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Sony PSP Mini Games Announced
August 25, 2009
Recently at GamesCom, Sony announced the new PS3 Slim along with a new feature for the PSP called ‘Minis’ – mini games!
Minis are going to be similar to what you already see on the Playstation Network and WiiWare. Smaller companies are going to develop their own games for people to download to play on the PSP. Each of the games will be limited to a file size of only 100MB which is tiny (or mini) compared to how much PSOne games take up on your memory stick for your PSP.
Continue reading »Anti-Gaming Advert Stirs Up Controversy
March 10, 2009
I think that it’s fair to say that adverts are getting, at least, more diverse. Not only do people now advertise their religion, there are also sickening anti-smoking adverts, disturbing keep-to-the-speed-limit ones and, in more extreme cases, telling your husband that you want a divorce. But as of yet there hasn’t been much controversy with the gaming world.
But the Change4Life active lifestyle campaign, in their infinite wisdom, decided to put out an advert implying that gaming led to an early death: shown by a young child on a sofa with a mindless expression and a console game controller in his hand. As good as their aims may have been the campaign has angered two fairly important groups of people.
Continue reading »PSP Causes Sony–Sony Ericsson Split?
January 20, 2009
There have been rumours about a PSP phone for a long time now, and this and a portable Xbox 360 must make up the majority of the hoaxes that the market sees. However people have been fairly sure that Sony were going to release something to do with the PSP and a mobile at some point in the future, but I hate to disappoint you by saying that we are still no nearer to knowing anything useful about it.
However a nice little piece of information has sprung to the attention of rumour followers like me, and this concerns ‘goings on’ between Sony and its’ half brother Sony Ericsson. Since they began in 2001 Sony Ericsson have been constantly licensing brand names from Sony – such as Bravia and CyberShot – but it would appear that the two sides have had a little disagreement over the PSP.
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