, while the Nintendo 3DS managed a whopping 80k. It was a disappointing week for all non-3DS hardware though, with the PSP and PS3 both managing just 21k and 17k respectively...
Monday23rd Jan 2012
News Daxter, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror And More Coming To PlayStation Certified Devices
Those that have the patience to peruse the ESRB's website nearly always get their reward: a shiny, sparkling exclusive story
Beware though, budding ESRB watchers, for an expert lurks amongst us. Having had mere minutes to revel in the glory of its Grand Theft Auto discoveries, the wonderfully attentive Siliconera's uncovered another gem pertaining...
Saturday21st Jan 2012
News Sonic CD Sprints To The Top Of The December PlayStation Network Charts
Sonic CD's stomped previous PlayStation Network chart-topper, inFamous: Festival Of Blood, from its place atop the charts, taking the crown as December's top-selling PSN title
The acclaimed Mega-CD release (or SEGA CD depending on your location) fought off strong competition from NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, Payday: The Heist and Trine 2, all of which...
Friday20th Jan 2012
News Ghostlight Confirms European Release Of PSP JRPG Fate/EXTRA
You can always count on Ghostlight to bring niche content overseas
The publisher's put out some top content over the past 12 months, with the portable Persona titles and Legends Of Heroes: Trails In The Sky being amongst the standouts. Now it's announced its latest conversion project — the Type Moon and ImagePoch developed JRPG, Fate/EXTRA...
Thursday19th Jan 2012
News Atlus' Latest PSP Title Is, Erm, Wait For It, Growlanser: Wayfarer Of Time
The PlayStation Vita may be on the horizon, but Atlus still reckons that there's life in the old PSP yet
Having previously announced Gungnir for the West, the publisher's now announced that it's bringing Growlanser: Wayfarer Of Time to the PSP this Summer. The game is a localised version of Growlanser IV: Over Reloaded, which released on PS2 way...
Wednesday18th Jan 2012
News Japanese Sales Charts: New Year Lull Brings PlayStation Vita Sales Below 20,000
Before we start rushing for the doomed boat, it's worth pointing out that, while PlayStation Vita's Japanese sales are disappointing once again this week, they are not entirely out of whack with the other trends in the market
Still, the recently released system suffered an almighty dip, selling approximately 50% of last week's tally, a number which...
Tuesday17th Jan 2012
News LittleBigPlanet Breaks The 6 Million Level Milestone
The world of LittleBigPlanet won't stop growing
Media Molecule's announced that the do-it-yourself game creation platform has now received its 6 millionth upload. That's a lot of levels. According to the Guildford-based developer, 2.5 million of those levels were created in the last year since LittleBigPlanet 2's release. Apparently, up to 40,000...
Monday16th Jan 2012
News Arc The Lad Nets European PlayStation Network Release Date At Last
After a series of mishaps, delays and bitter tears, Monkey Paw has finally announced that the English language version of Arc The Lad is on its way to the European PlayStation Store on January 18th
The revered tactical RPG launched back in October, albeit in Japanese rather than the intended English. At the time, Monkey Paw said it was working on a...
Sunday15th Jan 2012
News Scheduled PlayStation Network Maintenance Returns On Thursday, January 19th
It's been a while since we posted about PlayStation Network maintenance; the Christmas break has clearly been kind to your gaming time
But Christmas is like a distant memory now, and so it's only appropriate that Sony's regular maintenance should return. The platform holder's issued a notice of warning on the official PlayStation forums, noting that...
Friday13th Jan 2012
News December NPD: Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Dominates, Industry Declines
The video game industry may have pulled in a whopping $3
99 billion for the month of December in North America, but it still suffered a 21 percent decline year-over-year. By comparison, the industry raked in a whopping $5.07 billion during the same period in 2010. "Overall industry results are not entirely surprising given that we are on the...
Wednesday11th Jan 2012
News Japanese Sales Charts: PlayStation Vita Holds Steady As 3DS Dominates
At this point in time, there's no chance of any system catching up to the Nintendo 3DS in Japan, so there's no point in even discussing it
Nintendo might have seemed "doomed" after a disappointing 3DS launch last year, but it's now conjured up a triple threat of unstoppable software releases. There's nothing anyone can do. As a result, a...
Monday9th Jan 2012
News UK Sales Charts: FIFA 12 Maintains Its Reign At The Top Of The Charts
Buoyed no doubt by a strong week of football, FIFA 12 has held onto its position atop the UK sales charts for a third week running
With January ushering a mini-drought for new software releases, the chart is filled with familiar faces; with Battlefield 3, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Just Dance 3 and Skyrim all rounding out the top five. There...
Saturday7th Jan 2012
News Mecho Wars Brings Gothic Styled Advance Wars To PlayStation Minis
A fleeting mention of Oyaji Games' Mecho Wars in the latest episode of the Official PlayStation Blogcast has confirmed the ambitious Advance Wars inspired turn-based strategy game for release in North America next week (January 10th)
The game — which was announced more than a year ago — boasts the artwork of the delightfully outspoken Luc...
Friday6th Jan 2012
Icon Games has earned our respect as a developer
The indie outfit is behind some of the better PlayStation Minis available on the PlayStation Store — but it's not just the studio's chops as a developer that's won us over. For months now, the studio has been extremely candid, discussing its success — or lack thereof — on the various console...
News Japanese Games Market Declines In 2011 Despite New Hardware
The Japanese games market declined in 2011, according to reports published by Enterbrain via Famitsu
That was despite a 2.4 percent increase in hardware sales — up to ¥179,740 million ($2.3 billion) — spurred by the releases of the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita. Indeed, while the hardware bump was significant, it wasn't enough to stave off...
Thursday5th Jan 2012
News Japanese Sales Charts: PS Vita Sells 42K, 3DS Unstoppable
Considering all the doom and gloom around the Internet regarding the PlayStation Vita's unspectacular second week sales, the system actually held relatively well in its third week
Given some armchair analysts were expecting the sytem to drop as low as 10k units, its actual sell through of 42k units looks mightily impressive in comparison. Of course,...
Monday2nd Jan 2012
News UK Sales Charts: FIFA 12 Dribbles Its Way To The Top, Modern Warfare 3 Shoots Into Second
FIFA 12 headed into the festive season at the top of the UK sales charts, according to Chart Track's list of the top selling software for the week leading up to Christmas Eve
EA Sports' footie sim increased its sales by up to 34 percent in order to drive its way to the top of the charts, while Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 also saw a big enough...
Friday30th Dec 2011
News Stick Man Rescue Stages A Recovery Mission On PlayStation Minis Next Month
If you liked Choplifter, then you're probably going to love Stick Man Rescue
The upcoming PlayStation Mini from TikGames promises to put you in control of a helicopter tasked with rescuing throngs of stick people on the verge of getting "burned alive, smashed, decapitated, blown up, electrocuted or dissolved by acid". Gruesome. Thankfully,...
Wednesday28th Dec 2011
News Japan Sales Charts: PlayStation Vita's Second Week Sales Disappoint
The PlayStation Vita got off to a reasonable, if unspectacular, debut in Japan -- but its second week sales paint a troubling picture for the platform in the near future
The well equipped handheld was outsold by the 3DS, PSP, Wii and PS3 during its first full week on the market, recording sales of just over 70,000 units. For comparison, Nintendo's...
Thursday22nd Dec 2011
News Fill Your Stocking With The PlayStation Store's Festive Sale
If you've been a good boy or girl this Christmas, you might want to reward yourself with the odd PlayStation Network download or two
Thankfully you won't have to pay top dollar for the privilege, as SCEE has announced a new Festive Sale initiative set to kick off on December 23rd. During the period Sony will be discounting more than 100 downloads on...
News Atlus Unveils Gungnir For PlayStation Portable, Teases Another Title Beginning With 'G'
Did you correctly guess Atlus' next game? Of course you did, after all, it was totally obvious that the game was going to be Gungnir for PlayStation Portable
What is this, elementary video games class? In an announcement that comes as no surprise to video game professionals like ourselves, Atlus has confirmed that it's bringing Gungnir to the...
