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Square Enix has announced that the rather colourfully titled Dissida 012 [duodecim] Final Fantasy will be released for the PSP in the UK on March 25th. It will be available both as a standard SKU and in a special Legacy Edition. The latter SKU will include a number of extras …
Read More »Gamers need to re-buy PSN content for Xperia Play
PlayStation owners who have previously downloaded PSN content will have to re-purchase any content they wish to access on their Xperia Play. The new Android handset will be compatible with a range of emulated PSone software as well as Android games from a number of publishers. "Xperia Play owners will …
Read More »NGP and PSP will co-exist
The upcoming launch of the NGP later this year does not spell the death of the PSP, Sony has confirmed. In fact, the platform holder says that it is still "struggling to meet demand" for the handheld, which continues to thrive in Japan. "The NGP features everything Sony can and …
Read More »Rebellion rejigs Asura Engine for PSP2
Tech to remain unavailable to other studios for licensing
Read More »PSP2 ‘completely developer-centric this time’
Developer lauds simplicity of new handheld; PS3 compatibility 'possible'
Read More »PlayStation Phone is finally official
After literally years of speculation and months of information leaks, Sony Ericsson has finally confirmed what nearly every human being on the planet has known for weeks – it is planning on releasing a PlayStation-branded mobile phone. An ad on the company’s Facebook page shows the device, saying that a …
Read More »Divnich predicts big things for NGP
Sony’s new NGP handheld will comfortably better the successes of the PSP, EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich has stated. "EEDAR has no doubt that the NGP will be successful in Japan," he said in a report. "In Japan the PSP currently has the second largest active install base and is on …
Read More »PlayStation Phone ad leaks online
Amazingly, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play – or PlayStation Phone, if you prefer – has yet to be officially announced. This is despite the fact that we more or less know everything there is to know about the device, minus the price and release date. We even know that it …
Read More »PSP2 OS ‘not Android’
Next generation PlayStation handheld unlikely to host Android games
Read More »NGP backwardly compatible with digital titles
Sony has confirmed that the NGP will definitely be backwardly compatible with games for the original PSP – as long as they have received a digital release. Andriasang reports that the compatibility will be powered by software emulation and not by any dedicated on-board circuitry. However, as was seen with …
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