![Last Year, Japanese Game Market Experienced Shrinkage [Japan]](/images/news/46902.jpg)
According to Famitsu's publisher Enterbrain, the Japanese game market is, like a frightened turtle, getting smaller compared to last year. But what was the biggest selling game hardware? Games?
The data...
PSP
CES 09: Sony Testing PSP As Multimedia Remote At CES [Playstation]
![CES 09: Sony Testing PSP As Multimedia Remote At CES [Playstation]](/images/news/47437_l.jpg)
Sony's CES booth holds promise for the wi-fi connected multimedia hound: a PSP that acts as a software remote for networked audio streams. While experimental and not yet confirmed for release, the software looks cool.
The PSP basically acts as a cheaper software remote for your Sony brand AV receiver... Read more
Asia Getting New PSP Colors [PSP]
![Asia Getting New PSP Colors [PSP]](/images/news/47342_l.jpg)
What better way to celebrate the New Year than with new PSP colors. Sony Computer Entertainment Asia is doing just that with not one, but two new PSP shades.
On January 15, SCE Asia is releasing PSP-3006s in "Radiant Red" and "Vibrant Blue." Each is priced at $1,380 HKD (US$177).
The PSP, Now In "Carnival... Read more
Nintendo DS Sales Dropped 82 Percent Last Year [Rumor]
![Nintendo DS Sales Dropped 82 Percent Last Year [Rumor]](/images/news/47334_l.jpg)
Nintendo has a massive year with the DS in 2006 in Japan. 2007? Less massive, but huge. And last year? Not huge, but very, very big.
French site NintendojoFR crunched last year's Media Create sales numbers. Let's have a gander:
Nintendo DS 2007 sales: 7,167,372 units 2008 sales: 3,946,785 units -82 percent... Read more
See also
![Who's Konami Suing Now? [Lawsuits]](/images/news/46130.jpg)
Pentavision! Who's that? Why, the Korean developer of the DJ Max and DJ Max Portable series of rhythm games, of course! At issue was that Pentavision made a music game without Konami's permission.
To be...
To be...
![Sony Have NO PLANS For A PSP2 [No Plans Watch]](/images/news/45364.jpg)
Time for another episode of "No Plans Watch"! This week, we feature Sony's John Koller, who takes recent reports that PSP2 games are already in development and does his best to pooh pooh them.
He say...
He say...
![Sony Responds To November NPD Sales, Seems Pleased [Corporate Gloating]](/images/news/44588.jpg)
The PlayStation family didn't have an ideal November, but Sony's not letting an across-the-board decline bring it down. Nope, we're only five words into the company's NPD response before it throws it out...
![This Is How You Make PSP Boob Bounce [Maximum Risky]](/images/news/43788.jpg)
Thought only Tecmo's Team Ninja were the masters of in-game boob physics? Ha! Japanese game developers AC Gateway and Gadgetsoft seem to have invested a lot of energy into perfecting boob physics with...
![The Art and Rendering of Brutal Legend, Killzone 2 Coming to GDC [Gdc 09]](/images/news/47439.jpg)
The Brutal Art of Brutal Legend and rendering techniques of Killzone 2 will both be making an appearance at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco later this year.
Michiel van der Leeuw and Michal...
Michiel van der Leeuw and Michal...
![Playstation 3 Invades Yankee Stadium [Ces]](/images/news/47418.jpg)
Playstation 3s will be showing up in every suite of the new Yankee Stadium and in a gaming zone for non-rich folk, as part of a new agreement between the stadium and Sony Electronics.
The plan will bring...
The plan will bring...
![Fable II's Knothole Island DLC Hits Next Week [Fable II]](/images/news/47354.jpg)
Fable II's Knothole Island hits Xbox Live worldwide on Jan. 13 for $10 (800MP). And the expansion isn't coming without gifts. Even gamers who don't purchase it will get some freebies next week.
Knothole...
Knothole...
!["How Do I Change The Color Of SoulCalibur Female Underpants?" [Maximum Risky]](/images/news/47340.jpg)
This is serious stuff. Very serious. An interoffice Namco conversation regarding changing panty colors for the Dreamcast version of SoulCalibur. No, really.
According to the individual who supplied these...
According to the individual who supplied these...
![Sony To Bring In-House Racing Studios Together [Sony]](/images/news/47336.jpg)
Sony have two in-house racing developers. Evolution Studios, who do MotorStorm, and SCEE Liverpool, who do WipeOut. Seems a bit silly having two teams doing the one genre, doesn't it? Does to Sony.
In...
In...
![No Men Allowed (For A Long Time Now...) [Purikura]](/images/news/47332.jpg)
Girls only. Japan's Asahi Shimbun has an article about how Japanese arcades are banning men from sticker picture machines. Why'd they do that?
According to the piece, "A growing number of arcade operator...
According to the piece, "A growing number of arcade operator...
![Sony Pictures Dates Ghostbusters Game [Sony]](/images/news/47317.jpg)
The release date for the Ghostbusters game has been announced by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in a Ghostbusters Blu-ray movie release — accidently announced, maybe! Doh.
A Sony Pictures pre...
A Sony Pictures pre...
![The Kinetics of Pinball [Pinball]](/images/news/47291.jpg)
The man behind such pinball greats as Fun House, the Addams Family and The Twilight Zone, Pat Lawlor, recently sat down with Gamasutra to discuss the history and design of pinball games.
The interview...
The interview...
Jan 7 EGM, RIP
If you're following the sale of 1up.com and the mass layoffs that ensued on Tuesday afternoon, you'll likely soon be reading a bunch of blog posts and goodbye letters from the dozens of displaced staff...