One of my favorite parts about Guitar Hero is when I’m rocking out, then suddenly bringing the neck up to activate star power. When it’s timed right, especially during co-op, it really cranks things up to 11. Unfortunately on some songs (ahem, Jordan) timing must be absolutely precise, and during those most difficult of tracks it becomes even harder to trigger your star power. Thankfully there’s a new pedal out there that can make things go a little more smoothly.
So if you have a PSP or especially a PS3 the content available for purchase on the PlayStation has probably garnered your attention, well, they are finally putting the pre-paid cards for said content on store shelves. So far it appears to only be the $20 cards, and even then have so far only been seen on an army base.
It appears as though the PSP is getting internet radio sometime soon with the next firmware upgrade. Along with that the upgrade includes better support the OPML and pictures in RSS feeds.
So gamers realize that when cellphone manufacturers try and combine gaming and cell-phones they usually screw it up, so in an effort to push Sony-Ericsson in the right direction, some guy came up with this design for the PSP phone. It maintains the full functionality of the PSP but adds the phone functionality in.
It looks like it’s a dual slider that slides up for the phone keypad or at an angle for the PSP controls. Sure, you might lose the UMD slot with this design, but it’s on its way out already, so by the time this phone would be released, you should be good to go.
The best part is that instead of trying to build a gaming platform onto some mediocre mobile devices, you’d be taking an already fairly well-developed gaming platform and try and build a phone into it, I have a feeling that it would work a lot better this way. Also, this guy apparently things that a PSP phone would be deservant of a 3.2MP cam on the back and hopefully 3rd or 4th generation WWAN access on top of the WiFi the PSP already has. Sadly, this is just a concept, and not even one from Sony or Sony-Ericsson, but it’s a great one, so it probably won’t get used.
Sony Ericsson PSP phone should be the dual-sliding device! [via intomobile]
In an interview, a Sony guy (Eric Lempel) stated that they were definitely working on bringing access to the PlayStation Store directly to the PSP. At first, you could only download the games for your PSP through a PS3, then a few days ago, they allowed the same functionality, but through a PC.
Sony is finally listening to the gamers and releasing a new, upgraded, longer lasting battery for the PSP. The extended life battery will retail in mid December for $45.
Sometimes even gamers need to look nice, you can’t wear those quirky tees all the time. If you’re stuck in an office all day, you need that one bit of rebellion to remind you of who you really are. These cuff links are a nice enough quality to blend into any environment.
UMD really was one of the dumbest formats ever created, and especially for Sony. But it looks like you might not ever have to worry about it again now that you can just buy and download PSP games and demos.
The middleman hasn’t completely been removed though, you still have to download the content to your PC and then transfer it to your PSP, but its probably best that way, I mean how pissed would you be when you paid for the game on your PSP, went to download it, and realized you didn’t have enough storage and they took your money with no game in return? This way, it’s on your computer, and if you don’t have room on your MS Duo for it, you can make room.
I take that back, they didn’t just drop the price, they cut it in half. No you probably can’t have one, because even at half the cost it was, its still over ten grand.
Technically its called the PlayStation 3 Reference Tool, but basically it’s a PS3 in a more malleable, more computer-like design, and there is probably an SDK thrown in as well as some sore of debugger. Should you decide that you absolutely must have one, you too can now pony up the $10250 to get one.
So if you owned or know someone who owns an older model PS3 and then got your grubby little hands on a PS3 40GB model, you might have noticed its about 6 decibels quieter, puts out less heat, and uses about 100 watts less power. Well, that’s not a fluke, it’s a hardware upgrade.
The 40GB PS3’s do in fact have 65nm process cell processors, but the graphics hardware is still running on a 90nm process, so the switchover isn’t complete. Sadly you also lose all backwards compatibility which kind of sucks.
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