Playstation Portable Gaming News

In a shocking announcement, SCEA's John Kroller announced that the PSP-3000 4GB Memory PSP Entertainment Pack will no longer release. Basically, SCEA is saying 'FU' to its PSP-3000 buyers because they now realize that the PSP-3000 is not a improvement and have yet to announce a Recall of its product. "[Sony] will no longer be offering the previously announced 4GB Memory PSP Entertainment Pack," Kroller posted on the PlayStation.Blog Tuesday Evening, making plenty of future and current PSP series 3000 owners angry. Kroller made a weak attempt on ... Read More

A new version of Media Manager for the PSP launched and allows for easy organization of PSP files. The main addition to the new version of Media Manager is the PlayStation®Store access through your PC and not as a website anymore. Sony has done a way with the World Wide Web version, but the new version still requires a Internet connection. The new Media Manager is available as a free download at http://store.playstation.com. The installation process is very brief and requires a ... Read More

After the 1-week delay of Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet, the game is now live. According to a post on PlayStation.Blog, the game's servers are up and running just as the game starts selling hotcakes. The reason for the delay was because of 2 controversial songs part of the soundtrack that were offensive to the Muslim's "bible", Qu'ran. Sony posted patches for the game, but those who have the original version can choose to skip the update and keep the 2 songs. In addition ... Read More

It's yet another solid week for NA game releases and as we approach November, it will be interesting Holiday season for the PSP. Only a limited amount of games are releasing in November and right now only 1 game in December. This week offers something for everyone's desires. PSP Games: Ben 10 Alien Force King of Fighters Collection- The Orochi Saga Monster Jam: Urban Assault Neverland Card Battles Read More

This morning, PlayStation.Blog officially announced that the United States will be getting v5.00 firmware after all. Its been a tough couple of days because no one knew if the update would only work in the Japan Region, and many believed that North America wouldn't get the update until after Japan got it. No worries any more however, v5.00 will include the highly discussed 'PSP PSN Service', which Sony is bringing PSN to the PSP, but in a down-sized format. You can now ... Read More

The confirmed Wi-Fi PSP PLAYSTATION Store is ready to go live next Thursday, October 15 - possibly worldwide. Today it was confirmed on SCEJ's official website that the PSP Store will require firmware software 5.00 or higher, therefore confirming the update will be available next week Thursday, which will include the Wi-Fi direct PS Store. On the page where this was all confirmed, it explains how users will access the store, and when we translated we found "PSP system software version 5.00 or higher is ... Read More