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NGP headlines

• Sony dev site going by “Vita” name uncovered

  Sony has registered the domain name: vita.scedev.net and the website shows Sony’s current gaming platforms available in the market asbwell as information about the company.

• The Weekly Wrap: March 13-19 - Homefront, Jaffe, more

  The news never sleeps. You do. We know. We’re watching. Here’s some help staying abreast of the week’s events, human weakling.

• GDC: NGP panel showcases new Uncharted footage, more

  During a programming and game design session at GDC this week, David Coombes, platform research manager at SCEA showed off more on NGP’s features and software.

• Sony talks PS3 pricing fiasco, says it won't happen again with NGP

  “Five hundred and ninety-nine US dollars.” It’s a line that – thanks to YouTube’s cruel archive of embarrassment – will probably follow Sony to its grave. There’s an upside to that, however: Sony remembers too, and it sure as hell doesn’t plan on making the same mistake again.

• The Weekly Wrap: February 6-February 12

  The news never stops. You can’t keep up with it all. You’d go mad. Fortunately, we’re already insane, so we’ve done it for you.

• New NGP trailer shows off first footage of Killzone, LBP, more

  Sony hasn’t been shy about letting its upcoming portable powerhouse hog the spotlight, but its games have been as docile and easily frightened as baby deer or an out-of-focus Bigfoot. Well, no more. The console maker’s released a nice, long reel of some of the NGP’s biggest games into the wild. All the big ones […]

• Hirai: No NGP pricing, battery life details as console still in prototype phase

  SCEI boss Kaz Hirai has said that announcements on pricing and battery life for NGP – PSP’s next-gen successor in everything bar name – will not be made yet due to the device still being in a prototype phase.

• Saturday shorts: Minecraft things, Kinect hacks, Zelda, other minutiae

  All those little pieces of weekend news. OCD sufferers could go spare. We’re here, luckily.

• Rewatch the reveal of Sony's NGP

  Wanna watch the reveal of NGP from Sony again? Of course you do. And you can.

• Sony working with devs to bring digital versions of UMD games to NGP

  Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai has said the firm is currently in negotiations with various developers to bring digital versions of already released PSP games to the new NGP system.

• Rein: NGP a "pretty huge deal" for all gamers, not just PlayStation fans

  During NGP’s revel at Sony’s PlayStation Meeting yesterday, Epic Games’ co-founder Tim Sweeney showed Trendy Game’s port of its UR3 Dungeon Defenders game running on the handheld, and the firm’s vice president Mark Rein said it was a “great demonstration of Unreal Engine 3’s fantastic cross-platform capabilities.”

• Sony "decided to forgo 3D" on PSP2 "for the time being", wont "go off the deep end" with pricing, says Hirai

  SCEI head Kaz Hirai has told PC World in Tokyo that Sony did think of adding 3D for PSP2, but it chose to “forgo it for the time being”.

• PSP2's new user interface shown in more detail

  This is what PSP2’s user interface looks like. It’s replacing the XMB first introduced on the original PSP in 2005. Want to know more? Of course you do.

• Iwata on 3DS vs NGP battle: "The customers will decide which is correct"

  Following yesterday’s massive PSP2 announcement and the lesser-known release of Nintendo’s financials, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said yesterday in a Tokyo earnings call that it will be consumers who will decide in the long run “which is correct” between the new device, codenamed NGP, and 3DS.

• Developer: 3DS and NPG utilise a "PSP1-like strategy"

  Microsoft Games Studio’s John Noonan has entered into the spirit of the looming portable console wars by describing Nintendo and Sony’s approach to the smartphone problem as a “PSP1-like strategy”.

• Sony: Only one NPG model will support 3G

  SCE Europe’s Andrew House has crushed our hopes by admitting that not all NPG models will feature 3G connectivity, and that Sony has not yet established 3G partnerships.

• Shuhei Yoshida says more western developed games for PSP2 will be announced at E3

  Shuhei Yoshida, Sony Computer Entertainment America’s senior vice president of product development, had plenty to say about PSP2, a.k.a. NGP, today during the firm’s unveiling of the handheld in Tokyo. An in the video interview with Gamespot posted below the break, he tells the site that the games shown during today’s event are just a […]

• Sony: PSP2 will not support 3D, will talk about extra services "later"

  Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has told Kotaku that when the firm finally announces a price for PSP2, “people will say it makes sense.”

• Yoshida on PSP2 pricing: "It's not going to be $599"

  So none of this, then. Unless it’s actually higher than that. In which case, as you were.