Sony Online Entertainment of America has just awarded the first G.I.R.L gamer a $10,000 scholarship and a 10 week paid internship for her winning title in the 2008 SOE G.I.R.L. Game Design Competition.
Her game design, which has yet been revealed to the public, beat 100 other designs by other G.I.R.L gamers around the nation. She [...]


It’s not really all that odd to see a smaller game developer simply stop making games for a particular system, however it is kind of odd when the two games that a particular developer actually did make for the system are two of the best games in the system’s entire library.
Ready At Dawn Studios, the [...]


It seems as if Sony is providing a really really early Christmas for PS3 adopters and Sony fanboys of all flavors. The biggest news of today seems to be an official release date for the highly anticipated Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Think it stops there? Wrong, theres also a bundle, DualShock [...]


How cool would it be to pause a game of “Loco Roco” and make a phonecall? Yeah, we probably wouldn’t pause Loco Roco for anything, but the feature is still pretty neat. The newest PSP firmware has just been released, making the portable Skype client available under the network tab.
Official details after the break.

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UMDs To Be Included With Blu-Ray

Due to Blu-Ray’s recent success of signing exclusively with Warner Brothers and several other movie studios, Sony has decided to give us all the permission to play select Blu-Ray movies on our PSPs. Whether these movies will be Sony produced or not is still up in the air, but this looks very likely to happen [...]


In collaboration with the PSP’s new VOIP features, a GPS peripheral that has been available only in Japan in the past will now be making its way to the states. The GPS software will be on a UMD, and will provide many features that we already know and love from current GPS devices.
The Sony CES [...]


As previously predicted, Sony has just confirmed VOIP features via Skype and a firmware update for the PSP Slim, straight from the CES ‘08 floor. Due in late January, the software update will give PSP Slim owners the ability to interact with the 250 million registered Skype users worldwide. Sony hasn’t told us why the [...]


Wired News has put together a Top 10 promised-but-never-released list from 2006. I think it’s absolutely hysterical that some of these products have been on the list forever. Check it out, it’s worth a look and a laugh!
Via Wired News.
Pull back the red curtain and dim the lights. It’s the 9th annual presentation of the [...]


Though a few weeks away, Sony has officially released the prices and basic features of it’s wireless PSOne download service for the PlayStation Portable. Unfortunately though, the service does require a hunky PS3 for connection.
The PSOne wireless download service, (which hasn’t officially yet been granted a real name), will feature a huge back-catalog of original [...]


Late last night, Sony secretly released the long awaited PSP Firmware Version 3.0, and is now available for only under the network update. The update includes interesting music visualizations, camera support, and much more.
This update includes the following changes:

PLAYSTATION Network titles are now supported under [Game].
[Remote Play] has been added as a feature under [Network].
[Online [...]