Category Archives: PSP

The third annual Danish Game Awards were held tonight, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim walked home with not only and award for Best RPG, but Game of the Year as well.

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FuturLab has announced Velocity, scrolling minis shooter with gameplay featuring a teleport mechanic which allows players to jump around the screen and return to previous areas of a level to solve “time sensitive logic puzzles.”

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Resident Evil: Revelations topped Media Create’s software charts this week, after debuting in second place to Armored Core V last week. On the hardware side of things, Vita’s rebound the week prior was short-lived, as sales of the handheld fell 1,801 units week-over-week.

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Uncharted 3, Jak and Daxter and Catherine are the biggies in this week’s US PSN update, which also brings a first bunch of DLC for Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning. Get the lot after the break.

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Some startling figures have come out of Nielsen Games’ latest exposé of gaming trends in the US.

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US consumers will not benefit from the UMD Passport scheme, apparently leaving them no recourse for transferring their UMD-based PSP games.

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“I thought turning around the PlayStation business was going to be the toughest challenge of my career, but I guess not. It’s one issue after another. I feel like ‘Holy shit, now what?’ We can’t just continue to be a great purveyor of hardware products, even though some people expect us to do that. We really need to buckle down and be realistic. I don’t think everybody is on board, but I think people are coming around to the idea that if we don’t turn this around, we could be sitting in some serious trouble.” – Sony CEO Kaz Hirai on fixing the firm’s hardware business to The Wall Street Journal.

New Sony boss Kaz Hirai has made no bones about it: he wants PlayStation to be in the number spot in the industry.

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Sony has announced that a scheduled maintenance window this week will extend beyond Europe.

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PS Vita have rebounded slightly in Japan after week-over-week declines since launch, and the new handheld should send Namco a thank you card for the resurgence, as it was due to Tales of Innocence R’s debut which did it. Over on Media Create’s weekly software chart, the Tales game wasn’t the only debut in the top three, as Armored Core V and Resident Evil Revelations took the number one and second place spots, respectively.

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Sony has updated the European end of the PS Store with a nice PSP Power sale, a multiplayer beta for Twisted Metal, and after a bit of a wait, the Gotham City Imposters beta. Get the full update below.

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A PlayStation 3 exclusive headlines this week’s US PlayStation Store update, but there’s some meaty DLC and a couple of full games to tempt you.

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Sony has posted a preview of the PS Plus update for February, and one of the most notable mentions for both US and the European users is the release of The Simpson’s Arcade finally.

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The PlayStation Network will be going offline for scheduled maintenance on Thursday, February 2.

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FIFA 12 has stayed at the top of the UK charts for a sixth straight week, eight in total, with Resident Evil: Revelations entering the top ten as a new entry.

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Those interested in art and who like ordering cool things from Japan, should take a gander at the BLK Limited Edition art book from illustrator huke.

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Atlus has confirmed it’s to release Growlanser: Wayfarer of Time in the US for this summer. The title will come to PSP following the release of Growlanser: Heritage of War for PS2 in 2007, and takes place in “a land—once rich with culture and technology—long ago nearly obliterated by evanescent divine entities. Two millennia later, the mysterious entities appear again, threatening to bring about an end to all things unless a fabled warrior of destiny can rise against them,” according to the company on the US PS Blog. More details can be found at the link.

PS Vita sales in Japan continued to decline last week according to Media Create’s weekly sales chart. The system moved 15,219 units, which is 3,142 units less than the prior week, and is the system’s lowest sales period since it launched in the region during December.

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Sony has updated the European end of the PS Store with quite a few goodies. Get everything below the break.

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We’re back into bumper season with a host of new content on the US PlayStation Store this week.

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