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The UK High Street has expressed reservations over Sony’s PSPgo, but the platform holder has moved to reassure retailers that they still matter to its handheld business. Play, HMV, ShopTo, CHIPS and Asda have all admitted to MCV that the machine’s digital-only model is a concern for them, and that …

Sony has joined fellow platform holder Nintendo is posting year-on-year sales declines for its financial quarter ending June 30th, with revenues in its PlayStation business down 18 per cent year-on-year. Revenues for the recently formed Network Product and Services Division, which houses both the PlayStation business and its Walkman operations, …

With every revision of the PSP that comes and goes the lust for a second analogue stick on the PSP increases – and Sony has now admitted that the feature very nearly became a reality with the upcoming PSPgo. Speaking in the latest issue of GameInformer (via Kotaku), Sony development …

Acclaimed games developer Hideo Kojima has started the ball rolling on the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker hype machine by claiming that the upcoming PSP title will be every bit the rival of its home console counterparts – despite some fundamental design differences. Peace Walker a Metal Gear Solid 5-class …

Amidst the gloom of yet more annual falls in the US video games market, hardware sales for June were better than expected hitting $1.7m – NPD had expected that number to be around $1.55m. As always, Nintendo’s machines were the star performers with DS shifting 766,500 units and the Wii …

Platform-holder Sony is aggressively courting developers around the world to work on digitally distributed games for PSP in a bid to grow the software offer on its handheld. And, MCV’s sister site Develop has also revealed, the firm is planning to introduce a streamlined content pipeline for the platform – …

EXCLUSIVE: Sony's new PSP dev plans in-depth

Meet the studios reshaping PSP game creation

SPECIAL REPORT: New content pipeline and cheaper, smaller download games on the way

Media Molecule is working on a LittleBigPlanet Game of the Year edition for PlayStation 3, MCV understands. The new title is due for release this year and will feature much of the downloadable content currently available over the PlayStation Network. LittleBigPlanet was released in November last year to huge critical …