Sony PSP elongated game boxes
Taking us back to the days of the original Sony PlayStation game boxes (and the original packaging of music CDs), Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) (for Japan at least) also uses a long packaging shape, which looks to be about the same size as the PSP unit itself. Why, Sony, why? While t...
Go see the Pokemon movie, get wireless downloads for your Nintendo DS
An interactive gimmick that's definitely designed to get asses in seats, Nintendo says that you'll be able to wirelessly download extra characters and data if you bring your new Nintendo DS portable game console along with a Gameboy Advance Pokemon title with you to the theater showing the new Po...
Sega Mega Drive 6-in-1 review
We reported on the return of the Sega Mega Drive (aka Sega Genesis in the US) at the Tokyo Game Show, and now this plug-and-play system which squeezes that whole 16-bit game console, plus a mess of games, into a replica of an original controller, has been released in the UK (there are similar one...
New PStwo, hold the hard drive
When Sony dropped the skinny new PStwo on us we (along with just about everyone else, it seems) started to wonder if it'd work with the current Hard Disk Drive attachment. Now it's been confirmed by Sony Computer Entertainment America that it most definitely won't. Their reasoning is that t...
Gizmondo handheld to launch in UK October 29
Tiger Telematics will release their handheld gaming competitor to the Sony PSP in the UK first (for once, the Brits get something before the Yanks). This one has a few more tricks up its sleeve than the average portable console, like the ability to make phone calls on tri-band GSM,...
