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Digital Rentals Built In To PSPgo?
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Handheld Game Parodies Heading For WiiWare
12:20AM Mike Fahey | Alten8 turns popular current-generation hits into handheld LCD games in Squibs Arcade, coming soon to WiiWare. More »
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Gizmondo 2 Is, Yes, Delayed
7:00PM Luke Plunkett | Gizmondo are itching for a rematch with the market. And this time, no Ferraris. Problem is, there’s an economic downturn going on at the moment, which means Gizmondo 2 isn’t in the best shape. More »
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MyRacer – The Korean Flash Lite Handheld
11:30AM Stuart Houghton | Do what now? This must be the season for left-field consoles to materialise. More »
New iPod Touch Better Than iPhone for Games
5:20AM Stuart Houghton | The iPhone is being widely touted as the next big Gaming Thing. It is definitely true that the JesusPhone™ is a capable gaming device but if tests performed by Handheld Games are correct, the new iPod Touch is a much better performer. More »
McGill – Still No Portable Xbox
10:40AM Stuart Houghton | Look, just let it go. There will not be a portable Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox 720, 180, 90 or any other combination of ‘Xbox’ and/or 90-degree increments. More »Concept PSP2 designs from emerging Australian designer
12:52PM Seamus Byrne | Tai Chiem, an emerging Australian designer has given the concept treatment to the PSP, working up some ideas on an advanced PSP2. I’m a sucker for concept designs so how could we not share his ideas with y’all?
My design is set for the future using emerging technology. Featuring flexible OLED display that can be conveniently rolled out. An electric charge hardens the material. I’ve come up with an alternate method for the action buttons. Instead of pressing a button, you instead use the joystick. So instead of pressing, X O, etc, you push either up down, left, or right.
So would you like this as a PSP2? Or is there something not quite right? I’m sure Tai would be up for some feedback, so show us your own design theories in the comments. I can see a flaw in the joystick button system for games where you need combo presses, but I’m sure we’d all be happy enough to see the UMD go bye-bye. More pics after the jump, or check out Tai’s work here. More » Rebellion: PSP Still ‘Kicking Arse’
10:00AM Leigh Alexander | Chris Kingsley is CTO of Rebellion, who’s done so many PSP titles he’s got good reason to wax optimistic about the platform’s future prospects. But wax he does, as part of a GamesIndustry interview in which he says that even though PSP has been “in the shadow” of the DS, the girl’s still got life in her: “But there’s still very good business to be done on the less glamorous platforms – look at PlayStation 2, it’s still selling bucket-loads of consoles and bucket-loads of games, though they’ve got to be the right games for the right platform”. He noted that the PSP is “kicking the arse of pretty much every other system out there” in Japan because the right games have come out – with a bit of luck, he thinks that some of those games will come out in Europe and be just as successful. Seems to me, though, that as the most technically sophisticated handheld on the market, it’s no compliment at all for the PSP if one of its mainstay UK developers is comparing it to a last-gen console. PSP has a good few years left in it still, says Kingsley [GamesIndustry.biz] More »
