Advertising
Game Awards
Game Books
Game Shopping
Gaming Links
Gaming News
News Feeds
Recent Headlines
Return Home
Search
 
|
Home | | PSP
PSP Breaks Sales Records in UK
The BBC reports that Sony's PSP has broken sales records in the U.K. with 185,000 sales in just four days. The BBC says Sony expects to sell 1 million PSPs before the Christmas holiday.
Sony wants the PSP to appeal to more than just gamers. It also plays films, music, and browses the web wirelessly.
The gadget went on sale in Europe on 1 September, nine months after hit Japanese stores and six months after the US.
Sony expects a million PSPs to be sold in the UK before Christmas.
Shops across the country opened their doors at midnight last week to deal with the demand from gamers, with many reporting that they had sold out. Chart-Track also reported that nine of the 24 PSP games which were available at launch entered the Top 10 official UK games chart this week.
Topping the chart was Ridge Racer, with one in five people buying the game along with the PSP device.
The PSP, which plays games, music and films, was also a hit in the U.S. selling 500,000 copies in just two days.
Posted on September 6, 2005
Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati
| |
Next Harry Potter Game Offers Co-operative Magic Spells
The Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire videogame is scheduled for a November 2005 release in conjunction with the Warner Bros. Pictures film based on J.K. Rowling's fourth book. Electronic Arts and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment are developing the game. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire videogame, Harry is mysteriously selected as the fourth competitor in the dangerous Triwizard Tournament. Each contestant in this international competition must confront a fire-breathing dragon, rescue friends from the icy depths of the Black Lake, and navigate the twisting mysteries of a vast, dangerous maze. The game includes events from the film including the Quidditch World Cup and a duel with Lord Voldemort.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione are all playable characters, modeled after their
big-screen counterparts. The game also includes a spell-casting system that allows players to feel the magic as the controller shakes and reacts with every flick of the wand. Players can team up with friends in co-operative play to combine their magic and produce more powerful spells. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire will be available for the PC, all major game systems as well as the PSP and Nintendo DS portables. Ongoing coverage of the next Harry Potter film can be here on the Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator (HPANA).
Posted on April 20, 2005
Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati
| |
Sony Sells 500,000 PSPs in Two Days
Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. said the first week sales of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) generated more than $150 million at North American retailers. Sony said it sold over 500,000 PSP Value Packs in the first two days alone. Over 1 million PSP's have also been sold in Japan. Some industry insiders have been critical of Sony's idea to include music and movie players in the device along with the gaming technology. However, the Gizmondo which will be out in late May has a similar strategy. The Gizmondo includes a digital camera, music player, movie player, GPS, Bluetooth technology, messaging software and game player. ShoppingBlog.com has more on the Gizmondo.
Posted on April 13, 2005
Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati
| |
Majesco Offering Aeon Flux and More BloodRayne
Majesco has announced a deal to publish an Aeon Flux video game for the Xbox and Playstation2. Aeon Flux is a new film from MTV Films and Paramount Pictures that will star actress Charlize Theron as Aeon Flux. The film is based on an animated series that ran on MTV from 1992-1997 and will be released this fall. Aeon Flux is set 400 years in the future, when disease has wiped out the majority of the earth's population except for one walled, protected city-state, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. Theron plays Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron), the top operative in an underground rebellion. Majesco also announced that it is working on a BloodRayne game for the PSP. BloodRayne is being developed by Full Fat and will make its handheld debut this fall. BloodRayne is Majesco's popular vampire/human character. She is blessed with the powers of a vampire but cursed with the unquenchable thirst for blood and a weakness to sunlight.
Posted on April 7, 2005
Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati
| |
Disney Plans Narnia Film and Game Debut in December
Disney Interactive, a publishing label of Buena Vista Games, Inc., has announced new details about its upcoming action/adventure title, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Inspired by the upcoming motion picture from Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, the games will launch this holiday season, in conjunction with film's release.
UK software developer Traveller's Tales is currently creating the console and PSP titles, while Griptonite Games, the handheld entertainment division of Seattle-based Amaze Entertainment, is developing the titles for Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. In the game, players enter the world of Narnia, a land frozen in a 100 year winter by the evil powers of the malevolent White Witch. In order to end the annual winter and free his people, the mighty lion Aslan invokes an ancient prophecy. It will become the destiny of four siblings from our world: Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie to work together and use their unique combat skills, weaponry and abilities to defeat the Witch and her armies to save Narnia. These four heroes must battle the evil forces of the White Witch by waging war against a vast variety of creatures, including Minotaurs, Minoboars, Cyclops, Werewolves, Wraiths, Ankleslicers, Wolves, Boggles and more. These creatures are modeled in the game after the characters being created for the motion picture, by New Zealand-based Weta Workshop, a digital and visual effects company whose credits include Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Van Helsing and I, Robot. Additional game features include puzzle solving, two-player action featuring all four characters, and real film footage. The film will be released December 9, 2005.
Posted on April 1, 2005
Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati
| |
Ubisoft Announces Game Plans
Ubisoft says it will launch 32 products during its fiscal year 2005-2006, including three for Nintendo DS, five for Sony's new PlayStation Portable console (PSP) and four for the new next-generation console from Microsoft. Some of the major upcoming games will include Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown with forecasted sales of 1.5 to 2 million units. In addition to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Lockdown, the first six months will see the release of three other major titles: Far Cry Instincts on consoles, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith for portable consoles and 187 Ride or Die, a new brand in the urban street-racing segment. For the holiday season Ubisoft is offering Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon and Prince of Persia and Peter Jackson's King Kong. These titles will be supplemented by a new chapter of Brothers In Arms, a World War II shooting game. Other upcoming games including Killing Day (working title), an FPS specifically designed for next-generation consoles, a basketball game (And 1) and two games under the Might & Magic brand.
Posted on March 18, 2005
Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati
| |
Sony Promises 1 Million PSPs to Avoid Shortage
Sony says it will distribute enough PlayStation Portables (PSPs)
in the United States so there will not be a shortage like there was in Japan. Sony has promised 1 million PSPs will be made available on March 24th. In Japan only 200,000 copies were available which led to widespread shortages in the country. However,
News.com reports that one million still may not be enough as some
stores have already sold out of their preorders. More information
on the PSP is available here.
Posted on March 2, 2005
Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati
| |
Sony to Launch PSP on March 24th
Sony announced that its new portable gaming consule, Playstation Portable (PSP) will be available on Marth 24th. However, as IGN notes, the portable consule will be more expensive then expected. PSP will retail for $249.99. PSP comes with a 480 x 272 pixel high-resolution screen and uses the new Universal Media Disc (UMD), as its storage medium. UMD is only 60mm in diameter, but can store up to 1.8GB of digital data -- more than three times the data held on a CD-ROM. Sony says the new device is for watching movies and playing music as well as gaming and the new PSP launch package includes a copy of the Spider-Man 2 film on UMD. "PSP will evolve and elevate portable entertainment, giving users the freedom to play full 3D games, watch movies, listen to music and connect wirelessly on their terms, their time and their place," said Kaz Hirai, president and chief executive officer, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. Schelley Olhava, an analyst for research company IDC, told News.com that Sony's move to turn the new portable into a multimedia device could be risky. "Sony has to walk a very careful marketing path
now," said Olhava. "People are going to buy this to play games. When you
start packaging other things with it, that kind of blurs the message."
However, Sony says PSP is already a hit in Japan with with more than
800,000 units shipped, including a 200,000-unit allocation that sold
out on day one.
Posted on February 3, 2005
Permalink | Digg this | Blogs linking to this post: Google | Technorati
| |
|
|
