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Marketing director Alan Duncan has left SCE UK after almost 13 years at the platform holder. Duncan began his career in the games industry at GT Interactive in 1998, but joined Sony a year later as product manager. He then moved up to marketing manager and then marketing director, a …

A new colour variant of the PSP will be released at UK retail in July. The Ice White PSP-E1000 will have an RRP of just 89.99. The PSP E-1000 was announced last August. It’s a trimmed-down version of the established hardware. As well as being heavier than other models, it …

Nintendo’s 3DS could hit the 1m unit sales milestone next month. PocketGamer has reported numbers from GfK Chart-Track’s exclusive hardware reports, which are widely distributed around the press but not authorised for publication. If the machine does reach that number in June, it will mean that 3DS has taken three …

Sony has re-released 13 PSP titles on the US PlayStation Store that can now be downloaded directly to Vita. Six of the new additions are retail games, including two Tom Clancy games, while the other seven are app-like Minis titles, with four from Fruit Ninja creator Halfbrick Studios. Sony has …

GameStop has pulled Playstation Portable games from the smallest quarter of its stores in what the company is describing as an effort to make the most of its merchandising space. "The consolidation is occurring to maximize the merchandising space in the smallest 25% of stores," a GameStop representative shared with …

Hardware sales down across the board

Sales of Sony’s PlayStation Vita in Japan barely scraped above 10,000 units last week as both Nintendo’s 3DS and its predecessor the PSP outsold it once again. Vita shifted 10,023 units between February 27th and March 4th – that’s down 1,163 units week-on-week according to Media Create. By comparison, the …

With the PS Vita now competing with Nintendo’s 3DS on the world stage, how are these systems faring against each other and the rest of the portable consoles on the market? An inforgraphic by research firmStatista, as reported byVenturebeat, compares first week sales between Nintendo’s portable systems and Sony’s Vita …

Latest Sony portable eclipses Nintendo systems in Europe, struggles in US and Japan

Time has been called on the Comics section of the PSP’s PlayStation Store. Andriasang reports that no additional content will be added to the service after March 15th. The Comics section of PSN will disappear completely from September. Users will be able to access and download any existing of new …