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Kotaku has discovered a US patent filed by Sony that details a new PS2 or PS3 controller named the Control Docking Unit that is able to link with PSP, granting the machine the full range of controls gifted by the traditional PlayStation joypad. Initially filed in September 2005, the patent …
Read More »Games Edu: SCEE announces PSP Academic Development Programme
Universities to be given cut-price access to PSP development tools
Read More »Slim PSP to hit UK before Japan
MCV understands that ‘version two’ of Sony’s PSP will arrive in British stores before the console reaches Japan in September – and will be priced at €169 (around 114). Sony this week announced that the machine would be launched in Japan on September 20th, priced at Y19,800 (around 80). And …
Read More »Sony draws up Leipzig battle lines
SCEE’s president and CEO David Reeves has told MCV that E3 was a phoney war, and that Sony will let off the first of its peak season fireworks” in Leipzig next month. Talking exclusively to MCV, he intimated that a series of big announcements will be made at the Game …
Read More »Slim PSP to launch in Japan on September 20th
Though both European and American gamers are still waiting for a firm launch date for Sony’s streamlined handheld, the platform holder has announced that the machine will arrive in Japan on September 20th. Priced at Y19,800 (around 80), the new device, which was first announced at E3 last week, is …
Read More »God of War lines up for PSP power boost
Fans of Sony’s mythical warrior Kratos will be delighted to learn that developer Ready at Dawn will be taking advantage of the extra 20 per cent of processing power that was unlocked in the PSP’s CPU in a firmware update last month. Previously the CPU was capped at 266Mhz, presumably …
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