Will gamers go for Sony's PSPgo?

Sony launches its new handheld game gadget today. The smartly-designed PSPgo is a great gaming machine, but will its price and digital-only format drive consumers away?

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In dark gaming times, Nintendo DS shines

Forget Apple's smack talking about the games for the iPod and iPod Touch, the Nintendo DS still is the king of the portable gaming hill. And for good reason.

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PSP game player to get Spider-Man, X-Men comics

Sony is adding a digital reader service that will allow owners of its handheld gaming system, the PlayStation Portable, to download comics.

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Forget consoles — it's all about the handhelds

Everyone likes a good fight: video game players, wonks and fanboys, especially so.

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Is the Nintendo DSi gimmicky ... or gaming gold?

You’ve heard that saying about wisdom from the mouths of babes. Yeah, well, since when do kids know anything about anything, much less walk around with pearls of wisdom dripping from their childish lips? When I was a kid, I believed that I could will myself to fly, that I was the reincarnation of St. Francis of Assisi and that paste made a perfectly fine afternoon snack. In short: I didn’t know jack.

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'Clank,' 'Hot Shots' keep PSP humming

The PlayStation Portable has been around for three years, but the machine you might buy today is far different from the one you'd get in 2005. Sony is continually tinkering with the thing in big ways (introducing a lighter, slimmer model in 2007) and small (any number of regularly issued firmware updates).

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'God of War' for PSP is a must-play

The PSP, like big brother PS3, suffers from overkill, packing plenty of graphics horsepower with precious few games to take advantage of it. As time goes on, however, more developers are getting their heads around how to harness the PSP’s potential.

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What do Undead Knights, Naruto Shippuden: Legends: Akatsuki Rising, NBA 2K10, Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes and Cars: Race O Rama have in common? All of these are PSP games released on UMD after the PSP Go's October 1 launch -- and all are currently without a digital …

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Is The PSP Ultimately Doomed To Fail?

Sony first released the PlayStation Portable in 2004 (2005 for US gamers), and at first it was a decent system. Since then the portable console has undergone 2 revisions and a 'retrofit'.

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With its clever design and roster of excellent games, the Nintendo DS is the king of the gaming hill for good reason. But Apple execs recently said the DS and Sony's PSP just don't stack up as gaming machines when compared to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Do you agree?

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And now here we are with the fourth Zune generation, embodied by the Zune HD but also including a new version of the PC software, improved online services, and new capabilities all around.

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Just when you thought Microsoft had given up on the Zune as a product and had retreated to referring to it as a nebulous cloud of conceptual features, the company comes out with a new device supporting a mobile-optimized OLED screen, a wildly powerful yet super efficient new mult …

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The Zune HD is soon to be officially out on the streets, and we've got the official Engadget hands-on / unboxing.

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PSP Firmware 6.00 is now available for those adventurous enough to click on Network Update from the XMB.

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Video games are at a crossroads. Despite what the hardcore call "dumbing down", many video games are "too much like work" for too many people. If we're to make video games as ubiquitous as movies, what can we do about this?

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Plenty of new features coming to the PSP, which has nearly sold 53 million units worldwide.

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It's not controversial to state that pretty much no one likes the PSP's UMD drive, but it might raise eyebrows to suggest that Sony itself was never that into the whole tiny optical disk concept.

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E3 Round up Day 3: Previews and Hands-on

Today is when all the hands on impressions are hitting the web with some news from the Konami conference. Hands-on: Dead Space: Extraction Endless Ocean 2 Hands-on

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The PSP Go is real, and Sony itself has described many of the details of the hardware via an early episode of its own digital news show, Qore. We have the details, and some images, of the next step in Sony's move towards a less physical future.

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Qore the online vidoe magizine for the PS3 got released early and it contains images of the new PSP Go.

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Our trusty inside source spills the beans about Sony's long-term strategy. The PSP-Go! is real, and should be announced at E3. The more surprising news? A slimmed-down PS3 is in fact coming, but not until Sony sells the PS3s sitting on retail shelves. The full report inside.

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Sources are saying that Sony in early talks with the big music labels about a music store for the PlayStation Portable, while a recent survey raises the possibility of downloadable game rentals for the portable console.

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For the 12 months until March 31, 2009, Sony's games group reported an overall decline in hardware sales.

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Though rumors of a new PSP have ebbed and flowed throughout the year, this morning a hurricane of speculation descended on Sony's portable format.

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Portable fighting games are often lackluster to say the least. Unless it's a port of a game that was once released on a system they're usually pretty craptacular, which is too bad because the fighter is one of the best suited genres for portable gaming.

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TAMPA, Fla. - Like most kids, Eliso Tovar loves video games. So his mom, Tamatha, bought him a PlayStation Portable for a late Christmas present at a Wal-Mart in Manatee County, Fla. What happened next would shock the entire family.

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From a Bear with a bird to a guy with claws

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The Nintendo DS and Sony PSP handhelds have been duking it out for five years now. Then Apple jumped into the ring ... and things really got interesting.

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Nintendo's wildly popular portable game machine got an upgrade Sunday with the launch of the DSi.

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Rumor has it that their will be a new PSP before Christmas

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If Nintendo is really committed to reaching a broader, more diverse audience of gamers beyond the "kids" market that they've always engaged, there isn't much new with the DSi to support that.

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No this is not an april fools joke Sony plans on releasing a new Jack and Daxter for the PS2 and PSP. It will pick up where the original trilogy left off.

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