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Sony Computer Entertainment America’s senior vice president of publisher relations has revealed in a candid interview that more can be done to make a success of the downloadable PSP Minis games. The Minis titles were established as an alternative to the likes of iPhone Apps and DSiWare releases. "I think …

Piracy’s been the biggest problem, no question about it – it has become a very difficult proposition to be profitable, given the piracy right now.” That’s the frank admission of SCEA’s senior VP of publisher relations Rob Dyer about the current state of the PSP market. But the exec also …

Press release slips the apparent existence of a PSP edition of the game [Update]

The sixth in Square Enix’s popular Kingdom Hearts franchise – Birth by Sleep – will hit retail as a PSP exclusive on September 10th. Kingdom Hearts games have sold more than 14m copies worldwide since the self-titled original was released on the PS2 in 2002. They became well known for …

Following MCV’s exclusive story last week that pointed to a possible E3 reveal for a proper successor to Sony’s PlayStation Portable, one consumer games site claims to have unearthed details of the in-development machine. VG247 claims that NDAs (non disclosure agreements) about the PSP2 have been in place at publishers …

Sony has announced it will release a range of handheld titles next month under the new label of PSP Essentials. The launch will see the re-release of some of the PSP’s biggest titles at the low price point of 9.99. The first 10 titles will be available on June 4th, …

Sony’s Network Product and Services Division, the home of its PlayStation operations, has reported a $889m loss for the year ending March 31st 2010, a year-on-year decrease of 10.2 per cent. PS3 sales hit a total of 13m units, up from the 10.3m seen in the same period the year …

We already have a fair idea what to expect at next month’s E3 – plenty of into about Move, Natal and the 3DS (and Vitality Sensor) for instance – but Sony could perhaps be saving the biggest surprise of all. MCV has been informed of a significant increase in marketing …

An analysis of the UK video games market by Nick Parker claims that UK hardware unit sales of Nintendo’s Wii are down 45.1 per cent for the year-to-date ending March 31st 2010. In fact, every piece of games hardware on the market is down, with PSP (-44.7 percent), DS (-35.9 …

Sony has confirmed that a brand new God of War is in development for PSP and will be released later this year. Called God of War: Ghost of Sparta, the game resumes from the narrative point where last year’s God of War on PSP left off. With Kratos on a …