Things just weren’t fair when Sony announced a 20% price cut on the PSP in the US but nowhere else. To even things up a bit Sony today has announced that Europe too will now see in drop in the price by £50 bringing the retail list down to £129.99. Should we expect Japan to be next?

In addition to the cut in price five new Platinum game titles are launching at the same time with a low price of £14.99 each. Ridge Racer 2, Tekken, Killzone, Loco Roco, and Moto GP round off the new titles that will be available from Sony for the PSP.

All this doesn’t happen until May 4 and still keeps the price higher than the Nintendo DS which is already consistently outperforming the PSP in sales.

Sony has officially announced a price drop in the US for its PlayStation Portable by $30 bringing the purchase price down to $170, as well as a 20% drop on the PSP Entertainment pack which now sells for $200. This price drop coincides with the second anniversary of the handheld game console.

Could this be because the game is getting old and just not selling, or maybe in anticipation of the PSP2? Maybe they just need to boost some sales to make up for the $443 million operating loss Sony recently reported, or possibly they are trying to be more competitive with the Nintendo Gameboy and DS?

No matter what the reason it’s good for those already considering the PSP as Sony just saved you some bucks, and as a little tip from The Brick, check out TigerDirect. They …

Yesterday Sony released a version 3.10 firmware upgrade to the Playstation Portable system with some increased security among other new features. By the end of the same day, hackers had already decrypted the 3.10 firmware to allow third party applications to run on the PSP.

The party claiming responsibility for the PSP hack, “C + D”, was boastful about the day 0 hack of the new firmware stating, “$ony has lost another batle and will loose the war…”. Obviously they are better at hacking than they are spelling.

The new firmware updates for Sony’s PSP include support for an expansion of Playstation titles, support of MPEG-4 AVC format video files, a Conserve Memory feature and a dynamic sound normalizer. In addition, and more interesting in this upgrade is the ability to download demos directly to the PSP or transfer …

The PlayStation 2 and the Xbox 360 had a pretty good year with game sales. This news comes on the heals of PlayStation 2’s surprising sales showing.

Of course Madden topped the charts as usual. Of some surprise is the number of Super Mario Bros. games sold for the Nintendo DS. The Super Mario franchise continues to shine and Mario apparently ages very well. Another interesting sales figure is for the Brain Age title. Not a game so much as a series of brain teasers and mental exercises developed by Japanese neuro-scientist Ryuta Kawashima, the title’s strong showing gives us evidence that video games do make you smarter!

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Sony has another new Playstation Portable color coming out in conjunction with the new Monster Hunter Portable 2 game in a special limited edition package - champagne gold.

US customers will have to still put up with the black PSP, at least for now, but Japanese customers can add the champagne gold color to the list of white, blue, pink and silver that is already available. The gold colored PSP will come in a pack including a case, cleaner, the Monster Hunter game and some PSP skins in case you want to disguise your bling for some less formal occasions.

The limited edition pack will be available on Feb. 22nd of this year, and according to PSPFanboy, there will only be 22,222 of them available. Pre-ordering of the champagne gold Sony PSP is available at Play-Asia.com for the yen equivalent of about …

According to the Financial Times, Sony has plans to start allowing video downloads to the Sony PSP. This would be direct competition for the video iPod from Apple, and according to Sony this would really “open up” the movie download market. Apple iTunes only provides downloads to the iPod and only Disney movies have been available to download due to fear of piracy from other studios.

Fortunately for consumers the new movie download service would not require a new distribution or upgrade of the PSP. This is also important to Sony after having their troubles earlier in the year and will help make the offering more accepted and ultimately successful. In order to enable the downloads without any changes to the PSP, the movies would download onto flash media, in particular a Sony Memory Stick in which at 4GB would allow users to …

New gaming content is now available for the PSP, according to a recent press release from Sony. Leveraging the diverse content from the PlayStation brand and highly anticipated by gamers, the classics from the PlayStation catalog are sure to be a hit among PlayStation fans.

The initial lineup includes five classic PlayStation titles that represent some of the most popular franchises in the PlayStation catalog. The PlayStation titles are offered for $5.99 and can be downloaded via the PlayStation Network and played on the PSP. The PlayStation Store can be accessed through the PS3 system and played on the PSP system.
The games include:

Cool Boarders®
Crash Bandicootâ„¢
Hot Shots Golf® 2
Syphon Filter®
Tekken 2

Sony plans to release additional first and third-party PlayStation titles on an ongoing basis to the PlayStation Store. A second batch of PlayStation titles is slated for release later this month.

Sony announced the availability of Media Manager for its PSP gaming system. The new software for PC facilitates the transfer of multimedia content to a PSP system.

This new release builds on the initial version of the software released last November. This is great news for the millions of PSP owners who use their systems for more than just gaming. The updated software enables you to easily and quickly load your videos, music, photos and more onto your Memory Stick Duo.
Updated Media Manager Features

Expanded options for converting video, music, and photos
Subscribe to podcasts, video blogs, and PSP formatted magazines. View the built-in directory of popular RSS feeds.
Transfer home movies on DVD or video from DVD camcorders with support for Windows Media Center.
Transfer documents, including Excel, Word, HTML, .txt, saved games, and Internet browser bookmarks from PCs, onto the PSP system.
Move saved games between …