Sony’s New Handheld Is Not Called The PSP2 (Yet)

For the past few months – and over the past few hours, for convenience’s sake – we’ve labelled Sony’s new handheld gaming device the PSP2. That has to stop, because it’s not the thing’s name. As you may already be aware, what we all thought of as the PSP2 has actually been given the working…

How To Avoid Our PSP2 / NGP Coverage

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Our Camera Adds Ten Pounds to the PSP2

Viewed in the spectacle of a media feeding frenzy, the PSP2, codenamed NGP, suddenly seems to have more girth than the sexy device spotted in Sony’s official pictures Those fade-away edges no longer seem to fade-away. The touch-sensitive back suddenly has “back.” Prepare yourself and then flip through the untouched, unfilitered images of a PSP2…

The Not So Sexy PSP 2 Photographers

The PSP2 Has A Slick Little Logo

Here’s one of the less obvious, but nevertheless classiest things about the new NGP/PSP2: its branding. While the handheld bears the working title NGP, or Next Generation Portable, that’s neither its final, formal name, nor is it present anywhere on the case of the new device. All you get is…PlayStation. In that nice, clean font…

Deadwood, NYPD Blue Producer to Work on Heavy Rain Movie Adaptation

David Milch, whose credits include some of my personal television favorites like Deadwood, NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues, will be adapting Playstation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain into a feature film with Warner Bros., Variety reports. Milch will be working with Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne to turn Heavy Rain the movie into Rain the…

Metal Gear Solid 4, Lost Planet, Yakuza Shown In PSP2 Form

The PSP2—or the NGP, as its currently codenamed—may be powerful enough to play PlayStation 3-quality games. At today’s coming out party for the next-generation PlayStation Portable, Sony and friends showed just that. Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida likened the power of the next PSP to that of its current home console, the four-year-old PS3. A handful of…

Catch The PSP2’s Debut trailer

Here’s the first trailer for Sony’s new PSP2 (or NGP as it’ll be known). It’s heavy on concepts and light on actual footage of the thing (or its games), but it does at least get across the main points Sony’s trying to make with the thing.

Let’s See How Big This PSP2 Really Is

Here’s how the new PSP2 (or NGP) sizes up compared to its competition in the handheld gaming space. The long answer is below. The short answer is…it’s a monster of a handheld. Want to know more? Like what it feels like to play games on? Or how Uncharted will be different on the NGP? How…

The First Sexy Pics of the PSP 2

The Playstation Portable 2, codenamed the NGP, is a sexy beast packed with touch controls, dual analog sticks, a sexy OLED screen and built-in 3G. And just look at it. You know you want to caress it. But you can’t, not until later this year. Until then stare… and stare…. and stare.

A Closer Look At Sony’s NGP

The PSP2 Is Like A Friends List In Your Pocket

The PSP2 – or, as it’s being called temporarily, the Next Generation Portable – will as expected play nice with cellular data networks via a 3G connection. Here’s what that means for your gaming. Sony will be implementing a service alongside the new handheld called LiveArea, which in conjunction with an “app” called Near is…

Uncharted Leads The PSP2’s First Game Lineup

There’s a new PSP! And it needs games. Lucky, then, it’s getting some, and it’s starting at the very top of the PlayStation tree. With Uncharted. Other games shown off or revealed so far at the PlayStation Meeting 2011 in Tokyo include PSP2 versions of Killzone, WipeOut, Resistance, Monster Hunter, LittleBigPlanet, Call of Duty, Hustle…

The PSP2 Is Here: Dual Analog Sticks, Touch-Sensitive OLED, 3G Built In & So Much More

The PSP2 is finally here. Sony revealed its brand new PlayStation Portable at an event in Tokyo today, our first official look at the PlayStation maker’s next foray into handheld gaming, the NGP or “Next Generation Portable.” First details below. The Hardware Sony confirmed many of the features of the PSP2 that we’ve already heard…

PlayStation Games Coming To Android Phones

At it’s big PlayStation event held today in Tokyo, Sony has revealed a program whereby “certified” PlayStation games will be made available for mobile phones. Rather than be tied to a single device, like we’ve been seeing all along, Sony is calling this idea “PlayStation Suite”, a mobile gaming platform of sorts designed for Android…

Live From Sony’s Tokyo Press Conference

Sony is almost universally expected to unveil an all-new PlayStation Portable at a special press event in Tokyo today. We’re there, right now, in the front row, camera and keyboard at the ready. Please, won’t you join us? UPDATE: The Liveblog has ended, but our coverage, including hands-on, game impressions, interviews, photos and more, continues…

We Like This Other 3DS Way Better

As with all electronic devices, the Nintendo 3DS went through a prototyping stage. Thing is, the unused prototype unit you see here looks way better than the final, retail design. Shown off in a new “Iwata Asks” Q&A session on Nintendo’s Japanese website, the image on the right is of a 3DS prototype that appears…

APB’s Getting The Beta-Testing Band Back Together

Beta-testing invitations for APB: Reloaded, the free-to-play reboot of the cops-and-robbers MMO, have gone out, apparently to beta testers of the original ill-fated MMO. Beta players will return to San Paro, with their old characters intact. Closed beta invites were sent to us by three different readers. “If you don’t sign up, you won’t have…

Late Nights

Good evening, Kotaku readers. I know you’re up. You can’t wait to hear about the [forthcoming PlayStation announcement], so let’s make the time pass more quickly with an open thread. Off topic conversations are welcome here. And video game related ones are too. Surely the anticipation of the PSP2 and/or PSP Phone (aka Sony Ericsson…

Slightly Disturbed Baseball Player To Pimp Video Game On Talk Show

Brian Wilson, the eccentric, bearded reliever of the San Francisco Giants, hits the talk show circuit this evening to pimp MLB 2K11 and unveil a short film he’s written. Queries as to whether “The Machine”/Pat Burrell would also appear were avoided outright. Whatever it is will be on “Lopez Tonight”, midnight EST, 11 p.m. CST.